Survival - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Sep 2016
News

Connecting Past and Present

eastern European country. Funded exclusively by donations and with an army of volunteers, the online database can help find family ancestry dating back more than 200 years. It is also a critical resource in connecting people with relations who View Details

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Zhongjue (Drew) Chen

English-on issues from the one-child policy to communism. To this day I still remember how petrified I was, surrounded by a completely foreign setting. But somehow, miraculously, I survived and rose to the challenge. As I am ready to... View Details

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Jocelyne Moyer

It's something my parents never really explained to me, but I figured it out. Bankruptcy taught me to fear that everything I have could be taken away. I never dreamed of making a difference in the world – only of surviving it. After our... View Details

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Avi Kremer

prize to identify a treatment that leads to a 25 percent extension in survival rates. “After eight years, in which we have raised over $10 million,” says Kremer, who lives in his native Israel and communicates via Skype and adaptive... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Entrepreneurship

Portrait Project

Ebony Cambridge

the passage of time. I want to hold my head up through all of life's mysteries and not only endure but grow. I want to listen to my grandchildren's laughter as I tell them how Anansi outsmarted everyone AGAIN and be sure that the stories which View Details

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Carol Fishman Cohen

I want women (and men) who leave the work force to know they can resume their professional lives. Taking a career break used to be considered “career suicide.” But, I survived it. In 2001, I relaunched my career at a prominent investment... View Details

Portrait Project

Margarita Golod

me into the person that I am today. I now know how to cook Russian hamburgers using a special tomato sauce recipe that was given to my mother by my grandmother. I have learned what it takes to survive indoor skydiving and how to say... View Details

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Onaizah Panhwar

for the values they instilled in me. Twelve years ago, my parents and I were in a driving accident in which they both passed away. I survived the accident with a scarred face and a head injury but immediately after, I had to step up for... View Details

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Lee Koffler

their lives over again. One hundred years after Johannes Brahms's death, his passion and sorrow survive in his Piano Quartet #3 in C Minor. For two centuries, Beethoven's Choral Fantasy in C Minor has led audiences to rejoice. In another... View Details

14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

long-standing business leaders from emerging economies across the globe. They offer compelling insights into how entrepreneurs based in these countries survived turbulence and change, and the lessons that can be learned from their... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

Portrait Project

Emily Slota

Then I met Johiron. Johiron was emaciated, living in a shelter of palm leaves in Bangladesh, and surviving by begging for rice. I shadowed her as an intern for Grameen Bank's beggar lending program. And she shared how she'd used a... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

HBS Students Negotiate a Victory

Patrick Chung and Aman Kapadia worked together over the course of six tension-filled days in March to draft a contract between a flight attendants union and an airline struggling to survive the turbulence of a post–September 11... View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation

Portrait Project

Franklin Muanankese

poverty of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We survived the violence of public housing in Washington, D.C. Through it all, we always had each other. My brother was my protector and role model. He inspired me to pursue my dreams,... View Details

04 Sep 2014
News

Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS

prize to identify a treatment that leads to a 25 percent extension in survival rates. “After eight years, in which we have raised over $10 million,” says Kremer, who lives in his native Israel and communicates via Skype and adaptive... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Roll the Credits

in a March speech to a convention of theater owners. But, he declared, “The movie theater will survive and prosper because the theater offers an epic viewing experience that cannot be duplicated in the home.” The author of four books,... View Details

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Introduction - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

organizations that achieved scale only through massive subsidy. Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism explores the continuing research in the history and role of railroads in creating not only the foundations of modern business, but also a system of modern... View Details

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Managing Service Operations - Course Catalog

to help one another. The survival of our species literally depends upon it. Yet, service organizations are often designed and managed in a way that prevents us from realizing our potential. Service organizations are complex and diverse,... View Details

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Tamara Lynn Nall

great-grandchildren can learn how a petite woman survived in the deep South Spend more time with my mother learning how to bake the same sweet potato pie that we left Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, "since Santa preferred that over... View Details

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Introduction - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

exhibition—a collection that seventy-five years later survives as a telling chapter in evolving perceptions about photography's artistic, commercial, and cultural significance. John Paul Pennebaker. For Marshall Field, ca. 1934.... View Details

12 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 12

http://hbr.org/product/building-a-high-performance-culture-at-idfc/an/114077-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-076 Cycle for Survival (A) Katie Kotkins, director of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's (MSKCC) Cycle for View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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