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01 Jan 2002
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Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

President & Chief Executive Officer Starbucks Coffee Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Washington, 1965 B.A., Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Statistics Other View Details

13 Sep 2019
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Hollywood Ending

people from Netflix, Google, Amazon, Snapchat, Starbucks, Nike, and Microsoft. There’s a lot of product management oomph there,” she says. And many of them, like Lee, who worked at Sony View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo

however, DiRomualdo has carefully maintained the original company's reputation for selection, service, and ambience - including in-store espresso cafés. "People come to our stores not because they have to but because they want to," says... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup

this, comes from Steve Jobs and is that, “Follow your heart, but check it with your head.” So take that passion, but make sure that you have the ability to pull back at the right points on the reigns to go... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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An Rx for Small Business Recovery

COVID-19’s impact on the sector makes 2009 look like a teeny blip.” There are over 30 million small businesses in the United States, accounting for half of the nation’s private sector employment and the majority of View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2020
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Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “I think now we're learning more about a deeper level of talking and communicating, which is around connecting. View Details

Keywords: Zoom

29 Sep 2022
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) left his job as an investment banker in New York to move back to his native Senegal as an advisor to the minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. The position... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

13 Nov 2020
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A Passion for Education

teaching her four-year-old how to read, Ryan’s mother visited his public kindergarten and realized he wouldn’t receive the level of learning he deserved, so she enrolled him in a local parochial school. “I... View Details

24 Mar 2022
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Well Said

for her job interviews. So that's when on the personal level that inspiration struck me. And then I feel like on a professional level, my career up until this point had... View Details

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

favor, and manufacturing dried up. At a certain point, jobs in local government and services became the gold standard for security, benefits, and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

28 May 2019
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Tech for the People

disasters. Floods the previous February had displaced 14,000 city residents and caused $100 million in damages. Because his own family’s home in Texas had been damaged during Hurricane Harvey, Tsai understood firsthand the importance of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Leading Change

waste, and conserve natural resources. From 2005 to 2015, for instance, the company’s water and energy consumption per garment dropped by 60 percent and 40 percent... View Details

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

contrary forces of dreamer and doer in Mawilmada that would propel him through the various stages of his career. At that point, he was still the dreamer who had worked on designing a fantastical, entirely... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

01 Jun 1997
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Jennifer L. Scott

design one of the most innovative student-driven initiatives to hit the HBS campus in years. The contest provided students with the opportunity to develop a business idea from concept through execution - an experience, Scott notes, that... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Apr 1997
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How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries

sponsored concurrent fact-finding trips to the area. Designed both to introduce students to northern California's booming industries and to help them in their job searches, the... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

31 Mar 2022
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A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions

launched the Robin Hood Army while working for a company called Zomato, India’s largest food-delivery app. His job was to set up Zomato in international markets, live in the countries for six to nine months at a time, View Details

26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

intriguing. That experience planted the seed for a 50-plus-year career at Stanford exploring new auction designs and formats—work recognized in 2020 with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In... View Details

01 Jun 2005
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Bringing Hope to a Violent Land

therapeutic-feeding clinics or working with machete-amputee victims. But with our resources, we can respond with some level of support. That’s what makes this a great job — you feel like you can save a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; UNICEF; nonprofit; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2018
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Disrupting India’s Dental Market

polyglot country. He raised $1 million, primarily from American investors he knew personally. In March 2011, he opened a small clinic (two chairs) in Delhi to serve as a pilot project. He set out to vertically integrate all aspects of the business, from recruiting... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

28 Oct 2021
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Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

fruition out of the minds of two second-years and watch the next students take it over and take it to the next level and bringing hundreds of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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