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- 01 Oct 2000
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Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
some HBS classes, including those in which edu.com was developed as a business plan. After moving back home to launch his company, Adam didn't look far for his first partner. "I was doing some consulting work and considering opportunities...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
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Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
recruiting the very best people and sorting them out as to who is the most effective, then empowering them, and watching closely while they run like hell for victory and achievement. As mentor and protégé, what drew Sidney Weinberg and...
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Finance
- 19 Jun 2013
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Your Guide to Social Enterprise
in Boston. "But I wanted to really learn how to run a nonprofit," she recalls. After considering law school, she applied to HBS because of its increasing emphasis on social entrepreneurship. "I had a mentor who helped me realize that not...
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- 19 Sep 2016
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Thomas S. Murphy (MBA 1949)
approached him. “He said that he was going into a little crapshoot in Albany and needed someone to run a television station,” recalls Murphy. “That’s how in 1954 I became Capital Cities first employee.” Just ten years later, he was named...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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How Do I Get Your Job?
to start and run a company, but I hadn’t had that aha moment. I decided to make the leap when I couldn’t stop thinking about a reusable water bottle. If I didn’t do it, someone else would do it first, and I would kick myself later on. I...
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April White
- 06 Apr 2016
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Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
huge global companies that are very well run and have been very financially successful. In the US beer business we have a little bit less than 2 percent market share. So, we have to keep the heart and passion of a small business....
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Batteries and Chocolates
Illustration by Adam Niklewicz/theispot.com by Debora L. Spar In 1991, when I joined the HBS faculty, men outnumbered women by two to one in the student body and four to one among the senior faculty. Back then, male students saw nothing...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Ivashina says, was not a lack of demand for corporate credit but rather a lack of supply. Once Lehman Brothers failed in September 2008, corporate borrowers drew down their revolving credit lines rather than withdraw savings—which is traditionally how we think about a...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
Photo Courtesy MATTHEW R. SIMMONS In his new book, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67) sounds an alarm about a finite resource that he believes is View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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A Vibrant Brand
Back then, Rolling Stone was in a league of its own - with a 25-year history and a loyal readership of 1.2 million. "For me to even utter in a meeting that we were going to challenge Rolling Stone sounded crazy," reflects Clinkscales,...
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Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2001
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K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience
Valley-based Walden International takes a hands-on approach when it backs new enterprises, insisting on monthly board meetings and close cooperation. Chia is well suited to this coaching technique. While most venture capitalists in Asia...
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- 07 May 2018
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What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
left the corporate world to pursue that passion full-time. His long list of travels include hiking the Appalachian Trail, walking from Mexico to Canada and back on the Continental Divide, and completing two three-year tours of all 25...
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- 11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow
“If I look back at my career, I’ve focused on liquid assets: blood, water, and beer.” That is the wry encapsulation Cynthia Fisher (MBA 1990) uses to describe her professional activities. Like Fisher herself, it is smart, efficient, and...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 26 May 2016
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2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
handle anything.” “It’s important to learn how to balance IQ with EQ, emotional quotient. There is humanity in EQ. There is leadership in EQ. You can’t run a business for a long time if you don’t have both, and EQ is critical to having...
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- 14 Jan 2014
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Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
business ideas up and running. Start-ups include a business converting pickup trucks to run on propane and a "Man Closet," now being manufactured and distributed, where hunters can store their outdoor clothing and gear. One student who...
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- 13 May 2014
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Willing Hands
just have to be willing to participate with others in the work." "Real estate is the thread that's run through my career," adds Spencer, who most recently served as president of Cogdell Spencer Inc., a publicly traded health care, real...
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- 26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising
country back to prosperity. Within his first 100 days, Mitsotakis announced to investors the world over that Greece is open for business. And it’s happening, both in the buzz at the Grande Bretagne and on the world stage. Arhodidis, for...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2022
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Eyes in the Skies
machine-learning algorithms running on massive on-demand cloud-computing platforms like Amazon Web Services. At the same time, a trifecta of trends—namely, the widespread reliance on just-in-time inventory management; the ongoing...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 25 Mar 2016
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Putting Faith in a Good Education
Edify has assisted 1,100 private faith-based schools, loaning each a minimum $5,000. Founded and run largely by locals who grew up in these disadvantaged communities, these schools use the money for improvements (such as a computer lab)...
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- 01 Jan 2012
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Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
After three years, the pair sold their portfolio to Sutter Hill Ventures, and Johnson looked for a company to buy. Instead, he ended up back in the venture business, founding Asset Management Company in 1967. Over the ensuing decades,...
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