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Kanwaljit Bakshi

the University of Virginia with a degree in psychology, "I thought I was going to go to Peace Corps, but for family reasons I wanted to stay in the United States," Brochu says. "So I thought, 'If I'm going to stay in the... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

27 Mar 2019
News

Fulfilling Their Promise

Schooner (MBA 1983) and a group of social work students who were all working at two nonprofits—the Women’s Center and the Peace Neighborhood Center—in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The questions: “Why do men rape young girls?” and “Why don’t they... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; mentoring

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

01 Mar 2025
News

Forward Thinking

There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk; Space Research and Technology; Government

01 Jan 2008
News

James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959

strengthened his belief that those who prosper in business are obligated to serve the greater good. His decadelong presidency of the World Bank provided the ultimate opportunity to pursue that mission on a global scale. Wolfensohn’s subsequent involvement with the... View Details

11 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

ever-wealthier, more peaceful world economy. An international system needs to be nurtured. We can’t take it for granted—that is one thing we’ve learned. Again. This story first appeared in the Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin under... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

22 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)

prosperity, there can’t be peace in the long run.” As a professional, a parent, and a citizen of the world, Nneka understands how far stretching that impact can be. Find the way that you can drive meaningful change alongside others and... 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

Keywords: Liesl Pike Moldow; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Breaking Down the Barriers - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

in Paris in 1925 showcased Art Deco styles in contemporary design; the following year the Metropolitan Museum of Art sponsored a traveling show of pieces it had included in the Paris exposition. Bonnie Yochelson, “Clarence H. White: View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Alumni Books

It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace by Rye Barcott (MPA/MBA ’09) (Bloomsbury USA) Barcott relates how as a college student he lived in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, for part of a summer, seeing poverty he’d never... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; National Security and International Affairs; Government

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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets | MBA

of freedom. For caretaker children, it meant peace of mind that their parents were being monitored, and for the seniors, it made them feel independent and secure. HBS students Maxwell Nii Laryea and Arden Kreeger, at left, and Dylan... View Details

07 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Negotiation and All That Jazz

direction. That means listening for some nugget, some idea that they put forth, that you can shape in a way that advances your mutual interests." Similarly, the great negotiators—people like George Mitchell, who negotiated peace in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

leaders have worked to create a democratic society and revamp the economy, improve education, and create jobs. As the country's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela has inspired the nation and emerged as an international hero who has led the country... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

01 Jan 2002
News

Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)

happiness and peace.' Then I realized that happiness and peace came from knowing that whatever problem is brought to me, I-or someone in the company-can solve it." Whether meeting with scientists in a research lab outside London or seeing... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Making History, Starting Over

“To bring lasting peace to the area, you have to strengthen the private sector, and the best place to start is the banks,” he explains. Cohen compares social investment today to a small but building wave, much like venture capital three... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

07 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

this fact. "Where the consensus today is that eighteenth-century economists believed that free trade would bring peace and prosperity to all, the mainstream of political economy at the time was actually preoccupied with how trade... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Jan 2020
News

Your Whole Self

leader where our presence and not scratching the itch ensures that we don't keep leading by our bad habits. And then the final principle of peace around loosening the grip, is really about ourselves against ourselves, and not letting that... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Pamela Thomas Graham

height of the civil rights movement, Thomas-Graham's parents held up Thurgood Marshall and other lawyers as role models who created peaceful change at a time when racial tensions were running high. "Our family heroes were African... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

02 Jan 2018
Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

more of an excuse to spend your hours at the office, lining your workplace's pockets at the expense of your life. It's human nature in this day of "stay at work to show your worth." Thanks, but no thanks! I do my own cooking and cleaning and I am very relaxed... View Details