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01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

building a more sustainable economy. She focuses particularly on how firms can safeguard economic growth and long-term profitability by addressing challenges like climate change and inequality, actively contributing to View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2010
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Sail Away

in the past don’t faze Robb, who, with Frank Carlucci (MBA ’56) and another partner, cofounded the Frontier Group, a private equity firm that is mounting View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality; Real Estate

01 Dec 2006
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MBA vs. MBA

Exxon Mobil stock. After working for McKinsey & Company and Trammell Crow, he started a real estate investment firm and now runs Waco-based Vananne LLC, focused on commercial real estate turnarounds and reinvestments. Taylor moved from... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Dec 2018
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What I Do: Lindsey Mead (MBA 2000), Vedica Qalbani and Jessica Wu (both MBA 2007)

The search firm Ratio Advisors was founded last year on a simple but revolutionary concept: Starting a business with people who share your ideals can be as much of a driving factor as what that business... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter and Maria Hoey

01 Oct 1998
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Tech Trekker

have similarly discovered over the past 25 years. By supporting Lang's creativity and unconventional thinking, high-tech startups and established computer firms alike have found their assets turning to gold... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe

Hambrecht & Quist. Within six years, he found himself leading the firm, but his own entrepreneurial aspirations were too powerful to ignore. In 1986, he launched an investment firm that specialized in... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Finance

25 Feb 2020
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Ink: Your Best Self

cofounder of Paravis Partners, Su strived to bring her best self to the executive coaching firm every day but found the pressures of modern business were a constant challenge.... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Feb 2020
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Gotta Dance

Above: Horowitz (seated) and Goldberg: More than the same old song and dance (photo by HollenderX2) When Evan Horowitz (MBA 2008) and Geoffrey Goldberg first met, the two clicked on multiple levels. Married... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

27 Oct 2016
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Pathfinder

Founded in 1963 by Bruce Henderson (MBA 1941), the Boston Consulting Group is one of a trio of well-known consulting firms that includes McKinsey and Bain. Many MBAs do an early-career stint in consulting—so... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe

real-estate firm and in banking, where, among other achievements, he led a merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation in View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne

01 Dec 1997
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A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)

L. John Doerr (MBA '76) is widely recognized as one of the country's preeminent venture capitalists. A partner in the California VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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New Releases

can respond appropriately to demand, lean inventories, and the rapid replenishment of stock. "The old way was to gear planning and production decisions to forecasts and guesses made months in advance of a selling season," write Hammond... View Details

29 Apr 2019
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A Global Mission

For more than 50 years, Art DeFehr (MBA 1967) has been a fixture at Palliser, the Canadian furniture company founded by his family. He served as CEO of the 2,000-employee firm... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Running on empty

Does an invention that would guarantee motorists they'd never run out of gas sound like a good investment? Hundreds of venture capital firms didn't think so, but that didn't stop Maryland retiree William Hubbard (MBA '49), a former... View Details

21 Jun 2016
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Rescuing Families from ISIS-Led Genocide

partner of a tech firm in Winnipeg to help Yazidis leave refugee camps in Syria and Turkey to start new lives in Canada. Five hundred members of this ancient ethno-religious minority were killed by ISIS in View Details

01 Sep 2015
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Opening Minds Through Expanded Learning Opportunities

someone who never would have thought of pursuing an advanced degree in business," says Kim, now a PRIMO mentor and a DBA candidate in Marketing at HBS, with a focus on consumer empowerment and firm transparency. "That summer really... View Details

21 Aug 2019
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Analyzing Homelessness

recently named one of the 50 fastest-growing consulting firms in the US. Using the same evidence-based approach that helps Cicero’s corporate... View Details

06 Mar 2019
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Making Sabbaticals Mainstream

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes After HBS, DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010) immediately launched a startup: The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, a credit-testing firm for small businesses... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs

affected Avance as well. Happily, Perez notes, the private equity firm is now thriving as Latinx businesses are recovering. Perez cofounded Avance with his HBS classmate Luis A. Zaldivar (MBA 1996), with... View Details