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- 24 Apr 2014
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A 'reluctant entrepreneur' draws on the HBS network
Cancer survivor Kathryn Giusti (MBA 1985) gives a talk about being a "reluctant entrepreneur" in founding the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. (Published April 2014)
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- 15 Dec 2015
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Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
strategic vision. He was a founding partner in a Lawrence, Massachusetts, hydroelectric plant which was the first venture to take advantage of the 1978 National Energy Act’s alternative energy incentives. Later, he and his team at J....
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- 05 Aug 2015
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Bringing New Life to an Iconic Magazine
stage. In 1999, he purchased the Atlantic, a widely respected magazine of news, analysis, and culture, founded in 1857. At the time, the magazine was losing $3.5 million annually, a figure that would balloon to $10 million before Bradley...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
firms hold twice as much cash in reserve, on average, as large, privately held firms. To come to his counterintuitive conclusion, Farre-Mensa analyzed 4,259 public firms and 25,477 private ones—the latter through a new collection of anonymized accounting data. He View Details
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Books: Winning the Influence Game
how to go about the business of influencing government," note the authors. By outlining approaches to government relations that other companies have found effective, the book gives managers a better understanding of how to influence...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Protecting critical infrastructure against disasters
Tom Popik (MBA 1988) is an entrepreneur who founded the Foundation for Resilient Societies, a nonprofit that protects critical infrastructure against natural and manmade disasters. (Published April 2014)
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- 09 Feb 2016
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Powering into the Future
Alexander Gruzen (MBA 1990) is CEO of WiTricity Corp., in Texas. In this video, he explains how his company is helping to lead the world toward a more sustainable future. “I wanted to create something very new and had a chance to join a young company that was View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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Just Breathe
found the murder of an unarmed Black person at the hands of the police was linked to poor mental health in the Black population of the state where it occurred for three months. I started my career in financial services and worked at...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
helm, The Esquel Group makes more men's cotton shirts than any other company in the world, producing private-label apparel for high-end chains like Brooks Brothers and designers like Ralph Lauren. Egon P. S. Zehnder (MBA '56) Founding...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind
(formerly Draper Fisher Jurvetson), the venture capital firm he founded in 1985 as a small business investment company called Draper Associates. Conventionally dressed, his tie nonetheless depicts a map of California divided into six...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Nov 2019
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It’s a Small World
at this interesting little company down the river—EF Education First—which is an under-the-radar, very interesting, privately held international education company that does languages, educational travel, cultural exchange, and academic degrees. EF was View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
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Community Celebrates Dedication of Schwartz Common and Pavilion
of daily activity on campus, reflecting Schwartz’s vision for creating an artistic presence at HBS that would spur debates that transcended the classroom experience. Inspired by the growing collection, a small group of MBA students View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Action Plan: The Power of Story
eventually arrested and served a brief jail stint followed by rehab. Without a high school diploma, his future seemed bleak, but he willed himself through a GED program and community college before getting his finance degree from Wharton; after a few years at Chase in...
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Ryan Jones
- 01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
help achieve better access to care and a lower cost of care. And employers are embracing telemedicine as a way to provide employees convenient health care at a lower cost for their companies. A survey conducted among large employers this year View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
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How Disney’s Alan Horn Manages the Movies
Disney, the article notes, has been palpable. Those who have been in the trenches with Horn say the studio chairman’s imprint can be found on most, if not all, Disney films — including those under the Pixar, Marvel or Lucasfilm labels,...
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- 04 Jan 2016
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Making Things Right for Those Who’ve Been Done Wrong
helped clients gain market share.’ I wanted to look back on my career and say, ‘I did my part to make the world a better place.’ “I talked to a lot of people about work that they did and what they found satisfying, and I realized that the...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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The Giving Tree
that legacy, one branch of which is shown below. William H. Draper III (MBA 1954) Founding Cochair, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation “The case method was a brand-new concept to me. I was on a very steep learning curve, but it was...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2011
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Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) has been unusually public of late, celebrated for his visionary accomplishments in health care and conservation. Wyss, 75, founded Synthes USA, a Swiss-American firm, in 1974 and led it to global prominence as a...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Celebrating Women at HBS
University: 1937–1970," an exhibit organized by Baker Library Historical Collections that traces the early history of business education for women at Harvard, from the founding of the one-year certificate program in personnel...
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- 02 Dec 2018
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Fostering Great Leadership
excited to live in New England.” Olivier credits the School with fostering his personal development. “HBS challenged my assumptions about what I knew, what my skills were, and what my limitations were,” he explains. Ultimately Olivier View Details