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01 Aug 2001
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T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)

his talents in a smaller operation. He became president of Custom-Made Packaging, Inc., working out a financing deal that he gradually converted into a majority stake. Within seven years, he had turned the... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Management

22 Jul 2021
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Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women

FemHealth Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on women’s health. For the nonprofit/government sector, the winner is Emma McCarthy (MBA 2018), Lieutenant Commander and one... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

09 Jan 2020
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Your Whole Self

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Amy Jen Su (MBA 1997) is managing director at executive coaching firm Paravis Partners, and she’s been hearing some consistent themes in View Details

15 Nov 2020
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Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard

at the Bridgespan Group, a management consulting firm that works with nonprofits. Competitors and judges alike showed their mettle in quickly adapting to the challenges View Details

22 Jan 2020
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What It Takes

fund. Very difficult to do that, but we did. It was the largest first-time fund ever raised and the third biggest in the world when it was raised. One View Details

01 May 2013
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Brahmal Vasudevan, MBA 1997

Creating educational opportunities is a way of life for Brahmal Vasudevan. Upon the 2011 launch of Creador, a private equity firm based in Kuala... View Details

17 Oct 2019
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Venturing Away from Venture Capital

ultra-high-net-worth individuals, and micro-VC firms whose relatively small size translates into a willingness to proceed at a pace and scale that are sustainable over time. She has also won a fair bit of... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

01 May 2013
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Maurice Pinto, MBA 1960

firm specializing in financing and/or buying small- and medium-sized businesses. Inspired to make opportunities like his available to others who have served in the military, Pinto recently established a... View Details

01 May 2013
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Isik Kececi Asur, MBA 1997

country and culture,” Asur says. In addition to Mustafa’s diversified family oil business, the Asurs are partners in Istanbul-based Aragon Capital, a firm they launched five years ago that manages a variety... View Details

02 Dec 2019
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A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding

I realized this was something I was passionate about and that, up until then, I had been influenced by other people’s expectations.” This insight led to a decades-long interest in global business for Barry, president and CEO of View Details

01 Jan 2010
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James A. Lovell, AMP 62, 1971

were able to safely return to earth. The Apollo 13 experience taught Lovell the importance of team work, a lesson he now shares with audiences around View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Conducting Business

daily combat. Michael Farmer (MBA 1971) is chairman and CEO of Farmer & Company, a strategy consulting firm for the advertising industry. He is View Details

Keywords: Michael Farmer (MBA 1971); illustration by Lucinda Rogers; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire

Among the classes Christenson taught at HBS were Managerial Economics and Control in the MBA Program's required curriculum, Management Control in the Owner/President Management... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

01 May 2013
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Patricia F. Bilden & Philip M. Bilden, MBA 1991

From the day he first set foot on Soldiers Field, Philip Bilden, managing director of HarbourVest Partners’ Asia business in Hong Kong, knew the relationships formed at HBS... View Details

01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)

Ballroom dancing, painting Recommended Reading Einstein's Dreams, by Alan P. Lightman "Written by a humanist/scientist, this is a compelling collection of fables focusing on various conceptions of time, as... View Details

29 Apr 2021
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Equal Partner

in the ranks of investors. She also knew that some firms were seeking to diversify their partnerships without addressing underlying structural problems. “Partner” did not... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Inclusion

01 Feb 1999
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Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS

significantly, the firm is a cutting-edge organization that has achieved enormous success using what may well be the business model of View Details

01 May 2013
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Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977

Detroit, and even the student whose idea it was to put solar panels on the roof of Shad,” he notes. Cronin is the cofounder and managing partner... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency

Lucille Meyer (SEP '99) and her boss, South African President Thabo M. Mbeki, know they have a tough act to follow. While Mbeki's predecessor, the legendary Nelson Mandela, basked in the adulation View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

28 Nov 2018
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Elevating Women at Fidelity

of sexual harassment by a junior female employee. While the firm had named women to leadership positions and fund management roles before the... View Details

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