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- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Are You Sure Diamonds Are Forever?
- 29 Jun 2017
- News
Ketumile Masire, Who Shaped and Led a Vibrant Botswana, Dies at 91
- 07 Aug 2015
- News
SoulCycle: You Say ‘Cult.’ I Say ‘Loyal Customer Base.’
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
records and community graveyards. Stanley Diamond (MBA 1958) traces his own interest in ancestry back to this era. In 1977, Diamond’s nephew Mark Diamond (MBA 1978) was diagnosed as a carrier of beta...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
Ngoyi at the Fund for Export Development in Africa: creating sustainable development at scale. (Courtesy of Marlene Ngoyi) Born in Brussels to Congolese parents and raised in Gabon, Marlene Ngoyi (MBA 2009) has lived and worked in countries including Guatemala, the...
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- 04 Apr 2019
- News
Promoting Diversity at Sundance and Beyond
Brickson Diamond (MBA 1999) was in the midst of a successful career in investment management with the $1.7 trillion Capital Group Companies when he cofounded the Blackhouse Foundation, a nonprofit aimed at advancing the careers of...
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- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
Brickson Diamond (MBA 1999) has never been one to, as he puts it, “just sit back and wait for progress to happen.” His role as cofounder and chair of the Blackhouse Foundation is a case in point. The organization took shape in 2006 after...
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Deborah Blagg
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Connecting Past and Present
Family health was the impetus for Stanley Diamond (MBA 1958), founder of one of the world’s largest genealogy resources. “My family carries the beta thalassemia genetic trait,” a blood disorder. When my nephew was diagnosed, and we then...
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- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
Photography by Owen Egan Stanley Diamond (MBA 1958) was thinking about the health of future generations of his family when he went searching for records of his relatives in Poland. Prompted by the diagnosis of his nephew, Mark View Details
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Jill Radsken
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
with the management team at the time, to scale back all of those businesses, focus on the diamond in the rough that we had within our midst, the Dunkin’ Donuts business, polish that up, standardize the format, standardize the menu, the...
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leadership;
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operations;
career;
Food and Beverage Stores;
Retail Trade
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
The Next Big Swing
Oscar-nominated 2011 adaption of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball. But well before baseball stats went Hollywood, Tippett was quietly turning industry heads with something decidedly less flashy: a graphics-light, stat-heavy computer baseball simulation game called View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
original pilot for CBS (“a comedic drama about a woman who is a lawyer and a doctor and manages to practice both”) and completing a rewrite of a pilot for Bravo set in the diamond trade. Best fuel for a marathon writing session: “The...
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- 18 Jan 2022
- News
HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
the school and graduated in 2003. “This was the first college in Georgia founded by former slaves, and has a strong connection to the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Its mission is to be ‘a haven for all souls.’ It takes students who are View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
quite a few of America’s financial and business elite. Repeat business and referrals make up the majority of customers for his firm’s rare gemstones, with most sales averaging between $50,000 and $150,000. Birnbaum tells of one prospective client in the market for a...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Chris F. Liebenberg (100th AMP), chairman of Nedcor, a major South African banking group, and Michael Levett, chairman of Old Mutual, an insurance firm. Nedcor and Old Mutual are both diamond sponsors of the conference. Finally, an...
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
receiving illegally mined diamonds in exchange. RUF rebels took U.N. peacekeepers hostage in Sierra Leone, and the United States threatened to impose sanctions over Taylor's relationship with the RUF. Meanwhile, Liberia's northern border...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
Administration. “The person who can go out and find the diamond gets the highest return.” Once they do, students present their idea—a stock pitch—to an actual hedge fund manager who is invited to each class to offer critiques. “They...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Erica Diamond demo the "modlet" View a list of alumni working in green industry What does it mean to be green? It’s a trendy color these days, but over the years HBS alumni have demonstrated a long-standing commitment to environmental...
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