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- Portrait Project
Mike Cohen
When it comes to the legacy I hope to leave, I have some tough acts to follow. My grandparents escaped death in Nazi concentration camps to provide a safer environment to raise their children. Thirty years later, my parents fled a... View Details
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Foluke Otudeko
understood this and believed "the greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision." Come see my vision for Africa I see not just starvation and death but a vibrant Africa; empowered to dream big. Not just dirty... View Details
- 17 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
New Treasury Rules Help Long-Retirement Planning
The United States Treasury recently amended its rules to encourage workers with retirement plans to purchase life annuities within these plans. Life annuities generally make fixed monthly payments from the date of retirement until the View Details
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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
dramatically disproportionate effects of the death and devastation it has wrought on the poor, women, and other marginalized members of communities across the world. We hope to host a thoughtful conversation about these themes, the crises... View Details
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Michael Nkansah
that I may yet owe death a life. I was never a pan-African before that day—my mind teemed with tired tales from my father of Nkrumah's utopian vision. But capitalism could well succeed where decades of post-independence politics failed—in... View Details
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Cyril Abel Vergis
death has proven that it is also possible to find happiness in carrying a fallen torch. Like my mother, I too will help people get to the "finish line" with the grace and dignity they deserve. I will make a difference in elder... View Details
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Sarina Hickey
I will never forget the stench. Or her haunting blue eyes, wavering between consciousness and a death she might have welcomed. She couldn't have been older than 12, this half-naked, starved girl I now cradled in my arms, hurrying around... View Details
- 09 Feb 2015
- News
Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)
his death to the HBS community, Dean Nitin Nohria said, “John Whitehead has been an alumnus we have held up as exemplifying the competence and character we associate with true leadership. It is with deep sadness, as a community, that we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
A Woman in the House
Boston native Kathy Davis (MBA 1982) never intended to go into politics, or to get her name in the Hoosier history books. But on October 20, 2003, she did both when she was confirmed as the first woman lieutenant governor of Indiana — a vacancy created by the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Bounce Back from a Blunder
Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong If mistakes are bound to happen—like death and perhaps taxes—then leaders need to let them be seen, says Victoria Montgomery Brown (MBA 2003), CEO and cofounder of... View Details
- 10 Nov 2017
- News
Girl’s Pendant Found at Nazi Camp Site Reunites a Family
Chaim Motzen (MBA 2006) More than 70 years ago, the record of a Nazi death camp in Sobibor, Poland, was nearly lost to history. But archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have been excavating the site, uncovering mass... View Details
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Zubby Achara
weeks and my uncle’s death before I finally figure out what. It may be uninspiring but ever since, my aspiration has been to be myself and do what makes me happy. Today, I take classes to learn, and not for the grades. I accept jobs that... View Details
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Jodi Yang
Boston is where I come to die and be reborn. At seventeen I came to mourn the death of my first love — music — and my grandfather, a hero who proudly led thousands into battle for his country, though he had little formal education. I... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Skydeck: Reddit’s Rise
Jen Wong (MBA 2004), COO of Reddit (Illustration by John S. Dykes) “I met Steve [Huffman] at SFO, I think at like 6:00 AM. We were sort of ships passing and had a great meeting and I got really excited because it’s really rare that you get to work on an asset that is,... View Details
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
illiterate population in the world. Additionally, India has no nationally accepted means of verifying residents' identities. For example, even though registration of births and deaths became mandatory in 1969, only 55 percent of births... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jan 2013
- News
From Wall Street to Visual Art
family's fine wine-and-spirits business," Bussel says. But in 2006, when a close friend died unexpectedly, Bussel had an epiphany. "His death made me realize that if I wanted to do something in life, this was the time to do it," she says.... View Details
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
the visceral state passes, and they make different judgments and decisions.” Source: Deepak Malhotra, Michael Luca, and Christopher Poliquin To investigate the effects of waiting periods, the researchers did two analyses. First, they studied data about waiting period... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
globalization of medical services? Q&A with Professor Tarun Khanna. Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5814.html. When Your Product Becomes a Commodity Like death and taxes, commoditization of your products is a given. Professor John Quelch... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Interpreting the Gipper
Beschloss Photo Courtesy of The Newshour with Jim Lehrer Following the death of former President Ronald Reagan in June, presidential historian and author Michael Beschloss (MBA 1980) was frequently quoted in the media on his assessment of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
trajectory of overdose deaths from prescription drugs and heroin. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US death rate from opioid overdose has increased over 400 percent since... View Details