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28 Sep 2021
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Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students

secured an internship in banking and equity research, and in his junior year, he did a banking internship, both times at Credit Suisse. After graduation, Westphal spent two years working at JPMorgan, where he honed his business skills and... View Details

Keywords: Becca Carnahan

02 Dec 2017
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Helping HBS Make Big Bets

Kara Medoff Barnett (MBA 2007) Kara Medoff Barnett (MBA 2007) loved being a Broadway producer and came to HBS because she thought the live theater industry could learn a lot from other industries. She also loved her time on campus,... View Details

13 Nov 2020
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Realizing a Dream

who applied, was waitlisted, and then rejected. “I gave it everything I had,” he recalls. He was ready to give up, but his then wife encouraged him to follow up with a call to HBS’s admissions director, Laura Gordon Fisher. “I know who you are. We had a very hard View Details

01 Apr 1997
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Management Update Launched

position, in 1994. Following that assignment, he became editor for business development at the parent company, Time Inc., identifying and assessing magazines and other media properties the parent company... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

15 Dec 2024
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Back at the Ranch

The summer training program at Bear Hug Cattle Company starts truly at square one. “The first day is about teaching the guys how to just be out here and not die,” says lead instructor Zach Aguilar, gazing out from under his broad-brimmed... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photos by Adler and Vance Jacobs; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

05 May 2023
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Fail Better

company for 32 times cash flow to a company in France just to get our second tranche of money back. (I want to make sure the bank's always got a hundred percent.) But this was... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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Robert Goodwin

Now, the former Air Force officer is drawing on his military, White House, State Department, and humanitarian aid experience as cofounder and CEO of Executives Without Borders, an organization that matches business leaders who volunteer their View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2015
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Estonia, Incorporated

a company online in Estonia and administer it securely from anywhere in the world. E-Residents can conduct all their banking online, declare taxes online, and digitally sign documents via a smart ID card. That means entrepreneurs need no... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

01 Mar 2014
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Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue

his story of turning an early-stage medical device company into a market leader with about $400 million in revenues. His plan included adding and integrating significant and complex acquisitions as well as empowering his employees to keep... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; healthcare; HBSAAA

01 Mar 2016
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Reinventing the Wheel

the air or clogging landfills appealed to Cardozo. He’d worked extensively in startups and spent some time in the corporate world, but now he wanted more than commercial success—he wanted to lead a company... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Mar 2011
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The Path to Economic Revival

they’re going, I’m more doubtful. Manufacturing capability takes a while to erode. But the damage is almost irreversible; that’s the concern. So now is the time to be doing something about it before we get to the point where the answer is... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo

Bob DiRomualdo admits that he wasn't much of a reader until he paid a visit to Greenland. The son of a Philadelphia fireman, DiRomualdo took a job with RCA after graduating from high school to earn money for college. Dispatched by the View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

28 May 2021
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Unspent Love

In a Modern Love column for the New York Times called “She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box,” Genevieve Kingston writes that she shared a birthday with her mother, Kristina Mailliard (MBA 1981), who loved to arrange elaborate... View Details

12 Nov 2020
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All in the Neighborhood

community. The Near Eastside neighborhood of Indianapolis fit that bill—and it didn’t take long for the hoped-for engagement to follow. In the late 1990s, when Angie’s List was just getting off the ground, the company’s employees reached out immediately. “We probably... View Details

Keywords: community; volunteer work; corporate social responsibility; entrepreneurship; leadership; Personal Services

26 Feb 2018
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Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade

overwhelmed by the market complexities of what's happening with different crop prices, what they should be selling, who they should be selling to, how and when they should sell. Those are all things that we can help with tremendously. “I spent View Details

07 Jan 2016
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Helping Property Owners Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

innovative approach. “I have been in renewable energy for about five years now, and I joined CleanFund about a year ago as CEO, in order to help the company unleash a financial technology that will make a difference on the environment.... View Details

21 May 2019
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Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest

Bank of Chicago, told the audience. For instance, an extended growing season or double cropping for farmers may be possible with a focus on precision farming. “In some ways, it seems like the Midwest may benefit ... but at the same time... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

01 Jan 2006
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Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

a project that will complement the Biopolis. To be called Fusionopolis, the initial complex will house IT and new media companies in 2007. Phase II, focusing on research in semiconductors, data storage, and nanoscience, will open about a... View Details

12 Nov 2019
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Seismic Shift

times are good, the numbers increase, a diversity officer may be appointed, and HR institutes sensitivity training. Denmark West (MBA 1998), an advisor, investor, and founding partner of Connectivity Ventures, points to the early 2000s as... View Details