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- 01 Jun 1998
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Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
An innovative thinker who created BayBanks, one of the most successful retail banking franchises in the United States, William M. Crozier, Jr. (MBA '63) has a lot to say about the evolution of banking. As...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2018
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Your Keyboard Is Listening
want to know if I have one of these diseases?’” “Researchers think there are subtle signs that precede the known symptoms of diseases like Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s,” explains Robi Blumenstein (MBA 1984),...
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April White
- 01 Apr 2001
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Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa
notes Clarke. “There’s such a need for these institutions to reflect the black majority population, but they lack the knowledge of the black South African community, the relationships, and the funding to do...
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- 02 Dec 2019
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A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
a subsequent stint at Corning in Japan, Barry came to another realization—that he needed to enhance his business skills— prompting him to apply to HBS. After earning his MBA, he put his financial acumen to work in fund management at T....
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- 15 Apr 2021
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Bringing Light to the Fight
underwent a mastectomy and survived, and Smyth kept the family secret for more than a decade. That’s all changed now—in part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s....
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Turning Point: Makeover
focused on literacy and gender equality in education. Since 2014, Tatcha has supported girls’ education in Africa and Southeast Asia in partnership with Room to Read. Tatcha is on track to fund 6.5 million days View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
other factors when seeking startup opportunities. "Businesses where there are high margins available with low economies of scale are more likely to survive," he says, citing institutional money management as an example View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
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Smart Moves
outside the US. “When we started selling data to government agencies, most of them didn’t know what to do with it, so now we sell analytics that help them make decisions,” says Mistele. “Most governments are struggling with not having...
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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
and rural development in the areas where its workers live, funding efforts, for instance, in primary school education, agriculture, and health care. As a longtime leader of his country's business community,...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects
reactions to the tragedy and to share emotional support. Food and clothing drives were organized on campus, and the School set up a matching fund for contributions made by students, faculty, and staff to the American Red Cross Liberty...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 02 Mar 2020
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Educating the Whole Student
connected the two women. “We both embraced the idea of health and education coming together,” recalls Liu. After several years of research, Liu and Chan developed three guiding principles, which Liu says...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Making a Difference
gain a better understanding of their migratory patterns. But that's just what Josh Haacker (HBS '03) did, in addition to strategic planning and numbers-crunching, as an HBS Summer Fellow at the Alaska Conservation Foundation, which placed...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
Jim Langford waits for no squirrel. On a clear January morning in Atlanta, driving with considerable speed and purpose, he barrels up the hill of the Carter Center campus in a 2012 Toyota Camry. He’s talking about poetry, which he writes...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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The Western Front
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer The government used to be America’s greatest innovator. Among many things, it developed or helped fund the creation of the Internet, GPS,...
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Jason Feifer
- 01 Oct 1996
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Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
In the motion picture industry, most people know Alan Horn as the smart, savvy chairman and CEO of Castle Rock Entertainment, the film company that has turned out movie hits such as When Harry Met Sally and In the Line View Details
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Thomas Frick
- 22 Jan 2020
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What It Takes
fund. Very difficult to do that, but we did. It was the largest first-time fund ever raised and the third biggest in the world when it was raised. One of the younger partners at the firm brought this Edgcomb...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
(SHE), and its first business, a Rwandan start-up that employs sixty women to manufacture and distribute low-cost sanitary pads. In recognition of her achievements, Scharpf in March was named the first HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellow...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
When Mayfield Fund Managing Director Raj Kapoor (MBA 1996), the cofounder and former CEO of Snapfish and fitmob, joined Lyft as chief strategy officer in 2016, he was intent on finding ways to reduce human...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
supervising the funding of various Student Association events. The good-natured Bolick's affinity for people reflects a deep interest in cultural diversity developed as a child living abroad, reinforced as...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2007
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The Winning Season
Zimbalist in a Post-Dispatch opinion piece. Some of the funding was contributed in land and a long-term loan from St. Louis County; the State of Missouri threw in $48 million...
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