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- 24 Jun 2014
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The First Five Years: Beau D'Arcy (MBA 2010)
making a personal connection with students that, I'm guessing, most remember for a very long time. Plus, once he found out that my grandmother was a tech-savvy woman, Professor Rivkin would always ask, 'What would Grandma D'Arcy do?'"...
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Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Oct 2000
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Internet Tsunami
service. As for customers, in addition to making purchases, they use Rakuten for online auctions and chats about the site's vendors. According to Business Week (July 7, 2000), Rakuten, founded in 1997, has 3,100 vendors, attracts some 70...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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Laser focus on medical breakthroughs
"When I discovered the device, it was being developed in a garage," she recalls. "It was my training as an ophthalmologist that allowed me to see the potential." After working as a practicing eye surgeon, Dr. Krauss became one of the savviest health care investors in...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams
initiative between MIT and the World Bank, he was sent to the Philippines to work with an informal settlement whose 12,000 residents were to be displaced for a resort. “It was a huge aha moment for me,” Mawilmada recalls. “This time, I View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
impact?” “One of our big projects was to enable people in California to get food assistance from their mobile phone. To promote that, we started running Google AdWord campaigns. We’ve found that for every $10 that we spend, we can get...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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When More Is Better
dozens of interesting stories about HBS alumni that we simply don’t have room for in a quarterly magazine. Fortunately, we’ve found a solution to that problem. No, we aren’t expanding the magazine. Instead, we redesigned our Web site to...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Making a Statement
female subjects as the protagonists, I could identify with this immediately. It was a project I could readily support.” So could Bethell, a managing director and founding member of Bain Capital in London, who made a gift to the fund in...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Greenhill Family Gift Enhances Global Research
Greenhill & Co., a merchant-banking firm he founded in New York City in 1996. Previously, he had a long and successful career in investment banking, as president of Morgan Stanley and chairman and CEO of Smith Barney. “This very generous...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
wherever they go. In 1993, Darren and Faith were badly injured in a vehicle rollover accident that seriously damaged Darren’s spinal cord, resulting in quadriplegia. Afterward, they found it difficult to plan trips, because accessibility...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
respected—that’s a foundational principle at a business school—but simultaneously recognizing that some of the most innovative businesses are actually founded on concepts that, frankly, if you took that first principle as being the...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2001
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Q&A: Orin Smith
the quintessential entrepreneur." When Schultz purchased the Starbucks name and assets in 1987 for $3.8 million, the company, founded in 1971, had six retail stores that sold whole bean coffee, tea, and spices. Three years later, there...
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- 01 May 2013
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Sid Yog, MBA 2004
The inspiration Sid Yog found at HBS has stayed with him, professionally and personally. "HBS was a defining two years for me: first, because I had a lot of fun and these were among the best years of my life so far. Second, the...
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- 01 Sep 2024
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Back to School
say. I’ve found there are certain melodies that are innate to you—my melodies are relatively dramatic—and I love lyrics about transformation. If you are new to songwriting, the piano and the guitar are your best friends in the process;...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative
hope with The Innovator’s DNA, that we could articulate how innovative people think. So over a period of years, we interviewed hundreds of innovators and almost 5,000 executives to identify ways of thinking that distinguish innovative people from typical executives....
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- 15 Nov 2018
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Don’t Be Afraid of AI
the founding CEO of Palm and the cofounder of Handspring, ushering in two of the tech ages biggest leaps—handheld computing, and the smart phone. So, she's essentially been famously successful by being right about the future. We sat down...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
An ailing horse and an overweight Labrador retriever provided the inspiration for Becky Minard and Paal Gisholt (both MBA ’93) to launch SmartPak, a business that provides nutritional supplements, dog food, and supplies to customers devoted to their four-footed...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell
graduate school, earned a master's in education, and is currently substitute teaching in anticipation of a full-time position. As the father of now seven-year-old Alex, Cassell has already found satisfaction contributing to his son's...
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Eileen McCluskey
- 12 Sep 2019
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Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
Papa: Steve Papa, 1999. So I fly a lot, globally, and it turns out my most creative thinking is typically after about 12 hours of jet lag and trying to get through in the morning and you just have the craziest ideas when you're waiting for some meeting. That's what I...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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Banking on HBS
for projects in areas such as agriculture, public works, and social programs. Loans total some $17 billion annually. Using capital donated by wealthy countries, the International Development Association, founded in 1960, provides some $6...
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Garry Emmons