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- 01 Jan 2012
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Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
Chairman and CEO, Rakuten, Inc. Download Mikitani profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1965 Born, Kobe, Japan 1972 Family moves to United States for two years 1988 Earns commerce degree, Hitotsubashi...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
annual SXSW Pitch Event in the Enterprise and Smart Data category. “Inventory in commerce is a really big problem from both an environmental and a financial perspective,” Theuerkauf notes. The problem is especially acute in the fashion...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2024
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The Internet's Next Frontier
Web3—encompassing a wide range of technologies, including blockchain networks, cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and smart contracts—to give users more ownership of their data and content, reshape commerce and the internet,...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi
already survived a serious auto accident, became convinced he should run for office after Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and a number of executives died in a plane crash in Croatia in 1996, a flight Checchi missed only because of a...
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Garry Emmons
- 16 Aug 2018
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Working with a Giver’s Spirit
Philippine tech incubator behind a number of remarkable companies, including Ayannah, which uses social media and mobile platforms to provide digital commerce and payment services to the world’s unbanked; PawnHero, an online pawnshop that...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave
it is turning our land, from sea to shining sea, into a sour jungle, noisy, dirty, gritty, and infinitely depressing.” In MacDonald’s fiction, that inherent tension is front and center when he depicts business and commerce as contributing...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Online Entrepreneur
In September, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce announced that its 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year is Diane Hessan (MBA ’77), president and CEO of Communispace Corporation, a firm that helps companies generate customer insights via...
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- 26 Jan 2015
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Breaking barriers for women
As US Secretary of Commerce in the Nixon Administration, Barbara Hackman Franklin (MBA 1964) led a highly successful effort to advance women in the federal government. (Published January 2015)
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- 01 Nov 2013
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Selling Crafts with a Story
many key themes running throughout the online marketplace these days: the maker movement, which highlights handcrafted creativity; sustainable commerce (buying local and getting to know the person behind the piece); online branding ; and...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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Lighten Up
Mead Treadwell (MBA ’82) sees global warming as both a threat to the environment and an opportunity for commerce in the melting North, where conflicting sovereignty and resource claims are heating up, too. The Wise Men For half a century,...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Unlocking mobile money in emerging markets
Monique Maddy (MBA 1993) is focusing her entrepreneurial energies on connecting the world's poor to global commerce through their cell phones. In 2007 she launched Ezuza, a Mexico City–based mobile money company that focuses on the...
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- 22 Jan 2019
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Remembering Walter Shipley
string of successful mergers, including the 1987 Chemical/Texas Commerce Bank deal; the 1991 Chemical/Manufacturers Hanover deal; and the 1995 $10bn deal with Chase, which included the sacrifice of Chemical’s name, even though it was the...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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A Business World Gone Global
a day, the competitiveness and sophistication of international commerce have increased enormously. In the profiles that follow, five members of the Class of 1973 share their secrets for success in today's dramatically reconfigured global...
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- 26 Jul 2016
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Alumni Capture the Essence of Pokemon GO Craze
success takes yrs.” Some alumni offered advice, like Jeremy Valeda (PLDA 15, 2013), who said, “I think Pokemon GO needs to leverage their geocaching service with local commerce to monetize the experience.” Cimarron Buser (MBA 1988)...
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- 23 May 2018
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Winning Bid
$90,000 for breast cancer research), as well as its ability to connect people with similar interests: “That’s fascinating both in its simplicity and its complexity,” he says. “It’s not just commerce, it’s commerce and purpose.” READ MORE
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Digital ID network empowers individuals, disrupts the data brokers
disadvantage of the Internet has been a lack of trust. We are creating trust and disrupting data brokers by providing individuals with a medium that provides them with control over the use of their personal data.” says Hall. ID.me was awarded Most Veteran-Friendly...
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- 06 Jul 2017
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Leadership on a Global Scale
US Chamber of Commerce and Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve that sponsors hiring fairs across the country and resulted in more than 14,000 veterans and military spouses obtaining jobs in the program’s first 18 months. He now...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
anticipate using financial statements to evaluate and pursue opportunities in global commerce and finance. Competing Globally is designed for those who will work as managers, analysts, or consultants to corporations that operate in...
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