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- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
Photos courtesy of Minal Mehta When did you and your cofounders come up with the idea of a Bollywood-inspired dance and fitness program? "I grew up splitting my time between swimming pools and dance studios. When I wasn't choreographing synchronized swimming routines,...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Hopping to It
Reid Photo courtesy of Arista When Antonio (“LA”) Reid (AMP:ISMP 154) succeeded the legendary Clive Davis at Arista Records, a lot of people wondered if he was up to the job. Sure, Reid had founded Atlanta–based hip–hop and R&B label LaFace and built it into a $100...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Good for Laughs
If there are jokes to be found amid the wave of corporate scandals, they’re usually on the shareholders. But hey, did you hear the one about the overcompensated CEOs? “They found out that making too much money is not nearly as bad as pretending to make too much money.”...
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- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
A bit of Hollywood came to HBS recently when Steven Samuels spoke at the invitation of the School’s Entertainment and Media Club. A former real estate developer, Samuels is an independent movie producer with a solid body of work under his...
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- 07 Feb 2017
- News
Checking in with One Championship
“successful” on paper but not in his heart. After realizing his real passion was for martial arts, Sityodtong launched Evolve MMA, a mixed martial arts gym with three branches in Singapore. Out of that enterprise came One Championship, a...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Double Vision
The rise of the "second screen"—watching TV while also surfing on smartphones or tablets—would seem to be bad for advertisers, stealing precious eyeballs from their pitches. Not so, says Thales Teixeira, an assistant professor in the Marketing Unit. In a recent...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)
“Music is wired into us,” says Keith Cerny (MBA 1991). “Singing is something that is very human, and from singing, it’s very easy to go into playing instruments.” Cerny’s own connection with music began at age 10, with the San Francisco Boys Chorus. It continued as a...
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- 30 Oct 2020
- News
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sands of Time
Well before he arrived at HBS, Michel Ray de Carvalho (MBA 1970) had led a charmed life. But it was only destined to get better. Already a veteran child actor at 17, he was tapped to play one of Peter O'Toole's young Arab sidekicks in the film Lawrence of Arabia,...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Career Makeover
Maximum utilization of assets on hand is a key to business success. It’s also an operating philosophy for Jackie Davis (MBA ’83), a former executive who’s now a TV personality and interior designer. When Davis does a redecorating makeover, she typically limits herself...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Fred Newman
Fred Newman remembers a particularly chilly HBS cold call. Completely unprepared to open a finance case, he used a different talent to get through it. Newman did his impression of a fly and buzzed out of his seat and around the Aldrich classroom until he hit the back...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Desperate Sections
In April, this year’s HBS Show, An Offer You Can’t Refuse, explored in song and dance what happens when, in a metaphorical sense, entire HBS sections face the prospect of wearing cement overshoes and sleeping with the Charles River fishes. It’s all because a sudden...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
Illustration by Avalon Nuovo Before launching her own startup, Lily Liang (MBA 2008) worked as a product manager in San Francisco’s tech industry, including a stint at the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes from 2012 to 2017. Those were especially heady years in the...
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- 31 May 2013
- News
Seeing the Light
EVANS: A second career emerges from a lifelong avocation. Photo courtesy of Chip Evans For decades, Chip Evans (MBA 1973) was a Mad Man in Manhattan, doing account work for major Fortune 500 clients at iconic advertising agencies such as Ogilvy & Mather, Foote Cone...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
career. That became clearer when I got to HBS. I learned that, in addition to being inspired by media, I liked to work on projects that had a beginning, middle, and end, which fit perfectly with the world of film and television. All signs...
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