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Brent Brown

Brent (HBS '02) has experience in private equity/venture capital, investment banking, and real estate, consumer products and digital media industries and currently serves on the boards of numerous private companies. Work Experience: US Army, Goldman Sachs, Taurus... View Details

Keywords: Education; Entrepreneurship; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Real Estate; Retail; Sports; Clean Technology; Energy; Telecommunications; Technology

17 Oct 2014
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Committed to helping others

Eryn Schultz (MBA 2015) is concerned about access to healthy food and critical services for low-income families and plans to dedicate herself to helping those less fortunate. (Published October 2014) View Details

Portrait Project

Mark Kahn

I plan to repay my debts, for I live a highly-leveraged life. I owe a debt to the United States, which saved my family from the clutches of the Wehrmacht. I owe a debt to the political wards of Philadelphia,... View Details

Samuel C. Johnson II

Taking the helm of the family business in 1966, Johnson began a diversification plan to lessen the company’s exposure to the introduction of “no-wax” floors. He aggressively moved the company into the... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

01 Feb 1999
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Minding Families' Business

A twelfth-generation scion of one of the oldest merchant families in Quebec, Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien (MBA '54) acquired a family business the old-fashioned way-he built it. Today he dedicates himself to... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Jun 2016
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Up by the Roots

When he graduated from high school in 1994, Will Hsu (MBA 2006) had no plans to take over his father’s ginseng farm—there just didn’t seem to be a future in it. Hsu’s Ginseng Enterprises Inc. was one of the largest operations in central... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

21 Nov 2024
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Mother Nurture

support.” Having friends and family who’d experienced these complications—and as young women hoping to start families themselves one day—Keshani, Richter, and Cole decided to change those odds. Over the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers

Zone (HCZ) and Youth Villages. The HCZ started modestly in the early 1990s with the idea of providing a range of support services to address the problems of poor families living in a single block of New York City. As one of Bridgespan’s... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2005
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Back to School

for two years, until Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. “I had my first baby by then, so it was time to go,” says Whitney. After a short stint in Paris, the family returned to Massachusetts, where another son was born. In 1993, Whitney went... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

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Alika Phipps

As a child in Haiti, Alika Phipps watched her family manage its business interests, in margarine production and property insurance, and became “fascinated with markets and finance.” While attending MIT, she took a summer internship at JP... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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From Das’s Desk

such as how their careers were impacted by their choice of location or how their definition of home and family roles have evolved since graduation. Crafting Your Life represents the continued evolution of our thinking here at HBS. No... View Details

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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 Jun 1997
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Carla Small

Working mothers may have become commonplace in corporate America, but in business school, student moms are still in a class by themselves. Just ask Carla Small. "I went from being surrounded by other women trying to balance a job and View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

10 Dec 2015
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Leveraging Curiosity to Broaden the Impact

seeing the product that was eventually going to touch someone’s life,” he says. “While I am still passionate about engineering, I want to work with people and teams in the business world to broaden my impact, especially in strategic View Details

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Kathleen Schlaff

You never ever know what is around the corner. No matter how well planned I thought my life was, it really threw me a few curve balls this year. When my aunt called me last summer to tell me that my father, who I adore, had unexpectedly... View Details

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Kira Epler

For Kira Epler, attending HBS meant a dramatic shift in scale. "My graduating class of chemistry majors was smaller than a HBS section," she says. The fourth generation in her family to graduate from Kansas State University,... View Details

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Andrea Heckbert

brain rehabilitation. I had been living abroad and planning to come here next year, chasing all my big dreams but actively crafting a life that took me away from those I loved. A life that suddenly felt very risky, and I considered not... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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On the National Stage

lot of music out of her ears,” Heinz told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (June 17, 2004). “John Kerry brought that back.” On leave from Jacobson Partners, a New York private equity firm, Heinz has seen his own future become the subject of much Kennedyesque speculation. “I... View Details

Keywords: John Heinz (MBA 1963); Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

Portrait Project

Tian Tian

However, I know somewhere deep in my heart I am constantly searching for surprises, adventures, and unknowns. "Life is a journey. But not everyone gets the chance to plan his/her itinerary," my father told me. He was born during... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Donor Spotlight

combining an outright gift through a family foundation with a planned gift, which, in this case, makes HBS an insurance policy beneficiary. Such creative thinking about philanthropy means more support for... View Details

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