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24 Jan 2025
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The Network Effect

Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a future business deal. “We didn’t realize that we had shared... View Details

13 May 2013
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Continuity of Commitment

of families who have come before us, and it will continue to thrive because of our commitment and support. Together we can ensure that a transformational experience awaits all... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

throughout the United States, in addition to running a number of movie theaters, ski areas, and theme parks. "The recreation industry is a great business to be in, partly because I get to spend time with my View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

kitchen to a larger production facility in Vermont. Over the next few years, he and his family orchestrated the creation of an entire line of nationally distributed condiments View Details

01 Feb 1999
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More Than a Business

community. There's also Earl Junior (MBA '88)-known more familiarly as Butch - the president and COO of the family's company, Earl G. Graves, Ltd., which includes the magazine, a private equity fund, and a... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar

01 Sep 2010
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School’s 100th MBA Class Graduates

and former chairman of Apax Partners, shared three central lessons with the graduates and their assembled families and friends. “The world runs... View Details

Keywords: Graduation

01 Sep 2012
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Ideas in Action

often, those who have experienced vast success in the public realm look back and regret not spending more time with family and friends. They wish they’d actually gone on that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans

build my own company.” So he did, collaborating via Skype with friends located in Israel, Sydney, and Boston and investing $5,000 in what would become EyeView. “It didn’t feel... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services

01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run

in his path. Langford, 65, is far too genteel and affable for that, as anyone who knows him will tell you—and plenty of people in Georgia know Jim Langford (MBA 1984), whose family roots in the state stretch... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

22 Apr 2014
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Being a role model as well as a teacher

Anthony Priest (MBA 1996), program specialist at DC Public Schools, talks about being a role model for inner-city youths. “The first class I took on classroom management, the teacher said, ‘You never have to raise your voice.’ And I agree... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Surveying Students’ Summer Plans

Minnesota winter returns.” Eduardo Russian (MBA 2018) Hometown: San Diego, California Destination: Camino Financial, Los Angeles (Social Enterprise Initiative Summer Fellow) “A friend who saw similarities between my story View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

medicine. In 2000, Platanus opened the Yoga Urban Clinic. They logged 47 visitors on opening day, many of them supportive friends and family. Day two: 17 patients. Even as the numbers sank far below their... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

21 Jun 2022
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Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead

friend of Sheets, is the director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative, an adjunct professor of economics at SMU, and leads the Bush Institute’s work on domestic economic policy View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

18 Dec 2019
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Thinking Smart About Numbers

clubs in NY, Chicago, Seattle, LA, Miami, and San Francisco. Check club calendars for details. Celebrating 30 Years of Fulbrights in London The British Friends of Harvard Business School is a British... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2006
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MBA vs. MBA

Edwards and Hicks Illustration by Dan Vasconcellos Deep in the heart of Texas, smack in the middle of President Bush’s staunchly Republican home district, an eight-term Democratic congressman battled a Republican newcomer for reelection.... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

01 Apr 2001
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The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less

Management Déjà Vu,” by asking his audience about their concerns, as owners and operators of small businesses. A number of issues were voiced: sales and marketing; cash flow; hiring View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2006
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Profiles from the Class of 2006

venture-capital firm founded by Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69). Grateful for the Red Cross’s assistance to her own family after Hurricane Gilbert ravaged Jamaica in 1988, Brown has volunteered for years in various Red Cross programs. At HBS,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Margie Kelley;Lewis I. Rice;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Mar 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)

Special treat: A Parisian pear tart with ice cream. “A sweet tooth is just one tooth. I have a sugar mouth.” Good times: Listening to music, playing piano and guitar, dancing with family View Details