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15 Sep 2020
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How To Make Diversity a Reality

levels of players, right? So when you think about the investors, there's foundations that have a different organizational structure and different culture and a different way of thinking. There is corporate... View Details

14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details

16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany

was asked to take a posting in Bulgaria. And Searl came along and found herself, relatively quickly, leading the local office of the Bulgarian American Enterprise Funds, which was a private equity fund set... View Details

01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

Robert S. McNamara (MBA 1939). Two years later, Howard Cox followed the same route from the Office of the Secretary of Defense to Greylock as associate number two. In the early 1970s, the firm also added to... View Details

04 Aug 2020
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How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

alumni, the pledge asks business leaders to promise that they will pursue anti-racist initiatives in the areas of policing reform; safe ballot access and civic participation; and economic inclusion. Among the alumni authors View Details

05 May 2020
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“Walking a Tightrope”

support because a lot of these small communities, they are not going to be able to fund it by themselves. April: Sheryl, you wrote this book in economic boom times. Unemployment rates were at 50-year lows... View Details

30 Mar 2017
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Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest

this problem was a good fit to my personality. What I found powerful is that for me I had to have a model of how each of the different parties to the negotiation saw the world, what their pressures on them... View Details

11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code

spectrum in terms of these programs, how much funding should there be for people to get food assistance, or workforce development, help people get jobs, you can pretty universally agree that we shouldn't be... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7

successful startup, and in a way, it is. However, Wingspanbank's financial backing comes not from a venture fund or an IPO but from a surprising source: Bank One Corp., whose more than $250 billion in assets make it one View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting

was witnessing the inaugural flight of Blink, a European air-taxi service they had first conceived of while students at the School. The scene didn’t offer much drama — just another small plane taking off... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

15 Sep 2016
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The Burning Man Project

become a worldwide movement. And now we accept donations to help fund the worldwide movement and share the ethos, which has been a really wonderful part of becoming a nonprofit. Hanna: Great, and why do you... View Details

17 Dec 2017
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How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression

resources, we do it with a very small budget, not necessarily out of choice, but getting funding for human rights work internationally right now, with so much domestic focus, is difficult. And just in... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices

Dear alumni and friends, We celebrated the opening of Klarman Hall on October 1 and used the occasion to spark discussion and spur thinking on important issues of the day. Beth and Seth (MBA 1982) Klarman,... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

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