Many of the alumna reported having felt more comfortable at HBS encouraged to speak up in class, for example than in previous decades.

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The Harvard alumna made his fortune betting against the housing market before the market crashed, and is bearish on housing again.

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Many of the House Democratic women in Maine are Emerge alumna as is Jessica King, Senator-Elect in the WI State Senate.

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Police and dozens of volunteers hiked into the cold mountains for a second day Thursday to search for Emerson, a University of Georgia alumna, Verdone said.

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Barchi also announced that Rutgers alumna Kate Sweeney, a senior vice president and certified financial planner with Morgan Stanley, and Richard Edwards, executive vice president for academic affairs, will co-chair the search for the new athletic director.

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One Televerde alumna got her M.

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Natalia Oberti Noguera, a longtime advocate and the founder of the Pipeline Fellowship, perhaps the first in the game to recruit and educate women about becoming angel investors (it should be noted that Angela Lee is a notable alumna), agrees.

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