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- 10 Feb 2016
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Putting Faith in a Good Education
“The lack of access to good education in developing countries is one of the greatest problems in the world today,” says Chris Crane (MBA 1976), who founded and leads Edify, a nonprofit that furnishes micro-enterprise loans and business...
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- 14 Oct 2014
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A legacy of social and environmental respect
ultimately brought him to Cambridge for a transformational experience. “It gave me the courage to become an entrepreneur,” he says. In 2010, Parija founded Blue Lines Shipping Group, a highly successful venture that enables him to finance...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Action Plan: Net Proceeds
“I’m a root-cause kind of guy,” says Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), reflecting on a military, government, and civilian career that has taken him from counterdrug operations in Colombia to assisting with the peace process in Sudan to rebuilding the health care system in...
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- 11 Dec 2019
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A Righteous Path
the New York–based nonprofit, which was founded five years ago to provide legal assistance to young refugees who arrive in the United States alone. Launched with a single full-time employee, the organization had grown to 13 when Leimsider...
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- 25 Aug 2014
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Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
resilience,” says the son of a dentist who grew up in working-class Lowell, Massachusetts. Chertavian’s philosophy is at the core of Year Up, the extraordinary nonprofit he founded that helps economically disadvantaged young adults gain...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2002
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Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
wrote his business plan, found a partner, and left Microsoft in 1997 in order to start VacationSpot, an online reservations network for consumers seeking to rent vacation properties. “We worked hard on it for three years,” states Murch....
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- 12 May 2021
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Aid from Afar
As HBS student Shyamli Badgaiyan watched the COVID-19 crisis surge in India in recent weeks, the Delhi native felt anxious and helpless. “I found myself thinking of ways to help from afar—an instinct I would later learn many students...
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- 09 Oct 2017
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Saving an American Publishing Icon
discovered in the Declaration of Founding Principles for the Atlantic, dating back to 1857, their proposition of ‘no party or clique.’ Our purpose is clarity of thought.” (Published October 2017)
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- 21 Aug 2016
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From Money to Ministry
handling international accounts, corporate lending, and managing assets for the First National Bank of Chicago. Quainton found that he was good at listening to clients and helping people solve problems. It was a calling, not for higher...
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- 01 Jan 2010
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Marvin S. Traub, MBA 1949
founded Marvin Traub Associates, a diversified consulting firm specializing in retailing, brand, and real estate development focusing on international markets. His client base includes companies in 12 countries. Now in his mid-eighties,...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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Napkin Finance: Say It in a Picture
around Initial Coin Offerings, or ICOs, made that particular napkin a challenge, for example. “In first-year Finance at HBS there was a lot of focus on spreadsheets and numbers,” says Hay, who studied communications at UCLA and worked in the film industry. “As a visual...
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Julia Hanna
- 07 Jun 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
in person by university staff. “Many grew up in rural poverty and would never have a chance to take an SAT,” explains Condo. More than 80 percent receive scholarships, supported by donors and foundation grants. Founded in 1989, the...
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- 11 May 2016
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World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
said in an interview in Tokyo Wednesday. “What you find where you have had the expansionary monetary policy that has been useful, what you’ve also found is that it has led to maybe potential weaknesses in banks,” according to Oteh, who...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Fred Newman
with giving him the courage to found Talking Dog Productions, his one-man operation in New York City that enables him to view his work as a business — “like selling shoes” — and inoculates him from the rejection that stymies many actors...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Sharon Patrick
categories.” Patrick has done just that since earning her MBA. After thirteen years at McKinsey followed by, as president, a turnaround of Cablevision’s Rainbow Programming, in 1993 Patrick founded her own company to create and own...
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- 01 Jan 2009
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Robert F. Greenhill, MBA 1962
achievement possibilities are limitless.” One of Wall Street’s preeminent investment bankers, Bob Greenhill has helped shape some of the world’s most successful corporations. Greenhill earned a reputation as a man of action during his 31 years at Morgan Stanley, where...
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- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
operations. His time in Colombia opened his eyes to widespread poverty. “I took the time to learn about the people, the environment. I found that people worked with the cartels because they didn’t have other opportunities to support their...
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Jill Radsken
- 10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
women—whose careers could provide some insight into these questions. “I wanted to understand what it is that they did to crack the code,” Kraus says of her research. Through interviews, Kraus and her research team found some common...
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April White
- 27 Apr 2023
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Life Preserver
When Sebastian Giwa (MBA 2009) joined Singularity University's Global Solutions Program in the summer of 2012, he was accepted based on his ideas of how distance learning and remote work—both rarities at that point—could reshape opportunities for youth in developing...
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April White
- 02 Dec 2010
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Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
what we’re taught, most entrepreneurs launch businesses in unattractive, static fields and offer no competitive advantage. Clearly, the most successful entrepreneurs combine their deep knowledge of customers’ needs with a commitment to achieving outsized scale and...
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