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- 25 Mar 2014
- News
Hightail CEO on the Cloud, Careers, and Kansas
- 25 Aug 2018
- News
`Amazon Effect' May Make Central Bank Job Harder
- 17 Aug 2018
- News
How TripAdvisor changed travel
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all...
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- 21 Jul 2022
- News
A Warren Buffett Protégée Strikes Out on Her Own
In a recent profile, the New York Times detailed the career of Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009), which has culminated in the launch of her new investment firm, Kanbrick. Britt Cool’s business career began in childhood, working at her parents’ View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
long term, in the right way,” Britt Cool says. So they decided to launch Kanbrick—a portmanteau that recognizes their shared Kansas roots and a long-term, brick-by-brick mentality. “We think in decades, not quarters,” Britt Cool stresses....
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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
found the time to take an active role in the operations of several companies in diverse industries, including helping to run one of New England's largest local advertising agencies. Marshall grew up in Kansas City during the Depression...
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- 27 Oct 2022
- News
John Middleton’s Big Swing
A recent article in the New York Times tracks the team’s World Series appearance back to the decision-making of principal owner John Middleton (MBA 1979). Specifically, the article notes that Middleton spent considerably to sign marquee players, including superstar...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
wounded, one seriously,” he says. “I was the only one not touched.” Berkley swore to live a life of service if he got home safely. Now 99 years old, Berkley can say he’s delivered on this promise, having contributed to a number of organizations in his hometown of View Details
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- 07 Jan 2020
- News
Models of Success
For Rebecca Feickert (MBA 2018), who grew up in the town of Goodrich, North Dakota, population 126, basketball was a stepping stone to success in the wider world. The skills she had honed playing against the boys in her hometown earned her a spot on the University of...
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- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
program in the 1960s to his role today as president and CEO of Pioneer Group, which creates affordable housing through the renovation and preservation of historic buildings in the American Midwest. Freeman grew up in a small Kansas town,...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS
quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs. As frequent targets of investment pitches, some of which turn out to be scams, several participants said they had already learned enough to be more astute in evaluating proposals that come their...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990)
singer from Kansas City, Kansas. Leisure time? “No. No. No. In all truth and candor, when you’re launching a media property in this kind of environment, you just don’t have what you’re speaking about.” On his desk: A photo of his dad, a...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
buck the odds, and to succeed where others have failed is truly remarkable." First presented 24 years ago, the Uhlmann Award has been offered to HBS students by several generations of the Uhlmann family of Kansas City, Missouri -- most...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
University Elections
’75, Syracuse University. Director, Dollenmayer Communications. Washington, DC. Cheryl L. McAfee-Mitchell, MAUD ’81; B.Arch. ’79, Kansas State University. President and Principal, Charles F. McAfee Architects, Planners, and Program...
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- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
Fieldhouse with thousands of people waiting for you to fail. So when she returned to the University of Kansas for a reunion in 2014, Feickert expected to hear similar stories of success from her teammates and other friends who had been...
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April White
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
have many entrepreneurial friends in traditional industries here in the Kansas City area. Indeed, I believe there are many entrepreneurial opportunities in the Midwest and Southwest but because they're related to industries such as grain,...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Benjamin (MBA 1969) Kansas City, MO Cities and Climate Change Thank you for the article “The City Solution” in the September Bulletin. Work like this gets people thinking more about the critical challenges we face. It’s up to cities...
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- 07 Nov 2018
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A Market-Based Approach to Solving the World’s Water Crisis
Jennifer Tisdel Schorsch (MBA 1992) is president of Water.org, a Kansas City–based nonprofit dedicated to bringing safe water and sanitation to the world through market-driven initiatives. In this interview she discusses the way the...
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