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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
people the Americans were talking to—in the push to rid the world of the threat of the Islamic State. You depict street-by-street battles and larger, strategic operations in vivid detail, giving readers a real sense of place. Can you tell... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
And thanks to the people he got to know while serving, he believes veterans hold a key part of the solution to the current hyperpolarization and lack of civility in American politics. Barcott has established a federally registered,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
the region, compared with about 20 percent in Mercosur, the South American trade group. Not only have politics stood in the way of gains from collaboration between Israeli and Arab firms, but cooperation even among Arab companies has been... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
realized, of course, that I'd have to look abroad, since there were none here in America. How did you prepare for such a far-reaching endeavor? I called upon friends and friends of friends to put me in touch with people who could train me for the task, as View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Chu speak at the inaugural HBS Latin American conference in 1995 during as a second-year MBA, Rodríguez took his first post-HBS job working for Chu at Accion, accompanying loan officers into the field everywhere from Ecuador to Brooklyn.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
Illustration by Richard Downs, Theispot.com When I was in sixth grade, I used to spend recess hiding under a truck in a garage at school. One of the few Caucasian students enrolled in what was my "neighborhood" school—on a Native American... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
Carroll Illustration by Dennis Balogh Founded as a gold mining company in 1917 in South Africa by Ernest Oppenheimer (with help from Herbert Hoover and J. P. Morgan), Anglo American plc is the world’s fourth-largest diversified mining... View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
program in the 1960s to his role today as president and CEO of Pioneer Group, which creates affordable housing through the renovation and preservation of historic buildings in the American Midwest. Freeman grew up in a small Kansas town,... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
youngest, the blackest, the only female in so many different environments. So, for example, when I went to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, I was a business major. And I remember being only one of less than 10 African View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
knew she was onto something when her son started snagging Luvo meals from the freezer after school. “This is a space where the consumer is actually ahead of the food industry,” Day says. “We have the opportunity to disrupt the whole frozen-food aisle.” Day is View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
Education Is the Key
Committee, and he became increasingly involved with HBS. His experiences at the School helped him to benchmark what constitutes an outstanding business school. “I came to see education as the key to success for any country,” says Haddad, who now heads a company that... View Details
- 25 Aug 2016
- News
Announcing the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
University President Drew Faust explained, “Issues that people care deeply about—their safety, their job prospects, their health, their schools, and their pocketbooks—are often shaped largely by local policies. As more and more people around the world live in... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
Our experience shows, however, that if that sector is provided breathing room for a period of time and is well managed, it can recover and become strong." Stewart cites his firm's representation of companies or workers in four industries... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
Despite increased attention to public education in recent years, today’s schools are still not producing graduates equipped to meet the demands of the 21st-century economy, many business leaders contend. Most Americans seem to agree.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
War II, tracing the decentralizing effects of the draft, rationing, and Ferdinand Eberstadt's Controlled Materials Plan. Also included are overview chapters on the impact of women and African Americans on business, as View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
database.” Diamond’s own family tree now has 14,000 entries, but JRI-Poland’s work stretches beyond individual family historians like himself: it has provided research for the American television shows Finding Your Roots (PBS) and Who Do... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Guitar Hero
(MBA '79) is a genuine guitar hero. Because of his managerial chops, a legendary American guitar company, once almost silenced by insolvency, has lived to play on. Founded in 1894, the Gibson Guitar Corp. had lately been singing nothing... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Accelerating Therapies
BLAVATNIK Photo courtesy of Len Blavatnik Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989) The Blavatnik Family Foundation is catalyzing Harvard's efforts to translate basic scientific discoveries into new therapies and cures. The Foundation, led by American... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
research team) examine 24 cases of collaboration between businesses and nonprofit organizations in Mexico (a food bank and an American supermarket), Colombia, Chile (a pharmacy chain and an elder-care home), Argentina (a newspaper and a... View Details