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- 13 Dec 2022
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The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
Christine Keung (at podium) and Reginald Smith (both MBA 2020) present recommendations for economic development to the West Virginia State Senate in May 2022. How did you meet? Reggie Smith: "We first met before classes started RC year at a big social event in...
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- 28 May 2019
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In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
battles for traction and respect. “We’ve made progress in Indonesia when it comes to gender equality, but we still have so much work to do,” she says, adding that entrepreneurship is one avenue for achieving equity. Kamdani, who founded the Angel Investment Network...
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- 11 Jul 2017
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The Right Thing to Do
and the 2010 explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia, which killed 39 people. At the time, the company was run by Don Blankenship, a hard-charging CEO who put profit ahead of safety. In the five years before the disaster,...
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- 02 Dec 2010
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Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
like most, failed. But the experience made him curious about the differences between entrepreneurial winners and losers. Having written a book about West Point, he resolved to turn his attention to “the West...
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- 22 May 2017
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Two On-Track Investments
race—often referred to as “the most exciting two minutes in sports”—was won by Always Dreaming, the favorite at the Preakness. Terry Finley (OPM 45, 2014) owns 25 percent of that horse, purchased for $1.25 million. As president and CEO of New York–based View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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One by one, connecting veterans to opportunities
While working as an intern at LinkedIn, Ben Faw (MBA 2014) took advantage of the company’s InDay—an opportunity one day a month at work where one can explore new ideas or volunteer in the community—to support veterans. Faw, a veteran of the Iraq war, worked with Tom...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
based upon international cooperation; the opposite extreme, Haass said, would be a modern Dark Ages of failed states and disharmony. But he speculated that the most likely scenario would be the rise of a Cold War–style competition between the View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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Inside Intel
Field sales was aware of the problem Intel faced, but, according to a sales engineer in the Hauppauge, New York, headquarters of Intel’s Atlantic Region, “the message wasn’t getting through to management on the West Coast.” On November 2,...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Leadership on a Global Stage
When the inaugural West Point All-Academies Asia Summit opens in Singapore on June 25, Ray Jefferson (MBA 2000) will celebrate a personal moment of triumph. For the Summit’s View Details
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- 01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq
1995 West Point graduate and helicopter pilot, Adamouski had been admitted to HBS but had not yet matriculated when he died in the crash of a Black Hawk helicopter (which he was not piloting) on April 2,...
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- 01 Aug 2001
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William F. Connell (MBA '63)
but his achievements over the past fourteen years speak volumes about his skills and vision as a leader. From the vantage point of his sparsely staffed Boston headquarters, for example, he sets the overarching strategy for each firm,...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Poverty and Security
women not wanting to be beaten up, opportunity for their kids” (USA Today, September 27, 2004). Democracy and transparency are not always transferable because of cultural and historical factors, Wolfensohn asserted, but they are “probably not the only system that...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Centennial Goes YouTube
Massachusetts, recounts how as a student he helped establish the first fellowships for those interested in working for nonprofits. Upon hearing Halperin’s idea, an incredulous student protested, “We’re the West View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built
surveyed.) “Apparently HBS wasn’t the West Point of Capitalism,” Stevenson says, “we were actually the incubator of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship was a much more likely career than being a Fortune 500...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Good Odds
altitude. Imperfect Foods sold 40,000 of them. The company was founded with the goal of narrowing the yawning gap between supply and demand in the American food industry. The space is defined by two data points that, taken together, make...
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- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
Services cut the ribbon on its new, modern complex at the corner of Penn and Plymouth Avenues in the predominantly Black neighborhood of North Minneapolis. It was a high point in a journey that began five years earlier, following the...
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- 18 Apr 2022
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Home Grown
Glance, which we are creating right now. We made it large in India first, and then we took it [00:05:00] out into Asia and we see that as a movement of a consumer product making it in the US market. So we actually see, you know, an east to View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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Rival Visions
written himself. He oversaw the conversion of an economy that had long been in depression to one of booming prosperity, and he knew that he himself had been the major contributor to the change. As the historian Richard Sylla has pointed...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Brand New
Rob Sundy (MBA 2004) has an unabashed fondness for Americana. It’s an interest he traces back to an unexpected source: his time as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne. “It’s a historic unit,” says the West View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint
some point change or reinvent the business, it would be history. Every generation of my family went through some kind of a major business crisis. My grandfather started the company in 1906 in China selling chinoiserie goods, porcelain,...
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