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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Burden Legacy
1953, MBA 1955). William A.M. Burden Sr. made a mark at Harvard as First Marshal of his graduating class and captain of the football team. Returning to his native New York, he launched a career on Wall Street with the firm James D. Smith & View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
Stanley as a powerful presence in the world of global finance. After graduating from Princeton in 1957 at the age of 20, Fisher worked for a time in the university's admissions office and as a trainee at the Insurance Company of North America in Philadelphia. He then... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Buffett Protégé Britt Cool to Start Own Firm
Heinz Co., and will leave those posts early next year, the newspaper notes. Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett noted that Britt Cool spent much of her time at Berkshire aiding struggling companies, including Benjamin Moore & Co. and... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- News
Smarter Farming
and what we're now doing is to try to reuse and rethink how that land should be used to both create great products for global consumers, but more importantly to make sure that the environment is protected. “A big part of what has made New... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
The City Solution: Facts and Figures p. 32 “half the world’s people ” U.N. Habitat report (“Cities and Climate Change – Global Report on Human Settlements”) March 2011 p. 33 “2 percent land mass most of its emissions.” UN Habitat Report... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. Boston and San Francisco Global investment management firm Alan Greenshields (MBA 1992) Fortu Holding AG Basel, Switzerland Proprietary technologies for next-generation rechargeable batteries Michael... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
engineering orientation into business. How do you explain Starbucks' success? In the past, coffee was treated as a commodity, with quality secondary to cost. So when we offered a terrific product in an appealing environment, with all the... View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
search for adventure. These places gave a flavor of that.” There were more corporate transfers (to fresh vegetables, then fresh fruit) until 1983, when he landed what he saw as his dream role as Castle & Cooke’s international controller... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
real-world experience after college and landed at an animal feed company in Arizona. When the company’s leaders were removed due to fraud, Kendall found himself in charge. “I ended up seeing an organization go through a bankruptcy and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
Ask most people to name a city with a lot of parks and chances are Houston won’t be the first one they name. “For better or worse, our built environment is known for the lack of zoning,” says Daniel M. Gilbane (MBA 2005), senior vice president of Gilbane Building View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
for women to think more about their marriage prospects than their business future. Nevertheless, Haberkorn walked into the Baltimore employment office of the AT&T-owned Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Maryland and View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Back at the Ranch
weeks learning horsemanship, then another six weeks on cowboy fundamentals, from roping and doctoring cattle to ranch economics and pasture management. If all goes to plan, when they land their first job on a ranch and someone hollers at... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
for.” That helps explain how it was that Rice managed to graduate with honors from Yale with a degree in Latin American studies, but without employment. He did eventually land a job after college, spending two years at AT&T in a... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
of the summer, Weenick recalls, one of HLW's program directors gradually began to use some of the "business-y" vocabulary she had introduced concerning issues of quality and efficiency. "It was instructive for me that it was not an 'ah-ha' moment," she says. "As time... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
state-owned land that will be released for development, and the light rail will come in on the other side of those trees.” He turns and points in the heat of an April afternoon, taking in the city as it is now, View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
way to be on the right side of history is to be a good-ish— rather than good—person. Good-ish people are always growing. She helps us find our “ordinary privilege,” the part of our everyday identity that we take for granted, such as race for a white person, sexual... View Details