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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
specialized robot, and stories of famous innovators like Hedy Lamarr. You will assess your interests and uncover your core purpose through introspective, self-exploratory exercises, then craft a personalized... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
both inside and outside the School. For the past four years, he has managed his family's $1.4 million real-estate and service business, successfully turning the company around by restructuring debt, stabilizing the firm's tenant base, and... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
moment happened, I feel like I was prepared from an entrepreneurial perspective to, you know, grasp it and try to build a company out of it. DM: Talk about that lightbulb moment. Was it actually an aha revelation? One night you're at the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
became executive vice president of Bund Capital, a corporate acquisition firm started by her husband in 1985. "We raise private funds in blind pools and acquire middle-market companies primarily in the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
of the things that was special to me about that was that I did it for elderly people. My neighbors were advanced in years. And I loved talking with them, just to hear their life lessons and all about their experiences. That was something... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
from perfect, each one showed that profit and purpose could be reconciled. Inspired by these passionate and pragmatic business leaders, Jones envisions a future in which companies and entrepreneurs can play... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
in Asia but in the Middle East that really got Kondo excited about social media. After a stint as a World Fellow at Yale (where he developed Table for Two, a nonprofit he cofounded to fight both hunger and obesity internationally), he became a View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
Sasha Novakovich (MBA ’99) was in her second year at HBS when she and classmate Tracy Lawrence got the idea for what would become GetConnected, a company that processes voice, data, and video services transactions for retailers. Despite... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
entrepreneur—would take him far away from Calhoun, he returned in 1997 to give his three daughters the opportunity to grow up in the close-knit community he remembered from his childhood. He continued his work across the private and nonprofit sectors, balancing... View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
out on the chemistry of food, and he introduced me to some techniques to make a great home pizza. So I would have people over, entertain, and really felt great pleasure in doing that, but I didn't think it was different or special enough... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
purpose for meeting with me was to share this experience and to emphasize the integrity, goodwill, and leadership of the protagonist. Clearly, the experience of working with a protagonist he respected was important—even all these decades... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
president and CFO of Medtronic, overseeing a number of acquisitions and sales at the medical device company and broadening its reach to include a more global investor base. In this View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
companies like International Harvester and US Steel. But over time, automation steadily reduced the number of workers required to extract the mineral, while competition from natural gas and cheap, low-sulfur coal from out west did the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
system closely resemble those found in Moss’s own playbook. In this instance, the book is a Special Report on Regulatory Reform, substantially shaped by Moss and widely read in Washington since it was submitted to Congress in January by a... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that researched natural-language processing, “35 percent was nothing to be ashamed of,” Dave Ferrucci, the leader of the IBM team, later said. Still, IBM’s advancements were small. The company had a sense of Watson’s potential to... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
discomfort persisted, though Keen excelled in his work. A paper he'd written, using game theory to explore the liberalization of telecoms, was the ticket to his first job at Metropolitan Fiber Systems; an early project involved analyzing the best stock exchange for the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
so and reaffirmed the company's greater purpose for existing and its commitment to customers and employees as he did so? How about Warren Buffett, who has always had a long-term view and, while extraordinarily successful as an investor,... View Details