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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS to Host Venture Capital Forum for Women
growth strategy. The HBS conference is the third in a national series of forums. The first two were held in Virginia and in Silicon Valley. At the latter gathering, 26 women made presentations that raised over $165 million in capital....
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- 28 May 2019
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What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)
state agency. “Mega Millions is run as a consortium by 11 member states: Georgia oversees the televised drawings, for example, while Virginia handles the money transfers between states, based on where the winner lives. That’s carried over...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Action Plan: Happy Honey
“Everyone gets to be an undertaker,” he says, pointing through a windowed hive at a bee dragging away a dead peer. Price has been spreading his love of honeybees for 10 years through his Sweet Virginia Foundation, which is dedicated to...
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Amy Rogers Nazarov
- 10 Apr 2012
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A Winning Formula
others—that he finds in northern Virginia and Washington DC. Because the area is not as tech-focused or as awash in VC funding as Silicon Valley, he said, “Our entrepreneurs have to be scrappier.” Ramos, who grew up in Drexel Hill,...
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- 07 Jun 2011
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Back to the Future
on an automated mail-flow system for the postal service when he started thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive over roads but also attach to computer-controlled track networks. A version of his idea was adapted in the 1960s and is still in...
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- 30 Jan 2009
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What’s It Worth to You?
memory of her husband, a fireman who died at the World Trade Center, by judging him to be worth less than a banker. (A few years later, as special master after the Virginia Tech massacre, Feinberg compensated all victims equally.)...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
Robin Gregg (MBA 2002) grew up in the West Virginia town of Martinsburg, 15 minutes from the midpoint of the Appalachian Trail. “Most of the people I looked up to were doctors, lawyers, or teachers, so it’s funny that I ended up in business,” she says. One of five...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
A professor of management at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia and a leading expert on design thinking, Jeanne Liedtka (MBA 1981) helps people make better decisions through experimentation. The concept...
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- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
centuries from now. As cofounder of the Northern Virginia Conservation Trust, Coady has helped to conserve almost 4,000 acres of the peninsula, creating the Crow’s Nest Natural Area Preserve, a popular destination for hikers, kayakers,...
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April White
- 16 Nov 2015
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Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
providers along the Atlantic seaboard. He eventually made his home in Virginia with Eagan, who had begun studying plant spirit medicine (similar to traditional Chinese acupuncture, except that it relies on plant relationships for...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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Short Takes
popular among youths (Marlboro, Newport, Camel, Kool, and Winston) with that of brands smoked almost exclusively by adults (Salem, Virginia Slims, Benson & Hedges, Parliament, Merit, Capri, and Kent) in 39 of the nation's...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Feb 2001
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New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
many black students to attend the School. Fitzhugh retired from Pepsi in 1974 but remained active with the company and within the community for many years. He was recognized for his achievements with numerous awards, including honorary doctoral degrees from Howard...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs
'75) ((Amazon Digital Services)) Frank Batten: The Untold Story of the Founder of the Weather Channel by Connie M. Sage ((University of Virginia Press)) Smarter Branding without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can...
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- 25 Jun 2014
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A Man on a Mission
filled with educational endeavors, most of which involve getting kids of all ages excited about STEM subjects and entrepreneurship. Earls has led an unlikely, if inspiring, life considering his roots. He grew up in the Virginia Tidewater...
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- 19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues
on a Tuesday at 2 p.m., who’s going to show up?” Agora, the online platform Sze launched last year, offers a place for citizens to interact with their elected representatives using everything from message boards to streaming video chats. Response has been global, with...
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Dan Morrell
- 02 Apr 2014
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Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
science and engineering. But those paths never felt like quite the right fit. "Since high school, I had done volunteer work with homeless kids and vulnerable children and domestic violence victims," she says. "Somehow, that really spoke to me." When she graduated from...
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- 19 Feb 2020
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Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
type of widespread and growing interest in climate change mitigation that Congressman Donald S. Beyer of Virginia has been hoping to see. The co-chair of the New Democrat Coalition’s Climate Change Task Force, Beyer has made the...
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April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
Appointed CEO of Seattle-based Virginia Mason in 2000, Kaplan steps into a low-morale environment of increasing competition from area hospitals and decreasing revenues. In 1998 and 1999, the medical center lost many millions of dollars,...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs
Channel by Connie Sage (University of Virginia Press) Among his many accomplishments, the late Frank Batten Sr. (MBA 1952) created the Weather Channel in 1982, which became the largest private weather company in the world and an American...
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- 28 May 2019
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Cure All
starting to think that there might be some intentionality. Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle is famous for having done a lean transformation that completely changed how the hospital is run. That type of transformation takes years. It...
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