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- 16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed
for something completely new. They returned to campus that fall ready to devote serious time to their nascent idea: a decentralized car company that produced region-specific, small-batch vehicles in microfactories. They enrolled in an View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
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Susan L. Decker, MBA 1986
financial ship as CFO, built the company’s advertiser and publisher group as EVP, and oversaw global business operations as president. Since leaving Yahoo! in 2009, Decker has taken time out from the corporate world to focus on what... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
Designs, Inc., talked about leaving corporate America to start their own businesses, while Marjorie Alfus took on the topic of entrepreneurship within a corporate environment.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
information technology capped an eighty-year trend in which decision rights moved mostly downward within business hierarchies," McCraw concludes, highlighting factors such as increased consumer power, intensified competition, and the human toll from View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
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Faculty Updates
also devote time to the Center for Organizational Fitness, an organization he cofounded that helps senior managers enable a strategic change process. William J. Poorvu, the MBA Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship, Emeritus, has retired. An authority on... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
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Bringing New Life to an Iconic Magazine
the organization (now operating as the Advisory Board Company and Corporate Executive Board) employs more than 6,500 people and generates annual revenues approaching $1.5 billion. While he didn’t fulfill his political dreams, Bradley... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
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Spring Renewal
Choosing between faculty presentations ranging from entrepreneurship to Enron, from health care to international real-estate finance, close to 2,800 alumni and guests attended spring reunions June 3–6. Graduates from the MBA Classes of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China
changes in the Chinese economic and social system, and to see how entrepreneurship is being facilitated to play a role in this,” said Senior Lecturer Dan Isenberg, who helped organize the visits to Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
second-year students traveled to Israel for a 10-day Immersive Field Course (IFC) that plunged them into the country’s thriving entrepreneurship ecosystem. Often referred to as the “Startup Nation,” Israel has more venture capital per... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
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Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
respected spokesperson for patient needs and rights. She advises corporate and government cancer programs and medical professional organizations, gives presentations on cancer survivor- ship at national conferences, and testifies before... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
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A Winning Formula
human-relations skills and perspective he felt he needed to excel in the corporate environment. “I found the answers on how to manage and lead,” he said, “in a most unexpected place—the Bible. I came to believe that people were created in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture
line. Not surprisingly, therefore, the class has no shortage of members involved in the sort of entrepreneurial ventures that demand innovative thinking. RELATED LINK Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship While many classmates... View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
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Making a Mark in Multicultural Marketing
the first in her extended family to attend college. Before starting Mirror Digital, she worked in the media and technology group at Morgan Stanley, executing corporate finance and merger and acquisition transactions, and in strategic... View Details
- 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 that had what he calls a “strong... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
become even more closely linked, I believe the long-term benefits of these efforts will be significant. Corporate Governance, Leadership, and Values Our Corporate Governance, Leadership, and Values (CGLV)... View Details
- 19 May 2015
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Getting Ready for Success
social entrepreneurial skills to a corporate board that wants a unique perspective. “I would love to see the day where we don’t have to talk about achievement gap, technical divide, or schools-to-prisons pipelines, because they don’t... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
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High Adventure
BEILHARZ: "I no longer feel like one of those pet animals on a wheel." On a rare break from running her new ecotourism business in the wilds of Texas Hill Country, Amy Beilharz (MBA ’84) reflects on the life she and her husband, David, have built since leaving... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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Second Acts
When Glen Meakem (MBA ’91) couldn’t persuade his employer, General Electric, that he was on to a hot idea to revamp corporate purchasing using the Internet, he quit and started his own firm, FreeMarkets, which charted the way for... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
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A Good Look
executive roles at Kemin since joining the company in early 2006. Most recently, as corporate vice president, she managed marketing, sales, IT, operations, and HR. She honed in on personal care in 2010, as consumer demand for natural... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
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Making History, Starting Over
At age 26, Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69) planted the seed of a great idea in inhospitable British soil. With three HBS classmates, he cofounded a consulting firm to advise entrepreneurial businesses. Admittedly, it was a risk. Entrepreneurship... View Details