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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
Rs” of momentous early choices made within the founding team—many decisions come at the outset, often before any mentors are involved. In the pre-mentor phase, founders should prepare as we do in the classroom, learning about the fateful...
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- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
established. “I will be 87 in the spring,” he says. “It’s time to let the younger people—in their 70s— take it and expand it.” Even so, he remains a champion of the program and has started to mentor other clubs in launching similar...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
firms, establishing the foundation for her eventual move into television and the executive suite. In 1999, feeling "the ten-year itch," Thomas-Graham talked to a longtime mentor who recommended that she meet with Jack Welch, then CEO of...
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- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage
Charlie Storey (MBA 1989), President of Harpoon Brewery, who remains a mentor to this day. The relationships and skills Linzmeyer developed propelled him to an internship at Boston Beer Company and later a consulting role at Harpoon and a...
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- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
young Indigenous Australian university student who created the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), a nonprofit organization he formed to respond to the problem of Indigenous high school students completing high school at...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
prioritize family over work. It's that all these other factors are also at play for women" that lead them to cut back their hours in a way that men often don't—factors such as exclusion from informal networks in the workplace, a lack of View Details
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
over five feet tall, Rapaport was the number-one draft pick of Orlando Magic forward Al-Farouq Aminu, who saw her experience at Jefferies, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs as a definite plus in helping chart his own financial future. Rapaport View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
and feel the products.” Acquire an advocate: “When Leonard Lauder walked into our first store I pitched him hard. He said no for a year or two, but since then he’s been our champion. So find a champion. Mentors give you great advice, but...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
teacher and gentle man, he was always eager to share his insights and wisdom with students and colleagues alike. A mentor to many members of our faculty, Ray inspired us all with the extraordinary quality of his work and his life." Born...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
be crippling. As Walt Frye (MBA 2000), an angel investor and fintech startup mentor in Charlotte, North Carolina—itself a burgeoning fintech hub—puts it: “Density breeds success.” Consequently, the fintech startup community in New York...
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- 22 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Reflecting on 24 Years at Harvard
months when Mike Wheeler, who was a professor and mentor of mine at HBS, called to see if I wanted to teach Negotiations on a two-year appointment at HBS. I left McKinsey on a leave-of-absence, fully intending to go back, but the...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
What I Do: Clare Reichenbach (AMP 185, 2013)
chefs, and a full agenda of scholarship and mentoring programs, chef’s advocacy work, and sustainability initiatives. “The foundation is very multi-faceted and multi-disciplined, so my role is to ensure that all of those components are...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was also a partner. Mendell is a member of the executive committee of the Cancer Research Institute, vice chairman of the New York division of the National Mentoring Partnership, and a trustee of...
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Rohan Kekre
thesis as I did, or working as a research assistant for some time after school. In either case, this will have tangible benefits in graduate school, including a familiarity with Stata, Matlab, and/or datasets, and a relationship with a faculty View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Turning Point: Makeover
confidence collapsed. Disillusioned, I quit the corporate world and started traveling. I am Taiwanese-American but once I arrived in Japan, it felt like home. I began studying with mentors including geisha, scientists, business leaders,...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa
top private and public schools around Johannesburg, with the financial assistance and mentoring efforts of 25 local sponsors. The second year of the program, begun in January, launched another 40 students. Clarke hopes to place 60...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
networking opportunities, such as modified "treks," mini-reunions, or mentoring relationships, to name a few. The committee will solicit input from current students and recent graduates and review what is presently being done to reach out...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
in my household is Ginger, a Jack Russell terrier. Three boys, a husband, no daughters — I'm the only woman here. Proudest moments Professionally, seeing Lotus Notes reach more than fifty million users. On the personal side, I am extraordinarily proud of my family —...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
school, something I didn’t know anything about. After leaving Grand Bank, I started Grand Angels to help local entrepreneurs. We’re here not only to write the checks but to mentor companies we invest in. Many entrepreneurs will tell you...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference
Kong or China to an HBS Executive Education program. With membership at two hundred, the HBSA-HK is thriving, thanks in part to a mentoring system that links active board members with young alumni. The board members “take care of the...
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