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- 30 Sep 2010
- News
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
fighting if they don’t want to,” Ahtisaari declared. In the Indonesia-Aceh situation, Muslim factions embraced the authority and guidance of a non-Muslim Westerner. Talk about being open and putting differences aside: maybe Republicans... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
globalism spread. Few Muslims today live lives linked to truly universal Islamic institutions that provide governance, education, economies, legal systems, or cultural expression. Instead, the author describes a civilization in name only,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Insights into Business in Islamic World
global context. Hayes and Vogel, coauthors of the 1998 book Islamic Law and Finance: Religion, Risk, and Return, explored issues of doing business in Islamic countries at a presentation in late January. Hayes noted that despite a common faith, styles of practice among... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
was highly constrained by the Great Powers of Europe. This resulted in considerable distortions on the economy and society. For example, special legal privileges were given to Europeans and non-Muslim minorities, which was one reason why the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
helped. One Hindu woman we interviewed kept a Muslim gentleman in her home who didn’t want to migrate to Pakistan. A neighbor found out and accused the woman and her sister of hiding him. But she said, “No. Don’t you know, this is our... View Details
- 21 Mar 2012
- Op-Ed
Finding the Right Jeremy Lin Storyline
Protestant faith makes him seem less "other" to a non-Asian-American audience than his race, especially in the context of current public discourse about politicians who have Muslim names or Mormon faith? There are two plausible... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
Nairobi." In 2010, Keshavjee was one of four representatives from Kenya to be invited by Barack Obama to Washington for the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, "to deepen ties between business leaders, foundations, and social entrepreneurs in the United States and... View Details
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
government’s policies to favor Muslim business over those of Armenian, Greek, and Jewish minorities. These new data sets and analytical techniques, enabled by new tools in computational data science, have potential to broaden and deepen... View Details
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
In light of the tragedies in Paris and San Bernadino, a number of politicians, following in the footsteps of Donald Trump, have urged this country to respond by barring immigrants, refugees, and Muslims from our shores. Such a “solution”... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
this one theoretical. What if she could invest in a company doing great things for society, but where the board was 100 percent male? "I invest in them, and file a shareholder resolution," she answered immediately. In introductory comments, Hayes noted that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Turning Point: Step Change
inside. The school’s former principal, he explained that Serbs didn’t allow Muslim students to attend during the war—and he himself was Muslim. Later, the school became a refugee shelter and had been dilapidated ever since. When I asked... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
three students, so the children can work with each other with minimal direction from a facilitator. The result was immediate, Mendhro says. “One of the Hindu children told us his new best friend was a Muslim boy named Mohammed, to whom he... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. Using an instrumental variables approach derived from a regression discontinuity, we find that increasing the political representation of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
different than other places, and I also felt that it is very important for Americans to understand Muslim countries. (We have also been, or will be, in India, China, Latin America, Japan, sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe, as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
multimillion-dollar proposal in a pigskin binder, considered vile in many Muslim cultures. He was unceremoniously tossed out and his company blacklisted from working with Saudi businesses. But the differences can be much more subtle,... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
United States for citizens from seven selected countries and, specifically, targeting those of the Muslim faith. The dampening effects of such a ban have become clear very quickly: students (including a number with citizenship from the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Ismaili Muslim faith, called to request that he take a three-month leave to advise Afghanistan’s Ministry of Communications on the development of new telecoms in the country. Khoja was already doing some pro bono work for the Aga Khan... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
But even if such adjustments were psychologically possible, an abrupt change could be dismissed as inauthentic. Hispanics, Muslims and women already know what the Trump brand thinks of them and might see any corrections in tone or policy... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
Editor’s note: Last Friday, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order indefinitely preventing Syrian refugees from entering the United States, suspending all refugee admission for 120 days, and blocking all citizens of seven predominantly View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
We find similar evidence of backlash following (mostly male) Muslim candidates winning and argue that this bolsters the evidence of institutionalized demand-side barriers to entry and undermines supply-side gender-specific preferences and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne