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- 01 Sep 2007
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Letters to the Editor
Upon Further Review I found “Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit” in the June Bulletin to be a brief but exciting summary of the three-person panel discussion that took place at the Kennedy School of Government last March. For a while, it...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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A Casual Approach to Success
One of the advantages of getting up before 4 a.m., F. Warren Hellman (MBA ’59) says with a smile, is that you aren’t expected to go to cocktail parties. Every day at that hour, Hellman can be found running six miles through his San...
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Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2021
- News
Locally Grown
Inspired by the natural beauty he found when he moved to Boulder, Colorado, Robert Fenwick-Smith (MBA 1988) created Aravaipa Ventures, an unusual venture capital fund to support environmentally sustainable technology businesses in the...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Power of Many
and values alumni gifts — even smaller contributions. Our support — big or small — enhances every aspect of the HBS experience that we all found so special.” Faheen Allibhoy (MBA 2003), HBS Alumni Board Member (photo by Susan Young)...
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- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
Photo credits: Aaron Sabin; Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. This is the first episode of "Clearing the Air", a three-part series focused on the business of carbon...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
coursework similar to what I had been doing at JPL.” As his doctoral work progressed, Light became “more and more interested in the Business School side of the joint program.” He found mentors in Raiffa and Finance Professor Eli Shapiro,...
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- 08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
was good, both departments were succeeding, and this man retired. Two years later I found myself opening my own auto dealership in our community, and it was time to hire my own staff. I went to this gentleman's house, sat on the back...
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- 23 Oct 2020
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Educating the Whole Student
“We knew the education system was broken,” says Meredith Liu (MBA 2010) of her first meetings with Priscilla Chan, who founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic organization that she founded...
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- 16 Oct 2017
- News
Take Time to Serve Others
Rena Clark (MBA 1990) found success by following her heart. A managing partner at Laurel Oak Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in the lower-middle industrial market, Clark forged a nonlinear career path that...
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- 28 Sep 2017
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Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion
David Thompson President and CEO, Orbital ATK (courtesy Orbital ATK) David Thompson President and CEO, Orbital ATK (courtesy Orbital ATK) Orbital ATK—which was founded in 1982 by three HBS classmates—was sold this week to defense...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Savings and Loam
they’re generating interest at the bank. Cummings intends to close that loop with Walden Mutual, which he founded in 2021 to create impact on both the deposit and lending sides of the balance sheet. (He asked HBS sectionmate Philip...
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- 30 Nov 2019
- News
Land of the Rising Scrum
kids, and now the grandkids and a few tag-along couples who just watch,” said Debbie Avery, wife of Tom Avery (MBA 1977). “Our kids play in the games and the grandchildren are in training.” The adventure found the group touring Tokyo, Mt....
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Jennifer Myers
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
would become Trey Athletes, a leadership-development program for high-potential high school athletes that Feickert founded with Brian Reynolds, a college classmate who had seen similar outcomes among his high school basketball teammates...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
investment, most such arguments are founded on hubris rather than on solid advantages or capabilities. Indeed, Norway, the country with the most experience in investing national wealth, has developed an endowment model that eschews direct...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
private equity fund invests in distressed businesses across sub-Saharan Africa, and Dozie soon found himself responsible for a coffee cherry washing station in the volcanic hills of western Rwanda. Up until that point, Dozie’s only sense...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
Recent studies have found that gender diversity in the corporate boardroom can enhance dialogue, curb excessive risk-taking, and boost both performance and share price. And yet, women still hold only about 19 percent of S&P 500 company...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
piece of jewelry shaped like one of Dennis Rodman's tattoos? If it's a higher-priced, hard-to-find product or service, chances are you'll soon be able to find it at www.buyerweb.com, the site for a new Internet company founded by Teymour...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2016
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Ink
a fifth-year PhD student, found herself in an elevator face-to-face with an academic hero, who asked her to give a literal elevator pitch on her work. She bombed, overwhelmed by the moment and unable to give a coherent description of what...
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- 22 Jul 2015
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Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
her teaming up with Julianne Miles, a former business executive turned psychologist, to found Women Returners. “What we also knew was that there was a lot of demand on businesses to diversify their senior management and replenish the...
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- 07 Nov 2014
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The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
learning, for change. After graduating from Yale and Harvard Business School, I knew that I had to get into the industry that had impacted me as a young woman, so I could ultimately use media to impact other women like me. “I subsequently View Details