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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
she took last year helped her to identify ethical issues involved in the struggle to control the diamond industry in Sierra Leone, where diamonds have fueled a brutal civil war for the past decade. "The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
status markers. Religion as a social marker was supplanted by education after World War II. The GI Bill expanded access to higher education to a much more diverse social class. Until midcentury, a college degree wasn’t considered... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
many households, the most important symbol of their place and economic possibilities was where they lived. Before World War II, about 40 percent of families owned their own home. In 1970, a firm majority — 62 percent — did. By the late... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
wealth, funeral rites, and marriage, Borders and the Self elevates the question of Igbo identity by threading in the personal histories of the Ajene and Okeke families—which became united by marriage amid the backdrop of the Nigerian View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
After witnessing the civil war that has ravaged his country for almost three decades, an historian makes this observation about the moral decline of the nation: "The ancient simplicity into which honor so... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
swept across vast swaths of the country, taking town after town and spreading terror as the civil war burned all around it. From that unlikely showdown in Kobani emerged a fighting force that would wage... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
social change and very conscious that I was going to use my HBS training in different ways than most of my classmates,” America explains. “In class, I appreciated the pro-labor side in cases that had a union-management component. I was active in the View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
fifty-year history, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were the big guys on the block. We had the money. We were helping to reform a world after World War II and gradually mutated into an institution to assist in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
School, Harvard University, and the worldwide business community, an undertaking that is ambitious, but with some historical precedent at HBS, Spar says. “When the United States was in World War II, the School played a major role in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
or specific job history. Like Shackleton, today’s leaders need team members and other stakeholders who can acknowledge turbulence, embrace its opportunities, and meet its challenges with confidence and effect. Abraham Lincoln When Doing Nothing Is the Best Action As... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
becomes an unlikely entrepreneur, supporting her siblings when her father and brother are forced to flee the Taliban. Ashley’s War (2015) centers on the US military’s Cultural Support Teams, a pilot program that inserted women alongside... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
concern for civil rights at home or creating civilian casualties overseas? The President has to find an appropriate balance between taking steps that are effective and respecting our civil liberties. Abraham... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
connecting over a shared interest. The discussion boards were alive with people interested in teapots, Civil War memorabilia, and stamps.” Despite seeing the potential, even Whitman admits eBay grew beyond... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
Africa; its importance to the country is as great as the threat to its existence. Illegal logging fueled Liberia’s recent civil war: “Blood timber” financed the violence, just as blood diamonds have in other African conflicts. The View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
subject is a $1.4 billion aluminum smelter in Mozambique known as the Mozal project. Ravaged by a seventeen-year civil war that claimed 700,000 lives and destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure,... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
says Shenkar. Her awareness of how precious and limited water can be began while growing up in Israel. The Middle East has prospered for millennia by making the most out of what relatively little water there is in the region. Since the time of ancient Babylon, View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
Business Administration (INCAE). After enlisting in the U.S. Navy at the age of 17 during World War II and graduating with honors from Harvard College in 1950, Lodge began his career as a reporter with the Boston Herald. A 1954 interview... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
the bodies up there.’ We ignored that advice.”) Cohen is also proud of her part in effecting the transfer of authority over remote Midway Island from the Navy to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. For decades, the Navy had restricted access to the World View Details
- 28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
the sources of energy on which civilization depends have always changed as technology advances. Now renewables are overtaking fossil fuels, with wind and solar energy becoming cheaper and more competitive every year. Growth in renewable... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
General Services Administration. The ballroom was once the Postmaster General’s library, and a cupola lets in natural light. During the Civil War it was used as a hospital operating room where amputations... View Details