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- 13 Mar 2020
- News
Expanding Cancer Care
I spent pretty much every weekend going to nursing homes and making house calls with my dad and spending a lot of time around pretty sick patients. So for most of my life—my adult life—I decided I actually didn't want anything to do with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
High Adventure
husband, an importer of automobile parts, began considering some big changes. Beilharz quit her job to care for her first child and stayed home as her brood grew to four — now ages 9 through 18. In 1998, the family left Austin for an... View Details
- Profile
Di Bai
Career Services, and the Harvard International Office. As part of her transition to her longer-term ambitions – "to make positive and far-reaching impact in my home country as well as the globe" –... View Details
- Portrait Project
Val Mendeleev
I cannot stand still. Having moved across dozens of countries and industries, I want to continue discovering the world and not ever be bored or a marginal person. Professionally, this means launching and running successful businesses in... View Details
- 21 Dec 2017
- News
A Decent Place to Live
Humanity International. What attracted me there was this very simple and radical notion we have that everyone deserves a decent place to live. “If you think about it, home affects where you go to school, your education prospects. It... View Details
- Portrait Project
Mike Lynch
unpredictable and priceless journey. Unfortunately, many others – comrades, classmates, and friends – did not escape the battlefield unscathed. Today, thousands of Combat Veterans return home with life-altering injuries, both visible and... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
The Texas town of Marshall has a population of 25,000 people, 2,000 of whom are students attending one of the four colleges that have earned Marshall the nickname "Athens of Texas." Marshall is also home to a historic pottery... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
Firm Dynamics Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. We use a unique firm level data set of approximately 24 million firms in nearly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
accountability at the project and policy levels since the early 1990s, particularly through the establishment and enforcement of social and environmental safeguards and complaint and response mechanisms. But there remain major shortfalls.... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- Profile
Nicola Leahy-MacManus
career? I am excited to manage growing organizations with social as well as economic missions. I hope ultimately to help shape the business environment in my home country of Ireland. How has HBS prepared you... View Details
Chandler’s Legacies
had integrating the U.S. economy, creating out of necessity new organizational forms, financial instruments and accounting techniques. For my Ph.D. thesis, I decided to study transportation technologies in my home View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
financial services that Washington D.C.-based Microfinance International Corporation (MFIC) had been providing for two years to a growing number of "unbanked" Hispanic nationals in the United States and their home countries.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Behrad Mahdi
Although Behrad Mahdi was raised in Columbus, Ohio, his could hardly be described as a typical Midwestern childhood. "My parents could not return to their home country after the 1979 Iranian... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
Illustration by VectorStock As a doctoral student at HBS, Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury identified a little-studied phenomenon in innovation: Managers from emerging markets who migrated to the United States for jobs at multinational companies and then returned to their... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
THE BOTTOM LINE: TOTO’s ad campaign turned heads. Did it win U.S. customers? Photo courtesy Toto Usa Inc. It’s installed in 63 percent of all Japanese homes but rarely found in the United States: a combination bidet-toilet with an... View Details
- Portrait Project
Dionne Hosten
hear and tell, jumping into the economic and maybe even the political fray in my home country of Trinidad, and of course, all those new hairstyles to try...... I'm restless but maybe all my wandering will... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Working on the Local Level
money in New York, but going home where I care about the communities that are going to see the impact of the work that I'm doing. The state of Maine is facing some real, serious challenges. We have a demographics challenge; we have the... View Details
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
incorporates a focus on gender issues. His studies include a comprehensive global survey of board members, as well as a series of case studies that approach the issue of women on boards from an individual, an organizational, and a country... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Maren Quezada
community at HBS. “LASO is really like a family. I have friends from different sections; it’s nice to speak Spanish and relax.” “My parents left our home country to give my brothers and I an education,” says... View Details