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- 01 Oct 2000
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Internet Tsunami
Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA '93) is the founder, president, and CEO of Rakuten, Japan's leading online shopping destination. He believes that because the Internet allows merchants to circumvent the many intermediaries who jack up prices in...
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- 28 May 2019
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Case Study: Building the Base
misjudged the results of the presidential election. A media junkie as far back as his middle school years and more recently at Nickelodeon’s strategy department, Patel realized he (like many others) had been consuming media that only confirmed his own political bias....
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Finding a cure so that others may benefit
In 1986, Joe O’Donnell (AB 1967, MBA 1971) and his wife, Kathy, founded the Joey Fund in memory of their son, who died as a result of cystic fibrosis. O’Donnell has raised millions to battle the disease, and...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Digital ID network empowers individuals, disrupts the data brokers
While anonymity online has many benefits, there are certain contexts in which an individual would want to be known. Blake Hall (MBA 2010), an army veteran, noticed that many brands were unwilling to extend special offers online to...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
to that time, things are more normalized and sane. We’re seeing more experienced, repeat entrepreneurs who have created valuable companies and been through the IPO cycle and the M&A cycle. I think entrepreneurship and innovation are still...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Expanding the reach of business from Silicon Valley to the global arena
William H. Draper III (MBA 1954), one of America’s first venture capitalists, financed hundreds of high-technology companies. He also was chosen by President Reagan to be president and chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, where he helped to sustain...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Training great principals to lead great schools
impact on more than 300,000 students in schools nationwide. The idea for New Leaders was developed by Fenton and a group of other Harvard students in 2000 as an approach to an impending shortage of school...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Mining precious metals through e-waste recycling
hazardous. Discarded electronics are usually shipped to China, Africa, and India, where workers—frequently children with no safety equipment—tear the electronics apart, exposing themselves to lethal doses of toxins. BlueOak is building mini-refineries to safely extract...
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- 19 Jan 2024
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Blockchain for Good
After immigrating to the United Kingdom in the late 1960s to escape the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) and her family lived in public housing and had very little money. “But we still had...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
College Daze
American parents wholeheartedly believe in the importance of a college education, but relatively few are saving enough for that not-so-distant day when Junior's whopping tuition bills will start rolling in. Enter UPromise, Inc., a...
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- 16 Mar 2015
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Preserving a Musical Tradition
When Ben de Menil (MBA 2006) first heard Dominican bachata music, he knew he was hearing something special. Through his record label iASO Records and the nonprofit iASO Bachata Academy, established in 2013, View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
our reaction to the human problems that this crisis causes.” Breton noted that many in France were angry about rescue packages for banks when ordinary people received no help and were losing their businesses. Summers acknowledged the...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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SHE builds confidence, promotes education, and creates jobs
Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA/MPA 2007) founded a business that improves the health and hygiene of millions of women. But her goal is much bigger: empowering women by fostering entrepreneurship. Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) brings affordable sanitary pads to millions...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming
national business reporter for the Sacramento Bee and the Los Angeles Times. In 1986, largely because of the difficulty of raising a young daughter while coping with journalism's demanding hours, Bry accepted an offer to run the newly...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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3-Minute Briefing: Richard Edelman (MBA 1978)
Above: “Mainstream media is read by less than half of the people in the United States and Western Europe,” Edelman (MBA 1978) says. “The opportunity is to build your own communities, create your own content, and go direct to the end...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Personal crises inform a life’s work
director from 1990 through its closure in 2004, and an internationally recognized advocate. “Our efforts started a movement that vastly escalated breast cancer research funding and gave patients and survivors a permanent voice View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
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Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Case Study: The Credit Bureau
moves about a dozen times before buying a home, and all too often the bookshelf purchased for one apartment isn’t needed in the next. As a result, about 10 million tons of furniture go to landfills every year, Ramírez says. He and Aditya...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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New Magazine Makes Its Mark
Nelson. “We appeal to a 20-year-old college student just as well as a 70-year-old grandmother.” Adds Phillips: “That means we have to work harder to market our publication, but we stand to benefit in terms of building a large, diverse...
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- 01 Jan 2002
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Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
happiness and peace.' Then I realized that happiness and peace came from knowing that whatever problem is brought to me, I-or someone in the company-can solve it." Whether meeting with scientists in a...
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