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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Gregory Slayton (MBA '90)
Last summer Gregory W. Slayton (MBA '90) took a break from the rapid pace of Silicon Valley. The peace and quiet of a family vacation allowed him some time to reflect and, incidentally, he mentions, to start three companies. Slayton seems...
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Patrick Chun
grandfather found peace through his ability to powerfully utilize his blessings to impact others. And his secret to happiness was enabling those whom he loved. His vision of enabling others is consistent — ranging from his leadership...
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Jake Cusack
local dress and armed with a notebook instead of combat fatigues and an M4 rifle. I work with local entrepreneurs, who dream of creating a more prosperous and peaceful life. Their optimism can heal wounded spirits and fragile countries....
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Clarissa Quintanilla
campus. After graduation, she worked at Edward Jones “because I was interested in its community-based distribution system.” After two years with the company (working in its Rotational Development Program and in marketing), she married her fiance, Ben Clark, and...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
achievement; use it as a step to greater success). In Peace and War: A History of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point by Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986) and Chloë G. Kline (Wiley) This history draws on extensive...
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Mamongae Mahlare
Africa's canvas of poverty and strife ...to prosperity and peace Take a moment to inhale the sweet scent of flowers, at every opportunity The hopeful fragrance of summer rain on newly-ploughed ground Reminisce of simple village life as a...
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- 02 May 2016
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Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
them realize that dream,” she says. A volunteer network sustains the San Francisco–based organization, which has helped facilitate peaceful relations in India, Pakistan, Colombia, and Rwanda. In India, for example, the Dreamfly built a...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
mission in life. Often they kill peaceful Muslims who get in their way. In “Beacon of Liberty,” his My Two Cents column in the December Bulletin, Sharjeel Kashmir (PLDA 4, 2007) writes that Muslims “are all collectively paying for the...
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- 15 Jan 2019
- News
Working to Improve the End of Life
dying than I had been when I was younger. As I started finding out more, I realized there was a tremendous amount of misinformation out there about death and dying. “The mission of End of Life Choices New York is to have everybody have the greatest chance possible of...
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- 25 May 2010
- News
Commencement and the Winds of Change
To give peace a chance, unleash the power of business. That’s Sir Ronald Cohen’s (MBA ’69) idea for one of the world’s toughest neighborhoods: the Middle East. At an event hosted by the HBS Jewish Students Association on April 9, Cohen,...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
At Work in the Fields with the Lord
Allen told the Riverside Press-Enterprise (March 14, 2004). A leader of The Global Church, a nondenominational religious organization based in Perris, California, Allen was a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal from 1984 to 1986 and entered...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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From venture capitalist to 'compassionate capitalist'
chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide, one of the world’s leading private equity investment groups. In 2007, he cofounded Social Finance, a London-based nonprofit that is advancing ways to apply market principles to solving social problems in the UK. He also serves as...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
Tierney, who moved into this comparatively luxurious setting with his wife, Susan, after he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Chile for two years. But the difference between being a student at HBS and working with farmers in...
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- 06 Mar 2018
- News
A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale
With a father in the US Air Force, Vivian Hunt (MBA 1995) moved often as a young girl, living in places as far flung as Montana, Alabama, and Japan. That experience was difficult at times, but it developed her ability to engage across cultures—a trait she built on...
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Rachel Reddy
Tears rolling softly down my face. My six young cousins carrying the coffin. A deep quiet and stillness despite a church packed to bursting point. Yet, there’s a profound sense of peace and happiness inside me. I had known this wonderful...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Robert McNamara Dies at 93
New York Times wrote (July 6, 2009), “McNamara became president of the World Bank and devoted evangelical energies to the belief that improving life in rural communities in developing countries was a more promising path to peace than the...
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Harman Kochar
If life could be planned I would have already – Eradicated Poverty from the World Controlled Global Warming Established World Peace Cured all Diseases Discovered the fountain of youth and last but not the least.... Built my mansion on...
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Joan Cheng
hadn't actually tried my hardest. At HBS we're taught to play to our strengths. But in my life I've found humor in being a horrible skier (ask my friends!), a lesson in my failed bid for a promotion, and peace in being unable to make that...
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Helen Ruiqi Zhang
ever had. I've grown up always striving to be bigger, stronger, faster. But Antarctica teaches me to be small. Here, ego is diminished and anxiety subdued. I realize a strong mind achieves and is not solipsistic; a peaceful heart aspires...
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Anne Morriss
world works, about the look and feel of success. I plan to be sloppy. To fail (often), to be generous with love (more often), to find peace in uncertainty and disquiet in injustice. I plan to replace the "disquiet" in that last...
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