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Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details

30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

Virginian-Pilot, a daily newspaper owned by his uncle. After graduating from the University of Virginia (UVA), serving in the Merchant Marine, and earning a Harvard MBA in 1952, he took a job as a reporter and ad salesman for his uncle's... View Details

30 Jun 2010
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Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business

The passing on June 28 of Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia at 92, after a 51-year career in the Senate, triggered an outpouring of remembrances, positive and negative, of his long service on Capitol Hill. Serving in a variety of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Dec 2007
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HBS Clubs Host Faculty Speakers

of London Dean Jay Light March 4, 2008 HBS Club of Virginia Associate Professor Josh Margolis March 11, 2008 HBS Chapter of Harvard Club of MN Senior Lecturer Bob Higgins March 24, 2008 HBS Club of San Antonio Assistant Professor Ryan... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2011
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RoboCar, the Sequel

thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive on roads but also attach to computer-controlled track networks. A version of his idea was adapted in the 1960s and is still in use at West Virginia University. That was... View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 1999
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Ceiling Unlimited

Carl Chen (24th OPM) has come a long way. The Long Beach, California, Press-Telegram (September 13, 1999) reported that when Chen was four years old, his family fled mainland China for Taiwan. In 1968, he won a fellowship to West Virginia... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Herman I. Safin

time around taught him an important life lesson: "to strive for the best and have faith in myself." At MGIMO, Safin was selected to participate in the American Collegiate Consortium Exchange Program. His experience at Washington and Lee University in rural View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

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