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- 10 Nov 2017
- News
Girl’s Pendant Found at Nazi Camp Site Reunites a Family
Karoline Cohn, who would have been about 12 at the time of World War II, are gathering this week in Germany to dedicate a memorial in her honor. Many of these relatives, who are travelling from the US,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
share the same religious background.” What is his definition of “few”? How many “few” have fought violently in Iraq, Afghanistan, and all over the world for many years now? How many “few” are there in Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
World War II saw a massive invasion of America's own shores, with wave upon wave of returning veterans - along with their civilian countrymen - eagerly anticipating the fruits... View Details
- 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
- 08 Aug 2019
- News
Cloudflare Pulls the Plug on Hate Site
that “(i)t’s dangerous for infrastructure companies to be making what are editorial decisions.” In the end, though, 8chan’s focus on hate and flouting of incitement laws pushed him to enact the ban, he told the Times. “If we see a bad thing in the View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
evident, once again, last summer. The country was mired in the fifth year of a costly, bloody war in the Middle East, a conflict many believed was driven in part by a desire to secure access to Iraq’s petroleum reserves. “Black gold”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
actions during and after World War II. As Allied soldiers fought the Nazis, Franklin Roosevelt and, later, Harry Truman fought in private with Churchill and Stalin over how to ensure that Germany could never... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
The decisions you make in a life-and-death crisis have a new, lasting importance. You can choose to ignore that, but you do so at your own peril. We are never going back to what we remember as business as usual. Why not? Because COVID is a seismic event—much more akin... View Details
- 27 Apr 2022
- News
Following the Flow of Aid
and support for these third-country nationals, who might not otherwise connect with services. McKenna also extended her visit to include Iraq and Lebanon, where food prices are hitting record highs as a result of the war in Ukraine. About... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Len Schlesinger Returns
faculty research in this area and trying to frame the issues that bubble up from there. What is it about the business world that energizes you? For me, it's very simple. When you combine a collection of really messy problems and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
aftermath of World War I, the Great Depression, and the beginning of World War II. In this turbulent era, he developed a distinctive focus and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Narrative Arc
relation). Raised in poverty, Earl received free piano lessons and eventually studied with composer Arnold Schoenberg at UCLA, but his career was interrupted by World War II. Earl served as a combat... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
started World War I, and it all collapsed. As percentages of GDP, we didn’t return to those earlier levels of global capital flows until the 1990s. Global free trade is not the natural order of things.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
Bert Berkley (MBA 1950) calls it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” Having served in the US Army during World War II for three-and-a-half years, he was offered (and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
things like the Great Depression, which was another moment when the world stood still, and you had the uncertainty that you see surrounding us right now. So if you take that as a precedent—and put aside View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
reason for optimism, too. Business leaders as well as state and local policymakers have a major role to play in restoring competitiveness—and there are promising signs of change at the local and state level. The issue is the role of the federal government in restoring... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
the VC community to see itself as a real industry.” The venture capital industry began to take shape after World War II on the northeastern seaboard when in 1946 Doriot became... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Bradley led 1.23 million men as commander of 12 Army Group on the Western Front to bring an end to World War II. Bradley was the youngest and last of nine men to earn five-star rank and the only army officer... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
stratified society—it's not the result of three years of the current administration. It really is something that has been building over years. Between World War II and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
A Man of Influence
childhood as the grandson of Sicilian immigrants to World War II, when he piloted a B-25 attack bomber, to his time as an aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson, to his 39 years amongst the movers and shakers... View Details