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- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
This was my favorite case in my favorite class, Entrepreneurial Management, taught by Professor Howard Stevenson. The protagonist learned the hard way that she had to plan to manage growth and, unfortunately, her View Details
- 21 Jul 2020
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Starbucks Commits to Raising Awareness of Racial Bias
- 01 Jan 2010
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James Dimon, MBA 1982
Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education: B.A., Economics and Psychology, Tufts University, 1978 On Leadership: “Set and meet high standards of integrity, performance, and service. You have to be... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
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Capital Connection
worked on transactions that required more than $50 million in capital. That created a major gap in the market, leaving commercial real estate operators who develop or renovate smaller properties with more limited funding options. Whereas... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner
As president of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO), Sharon L. Patrick (MBA '78) oversees business strategy and operations at one of the country's most talked-about enterprises. She is a former partner at McKinsey & Co. and former... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
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A Taste of Tradition
In a family-founded business, tradition and values are as ingrained and in-escapable as one's own genetic heritage. Even when such an enterprise becomes a publicly owned and operated corporation, the family's influence can remain an... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 20 Jan 2022
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3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic
- 01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
responsibility with success, and that is leaving the world better than you found it," says Seth Klarman, who sees giving back as one of the key metrics to consider when gauging success. Another is whether one has created value for others. At Baupost, he says, "We've... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
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E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974
Founding Managing Partner, Summit Partners Download Stamps profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1946 Born, Waycross, Georgia 1967 Earns BS, Industrial Engineering, Georgia Tech 1968 Joins US Navy 1972 Earns... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
From Retail to Real Estate
family business was making the initial steps of what would become a decade-long transition from operator to investor. “I completely shifted my curriculum,” he says, turning his focus to finance. “Suddenly, as a family, we had this big... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision
seashells washing up on the shore—all of which would also require time and attention, be they challenges or opportunities. You can’t ignore them; but you also can’t let them consume you, because you still have to manage the rest of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Leveraging Generative AI
learning. Last year, the MBA Program introduced ChatGPT as a component of the required course Data Science for Managers and the elective Launching Tech Ventures (see below). Faculty members have integrated it into other courses as well,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2022
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My First Job
at Kwinters, the hot-dog stand in my local mall, where I learned how to cook five varieties of hot dogs, managed cash, cleaned the oily fryers and greasy hot-dog containers, and earned minimum wage. It was a great initial lesson in how,... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
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When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
- 11 Oct 2023
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Soldier On
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
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
operations is a big part of what YALP hopes to impart. “Typically, the public-sector lexicon can be mystifying to private-sector folks,” says Stacy Richardson, Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke’s chief of staff. “When I attended YALP in 2016,... View Details
- 20 Apr 2023
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How Joe Hinrichs is Getting CSX Back on Track
Photo via LinkedIn In a recent Q&A with the Wall Street Journal, new CSX CEO Joe Hinrichs (MBA 1994) discussed the steps he's taken to address challenges at the rail company since becoming CEO in September. First up, the paper notes, was a listening tour. "The best-run... View Details