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Pranav Kothari
interests. "I was amazed by the infrastructure, how smoothly things functioned here." Impressed both by mechanics and America, Pranav pursued an engineering degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology. There, his curiosity...
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- 27 Apr 2017
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Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
intelligence, but it was a challenge I was willing to take on,” says Strobel, who was assigned to the nuclear sub the USS Georgia after graduating from the US Naval Academy in Annapolis in 2010 and doing a...
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- 13 Feb 2020
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Honoring a Legend
gathering held at the law offices of Morris, Manning & Martin in Atlanta. “We created this award this to recognize a Georgia entrepreneur who has done something significant in their field and made an impact along the way,” says the...
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Margie Kelley
- 22 Mar 2016
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Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George
important to support Harvard Business School on an ongoing basis.” After studying engineering at Georgia Tech, Bill George came to HBS because it was a school for business leaders. Upon earning his MBA, he and six classmates worked for...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
Stacey Abrams didn’t dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Her first small business was a consultancy that she launched out of necessity to supplement her salary as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998)...
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Jen McFarland Flint
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Climate Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
HBS and leverages the expertise of our faculty. Current Climate Fellows Omar Asensio Associate professor in the School of Public Policy; director of the Data Science and Policy Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology View Details
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Lara Hodgson
us out of business,” she recalled. Selling to small boutiques had been simple. Those stores paid immediately with a check or credit card. The large companies, on the other hand, paid anywhere from 30 to 90 days after receiving a...
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- 03 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact
unlikely to speak to people who are very different from us unless there is some sort of mechanism that brings us together.” The work provides a deeper understanding of the importance of physical proximity as...
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by Ben Rand
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
Prevention programs disrupted "The pandemic threatens to dismantle all the gains made in the US in the recent six-year fight against opioids and heroin,” says Jim Langford (HBS MBA 1984), Executive Director of the View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard by Sanjiv Anand (AMP 163, 2002) (Wiley) This is a hands-on guidebook for making strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and maintenance. It outlines the ways in...
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- 31 Jan 2019
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A Global Mission
King Jr. at Selma and spent time at Kolonia Farms, an interracial community in Georgia that was the target of boycotts and violence. “It was a very moving time for me,” DeFehr says now. But when he returned to Canada, he discovered that...
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- 01 Apr 2021
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An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs
this really untapped resource,” she said. “That was something I felt like I wanted to plant my feet in, an industry that had so much room for innovation.” So Shodiya chose to major in aerospace engineering as an undergraduate at Georgia...
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- 22 Feb 2019
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Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
Clubs News Clubs News Ten alumni from the HBS Club of Atlanta spent a day in early February mentoring and coaching 70 middle-schoolers as they learned how to launch a small business. Working with Junior Achievement (JA) of Georgia, the HBS volunteers joined the young...
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- 13 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Trust
It's called TrapGuard—a special kind of floor drain developed by a Georgia company that prevents sewer gases from entering homes. On the great spectrum of innovative products, it's probably not keeping company with the iPod or Segway...
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- 23 Sep 2020
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Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
native of Finland who competed in track on a full scholarship at Georgia Tech before graduating at the top of her class with a degree in Systems Engineering. “The case method teaches you how to think through business situations and come...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame
the right over some of the world's great capitals to host the Games' one-hundredth anniversary. From his sixth floor office, Frazier overlooks the Georgia Dome, an important Games venue, and Ted Turner's Cable News Network headquarters....
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Garry Emmons
- 04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
there's still not a lot in the growth stage. What can we do to fix that? Dodi: Well, that's the million dollar question or billion dollar question. Because also across the board, the landscape has changed from even 10 years ago. We don’t have the number of IPOs that we...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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High Honors
are good at looking after people, and we could all use more looking after.” Franklin P. Johnson Jr., MBA 1952 JOHNSON: At home in Palo Alto. When Pitch Johnson left his position as an assistant superintendent in East Chicago’s Inland...
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- 13 May 2022
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Climate Stories Episode #5: Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader
dated it 2002, three years into the future. I put that check on my vision board, and three years later, I walked into a Bank of America branch in Jonesboro, Georgia and handed it to a teller. I didn’t wind up depositing the check. It was...
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- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
In 2001 it was renamed the Coverdell Education Savings Account program, after the late Georgia senator Paul Coverdell. This is a federal program that allows you to put after-tax earnings into a special ESA account. Returns cumulate...
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by Ann Cullen