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01 Sep 2004
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Home Sweet (Modular) Home

Starting a business is never easy. But staking your future — and your bank account — on a concept that’s never been tried before makes it especially difficult. Just ask Stephen Stuntz (MBA ’69), the founder... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow

Plan C or D that gets implemented. That has been true more often than not in my experience.” Banking on Blood The “blood” portion of Fisher’s career began after receiving her MBA, when she joined Haemonetics, a global provider of blood... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

25 Aug 2022
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The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

of transactions has been added.” And then they move on and start trying to add the next block, and in doing so they form this chain of transaction history. Wang: View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

12 Oct 2010
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Banker to the World

Keywords: Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

04 Nov 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

(photos by Jennifer Heffner) As lead private-sector specialist at the World Bank Group’s Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) draws on 25 years of experience in helping... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Mar 2010
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Alumni Books

capture a few moments of enjoyment will be key to recovering from the current economic downturn. Building Competitiveness in Africa’s Agriculture: A Guide to Value Chain Concepts and Applications by C. Martin Webber (MBA ’80) View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

13 Jan 2011
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Bullish on New York

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

01 Sep 2012
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Muhammad Yunus Visits HBS

Yunus Microlending pioneer Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, told HBS students in April that “all human beings are entrepreneurs, even the poorest of the... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

16 Mar 2018
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Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams

she worked in real estate investment banking at Goldman Sachs and then pivoted to the Walt Disney Company and AwesomenessTV, a digital studio that produces original programming... View Details

28 May 2019
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Ask the Expert: In Security

Illustration by Taylor Callery Remember a decade ago, when the main cybersecurity worry was a retail breach of credit card information? “Obviously that still happens,” says Chris Young (MBA 2003), CEO of the security software company McAfee, based in Santa Clara,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; cybersecurity

01 Jan 2003
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Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "What stood out for me initially was the first-year section, where I made some of my closest friends and thrived in the give-and-take of class discussions. I loved the case method as a process for testing ideas. It... View Details

27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward

Leger’s manager at the World Bank encouraged her to apply to Harvard Business School and earn her MBA. “I found my time at HBS to be incredibly fulfilling—academically, intellectually, View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

25 Aug 2014
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Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992

Founder and CEO, Year Up Download Gerald Chertavian profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1965 Born, Lowell, Massachusetts 1987 Earns BA, Economics, Bowdoin College 1987 Joins Chemical View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2018
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Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

20th century at best, if not the first half of the 20th century,” Eykher says. To address the issue of trust, the Open Mineral team verifies the identity of every member and only accepts companies with a good history; they require... View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres

21 Dec 2010
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An Effort to Close the Gender Gap

Keywords: Finance

21 Jan 2022
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Real Talk

founders have seen the model work again and again. Henderson recalls working with the management team at the largest bank in South Africa, post-apartheid, after he asked them to share their personal... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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Innovation Takes Center Stage

insight that meant different things to different people. Some focused on the fact that HBS is beginning its second century. Ironically, it’s also a moment similar to when the School was founded in 1908, with a banking crisis View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

24 Mar 2021
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Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education

trust of the communities they serve.” For the Oregon Community Partners, that has meant teaming up with Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO), a micro-lending organization providing entrepreneurs of color with opportunities for financial coaching View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

17 Aug 2015
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Dallas Fed Names Robert Steven Kaplan President

01 Jun 2016
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Rethinking Housing in the Motor City

thinking ‘where is the best opportunity going to be for me professionally?—I couldn’t move back to Detroit,” Rhea says. Instead, he went into finance in New York. After the financial collapse he left banking for a position as chairman... View Details

Keywords: April White

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