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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
involved with grassroots organizations in the Los Angeles area such as the Coalition for Clean Air and Heal the Bay, which is dedicated to cleaning up Santa Monica Bay. Through the Horn Foundation, which they founded in 1989, the couple... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 04 Feb 2016
- News
From Super Bowl to STEM Bowl
As big as it is, the Super Bowl has only fleeting impact on its annual host city. But a team of HBS alumni in Santa Clara, California, where Super Bowl 50 will be played this weekend, found a creative way to take advantage of the local... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
Jamaica, and Zimbabwe. Some have worked in cities like Baghdad, Phnom Penh, Monrovia, Tokyo, and Madrid. But none of the students in our group has been to Santa Ana del Valle, a village of just under 2,000 inhabitants, where rug weaving... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
talked about how the GDP of a nation correlates directly to the health, education, and productivity of women." Seegull, who lives in Santa Monica, California, and is a ranked beach volleyball player, recently returned to HBS for an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Action Plan: Yes, Chef!
Wolfgang Puck (OPM 53, 2019)—aka the father of California cuisine, OG celebrity chef, and culinary empire-builder—began his career as a disgraced cook’s apprentice at a hotel restaurant. At 14, he’d been eager to take the post just outside his Austrian hometown: Not... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
position at San Mateo–based Shelter Network, which needed her skills to research and implement its merger with another homelessness service provider, InnVision, in Santa Clara. InnVision’s business model was to charge homeless people for... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
Meow Wolf is headed that way, too. A wildly popular arts and entertainment company with more than 2 million visitors a year, across three locations, Meow Wolf started in 2008 as decidedly offline. The founders were a group of artists who felt alienated from the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni Connections
April. 4 Alumni from the MBA Classes of 2002–2016 at the Wilshire Restaurant in Santa Monica, CA, in March. Finalists in the New Venture Competition were on the HBS campus in April to give their pitches to a panel of judges. This is the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
their membership. This year's candidates are: Thomas E. Everhart, AB '53, magna cum laude; MS '55, UCLA; PhD '58, University of Cambridge, England. President Emeritus and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The American Dream
mobile home in rural Washington State while her enterprising father, a truck driver, was building his own company, is running as a pro-business Democrat and advocate for the middle class. “I come from those roots,” she told the Santa Rosa... View Details
- 28 May 2021
- News
Unspent Love
of paper origami fish to swim across the ceiling of the family dining room, Kingston writes. “My mother, who put her business degree to use running a small nutritional beverage company with my father in Santa Rosa, Calif., while raising... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- News
The Business of Access
her business know-how—revenue generation and growth in the private sector—and apply it to nonprofits rooted in social services. She was brought aboard to assist San Mateo–based Shelter Network implement a merger with another homelessness service provider, InnVision, in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Managing a Master
manages a number of other jazz musicians, including Wynton's father, pianist Ellis Marsalis. Arrendell's company, The Management Ark, Inc., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is his headquarters for negotiating clients' contracts, record and... View Details
Keywords: Jeff Lazar
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
disasters. Photo courtesy Gregg Bemis Mysteries of the Deep Gregg Bemis Jr. (MBA ’54) Age: 76 Home: Santa Fe, New Mexico Gregg Bemis walked out the door of his last corporate job in 1979, at the age of 51. “It became readily apparent that... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
Yes, proceeds from working on The Post enabled the purchase of a new home in Santa Monica. Yes, he’s been invited to some fancier dinner parties. But the day-to-day routine hasn’t changed much: “I’m still sitting in my underwear,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
stint at Procter & Gamble, he became president of Yahoo! Marketplace, a joint venture between Yahoo! and Visa. As head of that Santa Clara, California, firm, he conceived its strategy for an Internet guide to consumer shopping. His... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed
is the Community Partners (CP) program of the HBS Association of Northern California. Founded in 1986, CP has involved more than four hundred alumni in providing pro bono consulting services to nearly 130 nonprofit organizations. CP volunteers have helped the Girls... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Exotic Travel
their travels, providing “how-to” tips for families with similar interests. After Jennifer succumbed to ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) in February 2003, completing the book became a labor of love for Nichols. Exotic Travel Destinations for Families was published in January... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care
New York City at 5th & Mad for drinks and conversation, and another half dozen alumni got together at Punch Bowl Social in Minneapolis. In Los Angeles, nine alumni enjoyed drinks and appetizers at 1212 Santa Monica. “It was a chance for... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
the air outside New York City's JFK airport and eventually hitchhiked across the country." Merkl fell in love with California and decided to stay. Enrolling at the University of California at Santa Cruz, he studied environmental science,... View Details