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01 Jun 2023
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Bridging the ESG Data Gap

spring 2020, the team moved the concept forward at the i-lab, a dynamic space in Batten Hall where undergraduate and graduate students from across Harvard gather to exchange ideas, attend programs and workshops, and collaborate with faculty, staff advisors, View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2016
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In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)

(photo by Christina Gandolfo) Perhaps not surprisingly, Oliver “Chip” Brewer III (MBA 1991) found his first job in golf while playing the game with a friend who happened to know the founder of Adams Golf. At the time, Brewer was working in the paper View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details

Keywords: podcasts

24 May 2017
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David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

Counsel while earning a law degree at Georgetown, “so I was comfortable with research.” As he pitched his services to companies in need of legal advice, he refined and expanded his business plan to focus on... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

of change. The unprecedented flood of mergers and acquisitions, the advent of the global marketplace, the stock market's dizzying rise, and the capricious fortunes of technology-based companies have made financial services a fascinating... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

RESEARCH CENTER (Silicon Valley) Bringing insights from tech industry into the classroom As West Coast companies make game-changing technological advances in areas such as generative AI, the metaverse, and blockchain, the center develops... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

Business Administration, Emeritus Alumni Achievement Awards Ralph M. Barford (MBA '52) President, Valleydene Corporation Limited Chairman, GSW Inc. Despite occupying diverse industry sectors, several of Canada's best-known blue-chip... View Details

23 May 2018
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Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987

She organizes her schedule to be home on Sundays so she can attend services at Harlem’s St. Charles of Borromeo, where she is a member of the Gospelites. “Singing is my form of praise,” says Harris, who has released three albums and... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE

fear around being gay in the business world. I felt it would be damaging to my career to be found out, so I limited myself to creative industries where I thought my gayness would be more acceptable if revealed. I worked at Apple for five... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2022
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My First Job

Thomas (MBA 2003) Grace Under Fire I was a server for the catering service on my college campus. Working at the banquets hosted by the university president was my favorite because sometimes it meant seeing famous people. One time Stephen... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2023
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An Engine of Innovation

pursue. What are the support systems and resources provided at the labs to student and alumni ventures? What sustains this community is the incredible team here that works fully in service to students and alumni so they can be in View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit

for what would eventually become the online services marketplace NextDoor Networks, a business they launched shortly after graduation. Loo and Sityodtong lived and worked out of a two-bedroom apartment in Silicon Valley along with Loo’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

01 Oct 1997
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Donald J. Chiofaro

twelve-year marathon involving negotiations with some 150 citizens groups and government agencies as well as countless legal and financial hurdles. More than once, the entire venture appeared doomed. Of the experience, Chiofaro observes,... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Aug 2001
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Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of an Alumni Achievement Award honoree. When... View Details

Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jun 2013
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Building a Better Brazil

industrial company committed to both the natural world and the growth of the Brazilian communities where it operated. Lorentzen served as chairman of Aracruz until 2004; under his leadership, the company built a world-class research... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

12 Feb 2021
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How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

300 shops. Earnings had grown from $100,000 pretax profits to $800,000 pre-tax profits. And in order to satisfy my dad, decided to have a public offering in 1968, which was quite successful. We were the third company to go public in the food View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits

choice, now that startups like Tilden and the titans of the beverage industry are taking a fresh look at what a NA beverage can be and making use of new innovations in brewing technology. Low-alcohol beer has been around as long as humans... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places

01 Oct 2001
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Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus

venture capital with Citicorp. "The industry was much, much smaller in those days," he says. "A few hundred million dollars a year, versus almost a hundred billion today." Drawing on his experience with Morgan Stanley since 1986, he... View Details