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- 18 Jul 2023
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The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind...
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Robert Bochnak
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley
Professor Paul Gompers visited Endeavor Saudi Arabia, a nonprofit that promotes startups in emerging markets. Pictured are Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais (both of the Middle East and North Africa Research Center), Gompers, Lateefa Alwaalan (Endeavor Saudi Arabia), and...
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Jennifer Mele
- 07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit
business opportunity is that martial arts is the only sport in Asia with broad appeal and local relevance,” says Cui, noting that the Asian world as a whole (with the possible exceptions of Japan and South Korea) generally lacks the 24/7 sports View Details
- 04 Jan 2024
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Great Heights
In 2019, after more than a decade scaling the heights of product management in Silicon Valley, Lisa Kostova (MBA 2009) decided to take on a different kind of climb. Over a sabbatical year, Kostova trained for and summited Denali, which, at 20,310 feet, is the tallest...
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Amy Crawford
- 01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy
HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and...
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April White
- 23 May 2018
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Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987
school until Haddad and a group of investors purchased it and transformed it into a nonprofit, it was not simply a matter of implementing proven ideas within a Brazilian institution. Haddad was committed to crafting a university that would reflect, work within, and...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
Today, The Kraft Group is a global company that employs over 5,000 people worldwide. Many of Boston’s medical, educational, and cultural institutions have benefitted from the Krafts’ philanthropy, a tribute to Kraft and his late wife...
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- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
Field remain strong. From 1994 to 1997, he headed the HBS Canadian Initiative, a program conceived by former HBS Dean John H. McArthur in part to enable a geographically and culturally diverse group of qualified Canadian students to...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
their circumstances. In MacDonald’s world, business — with its repetitive soullessness, automation, ceaseless drive for profit, and backstabbing corporate culture — contributes to the angst that drives these men to self-destruction. The...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
sports, education, health, and economics. He shows what questions to ask, which data to collect, how to mold data to yield answers, and how to interpret numbers computed by others. Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Action Plan: Border Crossing
Rawdon: Fostering a global spirit of cultural connection (photo by Stella Kalinina) Growing up, Leigh Rawdon (MBA 2001) didn’t travel internationally with her family. But she loved to listen to the stories her globe-trotting aunt told of...
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Julia Hanna
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
cultural and political specificities and the economic realities of this diverse region,” explains Ivashina. “That gives them the upper hand.” Although many startups have identified and seized upon opportunities, there are also several key...
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- 16 Mar 2015
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Cooking Up New Opportunities in New Orleans
Carol Ahn Markowitz (MBA 2003) gave up a safe life in corporate finance to head to New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. She now leads a $33.5 million culinary institute start-up. It’s been a bumpy road. Markowitz couldn’t find a job commensurate with her experience...
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- 01 Jan 2012
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Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
1967 Founds Asset Management Company 1980 Provides early capital for Amgen, joins board 1998 Appointed chairman, San Francisco Opera Association 1999 Funds BUILD, nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship to disadvantaged youth 2002 Receives...
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- 05 Nov 2013
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Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Greater New Orleans Foundation, which helps with companies working on water resource issues. This outbreak of entrepreneurship is the result of an influx of well-educated citizens to the city. From 2007 to 2009, more people with college...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Innovation: An Orchestra of One
practicing musician in real time. Raphael told Chao that he was already working with a Boston-based music producer and entrepreneur, and put the two in touch. At Chao's urging, the group entered Music+1 (the product's name at the time) in the University-wide Deans'...
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- 14 Oct 2014
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A legacy of social and environmental respect
Akshay Kumar Parija (AMP 172, 2007) was already a successful international banker when he arrived at HBS in 2006. Today, however, he credits the AMP with helping him develop his courage and creativity—two character traits that set his life on a new course to preserve...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Launch Codes
learn more and to watch the final four teams compete for the grand prize. The 2022 finale will take place virtually on March 31. Visit www.hbs.edu/nvc to learn more and to watch the final four teams compete for the grand prize. Codifying View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
Africa, an arts and handicrafts cooperative that empowers women to rise out of poverty by selling their own crafts. Another team created a syllabus for teaching entrepreneurship for Mission Schools International, an organization founded...
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