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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
treatment. “In theory they never have to ask another donor for a dollar. And I said, ‘I know what that looks like. Investing in promising early stage projects and having a small financial stake in the outcome: That’s venture capital,’ ” says Rodakis. While that...
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Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
Here at the Pickleball Club, founder and CEO Brian McCarthy (MBA 1972) is making a big bet that his model—a private club, with high-end amenities and a community organized around the sport—will have what it takes to stay in the game for...
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- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
ultimately a class about communication. And it was really made clear that the job of a CEO is mostly to communicate. The CEO can't make all the decisions themselves; they can't do all the work themselves,...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
Sullivan (MBA 1991), former CEO of Match.com, joined Ancestry.com as president and CEO. Over his 12-year tenure, he would oversee the company’s expansion into the global market, with geographically specific sites for Australia, China, and...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
perspective of our greatest teacher: time. Peggy Yu (MBA 2007) CEO and cofounder, Stack Education “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” I will close my eyes. Take a deep breath. And leap. Conscious....
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- 16 May 2024
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On the Job
Achievement Award are no different. One spent a summer during college doing hard labor in a lumber mill. Another pumped gas and washed windshields as a teenager. Across a diversity of experiences, one thing is clear: Work does much more than View Details
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leadership;
life experience;
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Oil and Gas Extraction;
Mining;
Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
trims stand to cut into senior partners’ profits, he says. “A lot of people don’t want to take pay cuts. So they shrink their cost structure and lay off junior investors or unproductive senior investors,”...
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- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
greatest risk from the disastrous effects of sea-level rise. Yet cities also have the ability to act without waiting for state and federal action, adds Raphael Carty (MBA 1983), former CEO of Callida Energy, a software startup focused on...
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energy;
environment;
sustainability;
entrepreneurship;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transportation;
Water, Sewage and Supply Systems;
Utilities;
Construction of Buildings;
Construction;
Waste Management and Remediation Services;
Corporate Services
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Willy Walker (MBA 1995) is the chairman and CEO of Walker and Dunlop, a commercial real estate finance firm founded in 1937 by his grandfather and his great...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
difference,’” says Dave Bangert (MBA 2005), who became CEO of the company shortly after the program was introduced. Some employees were able to pay pressing bills, while others invested in cows for their...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
benefits of these cuts would go “to people at the bottom end of the economic ladder,” he assured voters. And yet, of course, CEOs — let alone hedge fund managers — now routinely View Details
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
spring meeting earlier this month. "This is a place where we work hard, we are focused, we are cutting edge, for the public good," said Weinzierl, who is also the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration. During...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap
camp in local, cross-sector collaboration toward the goal of a sustainable future through shared prosperity. When Christy Gillenwater came to YALP in 2018, she was six months into her new job as president and CEO of the Chattanooga...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Kumar Mahadeva
Mahadeva Photo courtesy Cognizant Cognizant Technology Solutions (Nasdaq: CTSH) founder, chairman, and CEO Wijayaraj A. (“Kumar”) Mahadeva explains how his company can help businesses still reeling from “post-bubble hangovers.” “We keep...
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- 15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
well as Ace Foods, which sells African spices. She is also the founder of African Food Changemakers and an expert on African agriculture and nutrition, entrepreneurship, social innovation and youth development; Runa Alam (MBA 1985), a cofounding partner and View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 23 May 2018
- News
Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988
father did not mean that Johnson didn’t have to pay her dues to work at the company. As an equity analyst summer intern, she and her cohort pulled all-nighters before industry reviews. That experience solidified her interest in working at...
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Susan Young