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- 27 Apr 2017
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Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
burdens of debt prompted York, global head of Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs, to endow a fellowship in recognition of his 25th Reunion and add to it for his 30th. The son of a veteran, York supports students who have a military background. “The View Details
- 24 Mar 2017
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Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
Dx: A diagnostic support tool for health care professionals that augments clinical diagnoses. Alumna: Lorin Gresser, MBA 1998 Region: Europe EZNectar: EZNectar. EZ on your time. EZ on your conscience. For more hummingbirds! Alumnus: David Hill, AMP 159, 2000 Region:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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Second Acts
When Glen Meakem (MBA ’91) couldn’t persuade his employer, General Electric, that he was on to a hot idea to revamp corporate purchasing using the Internet, he quit and started his own firm, FreeMarkets,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
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Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
the "female baggage"- including feelings of inadequacy, a tendency to dwell on her own mistakes, indecisiveness, and a constant desire to please others - that she brought to the job. Graham, who is 81, dismissed the idea that she is a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
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A Career to Smile About
covers an impressive amount of territory, for the energetic Juliber, it's only a start. "One of the main challenges for a global company is how to accelerate the transfer of experience and information from one part of the world to another," explains Juliber, who, after... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Dec 2014
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Five Degrees of Doriot
big business ideas had to hit up wealthy private investors for funding. ARD’s model fostered the growth of a new generation of entrepreneurs—a group that Doriot held in high regard. “An average View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
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The $4 Billion Question
to how the firm does business. “We currently fund every good idea we have,” states Yudkoff in the case. “You would think either we could hire more people to generate more ideas, or we could pursue auction... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
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How to Survive Past Start-up
Cenedella tried several other ideas for job-industry companies before he came up with the idea for TheLadders. Michel spent years searching for the right business idea — even... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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Multimedia Simulation Provides Real-World Reality Check
four of these teams are then aggregated into an industry. Team members study data and collaborate on beer design, pricing, and packaging, as well as on decisions concerning manufacturing and marketing. After each round, reports are View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
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Reinventing the Wheel
extracting carbon black from discarded models to create new ones. Cardozo first heard about the idea in 2013 while serving as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Dutch incubator YES!Delft. The idea of... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Advancing the Mission
Growing up in India as the children of government workers, Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) and Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) had an innate sense of the inequalities and problems facing their country and an optimism to want to do something about them. Together, the siblings cofounded... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
and meetings with alumnae in Boston, New York, and San Francisco to generate ideas about what HBS alumnae wanted and how the School could help. "It was a quest to see whether they were interested in... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
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The Business of Access
the nonprofits and social services organizations whose staffs had the skills to help, and plotted a different way to give back. “My thinking was, if I were to help people here in California,” she recalls, “that would pay it forward for someone helping my family member... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 12 Jan 2017
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Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
us are suffering in silence. We don’t want anyone to know we’re feeling a little less than certain—or even vulnerable,” she says. Skeete Tatum speaks in personal terms about Landit, in part because her own experience inspired the idea for... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 20 Apr 2016
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Steps to Success
B,” she recalls. With Goldberg’s help, Ruhr got a summer job working for General Mills in its Stockton, California, regional grain office. Upon graduating, she went to work for the company, first on the trading floor at the Chicago Board... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 25 Apr 2014
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A defining global experience before college can unlock a lifetime of potential
involved in projects in Asia, Latin America, and Africa and another 200 alumni already making a difference as leaders on college campuses nationwide. Falik conceived the idea for Global Citizen Year after high school, when she moved to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
their jobs to offer to resign, and Dayton Hudson Corp. insists that outside directors resign if they change jobs. The General Motors Board of Directors Corporate Governance Guidelines assert that "individual Directors who change the... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Estonia, Incorporated
he needs to travel to Estonia or attend a session of the UN General Assembly across town. The payoff? A chance to chart the digital future of an entire country. In April, Estonia became the first country in the world to offer e-Residency,... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 13 Jun 2017
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Finding Common Ground
departments—with the goal of improving the health of honey bees in general and especially in production agriculture. Building trust is crucial to the relationships CollaborateUp fosters. Activists fear business executives will take... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 21 Dec 2018
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Bridging the Gap
most promising young leaders firsthand, lived experience in parts of the world that, frankly, too few of us have had direct exposure to, and many, many more of us need to understand firsthand. Flint: Why have Americans been slower to come around to this View Details