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- 01 Oct 2001
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Peter W. Olson: By the Book
find time to do it," he says simply, pulling a bookmarked copy of Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song off his desk. "Sometimes, in a rare quiet moment, I'll close my door and read." —Julia Hanna
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Endless Possibilities
Faye Iosotaluno (MBA 2008) met her husband through friends when she was only 19 years old. It was 1999, and the mobile-first app Tinder—which launched in 2012 and where Iosotaluno is currently COO—was not even a distant glimmer on the dating horizon. While the app...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Action Plan: Life Study
Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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A Juicy Story
from its name in January 2007. Future revisions of the case will reflect this change in the title, as well as offering the latest update on one of high-tech’s best stories. — Julia Hanna Contact the author...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Building a Social Network
coauthor and YPO member Macomber states, “We understood that we can use our experience with the YPO Forum to reach across to other people who are vastly different and see what we can do in common. We know how to communicate; we have the money and political influence....
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- 01 Dec 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor
Cedric Bobo (MBA 2004) was bitten by the business bug at the age of eight, when he visited his mother, who was a secretary at FedEx’s Memphis office. “I was drawn to the creative, all-hands-on-deck energy of the place,” he says. “In 1983,...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Taking Flight
office in Naples, Florida. Despite his full-time schedule, Thayer says that he doesn’t feel like he’s working. His advice to other alumni who are thinking of making a career change: “Do something you would be happy to do every day for free.” — View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Eric Schiffer
think people were emptying the bottles for the redemption value. However, a buyer who has never made a mistake is not a good buyer. You have to take chances in this business. We like to say we don’t have to go to Las Vegas because we buy for the 99. — View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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Michael Depatie
partners, and thinking about cash flow and how it works over five years do you buy this property or don’t buy that property? I always wanted to build a brand and a sustainable organization. This is the job I’ve always wanted since I was a kid. Now I’ve got it, and I’m...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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On Credit
Illustration by Eduardo Recife The large tome looks its age, which is roughly 160 years old. Bound in leather, an average page, of which there are about 800 in the volume, includes almost 100 eye-blurring lines of pen-and-ink script. It’s...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Slum for Sale
slum as defined by the United Nations: inadequate access to safe water and sanitation, poorly built housing, overcrowding, and insecure residential status (i.e., most people hold no legal title to their property). Despite these difficult...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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In My Humble Opinion: Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011)
INTO THE BLUE: Virts, poised for a space-walk training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory near Johnson Space Center. (Photos by NASA) An astronaut with NASA since 2000, Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011) piloted the space shuttle...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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3-Minute Briefing: Jeetendr Sehdev (MBA 2004)
(photo by Christina Gandolfo) Growing up in Bristol, England, I went to a very strict private boys’ school. But when I was 10 years old, my father took me on a trip to Los Angeles. Even though I was a child, I intuitively understood the...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal
photo by Christina Gandolfo photo by Christina Gandolfo Dan Rosenfeld (MBA 1979) witnessed the birth of the modern environmental movement while growing up in Portland, Oregon, an experience that has shaped...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
are always evolving.” Retail 101: “One of my longest-held jobs as a teenager was working in the menswear department at the local Sears. We all wore shirts and ties and knew our customers by name. Tough to watch it close, and a great...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Digging Deep
Above: Pieper, shovel-ready in Moab, Utah (photo by Vance Jacobs) On a wintry day three years ago, Susan Pieper (MBA 1992) watched her son, a devoted snowboarder, build jumps in the backyard of their Jackson, Wyoming, home, trashing a...
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- 22 Oct 2018
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Capital Murder
that he wrote emails for work. But what she’d said planted a seed that would become The Perfect Candidate, a young adult thriller published this month by Simon and Schuster that centers on Cameron Carter, a recent high school graduate who...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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3-Minute Briefing: Michelle Ross (MBA 2011)
Math and science were always a part of me. And I’m the oldest child in my family, too, so I don’t want to say that I like to boss people around—but it came more naturally to me to delegate. Kettering University had a co-op program, so as I earned my degree in...
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- 20 Jun 2008
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Risk and Reward
Like many horse racing fans, I was disappointed when Big Brown met defeat at the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, June 7. After the bay colt’s impressive wins in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, railbirds were hopeful that he would be the first horse in thirty years to win...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)
As a Marine, I led some of the first units in Afghanistan and Iraq. What I loved about that experience was the intersection of a mission with building and leading teams. I came to HBS to develop the tools around that work, but in a very different context. On the...
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