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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Estonia, Incorporated
Companies run from Estonia don’t need resident directors, and bookkeeping is straightforward because banks can calculate tax liability for their customers. “This is about returning clarity, sanity, and peace of mind to the business... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- Profile
Abby Falik
social-impact organizations, Abby turned to HBS. “I wanted to find more people like me – people who wanted to build high-impact, sustainable enterprises, while considering the broader impact of their work on their communities.” HBS helps shape, launch ambitious plans... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
Professor Austin nostalgically recalled a journey he had made 34 years before, returning from Peace Corps service in Chile to study at HBS. "When the plane took off, it flew over the Andes," Austin told conference attendees. "It was early... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
people and, like us, put down roots there,” Iwashko writes. “The (Ukrainian) people are proud, hardworking, and peace loving, but will fight to the end to protect their homeland.” Iwashko was on a visit to the US with his family when the... View Details
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
wider political implications that concern me most. Brexit will put a real border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, for example, and that will pose a threat to reverse the (finally) peaceful relationship between the two... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
lawmakers, suppliers, regulators, customers, landowners, and utility executives. “This is a patience-testing, long-term project, but it requires an entrepreneurial mindset,” observes Skelly, who first began to consider what it takes to build businesses during a pre-HBS... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Program Aims to Develop a Generation of Global Citizens
teenager, Abby Falik (MBA 2008) tried to join the Peace Corps upon graduating from high school, only to be rejected because of her age. Some years later, that rejection spurred Falik to develop an idea that in 2008 won the Pitch for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
My Real Career
hallowed halls of Aldrich to face the inevitable, “Hi! What are you doing these days?” I spent the entire plane ride to Boston blissfully reading instead of juggling apple juice, thumping dead DVD players, and brokering peace among my... View Details
- Profile
Fatou Bintou Sagnang
always talk about, and I experienced it here for the first couple of months," Fatou says. "But I sat down and told myself, you know what, I can't do everything. But I can focus on the few things I really have to do and do them well. And I was at View Details
- 14 Feb 2018
- News
A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace
demonstrate how they can be more innovative and successful by fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce. Coleman, who previously was managing director of the Nobel Peace Prize–nominated Feminist Majority Foundation, believes diversity... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Breakthrough International Negotiation
negotiation, not the least of which is the corporate arena. "Brokering a deal requires the same ability to assess complex situations and craft breakthrough strategies as brokering a peace agreement," says Watkins. "Leaders of companies... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
back peaceful settlements or support warring groups and continued fighting. Attitudes toward peaceful settlement are expected to be especially obdurate for civilians who have been exposed to violence. In a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Club of Ireland Puts Management Skills to Work
communication - so vital in building a lasting peace on the island of Ireland," said Smith. "This event was truly in the best Harvard tradition of public service." Participants in the exercise agreed that taking a step back from daily... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
that moment, he discovered a new passion. “I came back and put together an SPI program tailored to children and orphans, which now works with Rotary Clubs, the Peace Corps, and church groups around the world.” Batcha plans to focus more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
progress they've made with their ventures. These include Abigail Falik's (MBA 2008) Global Citizen Year (pictured above), which she founded after she discovered, as a recent high school graduate, that the Peace Corps was effectively... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979)
positions in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors, including director of the Peace Corps, president and CEO of United Way of America, and her present post, U.S. Secretary of Labor. I remember driving to Boston with my parents to... View Details
- Profile
Sheila Marcelo
need. More than 11 million people across 16 countries now use the service to find help with their children, parents, pets, and homes. “We help families achieve their aspirations by giving them peace of mind in helping their loved ones,”... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Comfort Zone
you’re relaxed and enjoying yourself,” Fraser says. To create peace of mind, airports should redesign spaces around what Fraser refers to as experience technology. “That means everything from space, materials, furnishings, equipment,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Got Global?
reconstruction. We talked at length by phone about his new book, The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace (see story). For Ramalinga Raju (OPM 19, 1993), the solutions he sought were less elusive (see story). The founder... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil some decades ago, I saw how the arrival of electricity — and a television mounted in the public square — changed life in my rural village. The outside world became visible. Other peoples and places were... View Details