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- 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
- 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
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
while Jewish people are the most targeted religious group. According to an article in the Washington Post, hate crimes are grossly underreported, and 90 percent of the country’s approximately sixteen thousand law enforcement agencies... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 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
- 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
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
Lalocracio In thinking about the current contested state of global capitalism, and what to do about it, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Seeking the Unconventional in Forging Histories of Capitalism, which... View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
the point.” The plan he built that day was a pyramid. On one side there was what he was good at: business. On the other side there was what he loved: music—specifically, opera. Since third grade, Weinstein had been in glee clubs and choruses. He had sung in a Catholic... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
bicycle with his two sons (ages 16 and 12) and his 7-year-old daughter. He also serves on the board of San Francisco's Jewish Museum. "I view Judaism as being the source code for Western civilization," Ranadivé remarks. Hindu by birth, he... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
venues. The development, an adaptive reuse of a school building and former Jewish synagogue, received statewide recognition for incorporating the highest standards for green buildings, an energy microgrid, and an urban farm. “If there’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
the venture capital industry. "There are strong affinity groups with Indian venture capitalists and entrepreneurs and with Chinese venture capitalists and entrepreneurs," Gompers says. "And there's sort of a cabal of Jewish entrepreneurs... View Details
- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
English-origin peoples. Pickles were also important in Jewish cuisine. 54 Henry Heinz, 1880. The young businessman hoped to develop a larger market for his products. In the early 1870s, he saw an important opportunity to do this. Most... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
When the Egyptian government forced out all Jewish inhabitants after the Suez Crisis in 1956, the Cohens left with only one suitcase apiece. His mother’s British citizenship made it possible for them to immigrate to London, where they had... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Mind contains the guidance, takeaways, and specific approaches you need to learn to love numbers. Amy Unbound By Martin Sneider (MBA 1968) Jewish Leaders Books Amy Feldman is at the epicenter of a storm as she confronts the indifference... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
at Bulova, leading a team that saved the company from bankruptcy and building a profitable business. Among the many organizations that have benefited from Tisch’s leadership are the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Jewish Joint... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
younger brother grew up speaking French and a smattering of Arabic. Cohen’s father, whose family traces its roots to the Syrian trading center of Aleppo, started a successful import/ export business at age 30. After the Suez Canal crisis in 1956, the Egyptian... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
25 When Guy Spier (MBA 1993), who lives in Switzerland, read that Ukrainian refugees were streaming into Poland, he and his wife, Lory, reached out to other members of the Jewish community in Zurich to see what relief efforts might be... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
September for in-person classes for the school’s 300-plus Jewish students. In addition, members of the school community signed an “ethical covenant” committing that their behavior outside of the school building wouldn’t compromise the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
far from ideal. Past efforts to impact perceptions of Israel, spearheaded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as various Jewish organizations, were mainly aimed at “explaining” Israel’s political position and convincing the world... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
hearing. And suddenly, there he was — a Jew from a Jewish firm of no great stature on Wall Street — extending as valuable an invitation as a business executive could have: to be one of the corporate executives who would meet with the top... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
company, such as a requirement that the company shutter its office on Jewish holidays and every week for observance of Shabbat. By 2016, the company was thriving both financially and operationally. Considering the opportunity to acquire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne