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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
years later, he’s still at Accel and can lay claim to one of the most storied careers in the venture industry: 25 companies that have completed IPOs or successful mergers; directorships with Wal-Mart Stores, Marvel Entertainment, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
pilot’s license when he was just 17 years old, after training in his dad’s antique 1946 Piper J-3 Cub. “It was just a beautiful plane,” he recalls. “I fell in love with flying.” Alhough he considered a career in aviation, he lacked... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
a well-worn career path for his cohort at Trinity College, one of Sri Lanka’s most prestigious private high schools. It wasn’t a traditional high school experience, however; between the ages of 16 and 18, Mawilmada guesses he attended... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
working really hard to earn and to keep the public’s trust.” No one is perhaps better suited for the task than Jones, whose passion for both law and business set her on an unlikely path to the SEC. “My career wasn’t linear,” says Jones,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
Part of it is this unconscious bias. But we just need more women to feel comfortable writing checks.” Dan Morrell: Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) has spent much of her career as an entrepreneur and tech executive and was well aware of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
her yard. Interested in a “green” career post-HBS, she found it difficult to locate the alumni and networking opportunities that would provide a leg up on the job hunt, so she joined forces with Fishman to create an alumni organization to... View Details
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
only worked in Boston, it was an eye-opening experience," Blumkin recalls. "Every day, we discussed a case in a different industry." Her studies led to a career in marketing, first at big companies such as American Express and Walt... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
close friends and did some work together before I went off to pursue a career at BCG, Bain & Company, and Farmer & Company. About 10 years ago I began teaching business—something I’d always wanted to do—as an adjunct professor at The City... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
people to donate directly to the organizations fighting COVID on-ground in India in return offering consultations related to the MBA journey, including assisting with GMAT/GRE prep, school selection, application planning, and essay... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
Shapiro visited Levitt to consult about a possible career path in manufacturing. “It was the second time I went to see him,” he recalls, “and Ted was visibly nervous. He said, ‘Your voice. Your voice has a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
forgotten sectionmate. Following are brief updates on some of the more far-flung members of the Class of 1977. Whether their life journeys have led them to distant parts of the globe, down untraditional career paths, or on quests for... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
students at the most prestigious schools now shunned traditional management careers altogether in favor of fields like consulting and investment banking. Faculty at the elite business schools were thus... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
create given their love of the outdoor life. Still, it was a strange alliance between a scruffy, eccentric outdoorsman and two clean-cut East Coast, Ivy League Republicans on the fast-track for careers in finance or politics. After... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
people have burnout and struggle, insomnia, headaches, back pain, some form of leader B might be at play. Secondly, I've seen folks really stall out in their careers where—whether the organization has grown or your role has grown—I've... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
business and life, and gave them practical experience by sending them on consulting assignments with real companies. In the military, he ruffled feathers by resisting orders so he could make sure soldiers had the equipment they needed to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
started her career at Bain and then spent a decade building Dalberg, a strategic advisory firm, from a team of seven people to more than 30 offices globally. From 2012 to 2017 she served as senior development advisor to the Secretary of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Barksdale Group and former CEO of Netscape; Hank Barry, CEO of Napster; Irwin Jacobs, chairman and CEO of QUALCOMM; and Carl Yankowski, CEO of Palm, Inc. Representatives from top venture-capital and consulting firms joined a diverse mix... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Goodwin Illustration by Jack Unruh Over the past two decades, Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007) has made a career of getting involved in complex and intractable global crises, from helping to rebuild the Iraqi Ministry of Health to directing... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
had to memorize everything, and I thought, ‘Could I get a computer to do all this stuff so I don’t have to?’ ” That notion had furthered his interest in artificial intelligence, which had led to his career at IBM, and now, with Watson’s... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page