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- 20 Nov 2017
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Finding Common Ground
Building trust is crucial to the relationships fostered by CollaborateUp, the consulting firm founded by Richard Crespin (GMP 4, 1999), yet sometimes it’s tough. When he recently took some skeptical conservationists to a meeting at...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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@Soldiers Field
the founding fathers of behavioral economics. Their longtime collaboration would eventually affect every field imaginable, but Lewis said the practice of it was less dramatic: “What it was, was two guys who loved each other sitting in a...
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- 22 Aug 2016
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Working for a Faster, Safer Internet
their business. I thought, ‘If they can do it, so can I.’ “And so a sectionmate and I started to work on an idea. Throughout the semester we kept falling more and more and more in love with our idea, and so we went to the Harvard Business Plan competition. We View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
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The Best of Costa Rica
tropical rain forests, we found ourselves absorbed in the many independent and interdependent communities in this ecosystem. At the spectacular Arenal Volcano, active since 1968, we were fortunate to see the summit without its usual cloud...
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- 27 Apr 2023
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Life Preserver
led to the creation of the Organ Preservation Alliance, a nonprofit established to advocate for additional funding for research into cryopreservation and connect scientists in the field. Giwa served as founding CEO of what he calls a...
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- 26 Feb 2014
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The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
entrepreneur Fabrice Grinda and worked with him on various ventures. We found that there was a big opportunity in the intimates industry, which is what eventually led to the launch of Adore Me." How did you come up with the idea? "My...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
direction until after my divorce and remarriage in 1970. I finally found my stride working in internal audit, and after much moving around both domestically and overseas, I settled down in northeastern Illinois. My wife, DD, and I began...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)
ask, ‘If I were to leave sales, what could I do?’ ” Burton helped her coworkers—and found her own new path when she founded Burton Strategies, in 1978. Not everyone is in a place of wanting or needing to...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance
endow a chair at the School. After graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar, he worked for a number of years at Unibanco, Brazil's third largest bank, including service as executive director. In 1983, he and three partners founded Pactual,...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Five Degrees of Doriot
influence extended well beyond the classroom. Here, a few of the ideas and inventions that Doriot helped bring to the masses. (Baker Library Historical Collections) Venture capitalism Before Doriot founded the world’s first VC firm,...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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Passion & Purpose
Founding Partner and Managing Director, JGP Asset Management Rio de Janeiro, Brazil André R. Jakurski “I do not believe in long-range planning. Most of the important things that have happened in my life were not planned.” Having learned...
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- 18 Apr 2018
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Into the Light
sources of light. She recalls hearing the dramatic story of a baby in need of urgent care in the middle of the night. The clinic had no electricity. As the doctor went to insert an IV, the batteries in the flashlight died. Eventually someone View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
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Navy Destroyer Named After HBS Alumnus
this marks the first time a Navy vessel has been named in honor of an HBS alumnus. Following his Navy service, Ignatius founded Harbridge House, Inc., a Boston management consulting and research firm. He has two sons: David Ignatius, an...
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- 26 Jan 2017
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The Challenges and Rewards of Teaching by the Case Method
undergraduate students exactly as I learned in the MBA Program. I have found it to be a very rewarding experience and that the students really take to the case method in a way they don’t, so much, to traditional lectures. “What I learned...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Career Services Steps Up Alumni Support
every stage of career transition, including a Board of Directors Résumé Database. “At least 80 percent of jobs are found by networking,” notes Sullivan, “so the necessity of tapping into tools like Alumni Navigator and the new HBS Alumni...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Encouraging Women Leaders
She found her eclectic background to be an asset rather than a liability in the classroom, “because HBS looks for such diversity in its students.” Serra says that learning in this welcoming environment, “everything fell into place when I...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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A Start-Up with Giddyup
A Start-Up with Giddyup FORD: These boots were made for business. Photo courtesy Sarah Ford Whether you're the real deal or all hat and no cattle, you can cowboy up in style with custom-made boots from Sarah Ford (MBA 2007). Ford founded...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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In the Driver's Seat
fans to be able to get more closely involved than just smelling fumes at trackside. He has founded a company, Fanz Enterprises (http://fanzenterprises.com), that is selling stock at $10 a share in hopes of raising at least $10 million to...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Gregg Petersmeyer
1997, Petersmeyer helped found and, for several years, manage America’s Promise, the national youth-development organization. Currently, in addition to overseeing The Fitzie Foundation, whose education grants have helped scores of young...
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- 07 Oct 2014
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Network Effect
after, because more genes with which to work would mean more avenues to explore in new drug development, exponentially increasing the chances of finding effective treatment and prevention. In 2004, the three families founded the Cure...
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