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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
to "double the vase life," she says, of regular florist fare. The idea for the business (whose name refers to botanical flower terms) first sprouted, Owades recalls, "when I noticed that the wholesale flower market in San View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Partner U.S. Venture Partners Bowes Jr. After founding U.S. Venture Partners in San Francisco in 1981, Bill Bowes helped shape companies such as Sun Microsystems, Callaway Golf, Applied Biosystems, and Ross...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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Investing in Innovation
campus for all alumni in the Greater Boston region on April 26, followed by events in San Francisco and Los Angeles in June. "This campaign gives us new opportunities to connect with our alumni," Hess noted....
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built
natural curiosity was encouraged by his parents (and by a memorable high-school teacher), and as a child who had had glimpses of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., Stevenson recalls, “I was desperate to get...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
discipline at an early stage. Certainly we’re glad now that we spent all that time focusing on the plan itself and on the basic economics of the business.” After graduation, the group headed to San Francisco...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
steam-powered cable car in San Francisco in the 1870s inaugurated the era of street railways in urban areas (it also spared horses the burden of pulling heavy loads up and down the city’s steep roads)....
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind
It’s just another picture-perfect day in downtown San Mateo, California, a city that walks the line between high-tech polish and down-home simplicity tucked between San View Details
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- 12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
UHaul from Boston to San Francisco and we showed up in the summer of 2009 knowing basically nobody with an idea. Ten years later we have a real company with over a thousand people around the world and we...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
years of working for other biotechnology companies, Susan Glasser has achieved her dream and opened her own research laboratory in the San Francisco Bay area. After numerous unsuccessful trials, she has...
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- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
The choice is that we live in the Marina in San Francisco and we have health insurance and I work for Goldman Sachs—and people would give their left arm in this economy to have this job.” And she said, “Oh,...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged
are driving electric adoption While electrification of SUVs and light trucks remains a challenge, some of the very largest people movers have already made the leap. Ryan Popple (MBA 2006), CEO of Proterra (and former senior director of finance at Tesla), a View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
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MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
100 entrepreneurs show up in Cabarete, to share ideas and work on some things. We have components of what we do, that our charity environmentally-based and technology-based. One of the projects I'm trying to put together for August, we're here in the View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
they’re not hiding. They’re at major institutions around the country—some of them at historically black colleges but others at state universities. DARDEN: Roy and I went on our first recruitment trip to mainly white schools—Stanford, UC Berkeley, and View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible
number of organizations,” explains Tierney. “More foundations and businesspeople are entering the sector, and we’re seeing increased emphasis on a nonprofit organization’s ability to deliver excellent and sustained results.” Since its inception in Boston, the...
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