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- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
Clubs News Clubs News Outgoing HBSA Pittsburgh President Bill Slivka (MBA 1976) (left) stands with guest speaker Michael McGarry (AMP 169 2005), Chairman and CEO of PPG, at the Association's Annual Meeting. Outgoing HBSA View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Apr 2020
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Q&A with former SBA Administrator Karen Mills
- 19 Mar 2012
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NFL Players to Tackle Custom Program at Harvard Business School
- 01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book
opened its first standalone location in a suburban Pittsburgh mall in 1962; by 1971, it had more than 60 stores. Its main rival, B. Dalton Bookseller, founded in 1966 in a suburban Minnesota shopping center, had expanded in just five... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Feb 2009
- News
Obama pursues universal health care
- 01 Mar 2006
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Second Acts
grew rapidly during the ’90s and managed to weather the dot-com bust. Eager for new challenges, Meakem sold the company last year for nearly $500 million and has embarked on a career in venture capital and politics. Committed to helping View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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Taking That Hill
Niekamp “Honestly I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about being a woman in a male industry,” Cynthia Niekamp (MBA 1983) told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 27, 2011). “It’s just my life; it’s been my life.” Niekamp, who as a... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
part of that evolution—as the cofounder of a professional services firm, an investor, a developer, and a corporate board member. “The challenge and the opportunity is to work to ensure all Pittsburghers benefit from this transition,” he... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Saving the Steel Industry
Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) played a key role in helping to save the U.S. steel industry in the 1990s, writes the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (March 4, 2007). Bloom spent five years at Lazard Freres before starting a firm that advised unions about... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Pathfinder
exception. The difference is that the Pittsburgh native has been with BCG for 28 years and counting, rising to president and CEO in January 2013. “I feel like I’ve been able...to work with some of the best companies in the world on these... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Oscar Winners
2007) and they have just one word for you: insurance. The trio are cofounders of Oscar Health Insurance (hioscar.com), their brand-new online company—competing with more than a dozen other health insurance firms—that offers coverage on the New York Health Benefit... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
More Than a Game
20-plus years at Procter & Gamble. “To make truly meaningful things happen in a business, you ought to tackle two or three things at most,” he says. One of those big things in 2017? Negotiating the naming rights for the SeaWolves stadium with the University of View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Attention, Oenophiles
THE CUFFES: A new career importing “fantastic” African wines from black-owned vineyards. In 2005, while on a trip in South Africa, Selena Cuffe (MBA ’03) saw an ad for the Soweto Wine Festival. “I was used to seeing negative African images,” Cuffe told the View Details
Keywords: Wholesale Trade
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Rushing Yards
2003) is playing it cool. “This is just watching lots of football and then just getting together with 12 other bright, thoughtful people who know the game very well and getting a chance to make a selection that’s very important to a lot of people in the country,”... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98)
High above the gleaming ice surface of Boston's FleetCenter, Gord Kluzak (MBA '98) gazes down intently at the fast-paced action between the Boston Bruins and the Pittsburgh Penguins. No ordinary spectator, Kluzak is an Emmy Award–winning... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
In Harmony
finance director of the New York City Opera. For the next 35 years, Weinstein made his way through arts organizations in roles as general director of the Pittsburgh Opera, executive director of the Washington Opera at the Kennedy Center,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
On the National Stage
lot of music out of her ears,” Heinz told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (June 17, 2004). “John Kerry brought that back.” On leave from Jacobson Partners, a New York private equity firm, Heinz has seen his own future become the subject of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
Service with a Smile: Classmates Nick Alexander (left) and Bryan Frist with one of Yoshi’s service-on-demand vehicles. (photo by Cayce Clifford) The first purpose-built, drive-in gas station opened in Pittsburgh in December 1913. The... View Details
- 11 May 2018
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Nigerian Tech Startup has Local—and Global—Impact
here.” The piece goes on the note Andela’s rising impact, with 1,000 coders (and growing) supporting tech companies “from New York to Pittsburgh to San Francisco.” That growth is helping build not just firms abroad, but bringing stable... View Details