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- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
dairy worker on a rail stop in western Kansas, Eisenhower felt passionate about military history and football from a young age. He was determined to escape his father’s line of work in the local creamery and applied for officer training, receiving a nomination to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
are good at looking after people, and we could all use more looking after.” Franklin P. Johnson Jr., MBA 1952 JOHNSON: At home in Palo Alto. When Pitch Johnson left his position as an assistant superintendent in East Chicago’s Inland... View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #5: Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader
dated it 2002, three years into the future. I put that check on my vision board, and three years later, I walked into a Bank of America branch in Jonesboro, Georgia and handed it to a teller. I didn’t wind up depositing the check. It was... View Details
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
mouths have an opportunity to do something like Harley’s doing?” A prison conviction leads to multiple employment rejections After losing his father at age 15, Blakeman fell into hard drug use. After he was incarcerated in a Georgia... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
there's still not a lot in the growth stage. What can we do to fix that? Dodi: Well, that's the million dollar question or billion dollar question. Because also across the board, the landscape has changed from even 10 years ago. We don’t have the number of IPOs that we... View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
commercial strategy that is not yet fully defined. As Nutricia defines its strategy, it also has to define the strategic control systems it will use to monitor and fine-tune the strategy moving forward. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
In 2001 it was renamed the Coverdell Education Savings Account program, after the late Georgia senator Paul Coverdell. This is a federal program that allows you to put after-tax earnings into a special ESA account. Returns cumulate... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
uses were bound by age-old religious and cultural beliefs. Yet somehow these delicate flora became the foundation of a global industry made strong by a century of virtually uninterrupted growth that not even economic meltdowns and world... View Details
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
gotten a death threat on his phone, using the N word, telling him to get out of town. He says he gets about 30 or 40 death threats a day in those days. So, it was a very, very rough time in Montgomery, Alabama. I went to View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
customers and the community, and differentiates us from our competitors," explains Jackson. "It's all part of our business strategy for leading BankBoston into the 21st century and is consistent with the philosophy of managing with values... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
businesses. Dessain: We pitched this idea to Laura because a case on the flat tax, which has been widely implemented in Eastern Europe (in Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, Slovakia, Georgia and Romania), would be able... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
even been overtaken by, market forces and finance? How big and how pervasive is the business of sports? Swinging for the Seats A recent Georgia Tech study put the value of the sports industry at $152 billion annually. But HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
playing all manner of sports, Foster says the fog began to roll in when he started college. He went through cycles of denial, struggling to make peace with his situation. Eventually though, he began to ask the question of "why me" very differently: instead of View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
celebrate a new peace: After 20 years of negotiations, the four groups had agreed on a historic deal for land use in the Great Bear Rainforest, a 25,000-square-mile stretch of BC’s north and central coastlands—the largest intact coastal... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Aspirations and Learning Experiences of Diverse Women Progressing Toward Top Leadership" at the 2018 Gender and Work Symposium Minimizing Identity Threats While Increasing Safety: Attending to Diversity Ideologies University of Georgia... View Details
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Musical Quarterly, The Journal for Popular Music Studies and Parcours anthropologiques. Other publications include chapters in I Was Born to Use Mics: Listening to Nas’ Illmatic and The Hip-hop & Obama Reader. In addition to scholarly... View Details