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Andrew Pratt

the former president of Mexico! What might people find surprising about you? I make amazing Louisiana gumbo. Why is it amazing? [Laughs.] That’s a secret. Okay, a big part of it is the fried chicken – like so many good things in life! View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
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Margaret Regan

I am from a small southwest Louisiana town and grew up with ten siblings. My dad was a major source of inspiration and strength for me. My sense of myself was forged in my extended family. Did I think I would go to HBS when I was eight... View Details
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Matt Segneri

supporting and retaining New Orleans entrepreneurs. "We helped them select the most viable ventures among more than 100 applicants for the "504ward" $200,000 business plan competition — one of the largest such competitions in View Details
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Moir Donelson

creating a youth development program in rural Louisiana while serving in the Army or increasing revenues (by $39 million) as an engineer and administrator at Motorola in Texas (where he also tutored students), Donelson has shown great... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • October 2016 (Revised November 2016)
  • Case

Innovating Beyond Ochsner

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Olivia Hull
The Ochsner Health System has developed a proprietary software tool designed to treat hypertension. Built into the system’s electronic medical records, the Hypertension Digital Medicine program allows patients to record their blood pressure at home and share readings... View Details
Keywords: Electronic Medical Records; Telemedicine; Hypertension; High Blood Pressure; Chronic Disease; Entrepreneurship; Health Disorders; Business Model; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry; New Orleans; Louisiana
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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Louisiana Project , 2003 Chromogenic print Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, 2004.15 © 2021 Carrie Mae Weems One of the most influential American artists in the contemporary art world, Carrie Mae Weems investigates family,... View Details
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Ceena Beall

the days of Jim Crow. All of a sudden, he hunched over and started weeping. "He yelled at me like I was dog." I went over to comfort him, but words didn’t seem like enough to console this deep wound. My grandpa's first vocation was picking cotton in the View Details
  • December 2005
  • Article

Capitalism and Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Louisiana, 1725-1820

By: Shawn A. Cole
Keywords: Economic Systems; Society; Louisiana
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  • March 2022 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

Transformation at Loyola New Orleans (A)

By: David Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti
In August of 2018, Tania Tetlow is inaugurated as President of Loyola University New Orleans, in the midst of turmoil. Prior to her start, the university was given a final warning to land a balanced budget by year's end by its accreditors or risk facing probation. It... View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Financial Condition; Crisis Management; Change Management; Trust; Transformation; New Orleans
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  • February 2008
  • Teaching Note

The Big Easy, Not So Easy (TN)

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Ben Creo
Teaching Note for [208068]. View Details
Keywords: Projects; Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships; Natural Disasters; Contracts; Buildings and Facilities; Housing; New Orleans
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  • 29 Jul 2013
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Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers

Canada, China, and other areas. It's been quite a ride!" It seems all the more remarkable to Cuffe, who never thought of herself as having entrepreneurship in her blood (although her grandmother, having moved from Louisiana to California... View Details
Keywords: wine; wine making; wine importing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • November 2012 (Revised June 2013)
  • Case

The Levees Repaired, a System Still Broken: Post Katrina Turnaround at the Orleans Public Defenders (A)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Olivia Leskinen
Law Professor Ronald Sullivan was asked to lead a turnaround of the Orleans Public Defenders as a one-year assignment following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The office was underfunded and had perverse incentives embedded throughout the system. Sullivan's new vision to... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Management; New Orleans
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  • March 2010 (Revised January 2011)
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Public Education in New Orleans: Pursuing Systemic Change through Entrepreneurship

By: Stacey M. Childress and James Weber
After Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in August 2005, the state had taken over 102 of the 118 public schools in New Orleans and shifted the management structure from a “single school system to a system of schools.” Entrepreneurs from the region and around the... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Governance; Natural Disasters; Education; Entrepreneurship; Education Industry; New Orleans
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  • February 2008 (Revised May 2012)
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The Big Easy, Not So Easy

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Arthur I Segel and Ben Creo
Enterprise Community Partners must determine whether to rebuild the Lafitte housing projects in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans and, if so, how to mitigate the risks. Set in January 2007, more than a year after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the case examines how... View Details
Keywords: Natural Disasters; Housing; Projects; Risk Management; Urban Development; Reputation; New Orleans
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  • 14 May 2013
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MBAxAmerica Update: Week 6, New Orleans

Village staff, program alumni, successful start-ups, early stage start-ups, impact investors, and the head of the Louisiana Buyout Fund. We also looked at recently released data from the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center and stats... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Rival Visions

of his time." Like many other immigrants, Gallatin was in part attracted to America by the allure of its wide open spaces. Owner of an ample tract in Pennsylvania, Gallatin as treasury secretary oversaw elements of western expansion such as the View Details
  • March 2008 (Revised November 2009)
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New Schools for New Orleans 2008

Founded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina as a catalyst for the transformation of the public education system in New Orleans, President Sarah Usdin and CEO Matt Candler must adapt their strategy to respond to a continuously shifting local context. By 2008, conditions on... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Education; Social Entrepreneurship; Situation or Environment; Adaptation; Value Creation; Education Industry; New Orleans
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  • February 2008 (Revised May 2012)
  • Supplement

The Big Easy, Not So Easy: The Letter

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Ben Creo
A short, supplemental case to "The Big Easy, Not So Easy" (208-068). Doris Koo must respond to new challenges at Lafitte in New Orleans. View Details
Keywords: Natural Disasters; Housing; Projects; Risk Management; Urban Development; Reputation; New Orleans
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  • 29 Jan 2021
  • Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015)

My wife and I had so many conversations about what we wanted to do because we felt like we could be comfortable right where we were. We were settling into our life in Louisiana and we had a baby. But we also felt like it would be an... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America

two-year research cycle, which focuses on the collaborations between businesses and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). For example, in 1997, the supermarket chain H-E-B expanded its regional base from Louisiana and Texas across the... View Details