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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Supporting the Troops
Kohlberg Photo Courtesy Kohlberg Foundation Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are uncertain not only about their long-term health-care benefits, but also about the education benefits that were an inducement for many to enlist. The GI Bill,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Holding Steady in the Wild Blue Yonder
The day after Northern Alliance troops rolled into Kabul as the Taliban withdrew without a fight, Secretary of the Air Force James Roche (DBA '72) cautioned CNN's Larry King, "This is going to go on for some time. And we can't be elated one day and depressed the next.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
class. He re-upped after 9/11 and spent seven months in Afghanistan before moving on to Iraq. For his “professional and heroic” actions of March 20, 2003, on the Iraq-Kuwait border (described below), Gurfein was awarded the Bronze Star.... View Details
- June 2003 (Revised April 2004)
- Supplement
Mercy Corps: Global Social Entrepreneurship (B)
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Bartlett, Christopher A. "Mercy Corps: Global Social Entrepreneurship (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 303-140, June 2003. (Revised April 2004.)
- Profile
March Bishop
Afghanistan to be more the beginning of a professional adventure, not a career path exactly. MLK Jr said, "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase" and HBS has given me the confidence to pursue... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kurt Scherer
I want to keep the sparkle in the eyes of my three glorious children. And others. How can you make the hope that resides in every person grow and thrive? I was standing in Afghanistan two years ago, surrounded by innocent, magnificent... View Details
- Profile
Juliane Schwetz
Many HBS graduates will manage brands; few, however, will be responsible for a brand as storied – and as important – as the one that will be under Juliane Schwetz’s care: the United States Military Academy at West Point. An Army captain, Juliane has served tours of... View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
employers. The value is almost always there; they just need to communicate it more effectively,” he notes. Goldenberg offers as an example D. J. Watson, an infantryman from Georgia. A tough, confident Army sergeant who successfully led his soldiers in View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Letters
Fantastic Photos The photo galleries from Iraq and Afghanistan on the Bulletin Web site are fantastic. They portray both the beauty and the ugliness of these countries and put a familiar face on those who serve us during this war. Thank... View Details
- 14 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Partner Feature: Love Doesn’t Need a Zip Code
Afghanistan and Las Vegas. Finally, after four years, we hatched a plan and Jeremy moved to Las Vegas where we shared the same zip code for the first time since going to school together in Boston. After realizing that we flew over 32,390... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Values Proposition
Illustrations by Drue Wagner The Company The Leadership The Pitch The News Saathi Cofounder and CFO Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014); Founded 2015 Almost 3 million women in India don’t have access to sanitary pads. Saathi’s environmentally friendly pads, made from banana fiber... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
112-029 Hassina Sherjan was born in Afghanistan but grew up and was educated in the United States. A trip to Afghanistan when she was an adult inspired her to move back to her home country with two missions.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
older than me. I leaned on my grandmother when I separated and divorced; I frantically called one of my uncles or my father when I had good news to share. I listened when my great-uncle told me how my great-great-grandfather had walked from View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS
the current students. The first was a woman who, by age 25, had founded and sold a retailing business in Canada. I was 26 – yikes! Next was an army interrogator who had spent four years in Afghanistan and from whom I immediately ran,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story
Through this project, Quin became aware of the plight of women in Afghanistan and then worked with Afghan women to help craft the Declaration of the Essential Rights of Afghan Women, a document that she hopes will be formally incorporated... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
half of all girls are married off before the legal age of 16. In this impoverished country, it is said that a man with daughters is rich. The visitor to the shelter that day last August was Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006), a former ABC News producer who has also... View Details
- 24 May 2022
- Blog Post
Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan
Stressful and uncertain environments were familiar to Kiernan from his time in the Marine Corps. He spent most of his military career in special operations, serving as a scout sniper, Pashto linguist, and deployed to Afghanistan where he... View Details
- 30 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Reflecting on my service
exposing me to brilliant and dedicated leaders. Those sergeants, staff-NCOs and officers taught me countless invaluable lessons while providing opportunities for growth. Their lessons led me from Afghanistan to New York City, from Ireland... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
line half a world away for not only each other, but for another country and way of life. One of these soldiers I will remember forever, and I wear on my wrist every day: SPC GABRIEL D. CONDE ABLE CO 3RD BN 509TH IN (ABN) KIA 30 APR 2018 KAPISA, View Details
- 07 May 2015
- Blog Post
Career Change: From the Military to Consulting
Class of 2015 after serving for six years as an Infantry Officer in the U.S. Army and working in Afghanistan as an aide-de-camp in NATO’s anticorruption task force. Dan spent much of his time at HBS exploring different industries, and he... View Details