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- 15 Jun 2021
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Turning Point: Tell Me More
and so on. My pivot from the business world to journalism happened in 2016, when a friend who was working for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign called. At the time, I was CEO of an education startup, but I’d spent 14 years building C Space, a next-generation...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Hope for Reform Dims
for claw-backs when investments go sour, and give executives significant equity stakes in their companies. “Two firms with compensation plans like I just described, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, both failed. So having the right...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Competitiveness at Risk
Americans—especially those in the business community—do to increase the ability of firms to compete successfully in the global economy while raising US living standards? This is one of the most important questions facing the nation and...
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- 13 Feb 2019
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We’re All Going to Get Hacked
Rothrock’s cell phone rings. Rothrock (MBA 1988) is the CEO of the cybersecurity firm Red Seal, and a higher-up at Sony was looking for his help. After the breach, he told Rothrock, the company essentially hit factory reset on their...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
conference. There are few in the industry who can claim a similar veteran status: Rothrock had recently taken over as CEO of the cybersecurity firm RedSeal after 25 years at Venrock. For 24 of those years, he was focused on tech,...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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Doing Something Real
not Cambridge, the heart of academia, but business-like Boston, seat of august money managers and the then-hottest management consulting firm around, The Boston Consulting Group, with whom all but three of our classmates (it seemed)...
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Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 25 Jul 2018
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HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
Industries, a real estate investment firm he started in 1968. C.D. Spangler Construction company was founded by Spangler's father, C.D. Spangler, Sr. – a self-made man who had not been able to afford college and who, at the age of 50, was...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
society and ensure that democracy is fair and inclusive for all? RH: I think the most important thing in the short term—and I see some firms beginning to do this—is to talk about government and democracy in a different way, to acknowledge...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
1996, Hema Hattangady took over as the CEO of Conzerv, an embattled family-owned firm based in Bangalore that manufactured digital energy meters. Over the next 12 years, she grew it to become India’s largest energy-management company....
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
valuable contributions from Nasdaq and the global law firm Latham & Watkins LLP, plus access to the online valuation models and course. The Little Book of Investing Like the Pros: Five Steps for Picking...
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- 20 Dec 2019
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The 19 Musts of 2019
outfit) to be taken to an herbalist who would end her life—on orders from her grandmother. How she survived that day and the waning days of the Vietnam War, and made her way to America, Williams College, and Harvard Law School, seems like...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity
You can’t be that impatient. Another lesson from top-tier venture groups is the importance of a global perspective when it comes to best practices and competitive strategies. The smart venture firms make global connections. Too often,...
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- 01 Jan 2013
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Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
Chairman, Raymond James Financial, Inc. Download James profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page 1942 Born, Sandusky, Ohio 1964 Earns BA, Economics, Harvard College 1966 Earns MBA 1966 Joins Raymond James Financial, Controller 1969 Earns JD, Stetson College...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2024
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Alumni Books
threaten to shatter their marriage. Fueled by her determination to liberate herself from an unfulfilling union, Amy bids farewell to her position at a prestigious St. Louis law firm and redirects her passion...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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New HBS Alumni Board Members
Virginia L. Davies (115th AMP) is a vice president at Goldman Sachs. She is a former vice president at the Bank of Montreal and previously worked for the Canadian Department of Justice. A native of Toronto, Davies attended Trinity College and earned an LLB from the...
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- 05 Feb 2019
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Protecting the Power Grid
running the market research firm Geosegment Systems Corporation, which he founded in 1991. In addition to its advocacy before the NRC, Popik’s group has become a regular at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the obscure...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Barksdale Group and former CEO of Netscape; Hank Barry, CEO of Napster; Irwin Jacobs, chairman and CEO of QUALCOMM; and Carl Yankowski, CEO of Palm, Inc. Representatives from top venture-capital and consulting firms joined a diverse mix...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health
pathogens for which there are currently no vaccines: familiar maladies such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV, as well as newer threats, such as SARS, anthrax, and ricin. Today, Gilmartin noted, Merck is one of only five global companies making vaccines. In the 1970s,...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
"Put aside the consulting firms and investment banks for a while," he exhorted students in the audience. "We need you now!" Charles MacCormack, president and CEO of Save the Children, changed his own career path as a student. In 1962, at...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Fixer Upper
she’s “sold 1” — as in $1 billion in sales. Baum is senior vice president and “Director of the Exclusive Properties Division” at the Corcoran Group, the top-selling residential real estate firm in a city where the average sale price for...
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