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- 01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People
pianist. Meeting with colleagues at Baupost. Enjoying a Red Sox game with his wife, Beth. For 30 years, Seth Klarman has exercised an investment strategy of evaluating businesses based on their worth and of seeking out bargains. “It’s...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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You Only Thought You Were Republican
Gilbert (estimated net worth even higher, in undisclosed currencies) — which are not really their net worths, but that’s how I feel sitting there amongst them, technically “the moderator,” but truly “the rounding error.” I am doing this...
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- 11 Oct 2022
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On Balance
Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) recalls a job interview early in her career in which the interviewer asked, “Why should I employ you? At your age, you’re just going to go off and have children.” At another position, she recruited a younger man to join the company, only to...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2012
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Putting Ghosts to Rest
which approach makes the most sense. From the cows to the co-ops, many of the programs I saw in Rwanda are risky and difficult to implement. But the social return I believe is worth the risk, and we need to...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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Empowering women to lead
Public Policy, Hood asks students to consider—in an era where women are achieving at rates higher than ever before—why are there so few women leaders at the highest levels of decision-making? Her class combines leadership theory with women's history, View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
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HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
Partners, the social enterprise track winner, plans to create a for-profit education management company operating charter and contract K–12 public schools. “Winning was very affirming and gave us a renewed...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Better than Cash
area, having served more than 250 nonprofits and providing consulting services worth approximately $1.5 million annually, says HBSA/NC president Sean Jacobsohn (MBA ’98). Nonprofits across the country are under increasing pressure to...
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- 27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward
Photos by Rafael Monroy Daphne Leger (MBA 2012) did not enroll in business school to maximize profits, but rather to maximize social impact. “I firmly believe that business has a key role to play in solving View Details
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2011
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Whale Wars
be extinct or not worth fishing. Most of the larger fish types we know — monkfish, swordfish, tuna, and cod — are at the point of collapse. By 2050, if nothing changes, all the fish will be gone. Gone. I had no idea. This isn’t about our...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Power Trip
have to say that social and/or economic class is still important. Part of the widening gap in America between rich and poor relates to access to education. There are communities where 95 percent of the kids go to college and others where...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Prof’s Dream Comes True
option of purchasing savings bonds with tax refunds, 3,025 low-income tax filers bought 5,004 bonds worth $630,000, says Timothy Flacke, D2D executive director. “We can’t wait to see how many people buy bonds now that President Obama has...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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The Right Connections
that it has a good product and that it can bring favorable returns to investors," she says. "But that's just part of the package. It must also assemble a management team that brings a combination of influential and complementary affiliations to the table." View Details
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2018
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What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
it’s consistent from company to company.” Her new COO role at Code for America, a San Francisco–based nonprofit dedicated to improving civic tech and “strengthening America’s basic social safety net,” has proven this maxim true. “I...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC). Whitehead is also the founder of HBS’s Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), dedicated to generating and sharing knowledge that helps organizations and individuals create View Details
- 27 Mar 2023
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A Sporting Chance
It would be a much sexier story, says Jorge Perez de Leza (MBA 1996), if he told people he was trampled by a raging bull, but the truth is that the fall that had such a profound effect on his life was a much more mundane event. "It was just a really stupid accident,"...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2011
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New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
2011 host clubs Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship winner Student Business Plan winners Business Plan competition turns 15 In the throwaway graveyard where once trendy TVs, smartphones, and laptops go to become junk, Privahini Bradoo (MBA...
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- 29 Jan 2021
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Holding Business to Account
before the model Aiyer envisioned would be christened “impact investing,” she launched Walden Capital Management in 1994 to pursue these dual goals of financial return and social change on behalf her clients. Following Walden’s...
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- 28 May 2019
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INK: Maker’s Manual
worth the resources they might require and the money we might spend and the time we devote to using them. You write that being an entrepreneur is more about tenacity than intellect. Was that something you always knew you had? I knew I had...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do
preserved, Bailey believes, because it is the right thing to do. And done right, it will be transformational. “Ultimately the tourist is the agent of change,” says Bailey. “When a tourist decides that a sustainability-enhanced experience is unique and View Details
- 12 Dec 2022
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HBS Alumni Named to 2022 Worthy 100
Several HBS alumni have been named to Worth magazine's 2022 Worthy 100, a collection of people "who have made the most significant impact on the world this year." The HBS alumni honored include Mike Bloomberg (MBA 1966); Citi CEO Jane Fraser (MBA 1994); Boundless CEO...
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