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- 01 Jun 2017
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Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
Summer offers the benefit of long, warm days—and for students, the very real opportunity to consider a potential sector or role for post-HBS plans, sometimes with the support of the HBS Summer Fellows...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2006
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A Capital Asset
1988 Democratic presidential nomination. When Babbitt became Secretary of the Interior in the first Clinton administration, he asked Cohen to be his Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget. In this role, she significantly...
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- 23 Jul 2013
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Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
of advanced learning in other professions, I was shocked to learn that nothing exists in the United States for similarly positioned teachers," Klemmer said. Two years of research led him to open the National...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Bringing Up Baby
task for even the most capable, accomplished women. So in 1997, McCartney made the leap into e-commerce with eStyle, Inc., a dot-com backed with some $60 million in funding that sells clothing and accessories to expecting mothers. Last...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
number of mothers have thanked me personally for Pushpins. We created a successful enterprise, bringing value to society and to our investors, and that’s a model I want to repeat again.” Michailidis has designated his own gifts to HBS to...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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HBS Contributors Report
budget and fund every area of activity at HBS, from faculty research and doctoral fellowships to technology, student financial aid, and case writing. The new report is also available on the Alumni Web site...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
“Pretty straightforward. Pretty frightening.” That’s how Jim Sharpe (MBA 1976), chairman and CEO of Extrusion Technology, Inc. (ET), describes an out-of-the-blue situation his company faced two years ago, when its largest customer...
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- 13 Mar 2020
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Expanding Cancer Care
the labs at Dana-Farber and that science getting to patients is time and money. So what my office does, and what I do, is spend as much time as I can to accelerate that time by creating new funds to Dana-Farber. And so a lot View Details
- 30 May 2021
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How Venture Capitalist David Motley is Trying to Bring Back Pittsburgh’s Black Residents
David Motley (MBA 1988) David Motley (MBA 1988) A recent Wall Street Journal profile details the efforts of venture capitalist David Motley (MBA 1988) to rebuild Pittsburgh’s Black population. As the article notes, the city “has lost 9%...
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- 16 Dec 2021
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A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
and resources to raise funds and organize vaccination efforts in 12 villages, reaching nearly 7,000 people with more vaccinations planned. —Akshay Navaladi (MBA 2013), founder of Healthskool Pharmacy, New...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Vision: To Go-Go
make a go of it. They raised $500,000 from family and friends in 2019; picked up another $75,000 by winning the alumni track of the HBS New Venture Competition in 2020; and raised $4.5 million in seed View Details
- 09 May 2013
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Road Trip
support from the alumni network. "All we usually read about is some whiz kid in California whose new app has made him millions," notes Fred Braun (MBA 1959), president of Workman Fund in Leavenworth, Kansas....
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- 01 Jun 2015
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India Research Center: Connecting HBS to South Asia
Executive Director of HBS’s India Research Center With the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund predicting that India will overtake China as the fastest-growing major economy within two years,...
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- 15 Apr 2020
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Money Matters
of financial security, because you can't necessarily rely on credit cards or retirement savings for emergencies," she says. "You should have three to six months of living expenses saved up." Returns on that...
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- 02 Apr 2019
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Remembering William Wilder
the biggest individual donors to his alma mater, the Upper Canada College in Toronto. Originally built in 1927 as the Student Club, the Georgian Revival–style Wilder House was rededicated in 1997 in honor of Wilder’s many contributions to...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Pricing Paradise
about establishing new financing streams. “The parks are funded through an annual appropriation of about $2.5 billion, which is subject to all the usual political negotiations,” she notes. “In real terms,...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
"Effective use of the computer for segmentation and personalization has allowed organizations to increase dramatically their annual giving. In the years ahead, effective use of e-mail will again...
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- 24 Jul 2017
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Back to School for Big-City Mayors
(Bloomberg) (Bloomberg) “I literally went home every night for the first three months and said, ‘Oh, my God, what have I gotten myself into?’” That's how Boston mayor Marty Walsh summed up the beginning of his term in office. And it helps...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Letters to the Editor
For Angie’s List, a New Niche? I enjoyed the profile of Angie Hicks (MBA 2000) in the March issue. While pursuing a post-HBS PhD, I supplemented poverty fellowship wages by pounding nails at a small, conscientious hardwood floor...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
choice to ignore controls and to knowingly lie. Soltes: Well, what’s the distinction between puffery and fraud? There’s obviously an important legal distinction, but imagine you’re a CEO of a bank that could be facing a liquidity crisis....
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