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After failing to turn in the paperwork necessary to appear on the ballot for November’s Cambridge City Council election, five-term incumbent Councillor Marjorie C. Decker is attempting to become the first candidate in recent history to wage a successful write-in campaign.On Wednesday, Decker, a Cambridge native, sent an e-mail to supporters asking for backing and donations and explaining her sticker campaign, which distributes stickers with her name on them so that voters can affix them to ballots.In addition to hiring an attorney to ensure that all goes smoothly on and after election day, Decker...
Venture capitalist Jeffrey J. Bussgang ’91, former industrial executive James M. Sharpe, and nonprofit and private equity specialist Jeffrey C. Walker will join Decker at HBS for the duration of the school year...
...school announced the appointment of the entrepreneurs, including former Yahoo! Inc. President Susan L. Decker, in a statement last week. The appointments represent a significant increase in the size of the six-year-old residency program, which has had only one annual participant in past years...
Each of the entrepreneurs has a strong connection to the Business School. Several ran companies that were the subject of HBS case studies. In addition, Bussgang had been a HBS Business Plan Contest judge and Decker had served on an advisory board for HBS’s Silicon Valley research center. Roberts said that the Rock Center chose alumni who have demonstrated an interest in both entrepreneurship...
...compound. They were told that the jungles on the sides of the road were still littered with mines and other ordnance; red skull-and-crossbones signs drove the message home. Still, the pilgrims arrived in the tens of thousands, in vans, buses, trucks, public transport, an old British double-decker bus, some in tuk-tuks, the three-wheeler rickshaws that traverse the island. At the shrine, the faint but constant hum of prayers and hymns rose above the rustling of pilgrims' feet. Large piles of slippers, sandals and an assortment of shoes of every nature accumulated by the doors outside...