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- 12 Jul 2018
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In the Market for Environmental Change
Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972) is cofounder and retired managing director of the Boston-based private equity firm Berkshire Partners and chair of the Environmental Defense Fund. In this video interview, he talks...
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- 19 Sep 2016
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Sustainable Farming in the Arid World
operate sustainably. “I started Sundrop Farms about four years out of the MBA program. Most people don’t know but agriculture consumes about 50 percent of your operating costs are related to fossil fuels....
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- 29 Jul 2024
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Leading the Way
Illustration by Gisela Goppel When Michael Trejo (MBA 2013) was a freshman at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2005, he almost lost his full scholarship. “I just really lacked direction,” says Trejo. That’s when he joined ASU’s Hispanic Students Business Association...
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- 26 Nov 2019
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Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
Source: Mills Source: Mills Drawing on her experience leading the US Small Business Administration as a member of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet, Senior Fellow Karen Gordon Mills explores the ways technology is changing financial...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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A Wider Net
sportswriter Brian Phillips wrote in the New York Times. “The next thing I want to see from United States soccer is a jackhammer, not a news conference.” “It was heartbreaking,” says Carlos Cordeiro (MBA 1980), who at the time was vice...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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Classic Lines
company features a number of Antiques Roadshow's authorities as online hosts, and the show's creator and former executive producer has also signed on to develop Internet concepts and broadcast programming....
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- 30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
restaurants in China. It was all the things that investors were pressing for—moves that saved the company $200 million by the end of 2016, with a target of $500 million by the...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business
think more carefully about how they manage and organize themselves. Palepu: Paul, you spoke about the breakdown of checks and balances in the system generally. Can you elaborate? Healy: One thing that...
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- 06 Aug 2015
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Making coding cool
Alexis Maybank (MBA 2004) is not a coder. “That’s the one thing I wish I had learned,” says the cofounder of the successful flash-sale site Gilt Groupe. “Coding is a very useful language to know. It’s almost...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Reimagining China and India
misconception that these countries are too unfamiliar for us to really grapple with. Getting over that barrier allows one to invest in acquiring the knowledge that’s necessary. There’s really nothing mysterious about either country. That’s one View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
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How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
games. It was all part of a long term strategy to improve the franchise by getting better draft picks. And it necessitated a short term strategy of losing. Throughout, though, the 76er CEO Scott O’Neil (MBA...
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- 08 May 2019
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Lessons from the Ashes
destination, attending Oxford, working on Wall Street, and then getting his MBA. But in 1987, as Warwick was finishing up at HBS, his father passed away, and it threw things into flux. At that point, the family owned about 50 percent...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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3-Minute Briefing: Bonnie Kintzer (MBA 1987)
I had worked at a consulting firm where Reader’s Digest was my client, so I got to learn a lot about the business and the people prior to joining the first time. Thankfully, I was not there during either of the company’s two bankruptcies....
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- 07 Oct 2021
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Bringing Light to the Fight
part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s and became its chair in 2009. Her work with the charity has been informed by her business career, she says. A partner at...
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- 16 Jul 2013
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Embracing Chaos
circumstances. Last year, he launched Social Venture Partners (SVP) India is a spin-off of the Seattle-based nonprofit that pools philanthropic activities in a local area, in order to focus financial power on effectively solving local...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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The Western Front
things to bring to the table,” says Hendrickson. “If we can present them with a data set and algorithms that they just can’t get anywhere else, that’s interesting to them.” Entrepreneurs are also interested in capital, View Details
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Jason Feifer
- 01 Feb 1999
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Moving Mountains
What's it like to be a woman in the "old-boy" construction business of the South? "It's a lot of fun," says Kathy L. Barco (23rd OPM), president of Barco-Duval Engineering,...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)
Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong When Mary Lindley Burton (MBA 1976) came to HBS in the mid-1970s, the Smith College religion major “felt like a fish out of water.” What saved her, she says, was a...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995) was studying economics at Dartmouth in the 1980s when he interviewed for a summer internship at Meredith & Grew, an old-line Boston brokerage and real estate development firm. “If you wanted to say, ‘one of these...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)
In the summer when it got really hot, my brother and I would buy cases of water. We grew up in Queens near Linden Boulevard and we would stand on the corner and sell bottles of water to people who stopped at...
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