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- 22 Sep 2023
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Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS
Baker scholar. So the student knew he was not a Baker scholar because he had not received first honors both years, but he somehow got added to the list and included in the invitation to the dinner, and all this stuff. And basically raised his hand and said, I did not... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
ball bearings, auto fenders. It was part of the plan to help me become independent, practical, and self-supporting.” First jobs: “In fourth grade I earned a dollar an hour mowing the grass on our riding tractor, walked the money down to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
voluntary or involuntary. Salter explains that, on a global scale, overcapacity is linked to demographics. "From Asia alone, there will soon be over one billion laborers earning less than $4 a day dominating the world's workforce," he... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 May 2024
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On the Job
Susan Young READ MORE Julia Hanna: Gwill York’s (MBA 1984) parents were determined that their daughter would be practical and self-sufficient. As it turns out, they didn’t have to push too hard. At the age of nine, York started driving her family’s riding mower to... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Jan 2011
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Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
trades per se, but taking in what's going on in the 165-person company he helped launch shortly after earning his MBA. Rarely using his private office, he begins each day reading four to six newspapers, surrounded by colleagues. The... View Details
- 23 May 2018
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Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1962 Born, Port Arthur, Texas 1984 Earns AB, Economics, Harvard University 1984 Joins Booz Allen Hamilton, Consultant 1987 Earns MBA 1987 Joins Morgan... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 May 2017
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Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1953 Born, Ibadan, Nigeria 1975 Earns BA, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Oxford 1979 Earns JD/MBA 1980 Clerks for US Supreme Court Associate... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Action Plan: Wild at Heart
At first glance, Heather Evans (MBA 1983) might not seem the likeliest candidate for a career in ecological landscaping. A former chief marketing officer and “true urbanist” (“to the extent I used to hate visiting people in the country!”), Evans spent most of her life... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
Some women land in a lower pay grade, weighing short-term necessity against lifelong earnings potential. All of these factors can stunt, derail, or limit women’s careers, Ammerman says, but it’s also increasingly clear that they play into... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
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The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
experience while earning a high school degree. One of Hamilton County’s Future Ready Institutes, the program was inspired in part by a YALP case study. Now director of community relations at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Wilson is... View Details
- 09 Feb 2021
- News
Investing in Entrepreneurship
become great oaks. The companies that are spawned provide employment, pay taxes, and advance the standard of living—all actions that are great for America.” Missy Crisp, a Vassar graduate who earned an MBA at night from Hofstra University... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 May 2017
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John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1954 Born, Boston, Massachusetts 1976 Earns BA, Economics, Dartmouth College 1976 Joins New York Bank for Savings 1980 Earns MBA 1980 Joins S.C. Johnson... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2024
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Unlocking the Power of Community
at work “underneath the hood,” Fung says about the underlying technologies, protocols, and infrastructure that enable the Watch to Earn experience. “But understanding that is not a prerequisite to engaging with it.” Bleacher Report used... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2012
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Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
Chairman and CEO, Rakuten, Inc. Download Mikitani profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1965 Born, Kobe, Japan 1972 Family moves to United States for two years 1988 Earns commerce degree, Hitotsubashi... View Details
- 24 May 2017
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David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1953 Born, Washington, DC 1975 Earns BA, Economics and History, Swarthmore College 1977 Earns MBA 1977 Receives Fulbright Scholarship to the Philippines... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 20 Dec 2023
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New School
Foundation. At the same time, Curriculum Associates has transitioned from a solely print-based company to a largely online one, earned local and national best-places-to-work awards, seen revenues increase 20 times over. “It turns out... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
a high-stakes job, and as success boosts her confidence, her husband becomes more abusive. After they return to America, she escapes with their two toddlers. Three years later, a single parent with a serious health emergency, she earns an... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
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Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
Download Ashraf Dahod profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1951 Born, Mumbai, India 1971 Earns BS, Physics, University of Bombay 1972 Earns BSEE, University of Michigan 1973 View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit
brothers returned to the United States, she argued, they somehow would find a way to make it work. Money, by necessity, became an obsession. Throughout his first year at HBS, Sityodtong sent $10 each week to his mother in Thailand, money View Details