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Malia Lewis (4) kisses her new baby brother, Nathan McDonald Bush Lewis, born to Hillary Bush ‘90 and Wayne Lewis on May 3, 2011.
Alumni ruggers Tad Renvyle ’92, Mike Daoust ’92, Bill Eaton (Middlebury), and Brian Farnham ’93 at the USA Sevens Las Vegas Rugby Tournament in February.
John Harthorne ’95 Hometown: Wayland, MA
John Harthorne ’95 (left) was invited to the White House at the end of January to kick off President Obama’s Start-up America initiative that promotes the launch of domestic high-growth businesses. Pictured with John (l to r) are Nishith Acharya, Ken Morse, and Akhil Nigam.
headmaster at Kents Hill School in Kents Hill, Maine, effective July 1, 2011. Prior to his appointment at Kents Hill, Jeremy was Head of Senior School at Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh. From a Kents Hill news release, December 16, 2010.
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Warren Harthorne ’53 wrote in February that his son, John had been invited to the White House at the end of January to kick off President Obama’s Start-up America initiative that promotes the launch of domestic high-growth businesses.
Title: Founder & CEO, MassChallenge Inc. Website: www.masschallenge.org Greatest influence: The people I met at MIT when getting my MBA from the Sloan School of Management. A lot of the other students were working on addressing major global challenges…and they were making tangible progress toward solving them. That exposure to big thinkers and big doers changed my perspective on what is possible. Most rewarding part of my job: Working with passionate entrepreneurs. At MassChallenge, we help entrepreneurs win. We identify the world’s highest-potential startups and we help connect them with the resources they need to launch and succeed immediately.
Greatest accomplishment: Building MassChallenge up so rapidly has been very challenging, and is my proudest accomplishment to date. We are helping to catalyze a renaissance in the American economy, and I am very proud of that. The key to creating jobs in Massachusetts: Startups are the only way to create jobs. The Kauffman Foundation released a report in July of 2009 demonstrating this pretty clearly. In an average year, the startup category produced roughly 3 million net new jobs while the established businesses destroyed about 2 million. We need to innovate to create and serve new markets. I can’t live without: Oxygen, water, beer, Red Sox baseball…my family members are pretty important too.
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