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- 07 Nov 2018
- News
A Market-Based Approach to Solving the World’s Water Crisis
Jennifer Tisdel Schorsch (MBA 1992) is president of Water.org, a Kansas City–based nonprofit dedicated to bringing safe water and sanitation to the world through market-driven initiatives. In this interview she discusses the way the...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Martin V. Marshall Remembered
urging of his first wife, Rosanne Borden (HRPBA ’52), spearheaded the effort in the early 1960s to open the two-year MBA Program to women. Martin Vivan Marshall was born on July 22, 1922, in Kansas City, Missouri. He would later say that...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
buck the odds, and to succeed where others have failed is truly remarkable." First presented 24 years ago, the Uhlmann Award has been offered to HBS students by several generations of the Uhlmann family of Kansas City, Missouri -- most...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
University Elections
’75, Syracuse University. Director, Dollenmayer Communications. Washington, DC. Cheryl L. McAfee-Mitchell, MAUD ’81; B.Arch. ’79, Kansas State University. President and Principal, Charles F. McAfee Architects, Planners, and Program...
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- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
have many entrepreneurial friends in traditional industries here in the Kansas City area. Indeed, I believe there are many entrepreneurial opportunities in the Midwest and Southwest but because they're related to industries such as grain,...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Benjamin (MBA 1969) Kansas City, MO Cities and Climate Change Thank you for the article “The City Solution” in the September Bulletin. Work like this gets people thinking more about the critical challenges we face. It’s up to cities...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
Romney's (MBA '74) 1994 U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts. Scott recently became one of ten recipients of a national, postgraduate internship awarded by the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, which will allow her to spend two years...
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Susan Young
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
complements 609-043, "Intel NBI: Intel Corporation's New Business Initiatives," and 609-102, "Intel NBI: Intel Corporation's New Business Initiatives (B)." It is one of the failed ventures cited in those cases. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
HBS, A Dream and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise
great school, period.However, my luck in choosing Kansas doesn’t mean my time as a collegiate student-athlete was easy. Far from it. Did you know that the average Division I athlete spends nearly 40 hours per week on athletic commitments?...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
chances. "Moviegoing is embedded in the American social fabric," he says during a conversation at AMC's Theatre Support Center (the company's corporate headquarters) in Leawood, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. "We provide the...
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- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
Vermont may not be that important to a senator in Kansas, where there are fewer forests," Cohen explains. "If they can do some kind of vote trading between them on that logging bill, then the Vermont senator can do the Kansas senator a...
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- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
and darmody1 nominated Alan Mulally as a candidate. Mulally completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Kansas and an SM degree from the Sloan Program at MIT. FAQ proposed Marc Benioff of Salesforce and Satya Nadella of...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
of successful investment in the inner city that Porter has written about are Sprint and Walgreens. In Missouri, Sprint decided to locate a new call center in a struggling section of downtown Kansas City and provide job training for nearby...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
ventured into Kansas City and Chicago. But that meant marketing under a different name — another of Rogers’ many war stories. A year after Rogers and Cronk bought Dreyer’s, a lawyer from Kraft Foods, owner at the time of nationally...
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- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
in the 1960s, with research done here in Boston. Stanley Milgram, the renowned social psychologist, randomly chose people from phone books out of Kansas and Nebraska and asked them to forward a letter to a friend of his in Boston through...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
best locations to generate it are far from the densely populated areas that need it. Wind-generated electricity traveling from western Kansas to St. Louis, for example, loses up to 15 percent of its energy en route. The Grain Belt...
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- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
of Kansas City) The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet as a Financial-Stability Tool By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—We argue that the Federal Reserve should use its balance sheet to help reduce a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Lawrence, KS REASON FOR SERVING: I grew up in Kansas and, as a first-generation college student, I had few options for leaving the state. The Navy graciously welcomed me, giving me an opportunity to carve a new path...
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- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
Student Status: RC Where are you from? Domestic: from all over! Professional pathway pre-HBS: I went to college in the Midwest and I was in undergrad when I had my son. After graduating, I worked in user experience designing software for a View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
the Land Institute, a nonprofit committed to developing sustainable agricultural models. He's busier than ever, teaching at Creighton and collaborating with University of Kansas ethnobotanist Kelly Kindscher on a project studying the...
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