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01 Mar 2018
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Case Study: On the Record

sell 100 vinyl records a month or have their songs stream on Spotify 1.5 million times,” says Kelleher, who led music app partnerships at Google Play before founding Austin-based record manufacturer Gold Rush Vinyl. The company grew out... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Vanity and Virtue: Allegories on the Pursuit of Riches - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Pieter Breughel the Elder (1525–69.) Joannes Galle (1600–76), "excudit." [Belgium, 1558?]. 23.7 x 30.4 cm CF b4 xx Second state. Caption below image is in Latin, French and Dutch: Riches make thieves, or, gold and silver have destroyed... View Details

21 Oct 2021
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DraftKings Backs New VC Firm

advisors that includes former Boston Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein and Olympic hockey gold medalist Hilary Knight. The article also tracked the rise in sports startups in the Boston area more generally, highlighting both Will... View Details

Berry Gordy, Jr.

Gordy’s Motown Records became the most successful African-American enterprise of its time with sales in the early 1970s of $50 million. Gordy’s first gold record came just one year after the founding of Motown - Smokey Robinson and the... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

Portrait Project

Chris LaColla

I was running late for my flight home to Chicago, but I was frozen in front of a small glass case in a museum in Tokyo. There was only one word on the sign using letters I knew– kintsugi. When a piece of pottery breaks, it is repaired with a mixture of View Details

Daniel Guggenheim

and took control of ASARCO in 1900. Guggenheim bought copper mines and gold fields in Chile, tin mines in Bolivia, and a rubber plantation and diamond mines in the Congo and Angola. Guggenheim became the nation’s most successful miner. View Details

Keywords: Metals

01 Sep 2014
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@Soldiers Field

soft gloss paint. To top it off, the building’s dome and finial were cleaned and resurfaced with new 23½-karat gold leaf. The academic year kicked off with a heated competition known as RC Field Day. Sections vied for domination in... View Details

Keywords: Georges F. Doriot

01 Dec 2009
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Up for Grabs

WHITMAN: After a successful career at eBay, going for the gold in California. Making her biggest bid in a career built on bids, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman (MBA ’79) threw her hat into the ring in September and formally declared that she... View Details

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

20 Dec 2019
Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019

with three choices on a tray: grain, a pen, and a gold coin. Grain represents a love for food. The pen, a love for learning. And gold, a love for business. My mom told me I picked up the pen with one hand and the View Details

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Shirley Cardona

chores together. Going to the laundromat was my favorite. You should have seen the pride my mother exuded while doing the laundry! She set the gold standard. While pouring Downy into the washer, she reminded me that high-quality products... View Details

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General File - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Montreal-Vancouver railroad in 1885, close-ups of early computing machinery, cyanotypes of European and U.S. bridges, images of workers in South African gold mines, a series of photos taken of supermarkets around the world circa early... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

New Spaces: Convening Power

multipurpose foyer Pre-function reception space A flexible floor design to accommodate events of any size up to 1,000 guests LEED Gold or higher sustainability features Find HBS alumni at Baupost Group View Details

06 Jan 2010
What Do You Think?

Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?

Internet security industry. Let's apply this thinking to the recently reinitiated global conversation about climate change. If one subscribes to precepts of entrepreneurial management, there should be a pot of gold at the end of a climate... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

Portrait Project

Thomas Nassim

the musicians packed up, the lights turned down. I plan to walk to the end of the battered wooden pier and sit for a while. As the day fades, molten gold streaks the leaden waters. A chill November evening on the bay. On the shore behind,... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)

finance, along with many others (including two in progress) on the subject of General Patton. An athlete and exercise enthusiast, Stillman won six gold medals and one silver in track and swimming events in Louisiana’s 2002 Senior... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98)

for the NHL. The league will benefit from a surge of interest and support similar to what American hockey experienced after Team USA's hockey gold medal in 1980." Kluzak, who plans a career in investment management, now limits his hockey... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

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HBS Magazine - Alumni

Leadership-General For the Records In the midst of Austin’s buzzy music scene, Caren Kelleher is finding her harmony as both founder of Gold Rush Vinyl and new co-owner of Waterloo Records, with ambitions of preserving the local music... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)

way, the league is planning to debut in 2000. "The gold medal performance of the U.S. women's soccer team at the 1996 Olympics showcased our talented players to the nation and the world," says the NSA's development consultant, Jennifer... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project | Information Technology

future? The multimedia case was produced in partnership with Professor Rick Ruback for the EC Course Market Perspectives. Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project was honored with a 2024 Gold Telly Award in the Education & Discovery category and... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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Reinventing the Wheel

Carbon. Tires, in particular, are a gold mine. But with every tire change, that potential carbon black—4.5 million tons annually, worth 4.5 billion euros—typically heads to landfills (or worse, up in smoke). “It’s like throwing out the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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