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17 Aug 2022
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Doubles Partner

Ventures General Partner Alison Rapaport Stillman (MBA 2018), who joined forces with Williams in 2018. The firm, which announced an $111 million fund in March, already included a portfolio of 60 View Details

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

specialized in failing companies," said the former management consultant in a 1985 HBS interview. "No matter what a firm's problem was, I always said it was my specialty to take care of it." MCI, an upstart... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Encouraging Women Leaders

In describing the impact of the HBS experience on her life, Veronica Allende Serra (MBA 1997) says, “Ask me how it hasn’t had an impact.” Serra, View Details

01 Jun 2004
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Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health

pathogens for which there are currently no vaccines: familiar maladies such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV, as well as newer threats, such as SARS, anthrax, and ricin. Today, Gilmartin noted, Merck is one of only five global companies... View Details

Keywords: Merck; public health; global public health; vaccines; Health, Social Assistance; Scientific Research and Development Services

27 Jun 2016
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Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy

(photo: Associated Press) (photo: Associated Press) The appointment of Ulf Mark Schneider (MBA 1993) as CEO of Nestlé was a surprise, with a Swiss equities trader telling View Details

02 Dec 2018
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A Chance to Thrive

Patricia Miller Zollar (MBA 1989) Attending HBS was a pivotal milestone in Patricia Miller Zollar’s life. “There is before HBS and there is after HBS,” says Zollar, a managing partner at Neuberger Berman, an asset management firm in New... View Details

10 Aug 2022
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Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

to bring the wisdom of multiple generations together and to provide roles for senior executives perhaps downshifting or... But again, I'd, I'd really love to hear your wisdom on that model. SWG: I'm hearing... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)

- a strategy, marketing, and athlete representation firm she founded - has been selected by the league's seed investors to create and manage the new league. View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Apr 2000
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Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

something about it; if the competition is engaged in abusive shelters and your firm is not you may feel pressured to do something you don't want to do. On the small business... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

26 May 2016
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2016 Alumni Achievement Awards

photographed by Susan Young; edited by Julia Hanna See full profiles and more photographs here. From a distance, the 2016 recipients of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award give... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Short Takes

should examine the issue of product architecture. Careful attention to modularity and intermodule coupling can dramatically lower the cost of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey

31 Mar 2017
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Turning Teachers into Leaders

Sophie Lippincott Ferrer (MBA 2006) is a senior consultant with Education First, a national policy and strategy consulting firm that partners with education leaders to design and accelerate policies and plans that help all young people,... View Details

01 Jan 2005
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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

unchallenged position in the marketplace until Japanese firms such as Hitachi and Fujitsu flooded the market with less expensive alternatives. In a bold opening move, Gerstner... View Details

07 May 2019
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How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal

attending Harvard Business School, Hoel Perkins landed a job on the ground floor of the venture capital firm TA Associates in Boston. There she... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Climate Change as Must-See TV

low-carbon economy. He is the managing director of GameChange Capital LLC, a private-equity firm cofounded with Hohn to back companies offering scalable and profitable... View Details

Keywords: videos; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2010
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Additional alumni books for your consideration.

The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work by Cathleen Benko (MBA ’89) and Molly Anderson (Harvard Business Review Press) View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Jan 2003
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Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

the age of 57, Charles Rossotti made a self-described "huge detour" from a 28-year career at American Management Systems, Inc., the Virginia-based computer systems consulting... View Details

01 Apr 2001
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William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency

Ask fund managers covering the Hong Kong market about smart technology plays in these days of crashing dot-coms and you’re likely to hear one company name repeated often. Li & Fung has become View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Oct 1997
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Terence P. Stewart

of Stewart and Stewart, a Washington-based law firm that represents both domestic and foreign clients on issues of trade and international law, Stewart understands that such... View Details