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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)
Names: Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA ’97) Company: Finale Dessert Company (established 1998) Locations: Park Plaza, Boston & Harvard Square, Cambridge Web: www.finaledesserts.com With vision, fortitude, and a whole lot of...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
services. The first really magnificent building was 998 Fifth Avenue, built in the early 1900s. It was known as simply 998. Everybody knew what it was. The same was true of 740 Park Avenue and 834 Fifth Avenue—where Rockefellers did live....
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April White
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
From A to Z
Temitope Abereoje Hometown: Ilesha, Nigeria Education: B.A., Economics, B.S., Information Systems, University of Maryland, College Park Languages: English, Yoruba Last Job: Associate, Goldman Sachs, New York Age: 25 Why HBS? “I was...
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- 17 Nov 2016
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Wired for Innovation
wind.” Greenways for Houston Although he emigrated from Ireland as a small child and grew up in Virginia, Skelly has embraced life in Houston, where he serves on the Houston Parks Board and Houston Bike Share Board. He also regularly...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Letters to the Editor
of the house was bitter cold in the wintertime. My dad bought an electric heater for the living room so he could study there. It seems to me that some of the units must have had iceboxes, for I think I remember an ice truck periodically making the rounds. The cars...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Turning Point: On the Line
the larger entertainment landscape remains unsettled. The next contract negotiation comes in 2026, and nobody wants another strike. I’ve been blessed to live the creative life I’d dreamt about and make a career out of it. So if necessary—and if View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA 1984) Routledge In Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs, author Linda J. Bilmes develops a...
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- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
best model for humanity and nature living together” and revels in sharing the region with visitors. Adirondack Park is the largest publicly protected area in the continental United States, comprising 6 million acres, of which 45 percent...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 11 Sep 2009
- News
I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…
figure out who to bring back for an interview.” One of the first student questions showed that HBSers experience the same basic social dilemmas we all do: “Do I need to wear a suit and tie?” “I always answer that with another question,” said Smith. “Do you want the...
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- 20 Oct 2016
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Smart Moves
cause is pure congestion—too many vehicles trying to occupy the same stretch of road at the same time—but accidents, breakdowns, construction, bad weather, and potholes all take their toll, not to mention time that is spent looking for the View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
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Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
professional day writing, with the rest devoted to business and charitable pursuits. In addition to his other books, Barron's abiding interest in the outdoors has resulted in two nature books, one about the history of the Rocky Mountain National View Details
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Thomas Frick
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
grounds, so getting people to the park is key.) And for tourists looking to make the trek from Japan to catch a game, cities like New York and LA have the added benefit of offering an attractive destination. "It's obviously a long...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Action Plan: Fired Up
morning one of Traeger’s big rigs was set on fire in the parking lot, apparently in protest of his decision to outsource shipping to UPS. “The culture was so toxic, I knew it would ruin me and everyone I brought into it,” he says. Andrus...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Raising the Barrio
the road will run over the nearby railroad tracks. In its place, where some of the area’s most dangerous housing now stands, Rodríguez Larreta envisions a park for a community that has had almost no green space. His plan is also an...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2018
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Turning Point: One Step at a Time
Kids and adults alike had told me I just “wasn’t athletic,” and that was OK—I was smart and talented in other ways. So when the time came for that mandatory mile run I had to get creative. We didn’t have a gym at my small parochial school, so the teacher determined...
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Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
the hair down — things that business frowns upon. After the workweek ends on Friday, music is what you jack up on your car stereo as you head over to Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox humble those guys in pinstripes. Music and sports are...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Streamlining the Supermarket
result in fewer mistaken items showing up in your bags (or missing from them). “Good stores today run with 93 percent accuracy,” Pedró says. “We project 99.9 percent accuracy.” 4.Thirty minutes after placing the order, you pull into a View Details
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Francis Storrs
- 01 Sep 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
one of Bill’s great traits is that he inspires confidence, which is an important aspect of leadership—not false confidence, but knowing when your instincts are right and being less willing to compromise in a management context. I spent seven years building Zynga and...
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- 26 Oct 2011
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On Top, Down Under
the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index. With more than 20 years of experience in the property industry, Fookes is responsible for the overall investment performance of GPT’s high-end shopping center, commercial office, and industrial and business View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
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At Work in the Fields with the Lord
Currently, the migrants are forced to seek shelter in dilapidated, overcrowded mobile-home parks, or to live in parking lots or in the brush, sleeping on flattened cardboard boxes. “These are people who are visible to drive our economy,...
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