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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About

preserve the ties that make this community so special. You also came together to learn. As a result, I was honored to recognize the key leaders of two student clubs, the Jewish Student Association and the Middle View Details

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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

finance-related issues and the experiences they go through. Saad Hashmi Associate Corporate Relationship Mangaer at HSBC Bank Middle East Limited Forecast financial success in the near and long term and... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way

Mequon, Wisconsin, was sitting on three very disparate Rust Belt businesses: an industrial-lighting company, a medical-packaging business, and a welding company. In the middle year of his three-year OPM schedule, Chirchirillo saw the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

to enroll at a local university. University was the bridge to who I am today. Frank Magwegwe (AMP 185, 2013) Segment Head, Momentum Retail A dream grounded I’ve been intrigued by aviation since childhood. After HBS I spent several years in the View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

February 2023
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Astyanax Kanakakis at norbloc: A Founder's Experience with the DIFC Fintech Hive

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

norbloc was founded in 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Astyanax Kanakakis and his co-founders, Vitalii Demianets and Sam Saatchi. Kanakakis and Demianets got to work to address a key gap in the industry: Know Your Customer (KYC) data sharing. As the first distributed KYC... View Details

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19 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

If you are an executive of a multinational looking for geographies in which to expand your markets, operations, and investments, is China more attractive than India? South Africa better than Mexico? Does Russia have more promise than the United States? The answer you... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

is the only way to identify the whereabouts of the otherwise invisible virus, similar to collecting enemy intelligence in time of war. From its experience with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Howard (MBA 1971) Boiling Point Editions This story depicts a youth’s journey set in the turbulent Middle East and spiked with tragedy, wrong turns, unforced errors, luck, espionage, and family love. Life... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

young British Muslims, frank interviews with intelligence and police officers, and frontline reports from across the Middle East to offer answers to one of the biggest challenges of our time. Dragons: 10... View Details

07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

School Case 708-477 This is the story of MTC, a Kuwaiti telecom company that has grown from a sleepy, state monopoly to become one of the fastest growing telecom companies in the world, with the largest regional footprint across the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Mar 2020
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Green Light

build our first gigafarm in the next five years, which is pretty ambitious. That’s our sort of moonshot goal.” But she can see it pretty clearly. Twelve megafarms in Northern Europe, maybe one or two gigafarms. Russia would make sense. The View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects

United States in 1984 and graduated from Stanford University in 1989. He was a Baker Scholar at HBS. At Monitor, he worked extensively in the United States, Korea, and Europe. He established the firm's Istanbul office, helped develop Monitor's Central/ Eastern European... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

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Past Issues - Alumni

from HBS to venture to the remote western edge of China—one of the few remaining “blank areas of the map.” His objective: to scale the great Minya Konka, height unknown Big Blue’s Big Bet IBM Watson is redefining the legendary tech company—and every industry it touches... View Details

12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

2019 Cambridge University Press Disciples of the State?: Religion and State-Building in the Former Ottoman World By: Fabbe, Kristin Abstract—As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

violence, willingness to settle and make peace are remarkably flexible and dependent upon these cues. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55574 November 2018 Review of Middle View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Mar 2020
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Can This Man Change the American Diet?

weekly food development meeting that is open to the public at a Clover restaurant in East Cambridge. In the words of Muir, “food dev” is where new food is born at Clover. Ayr: So, let’s just take some sample cups and we’ll pass these... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible

can be extremely lonely.” That began to change in 1997, when Endeavor was founded to spur economic growth in emerging and developing markets, initially in Latin America. It now has offices in India, South Africa, and Turkey, with plans to set up shop in more countries... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

balance-of-payments benefits. Refraining from exporting, however, would help consumers, reduce coal combustion, and attract energy-intensive businesses to the United States. And by reducing imports, America's foreign policy interests in the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine

newly opened facility to accommodate its vaccine development work, and CEO Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170) welcomed input on the design from the government’s infectious disease experts. For two years, Moderna had been working closely with the NIH to create a... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Mar 2019
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The Fight Beyond

Nazi Germany finally seemed to be in sight. In June 1944, Allied troops had come ashore on the beaches of Normandy, pushing the Axis forces east as the Soviet Union forced them west. In late August, Allied tanks had liberated Paris, which... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

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