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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
For Angie’s List, a New Niche? I enjoyed the profile of Angie Hicks (MBA 2000) in the March issue. While pursuing a post-HBS PhD, I supplemented poverty fellowship wages by pounding nails at a small, conscientious hardwood floor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
an antitrust case against seventeen investment banking firms in New York City, an effort that led him to do an exhaustive study of the securities industry. In 1984, Fox... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Gordon Celebrates a Century
Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) On July 21, Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) celebrated his 100th birthday with a group of about thirty family members and friends at Fishers Island, New York. In honor of the day and as a tribute to Gordon, a... View Details
- 02 Nov 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
Helping midsize companies achieve success was Donald K. “Obie” Clifford’s (MBA 1956) business specialty, but his passion was helping people understand their connection to the natural world. Clifford passed away in August 2017. Clifford merged his boyhood love of View Details
- 31 Jul 2014
- News
Making Private Equity Public Knowledge
particulars, Sheyner is leaving it behind. In July, he started his first post-HBS job at Atika Capital Management, a new hedge fund in New York. As private equity has matured, he says, it's become a bit more... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 24 Jul 2017
- News
Back to School for Big-City Mayors
for big-city mayors organized by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) in conjunction with Harvard’s Kennedy School and HBS, according to a report in the Economist. Funded by a $32 million... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
interests, and then reserve their spot. Hosts set the price of their meals, and Bookalokal earns a commission on each meal. Soon after launching the site, however, Bookalokal's market expanded. It turns out that local diners—especially those View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
out directly to the orchestra. “Thank you,” they shouted. “Thank you.” “I can’t keep on fooling myself,” Prieto thought. It was shortly after his graduation from HBS, and he was sitting in the audience at Lincoln Center, listening to the View Details
- 21 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Evelyne White (MBA 2010)
as a way of connecting with new people around gourmet events and keep coming back—some as many as fifteen times in nine months! We're planning our next city launch (Washington, DC) and growing our team. We're five in total and now work... View Details
- 25 Jan 2012
- News
Is Tax Reform Viable?
in new and emerging businesses, even if our returns were subject to the same rates as our earned income? Alas, I can find no way to justify my good-fortune tax rate. I reluctantly conclude that the few of us who can afford to make... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Educating children through inquiry-based learning
Kim Frock (MBA 1987) cofounded the Alternative School for Math and Science (ASMS) in Corning, New York, to provide an academically challenging, inquiry-based learning environment for children in grades 6 through 8. The independent school... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
In partnership to support a mission
Meredith Jenkins (MBA 1999) serves as vice president and cochief investment officer of Carnegie Corporation of New York, the foundation established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. With business partner Kim Lew (MBA 1992), she manages $3.2... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
York City, and my father worked there, too," he says. "Since my maternal grandfather owned an importing business that my mother later ran, I knew early in life that I would go into business." MBA in hand,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
politicians, residents, financial institutions, and community organizations — works together. Despite the frigid weather, dozens of people have turned out to inspect the new units and listen to a parade of representatives from various... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
A Bankable Trust
find it hard to break into song at the end of the day, but it's not a problem for Harris: "I've been singing all of my life, primarily R&B and gospel," she told the New York Times (October 22, 2000). Singing... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
A Solo Sail Around the World
(photo by Theophile Trossat for The New York Times) (photo by Theophile Trossat for The New York Times) Prolific sailor Rich Wilson (MBA 1982) is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
the tools to drive this small business into a multimillion-dollar international business.” Close friend Francine LeFrak, an award-winning New York City television producer and president of LeFrak... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
received the news: Virginia had won the bid. “It was an exciting moment,” he recalls, “but there was also just a little disappointment.” The company had also chosen New York View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1955 Born, Queens, New York 1973 Launches clothing manufacturing business in Ecuador 1978 Earns BS, Finance, New View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 May 2019
- News
What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)
photo by Ryan Donnell Last October, Gordon Medenica was in New York for an industry conference when the calls started coming in. As lead director of Mega Millions, the multi-state consortium he’s been... View Details