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- 20 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
emotional journeys as well as their physical ones. After we had met with dozens of individuals across the country, hailing from Bhutan, Syria, Congo, Iraq and beyond, we began our synthesis phase, deconstructing all of our conversations...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
for Kibera (CFK), a pioneer in participatory development showing how with the right kind of support, people in desperate places will take charge of their lives and create change. Later, serving as a human intelligence officer in Iraq and...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
Baldwin (known by the radio call sign "Tank") was on the aircraft carrier USS Midway in the Persian Gulf, flying 45 combat missions over Iraq in Operations Desert Storm and Southern Watch. As the pilot of an EA-6B Prowler, he led a crew...
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James E. Aisner
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
The growth and competiveness of emerging markets is a fundamental reality in global business today. Yet it is often forgotten just how much these countries have changed in a short period of time, how challenging their business environments were even two decades ago,...
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- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
program,” he says, “every $516 places a vet in a job.” Goldenberg’s path to the Endowment began in 2008 when he was working at the consulting firm Frost & Sullivan. As the financial crisis hit that year, he witnessed sailors who were returning from Afghanistan and...
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Jill Radsken
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
administrator on his team. After her father, Sergeant Jerome Lemon, was killed in Iraq in 2004, the nonprofit stepped in to help fund Jervon’s college education. Today, she speaks to the kids who are just like her. “So she’s on the phone...
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Maureen Harmon
- 08 Aug 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Managing Governments: Unilever in India and Turkey, 1950–1980
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by Geoffrey G. Jones
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
because they have been out of their home districts while serving our country,” says Shultz, himself a Marine Corps veteran. Other members of With Honor’s advisory board include next-generation veteran Nate Fick (MBA 2008), whose story of being a young lieutenant during...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
Housing costs too much for working-class families. Young adults are forced to live with parents, or cram together. Households spend more money on housing than they can afford. For Americans, the news is depressingly familiar. Israel, a land that outsiders see only as...
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- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
The corporate histories of Apple, Coca-Cola, and Honda are well-documented stories that offer a window into the nuances of business in a particular place, at a particular time. As such, they're invaluable resources for research that influences future generations of...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
danger zone for the foreseeable future. How would a U.S. invasion of Iraq influence your investment advice? Every decision we make for clients today takes that into account as a what-if scenario, but there's no formula that can predict...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
and staff officer during the Iraq War. Reaching the rank of captain while serving as a battalion adjutant in charge of all personnel matters, Johnson won raves from superiors and subordinates alike. Whether leading soldiers or civilians,...
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- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
Conference Palace in Baghdad, built for the Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement. When Iraq went to war with Iran, the conference moved to India and the palace sat unused until the United States destroyed it during the 1990–1991 Gulf...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Borders, and Goodwin led a group of his classmates to make the dream a reality. Why did you decide to become the CEO of Executives Without Borders? In my time overseas, I witnessed extreme poverty but saw few working on solutions that addressed its root causes....
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
undergraduate alma mater. While the Taylor campaign portrays Edwards as too liberal for the district, the incumbent calls himself “independent-minded.” “Voters in this district split the ticket a lot,” he adds. While the war in Iraq and...
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- 17 May 2018
- Blog Post
HBS/HKS Alum Regan Turner on Empowering Veterans
into to affect positive change.” Do you apply some of what you learned in the military to The Mission Continues? If so, can you tell us how? “Absolutely. Going to a community meeting in Los Angeles, Phoenix, or Seattle is not at all unlike meeting with tribal leaders...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
a kidnapped Texas couple whose captors went on a shopping spree with the victims’ credit cards. “The kidnappers were filmed on our video equipment in a store, and the police apprehended them,” says Parker. Halfway around the world, U.S. troops in View Details
- 06 Jan 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments
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by James Sebenius & Laurence A. Green
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
clear that this is the case, and it is certainly not clear that every leader matters. Sometimes leaders have no choice. No president could have avoided declaring war on Japan after Pearl Harbor. But a president other than George W. Bush might not have taken the country...
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- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
anti-American sentiment in many nations was rising because of the Iraq war. Most of the consumers were like the South African who candidly said, "I hate the country, but I love their products." A Filipino confessed: "I used...
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