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01 Dec 2009

Online Entrepreneur

Re: Diane Hessan (MBA 1977)
Topics: Entrepreneurship-Corporate EntrepreneurshipCompetency and Skills-Experience and ExpertiseCommunication-Communication TechnologyManagement-Business or Company ManagementCustomers-Customer Focus and RelationshipsTechnology-Online TechnologyTechnology-Web Sites
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In September, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce announced that its 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year is Diane Hessan (MBA ’77), president and CEO of Communispace Corporation, a firm that helps companies generate customer insights via online communities. The chamber noted that with the continuing growth of social media as an important business tool, “Communispace offers the only social-networking model with a proven track record of providing real business value and competitive advantage to businesses.” The firm, based in Watertown, Massachusetts, has 210 employees; under Hessan’s leadership, its revenues have grown more than 30 percent annually for each of the last nine years.

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