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- 01 Jan 2012
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Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
Chairman and CEO, Rakuten, Inc. Download Mikitani profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1965 Born, Kobe, Japan 1972 Family moves to United States for two years 1988 Earns commerce degree, Hitotsubashi...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Center facilitated the case “Roblox: Virtual Commerce in the Metaverse” about the free platform where users come together in immersive 3-D experiences. EUROPE RESEARCH CENTER (Paris) Leadership approaches for a sustainable future The...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi
already survived a serious auto accident, became convinced he should run for office after Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and a number of executives died in a plane crash in Croatia in 1996, a flight Checchi missed only because of a...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1997
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L.E. Simmons
The corporate offices of Houston-based L.E. Simmons & Associates, Inc. (the general partner to SCF Partners, L.P.), are located on the 66th floor of the Texas Commerce Tower, the tallest building in the United States outside New York and...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 16 Aug 2018
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Working with a Giver’s Spirit
Philippine tech incubator behind a number of remarkable companies, including Ayannah, which uses social media and mobile platforms to provide digital commerce and payment services to the world’s unbanked; PawnHero, an online pawnshop that...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 11 Oct 2023
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Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
use becomes more mainstream," she says, "hospitals will be seeing this as a service they'll routinely want to offer their patients." —L.G. « Back Virtual Commerce Like the phone or fax, the Internet is now another major tool for...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave
it is turning our land, from sea to shining sea, into a sour jungle, noisy, dirty, gritty, and infinitely depressing.” In MacDonald’s fiction, that inherent tension is front and center when he depicts business and commerce as contributing...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Online Entrepreneur
In September, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce announced that its 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year is Diane Hessan (MBA ’77), president and CEO of Communispace Corporation, a firm that helps companies generate customer insights via...
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- 01 Nov 2013
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Selling Crafts with a Story
many key themes running throughout the online marketplace these days: the maker movement, which highlights handcrafted creativity; sustainable commerce (buying local and getting to know the person behind the piece); online branding ; and...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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Lighten Up
Mead Treadwell (MBA ’82) sees global warming as both a threat to the environment and an opportunity for commerce in the melting North, where conflicting sovereignty and resource claims are heating up, too. The Wise Men For half a century,...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Unlocking mobile money in emerging markets
Monique Maddy (MBA 1993) is focusing her entrepreneurial energies on connecting the world's poor to global commerce through their cell phones. In 2007 she launched Ezuza, a Mexico City–based mobile money company that focuses on the...
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- 22 Jan 2019
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Remembering Walter Shipley
string of successful mergers, including the 1987 Chemical/Texas Commerce Bank deal; the 1991 Chemical/Manufacturers Hanover deal; and the 1995 $10bn deal with Chase, which included the sacrifice of Chemical’s name, even though it was the...
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- 26 Jul 2016
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Alumni Capture the Essence of Pokemon GO Craze
success takes yrs.” Some alumni offered advice, like Jeremy Valeda (PLDA 15, 2013), who said, “I think Pokemon GO needs to leverage their geocaching service with local commerce to monetize the experience.” Cimarron Buser (MBA 1988)...
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Arts, Entertainment
- 06 Jul 2017
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Leadership on a Global Scale
US Chamber of Commerce and Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve that sponsors hiring fairs across the country and resulted in more than 14,000 veterans and military spouses obtaining jobs in the program’s first 18 months. He now...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
anticipate using financial statements to evaluate and pursue opportunities in global commerce and finance. Competing Globally is designed for those who will work as managers, analysts, or consultants to corporations that operate in...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
dealing with commerce partners like Microsoft, IBM, and AT&T." Of course, stress, doubt, and eighty-hour weeks are also part of the picture. "It's hard to keep the feelings you have for family members separate when you're working...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 1999
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Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
commerce came from consumers and small businesses; nine months later, 80 percent of that business was from large to midsized companies and from the federal government. "We now have about 100 million visitors a year to our Web site and we...
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- 18 Apr 2022
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Home Grown
on the planet. So we kind of use that for our own purposes, for sure. There is a transaction model because we have creators bringing their entertainment and their art on the lock screen. And they’re also selling on the lock [00:08:00] screen, you know, it’s a life...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
technology to promote land registration and security, improving access to capital, and creating a more efficient judicial system. Tanzania, 2008–2013. Investments of $698 million (the largest MCC commitment to date) will improve roads, thus increasing View Details