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- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
about $1 billion on job-retraining, according to The Economist.) The creation of a 2-track world. As microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus put it in his speech accepting the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, if globalization "is a free-for-all... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative, and even former President Barack Obama. Strategic investors like Nigerian conglomerate owner Tunde Folawiyo and Tope Lawani (MBA 1995), co-CEO of Helios Fairfax Partners and cofounder and managing... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
place where nuclear weapons are no longer needed. Second, deterrence has been critical to the peace between great powers since WWII, making the work the people on that submarine are doing every second of every day even more important. I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
percent of his work was crime and suspense; the rest was about manners and mores. And so it was with these relatively peaceful 1950s books about the professional classes, even as he was also producing plenty of murder and mayhem in... View Details
- Portrait Project
Luke Hodges
Ah the peace and control of compartmentalization! Set boundaries, build some walls. Choose on which side to be. You please, wait here. I hope you like the room. I try to keep it clean. Cup of tea? Stove is here, mugs over there. I’ll be... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
In partnership to support a mission
international peace and security,” says Jenkins. Their focus is to find the best risk-adjusted returns so that the century-old foundation can exist in perpetuity. Originally known for establishing libraries to further knowledge and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
Born in Kansas, Whit Sears graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, before attending HBS. He and his wife, DD, are currently serving as Peace Corps volunteers in Thailand, where they teach English and mentor local teachers.... View Details
John D. Biggers
Biggers is recognized for strong labor-management relations. He was a key figure in bringing the Toledo Labor Peace Plan to nation-wide attention. In 1947, Biggers was head of one of the world’s largest manufacturers of flat glass with... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- Profile
Clarissa Quintanilla
campus. After graduation, she worked at Edward Jones “because I was interested in its community-based distribution system.” After two years with the company (working in its Rotational Development Program and in marketing), she married her fiance, Ben Clark, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
change does not intersect with peacebuilding. The realities are there We need to be more honest about what the likely impacts are going to be.” – Dr. Tegan Blaine, Director of Climate, Environment, and Conflict at the U.S. Institute of View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 05 Oct 2016
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Negotiating the Impossible: Break Deadlocks and Resolve Conflicts (without Money or Muscle)
Some negotiations are easy. Others are more difficult. And then there are situations that seem completely hopeless. Conflict is escalating, people are getting aggressive, and no one is willing to back down. To top it off, you have little power or other resources with... View Details
- Portrait Project
Mamongae Mahlare
Africa's canvas of poverty and strife ...to prosperity and peace Take a moment to inhale the sweet scent of flowers, at every opportunity The hopeful fragrance of summer rain on newly-ploughed ground Reminisce of simple village life as a... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
them realize that dream,” she says. A volunteer network sustains the San Francisco–based organization, which has helped facilitate peaceful relations in India, Pakistan, Colombia, and Rwanda. In India, for example, the Dreamfly built a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Chai Ling
her long ordeal might be over. It had begun nearly a year earlier, in 1989, when Chai, a 23-year-old Beijing University student, was elected "chief commander" by the Tiananmen Square dissidents because of her leadership skills and electrifying speeches. After the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From venture capitalist to 'compassionate capitalist'
chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide, one of the world’s leading private equity investment groups. In 2007, he cofounded Social Finance, a London-based nonprofit that is advancing ways to apply market principles to solving social problems in the UK. He also serves as... View Details
- Profile
Ari Medoff
the parties don't know one another," says Ari. "Seeds of Peace is about the power of bringing people together at a formative age, when they're fourteen or fifteen." Seizing the initiative, Ari formed a Junior Board of... View Details
- Portrait Project
Harman Kochar
If life could be planned I would have already – Eradicated Poverty from the World Controlled Global Warming Established World Peace Cured all Diseases Discovered the fountain of youth and last but not the least.... Built my mansion on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Building a Social Network
skiing with a YPOer who lives in Colorado? Great! A few well-placed e-mail inquiries and you should be all set. Want to leverage YPO members’ considerable brain power and clout to help bring peace to countries in conflict? That will... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
January 2019 Perspectives on Psychological Science Educating Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract— No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55580 January 2019 Journal of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman