Word: successful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the disappointing finish to the season, however, Harvard came out of the match with its head held high, proud of the season's accomplishments. Having won the Ivy League championship with a perfect 7-0 league record, the Crimson still considers the season a success...
Indeed, Albright's greatest success so far has been to create and then maintain unity among NATO's 19-headed coalition. Every morning she gets up at 6 to begin her daily round of hand-holding phone calls. Some are made from her cozy working office at State, others from her Georgetown home. Sometimes she calls a wavering minister directly to tamp down a renegade plan; at other times she will do a bank shot by having Britain's Robin Cook or Germany's Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer call them. The goal is simple: make sure that no country wavers...
...business world all worked up. "Women business leaders are tremendously important to our company. We market to moms," says Mary Kay Haben, an executive vice president at Kraft Foods. "We rely on the top business schools to help us find the women with a track record of success...
...Women Building Business. "For many women, entrepreneurship is viewed as a way to have a profession where you have some control over your life, which may or may not be true." But working for yourself, unlike landing a top corporate job, doesn't require an M.B.A. Just witness the success of Silicon Valley start-ups led by computer-science grads without a Finance 101 course to their name...
...M.B.A. to use for one of those start-ups after graduation. "The bootstrapping engineers are starting to realize that they need some business sense. The venture capitalists are looking for companies with M.B.A.s from top schools on board," Gray says. "I think M.B.A.s will be a big part of success in the new economy...