Year Up - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Mar 2018
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Fueling the Future

Women who pursue STEM fields are accustomed to being challenged. When Cecily Kovatch (MBA 2002) began her career working as a field engineer for Schlumberger, one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies, the all-male crews on the oil rigs were often less than... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

23 May 2018
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John A. Paulson, MBA 1980

fascinating place. There is always something new to learn.” Paulson, the son of a child psychologist and a businessman, initially majored in philosophy. After his first year of college, however, he moved to Ecuador and started several... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

05 May 2020
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“Walking a Tightrope”

class. READ MORE April: I'd like to start where you do in the book—in and around Yamhill, Oregon. Yamhill is Nick's hometown, but you grew up in New York, so I'm wondering what your first impressions were. Sheryl: Yamhill and New York... View Details

13 May 2014
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Inside Africa

reason Americans view Africa as a land of misfortune is that all they hear about in the media is African misfortune. To counter this simplistic picture, Africa.com offers curated articles showing the everyday things that make up much of... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

02 Mar 2016
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On Credit

Illustration by Eduardo Recife The large tome looks its age, which is roughly 160 years old. Bound in leather, an average page, of which there are about 800 in the volume, includes almost 100 eye-blurring lines of pen-and-ink script. It’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2009
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It’s the Economy

ambitious $825 billion economic stimulus package was working its way through Congress. The rapidly deteriorating jobs picture heightened the sense of urgency to act. Employers shed more jobs in 2008 than in any year since 1945. Against... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

17 Dec 2015
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Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society

by the robust body of research on gender conducted by various faculty members and conceived during the 2013 commemoration of 50 years of women in the MBA Program. Today, women make up 41 percent of MBA... View Details

19 Oct 2011
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A Good Look

executive roles at Kemin since joining the company in early 2006. Most recently, as corporate vice president, she managed marketing, sales, IT, operations, and HR. She honed in on personal care in 2010, as consumer demand for natural ingredients grew. (The market... View Details

Keywords: Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

ocean exploration. It’s an entire world that needs to be understood and is incredibly valuable to our existence. So that excites me a lot. This last year prompted me to think about the arc of life and death. I lost my eldest son in a... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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New Wave

so. When Verdant began deploying prototype turbines in the East River nearly 20 years ago, for instance, the company’s actions raised immediate concerns among fishermen and federal regulators. And while the startup proved that its... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

04 May 2018
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How to Win the Kentucky Derby

shares in those horses, making ownership much more accessible. As an investment manager, Finley’s got a strong track record, with four of his horses making it to the Kentucky Derby, including a win by Always Dreaming in 2017 and a run this View Details

Keywords: horse racing

25 Apr 2023
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Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

and Vanessa Royle In the end, Ilana Springer Borkenstein and Eric Gruskin, from the New York region, took the Grand Prize of $75,000 with their startup, M7 Health, an innovative nursing-workforce management platform. The Runner Up prize... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

17 Apr 2015
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A Driving Force for a Sustainable World

want to preserve the environment provides solutions that benefit everyone. “If each of us contributes a little bit, at the end of the day we can really meet the challenges the world is facing,” she says. Herlaut has spent 14 years... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

01 Sep 2020
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Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future

Photo courtesy of Daniel O’Keefe Photo courtesy of Daniel O’Keefe The HBS Alumni Board welcomes 22 new members for 2020–21 this fall. The complete roster is here. The Board is a representative group of 81 alumni from across graduation years, geographies, and programs.... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush; alumni events; lifelong learning; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2017
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Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact

articulate and eloquent writing by an addict about the conflict they go through in treatment.” I kept finding more notebooks. They were hard to read, but helped me better understand the six tumultuous years she was sick and her underlying... View Details

Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)

01 Mar 2016
News

Off Script

public health” mandate; and extending patent life proactively in areas such as Alzheimer’s to help open up the supply of new drugs. Is there a framework in another country—could be a hybrid model of multiple developed or developing... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

15 Jun 2021
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From Das’s Desk

As I write this, it has been a year since our world changed because of the pandemic. In March 2020, our Alumni Relations staff were busily planning the upcoming spring reunions, a cohort of alumni had just arrived on campus to attend our... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

26 May 2016
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Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980

opened up all these possibilities for me,” adds Tierney, whose summer internship at Bain & Company turned into a full-time position upon graduation. Although he claims to have gotten off to a rocky start, in three View Details