Many of these "dot-com" companies, he says, have underdeveloped management teams and might benefit from employing students with a general liberal arts educations.
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Six Harvard students and alumni will lead the panel discussion. They are Richard M. Powell '01,
founder of Fuxito.com; Nick Mehta '98, founder of Chipshot.com; Ben Choi '98, senior associate of Zefer; MaSoba executive Clarence Mah '92,; Leverett House tutor Rami Armon of MyBestHealth.com; Michael Wertheim '95, marketing manager of SmarterLiving.com; and Steve Papa, a Harvard Business School graduate and creator of
Optigrab.com.
For Daniel Saul '95, whose company SmarterLiving.com will be represented at the event, today's seminar is an acknowledgement of the legitimacy of working for a start-up company.
Saul says he took a job as a management consultant after graduating from Harvard, but eventually decided to pursue his website hobby as a full-time career option.
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