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...from what Derek White and Michael Keane imagined when they started digging up the addresses of repossessed houses to sell to Santa Barbara, Calif., real estate agents back in 1996. The idea came from White, an agent who knew the value of listing leads; the methodology, from Keane, a computer programmer, who wanted to use a new thing called the Internet. In 2000, James Saccacio, a onetime corporate banker who had been doing turnaround work, took over as CEO. "What intrigued me about the business were the natural barriers to entry," he says. "I asked people, Could someone do this...
...moved on to discuss why interim President Derek C. Bok decided to recommend the change to the Harvard Corporation in 2007, citing the efforts of the Undergraduate Council and the support of the Harvard schools outside of the Faculty...
...universities. But both the composition of the group he works for and the environment of college football have shifted since Orleans took office. The presidents, who once so strongly opposed involvement at the highest level of college football, and the playoffs are gone, including Harvard’s own Derek Bok, one of the most vocal opponents of playoffs for the Ivy League. President Faust is on the search committee for a new executive director, although she has given no hints as to who the league might select or her own views on the place (or risks) of football...
...Stone ’09 of Adams House, Brieana P. B. Marticorena ’09 of Cabot House, Devin D. Smith ’09 of Currier House, Sheila C. Lee ’09 of Eliot House, Ricky B. Shah ’09 of Lowell House, Derek N. Jones ’09 of Mather House, Seema Amble of Quincy House, and Jeffrey Kwong ’09 of Winthrop House. —Staff writer Charles J. Wells can be reached at wells2@fas.harvard.edu...
...Derek tracked me down over Facebook before I even came here,” says Tyler G. Hall ’11, producer, episode director, writer, and assistant technical director of the show. “He’s very convincing,” Hall says...