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Tanzania´s New VAT tax on Tourism could Potentially Slowdown an Otherwise Thriving East African Country by German Peralta On July 2016, President John Pombe Magufuli of Tanzania imposed an 18% VAT tax on tourism activities, a sector that was previously tax exempt and was one of the primary drivers of the country´s accelerated GDP growth. […]

Combining Passions in Pursuit of a Dream by Ana Kalugina, MBA ’17, MPS ’17, Environmental Finance and Impact Investing Fellow Every great journey begins with a step, and with enough of them, you can run a marathon. My hope is that the past two years will lead to an ever-fulfilling finish. In deciding between graduate […]

Scaling up for sustainable solutions When Ian Kline became CEO of the Cadmus Group in 2007, the government consultancy was small and best known for its work on drinking water issues. With about 100 employees, it had $30 million in revenue, 92 percent of it from the Environmental Protection Agency. Ten years later, Cadmus has […]

Christian M. Miller, MBA ’85: Full Glass Research, WineOpinions.com by Dick Anderson Christian Miller has the heart of a sommelier and the soul of an entrepreneur. After a couple years as an operations analyst at Merrill Lynch in the 1980s, “I impulsively jumped into the wine industry, first as a wine steward at Windows on […]

Michael J. Fallquist, MBA ’04: Viridian Energy, Crius Energy by Dick Anderson In 2009, Michael Fallquist founded Viridian Energy in Stamford, Conn., with the vision of creating “the first friends-and-family-focused green energy company focused on selling sustainability.” By going into deregulated electricity markets, buying energy wholesale from clean sources such as wind and solar power, […]

Matt Ronen, MBA ’11: ServiceCorps by Dick Anderson As a senior at Colorado College in 2004, Matt Ronen felt compelled to pursue a service year before settling down professionally. He even wrote a business plan for a partnership between companies and nonprofits that would create a service “gap year” between college and career. His professor […]

Deirdre Monroe, MBA ’90 Unlike most of us, Deirdre Monroe can’t share war stories from work. “I can’t talk about the bulk of what I did,” she says, because it involved “issues of importance to national security.” A research and development engineer for the Weapon Systems Engineering Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Monroe […]

Wai-Leong Chan ’83, MEng ’84, MBA ’85 Wai-Leong Chan decided to launch an executive search firm when he saw an opportunity to establish a collegial, pan-Asian search firm to better serve Western clients. A Malaysian who has lived in Singapore since 1985, Chan worked for seven years at search firm Spencer Stuart before he and […]

Gary Fassak ’76, MBA ’78 Gary Fassak enjoys helping businesses grow and prosper by sharing his extensive management and marketing expertise as a member of Chief Outsiders, a company comprising more than 50 part-time, or fractional, chief marketing officers (CMO) for hire. “The work is challenging and exciting,” he says. “You need to quickly develop […]