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- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
Reiling, who connected them with student interns to assist in determining the idea’s viability. Finally, Kim went home and pitched the idea to Cynthia, who came from a military family. Together, the Kims and Roth each invested $10,000 of... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
create only the illusion of transparency - while delaying work. Donations yield reduced value because of inefficiency and security costs. A worse problem surrounds Madrid pledges. Pledges are not the same as cash, as Afghans found. Credits must be repaid. View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Realities of the Refugee Crisis
Illustration by Peter Arkle Since the outbreak of civil war in 2011, 4.9 million Syrians have fled their country, and another 6.6 million are internally displaced, according to the UN Refugee Agency. To better understand the human,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
Law School and Design School, this year's conference hosted over fifty speakers from business, government, and academia in the United States and Asia. Panels focused on the economic future of countries such as Taiwan, India, Japan, Korea,... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
to the needs of the state’s sustainable tech sector. “When I set up Aravaipa Ventures, I broke every law of what was done commonly by VCs at the time,” Fenwick-Smith says. The fund was focused narrowly both topically, on climate change,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
summa cum laude; JD '93, Washington University School of Law; MSW '93, George Warren Brown School of Social Work. Assistant District Counsel, Immigration & Naturalization Service, El Paso, Tex. Maryann Tsang Fong, AB '80, cum laude. Owner, Daryan View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- News
The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together
“It seems to me that we are now economically and socially divided and burdened in ways that are broadly analogous to 1937. During such times, conflicts (both internal and external) increase, populism emerges, democracies are threatened... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
sales, Anthony Curry Harris, and his director of international sales, Damaune Journey (MBA 2005)—are hoping to buy CSECO. Harris says that would certainly give him more time to serve on boards, such as the nonprofit SFJazz, which recently... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
Photography by Michael Paras Doug Duda (MBA 1985) cooked his way through his undergraduate degree in Miami. He cooked his way through his law degree in Boston and through his MBA at HBS. When he graduated, Duda says, “my family thought,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
dollars, euros, pounds, and other stores of wealth to move invisibly—beyond the control of central bankers, law enforcement agents, and international institutions. With an entire financial secrecy system now... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Star analysts who change firms suffer an immediate, lasting decline in perfor-mance. He also explores how some Wall Street research departments are successfully growing, retaining, and deploying their own stars. International Differences... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance, but ever since his undergraduate days of studying public and international affairs at Princeton, Offensend planned that, one... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
to internally and externally manage those affinities and ethnic networks to their advantage. + ONLINE You also study companies like Netflix and Airbnb that have a multi-country presence as part of their model from the get-go. The course... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
company; evaluate the performance of senior managers; set executive compensation; approve key strategic and financial decisions; nominate candidates for shareholders to elect as directors; and ensure the company’s integrity, sustainability, and compliance with View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- News
Looking to Rwanda’s Future
advisor at the private equity firm TA Associates. “They asked, ‘What do we need to do today to help us attract international investors in the future?’ They were considering investments in infrastructure, resources, and education that... View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
time when 30 to 40 percent of Americans switch religions during their lifetimes. A graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School, McLennan is a Unitarian Universalist minister and chaplain at Tufts University who has spent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Franklin H. Coursen (PMD 25, 1973) Harwich Port, MA Regulation Works I am glad that HBS faculty members favor improved regulation to avoid future financial meltdowns. Regulation is not antithetical to market capitalism any more than traffic View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
today. “Since high school, I’d been creating vision maps—sort of a forward-looking, diagrammatical approach to what I wanted my life to be about. I knew I wanted to contribute to the world through leadership in the international arena.... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
symbolic things to bigger, provocative, intellectual ideas—I just had none of that previously”), she worked as a banker in Philadelphia, funding mom-and-pop cable TV startups in rural Pennsylvania. It cemented her decision to apply to business school rather than View Details