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- 24 Apr 2014
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Connecting past to present
extensive resources into an easy option for families across the globe. “By leveraging technology, the Internet, and network-effect scale, we’ve sparked mainstream interest in family history by making it accessible to millions of people around the world,” explains...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Advancing the cause of women’s leadership in business
financially outperform those with fewer,” she says. Lang has been a pioneer since her days as a student at HBS, where women comprised only 4 percent of her class. She went on to become a senior executive of Lotus Development Corporation, then View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
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A Well-Tuned Life
founded Carry-a-Tune Technologies, a company that sells software products that use the fun of karaoke to help people improve their singing — and, no doubt, their self-image. It happens that self-worth is an important theme in the...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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Sunny's MBA
materials, so Verghese resolved to grow the cotton locally. He soon found himself operating one of the largest cotton plantations in Africa. Now, as CEO of his own trading company, Singapore-based Olam International Ltd., Verghese makes...
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- 28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union
we have this web of doers. The business model is very much like the network-based mobilization that we see in the tech world. This is not a top-down organization. Everyone owns it. One of our founding members, for example, is Gisel...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Straddling Two Worlds
the firm was bought (by Merrill Lynch), he and two colleagues decided to branch out on their own and founded Gollust, Tierney & Oliver in 1978. For the next eighteen years, the firm grew, expanding from its initial focus on financing...
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Susan Young
- 01 Aug 2014
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A closer look at the industry of beauty
homogenization persists, the purchasing power of emerging economies, aging populations, and increasingly multiethnic US consumers has now led to a new sensitivity to diversity. Further, Jones has found that today's generation of industry...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Côme Laguë (MBA 1993)
Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) founded his company, Zetta Research, to restructure patent portfolios and other intellectual property assets from closed startups, develop them, and resell them to companies that wish to unlock their potential. He...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Expanding the reach of business from Silicon Valley to the global arena
fund for young US technology companies. He is now the founding cochairman of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a leading venture philanthropy firm supporting early-stage social enterprises making a difference in the world. Draper is...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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New Program for Science-Based Businesses
HBS has launched a new Executive Education program designed to help leaders of science-based businesses meet the many distinctive challenges found in their industry. Leading Science-Based Enterprises, to be held on campus June 26–29, will...
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- 01 Jan 2013
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Five Receive 2013 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
Jakurski, MBA 1973 Founding Partner and Managing Director, JGP Asset Management Thomas A. James, MBA 1966 Chairman, Raymond James Financial, Inc. Thai Lee, MBA 1985 President and CEO, SHI International Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960 Cofounder...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Distinct Yet of a Piece
Their office locations range from the summit of a skyscraper in Boston to the front seat of a pickup truck in Oklahoma. Their workdays may be dedicated to helping build companies or to helping save lives. They can be found discussing...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Batteries Included
it been tried before? Henderson puts it down to the effects of an industry that operates in silos. “Anybody who knows anything about batteries doesn’t know anything about ships,” he notes. “If you look at the leadership of major shipping companies, I’ve never View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
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One Degree of Difference
that point,” he emphasizes. The switch to skills-based hiring has helped diversify Ovia’s workforce. The leadership team is 60 percent non-white and 80 percent women, as is the staff, which Wallace describes as mission-critical. He View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
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Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
The authors also found that market-leading firms with strong reserves “actively invested in the short term with the sole focus of extending their long-term advantage over less endowed competitors.”
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- 20 Dec 2018
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Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
founded by CEO Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010). In addition to an abundance of “scrumptious food and plenty of holiday cheer,” the club also enjoyed a tour of the Gold Rush production facilities, led by Kelleher herself. Across the pond, the...
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Margie Kelley
- 20 Apr 2016
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Steps to Success
among all they’ve accomplished.” As remarkable an achievement as Fass Koffe is, it’s but one of several the Oregon-based nonprofit has completed since its founding in 2008 with a mission to empower poor and displaced communities in the...
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Jill Radsken
- 25 Jan 2016
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Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
there are no continent-wide studies of this, a report last year by Adcorp, a workforce management company, found that in South Africa there were an estimated 470,000 private-sector job openings remain unfilled because of a lack of...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 06 Dec 2021
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Tipping Point
At the other end of the supply chain are the unseen farm laborers—most of them women—who tend the coffee trees each day on the hillsides of rural Kenya. Margaret Nyamumbo (MBA 2016) founded Kahawa 1893 in 2017 to shorten the distance...
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- 10 Nov 2020
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Learning to Fight
Eventually, he found a treatment trial at the Mayo Clinic that was testing a new combination of chemotherapy and high-dose radiation. Slowly, Susan’s tumor began to shrink, until there was nothing left but scar tissue. Although she would...
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April White