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- 08 May 2012
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Screen Saver
former investment banker, Apkon found the ideal focus for his passion for film by forming a nonprofit group in 1998 to purchase the defunct Rome Theater, a 1925 historic landmark located near his home in downtown Pleasantville, New York....
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Making a Difference
Bridgespan Group — Jeff Bradach (PhDOB ’92) and Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) — pioneers in the application of data-driven strategy and consulting services to enhance the effectiveness of nonprofits and foundations. Founded a decade ago,...
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- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at...
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- 29 Jun 2019
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Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
Fayelle Ouane (MBA 2009) founded Suguba to create transformative change on the African continent. In this interview, she discusses the path to achieving that deep impact. “So I'm originally from Mali, but I grew up in Switzerland. And I...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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David M. Hughes
the $1.5-million student activities budget as vice president of student affairs during his senior year. Signing on as a fundraising campaign manager for the United Way of Toronto at the tender age of 23, he supervised scores of volunteers and full-time personnel and...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2016
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LA Reid’s Song
found his own voice along the way. From Sing to Me: When I go back to the very beginning, listening to jazz fusion bands and loving Miles Davis, or digging what James Brown represented, or even in my rock days worshipping at the shrine of...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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William K.L. Fung
told my father that I didn't want to be in a family company," says Fung with a chuckle. The elder Fung challenged his son to use his HBS skills to breathe new life into the trading company, founded by Fung's grandfather in Canton, China,...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2016
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Taking Care of Business
and venture capital funds. “The tradeoff in making the decision to go back to an emerging market is so great that you can’t come to it analytically,” says Managing Director Hiran Embuldeniya (MBA 2005), an alum of McKinsey and Goldman Sachs who View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2000
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A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
at HBS and at other institutions throughout the world," he stated. During the center's early planning phases, Stevenson noted, the faculty advisory group found that 144 HBS cases had already been written on Latin American companies. "So...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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FIELD 2 in Accra
respondents said they viewed online content on multiple devices. "Research indicates that smart phones and mobiles are where it's at in emerging markets," says Leach. "But we found that many people still use computers that rely on Wi-Fi....
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- 15 Apr 2014
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Bertarelli Foundation Gift Names Deans' Health & Life Sciences Challenge Prize
the world's health care system by advancing new cures and therapies, developing new ways to apply information technology, and designing new health care systems to deliver affordable health." Ernesto Bertarelli, who along with his sister and mother View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
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King of His Castle
performances—was a circuitous one. He discovered the "Ren" circuit as a teenager, visiting his first fair on a field trip in junior high school. In 30 years, he has never missed a season. "I thought, 'I finally found my place in the...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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The Kids Are Alright: Alumni Children Crack Case
part, found himself fielding some unexpected questions. “What’s a soap opera?” one boy asked during a discussion of ad rates for different kinds of TV programming. Mention of a $1.3 million cost provoked the query, “How much money is...
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- 08 Nov 2011
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Saluting Our HBS Veterans
campus. Many veterans have been inspired to continue serving their comrades in arms. One such individual is Matt Scherrer (MBA 2007), who as a Platoon leader in the 2nd Ranger Battalion was twice deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan. While Matt was overseas, his...
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- 12 May 2022
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Turning a Moment into a Movement
diverse leadership ecosystem. Valence, founded by Primus, is a membership network of more than 20,000 top Black professionals and over 200 corporate clients that connects companies with current directors and a slate of board-ready...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
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Tried and Tested
on standardized tests can be found here. Zoë Cullen studies the design of labor markets and the choices of employers and labor platforms that affect matters of public interest, such as pay transparency, pay inequality, and...
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- 16 May 2018
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ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
co-working/accelerator space Grand Central Tech in Manhattan. Three teams made the final cut to advance to the Global Rounds. George Hessler (MBA 1985) was named the regional winner with Magma Trading, “a trading platform that allows dealers to roll up the liquidity...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2011
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America the Unequal
recent nationwide survey, my colleague Dan Ariely and I found that Americans drastically underestimated the level of wealth inequality in the United States, currently at levels not seen since the 1920s — just before the Great Depression....
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Turning Point: Dream Weaver
little over six years later, I was hired as founding head of CAA’s corporate practice and had the opportunity to work with Robert Redford, Robert De Niro, Danny DeVito, Kevin Costner, and director Michael Mann—all true storytellers and...
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- 05 Jan 2022
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Untapped Potential
change we’ve baked into our future.” That understanding, as well as the realization that water entrepreneurship is lagging behind other sectors focused on climate and sustainability, led Ferguson to found Burnt Island Ventures in 2020....
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