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- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Connecting Past and Present
to warn other members of the family,” said Diamond, whose search led him to Poland—and then to the creation of Jewish Records Indexing–Poland. Since founding JRI-Poland, in 1996, the not-for-profit has indexed more than 5 million birth,... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
started as an altruistic concern for his family, however, led to a second career as cofounder of Jewish Records Indexing–Poland, an online database that has helped families around the world document their ancestry and find relatives about... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 03 Apr 2009
- News
This year, at Harvard: Jerusalem's mayor builds economic partnership
- 21 Jun 2016
- News
Rescuing Families from ISIS-Led Genocide
remote mountain hideouts where many died before relief efforts reached them. “They are genocide victims,” states Aziza, who now works full time with Operation Ezra, an initiative led by the city’s active Jewish community that has raised... View Details
- Portrait Project
Gavriel Goidel
I think my true calling is to be a stay-at-home dad. After all, the times I was unemployed were also my happiest. Growing up in Bnei Brak, an ultra-orthodox Jewish town in Israel, I never saw a woman wearing pants, and none of my friends... View Details
- Portrait Project
Seth Shapiro
Square. I was annoyed, tormenting myself for lost time. Yet, I had no idea that those extra six minutes until the next train would save my life. That is because I was only two blocks from reaching the finish line when I saw the first bomb detonate. We recite a blessing... View Details
- Portrait Project
Assaf Harlap
caused me to stop believing in myself. Many were my teachers. A tenacious and caring mother who motivated me through long nights memorizing Jewish history. A military officer who forced me to wash floors all weekend as punishment for a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeff Baron
theater. “I have an advantage because I can write about the workplace with firsthand knowledge,” says Baron, whose first play, Visiting Mr. Green, centers on the relationship that develops when a young, gay executive is sentenced to help care for an elderly View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Action Plan: Border Crossing
GFC-funded urban soccer tournament. “It was a powerful, memorable experience,” says Rawdon, who offers three tips for creating unforgettable travel moments of your own. How to make memorable travel moments Find personal connections. “On a trip to Shanghai we visited... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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Student Clubs | MBA
Policy Club Greater China Club H HBS Show Health & Wellness Club Health Care Club Heard on the Street Hospitality & Travel Club I Impact Investing Club Infrastructure Club Investment Club Islamic Society Israel Business Club J Jewish... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
entrepreneurs actually go about producing transformative change. There are four key stages: understanding the world; envisioning a better future; building a model for change; and scaling the solution. The Debate over Jewish Achievement:... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
president of the Jewish Communal Fund and currently heads the New York City Parks Foundation. The father of four, Tisch strives to strike some balance in his very full life. As it is, however, he normally sleeps only four-and-a-half hours... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
trait. Although he didn’t arrive in the United States until age 10, Ted Levitt didn’t look back, rarely discussing what must have been a difficult childhood for a Jewish boy during Hitler’s ascendancy. After serving in World War II, where... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
less a figure than Gerson Cohen, the head of The Jewish Theological Seminary, agreed to be my tutor. For six years we met once a week; that, too, was an extraordinary education. Then, in 1988, I read Rachel and Her Children by Jonathan... View Details
- 07 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
From Teach for America – to HBS – and Back Again
had been admitted. You see, I’m a Jewban (a Jewish Cuban) and my family history includes escaping the Bolshevik revolution and the Holocaust to settle in Cuba, only to turn around and flee the communist regime and seek out religious and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
sense of being “an outsider in the world of privilege.” He chose banking “because it’s a profession where you are judged by what you produce rather than where you come from.” Born in Australia to middle-class Jewish parents, Wolfensohn, a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
On the Outside at HBS
Rosenbaum: Women students feel a judgmental difference. When I started at HBS in 2006, I was a 24-year-old Jewish Latina who was also enrolled at Harvard Law School. In my brief professional experience, I had already been a successful... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
last fall the Krafts launched a "Kick Cancer" awareness campaign. They endowed a chaired professorship in Jewish studies at Boston College and a chaired professorship in Christian studies at Brandeis. All told, the Krafts have donated... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
manufacturer whose brands and trademarks lay at the heart of its competitive advantages in international markets, the loss of these intangible assets was especially damaging. However, worse was to come. During the 1930s as a so-called View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Sumner Feldberg (MBA 1949), who died on July 1, 2022, was remembered in an obituary in the Wall Street Journal as an innovator in the field of retail. He grew up in Newton, Mass., the child of View Details