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- 01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
details on the bond offering execution that appear in Offerings are true. People have come to me to ask, is this woman X and is this guy Y? What I would say in general is, it’s fiction. But there are details and thoughts that I pulled from my View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Role Model
One of four daughters of Pakistani immigrants, Salma Qarnain (MBA 2002) grew up in the midwestern “I” states of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana before attending Stanford University. “It was my first experience feeling happy and comfortable in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)
company went bankrupt. I wrote up that experience as an investing principle for a quarterly newsletter: It’s always good to have a mother to buy your bad stocks. After business school, I went into management consulting, which is quite a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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Wide Horizon
There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 05 Oct 2023
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On the Move: Massimo (Max) Magni (MBA 2003)
you to Macy’s? When I decided it was time for me to leave McKinsey, the reason was I wanted to see what it is to be an operator, and I want to be a CEO one day of a big corporation. So, what I'm excited about here is for the first time in my View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
of our founding members; Bart Rubenstein (MBA 1979); Raul Companioni (MBA 1980); Bob Anderson (MBA 1982); Jim Savage (MBA 1977); Paul Williamson (MBA 1983); and Phil Kanner, life partner of my dear friend Steve Mendelsohn (MBA 1984). We... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty
meager supply of life jackets, neglecting to keep one for herself. When the boat sank, she used her skills as a former lifeguard to save people in the shark-infested waters, but hundreds of others drowned. Fashioning a flotation device... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
nearby Borders bookstore revealed a three-year life expectancy with no available treatment options. And trying to navigate the complexities of the American health care system—bouncing from pathologist to a medical oncologist to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
have those types of experiences,” Kearns says. “People do ask me, ‘Why do you do this?’ And I’m like, ‘I’m living this wonderful life and I’m also getting to experience the lives of my ancestors, on whose... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Turning Point: Listen to the Music
and my mother was Sri Lankan—a prima ballerina in the national dance company. Like so many of us, I’ve experienced multiple turning points—moments when, looking back, my life took a very particular turn. I attended Portland State... View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
pumping gas at a Hess station in New Jersey when I was age 15. I loved that job, because I met people from all walks of life and was busy every second, filling the tank, washing windshields, and popping the hood.” Building blocks: “My... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
You Are: 15 Harvard Professors Tell Life Stories That Inspire the Heart and Mind). I was probably the lowest-paid member of my class, but that experience led to writing about careers and leadership for HBR,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
achieve at their highest level of excellence.” Attitude adjustment: “Since the pandemic, more Gen Z-ers and millennials have decided they can have a good quality of life without becoming CEO of a company. That’s de nitely had an impact on... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 23 Aug 2019
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Remembering John McArthur
- 01 Mar 2024
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Game On
Valerie, a lifelong athlete who brings decades of experience in the fitness industry to the role of COO; Gordon is CFO and general counsel. People would naturally assume that a private, indoor club simply meant bringing the play out of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Joint Venture
The human knee is a marvel. It’s the hinge at the center of our gait, the evolutionary adaptation that makes humans the only fully bipedal mammals on the planet. But the knee also is a complicated and vulnerable knot of bone, muscle, and sinew. Nearly everyone knows... View Details
Keywords: Shoshi Parks
- 17 Feb 2022
- News
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
- 02 Nov 2023
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Seeding Startups
Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2023
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Happier-ness at Work
Winfrey is a global media leader and for 25 years hosted the Oprah Winfrey Show. Their book draws on social science research and decades of experience to suggest that one can build a better life by focusing... View Details