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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
Setting the Standard for Commercial Success As chairman of Esquel Group, Marjorie Yang (MBA 1976) oversees one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-end cotton shirts. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Hong Kong, Esquel employs...
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- 09 Oct 2015
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Balancing Progress and Preservation
that triangle several times a day,” he observes. That frequency might be even higher for Zuckerberg, whose philanthropic interests include the New York Landmarks Conservancy. Founded in 1973, the Conservancy is one of the country’s...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
town records of payments to 19th-century schoolteachers. Some of the records have already found their way into the elective MBA curriculum as introductory material in the Women Building Business course. The initiative is ongoing, and...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
outlook, investors will again turn to Mexico." DeRemate.com, an Internet auction house founded in 1999 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, has operations in eight Latin countries and the United States. Its cofounders, CEO Alejandro C....
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
carved out business opportunities despite formidable odds, including Madam C.J. Walker, a daughter of slaves who founded a million-dollar hair-care enterprise. Gail J. McGovern, president of Fidelity Personal Investments in Boston, asked...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
action." She contributed "once or twice" to the Harbus and "drove my Management Communication professor nuts - my style clashed with memo writing. When he found out that I actually wrote for a living, he cut me a little slack." Although...
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- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
is supported by plenty of research. And yet only 2.2 percent of VC funding goes to female-founded firms. So in 2011, Dodi founded the Women’s Venture Capital Fund with HBS classmate Edith Dorsen (MBA 1984), intent on funding teams with at...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Oakland to inquire about franchise opportunities. Founded during the Depression by William Dreyer and Joseph Edy, Dreyer’s had established a Bay Area reputation for premium quality and inventiveness, dating back to the debut of its Rocky...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
seen interest in energy issues come and go, usually pegged to the price of oil. In 1985, Reinhardt, then a first-year MBA student, arrived at the School eager to join the Energy Club only to find it disbanding for lack of interest. Six years later, the United States...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
height of the COVID-19 pandemic, he and some of his fellow medical students and doctors founded GOTVax, a mobile clinic that vaccinated about 8,000 people in Black and brown communities in the greater Boston area. “What I hope to do is to...
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April White
- 22 Feb 2022
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An Rx for Small Business Recovery
Harvard University and other institutions found that 43 percent of small businesses had temporarily closed. Immediate action was needed to support the sector. Mills, author of Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream, was active in...
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Deborah Blagg
- 15 Jun 2021
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The Value of Difficult Conversations
Great Conversation In the virtual classroom, Ratajczak steered the conversation away from past harms to the Black community to the current issues that stem from them. He wondered how payments could address modern inequities and if such payments should be available only...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
20 alumni volunteers; it addresses the challenges and personal goals of senior executives through a series of immersive and introspective learning experiences. The Reflective Leader program will be offered again in June 2019. “I found the...
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- 23 Apr 2018
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Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
in the retirement of EARTH University’s distinguished president José Zaglul, who had led the university since its founding in 1989. Condo was familiar with the school and its emphasis on agricultural sciences, but when a board member...
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Deborah Blagg
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
outside of Nairobi, studying ethnic violence. His experience there prompted him to found a non-governmental organization, Carolina for Kibera, and he wrote about it in the book It Happened on the Way to War. After his military service,...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Feb 2000
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Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
Strategic and International Studies, we brought them together for the first time in 1996, in Stockholm. Following that event, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir and I founded the Council. Describe the Council's first summit, in 1998. We organized a...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jan 2006
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William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
banking firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ); undersecretary of state in Henry Kissinger’s State Department; founding dean of the Yale School of Management; chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange; chairman, president, and...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and Life by Rob and Steve Shallenberger (OPM 6, 1982) (Eagle Systems International) After four years of intensive research into 50 different organizations, the authors found that not a single company had a common approach to navigate...
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- 12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments
original investors. (It is now Latin America’s largest microfinance institution, serving 2.6 million clients.) Chu—then head of microfinance organization Accion International—was part of the group that founded the bank, and Rodríguez was...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Your Own Medicine
space—a loft, shared with a home-and-clothing shop—is the headquarters of Charley's Fund, a nonprofit that Tracy Seckler and her husband, Benjy, founded in 2004 after their son, then three years old, was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular...
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