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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Chai Ling
the West, Chai hopes a more favorable political climate will allow her to return home. Chai's leadership and organizational abilities were honed early. When she was ten, her mother and father, both military doctors, put her in charge of... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons in perseverance lead to high-quality schools for Peru
Pilar Deza (OPM 30, 2001) went from opening a nursery in her garage for four neighborhood children to operating some of Peru’s best-run private schools. She faced challenges all along the way, trying to create and operate new schools amidst a View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
peace in Indochina was signed by one-third of the student body and later publicly denounced by other students who felt the gesture misrepresented the majority's opinion at the School. Bearded "peaceniks" faced off in heated debate with Vietnam vets who still wore View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
Teacher WAC student Richard A. Schaub (MBA ’56) I originally entered HBS as a member of the Class of 1953 but was called away for a three-year military obligation before finishing all the required coursework. Before I left HBS, however, I... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Moir Donelson
Moir Donelson's first year at West Point wasn't easy. "Brains," as his Southside Chicago buddies called him, was valedictorian, class president, and a football star at his high school, yet he found it difficult to make a C average at the famously rigorous View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
every country in the world. "One of the high points of that trip," recalls Corti, "was flying over and touching down on the endless plains of Russia. You realize how enormous the country is and the folly of trying to conquer it." Military... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
wasn’t any heroics. My house was outside the Green Zone. Our family home had been taken over by the former regime and turned into a Baath Party military intelligence headquarters. When the regime fell, we took back our property. The place... View Details
- 08 Dec 2017
- News
Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits
After a tumultuous year in US politics, more than a dozen recent alumni have thrown their hats into the ring to launch careers in public service. “More and more people are feeling they need to step up and that they can, because they have the right skills to solve the... View Details
Keywords: politics
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
As a junior Episcopal minister, Bob Massie (DBA 1989) infuriated church leaders by revealing to his congregation that its $9 million endowment was secretly invested in a number of unchurchly entities, including military contractors,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
dabbled in military journalism (as much a misnomer, Navasky says, as military music), after which he enrolled at Yale Law School. At Yale, he cofounded and spent much of his time working on Monocle, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
Image courtesy BlackSky There was a time not too long ago, says Amy Minnick (MBA 2000), when only governments and the military had the hardware and human resources necessary to acquire and interpret satellite imagery. But times have... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Start It Up
Mojave Desert of Earl Energy’s 18-kilowatt hybrid generators showed as much as a 90 percent reduction in fuel use. The Marines are now testing them at frontline command centers in Afghanistan, and if further trials go well, the generators’ View Details
- 21 Jan 2022
- News
Real Talk
asks participants, especially executives, to get vulnerable. After dozens of interviews with CEOs, DE&I trainers, employees, entrepreneurs, military leaders, and colleagues who have used storytelling to bridge difference in their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
about anything. Franklin Delano Roosevelt made the country believe it could crawl out of a depression, rallied it around social change that created a middle class, and mobilized the greatest military in the world to conquer fascism. After... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
not-so-pretty picture of a frustrating and baffling decline in performance by the varsity boat at the United States Military Academy. Polzer, whose teaching and research focus on organizational behavior, leadership, and teams, sees many... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
glasnost. The experience was mind-blowing and heart-opening.” After fulfilling a two-year military service requirement in Singapore, Lim studied international relations as an undergraduate at Princeton University, where Professor Cornel... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Horse-Powered Healing
injuries, paraplegics, Down syndrome, autism, depression, and eating disorders. Riders range in age from preschoolers to military veterans to seniors. “Nothing in my previous jobs compares with helping people to get stronger and extend... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
year, Taylor hasn’t succeeded in using his military service to outflank his opponent. Edwards is a hawk on military matters, voting for the first Gulf War and the invasion of Iraq. Local veterans praise his... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
When Air Force brat Cathy Nichols turned ten, her father left the military and moved the family to a house without electricity in rural Maine. Nichols grew up in semipoverty, working every summer to earn money for clothes and knowing that... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
most recent work was with the government of Myanmar, which recently emerged from decades of military rule with a planned economy. Bulletin editor Dan Morrell talked to David about his experience in Myanmar, and what the process of private... View Details