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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
“We can bail out the economy — we cannot bail out the environment.” —John Doerr (MBA ’76), Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers “Our position on immigration right now is more a manifestation of our lack of confidence as a country... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
Asadero, a tangy, yellow cheese used in many Mexican dishes, are just 2 of more than 35 varieties of ethnic cheeses produced today at Specialty Cheese’s three rural Wisconsin plants. Soft and hard cheeses that appeal to the palates of View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
settlement housed European immigrants who worked on the railroads and at the port. Throughout the decades, multiple attempts at forced eviction and resettlement failed, though one late-1970s effort reduced the population to just 1,000. A... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Medical School. The son of immigrants from Central America, he grew up in a low-income community in Southern California, and both his older brothers had foregone higher education to get jobs and help... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Chao Family Donates $40 Million to HBS
Chu Chao. The Chaos, émigrés from Taiwan and a remarkable immigrant success story, are the only family ever to have four daughters attend HBS. "Because Ruth devoted her life to promoting excellence in education and enhancing US-China... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Forsythe stories feature a talented African American man, wrongfully imprisoned, who becomes a successful drug lord. The Carmichael stories feature two generations of Swedish immigrants in upstate New York, facing—or avoiding—the... View Details
- 06 Nov 2020
- News
Signal Boost
organizations in western Michigan, sprang up when the area—once largely white—began to undergo a significant demographic change. Latino migrants and immigrants began to move into the area for agricultural jobs. “LEDA, initially, was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
they’ve shown a willingness to think in new ways about energy and to consider longer-term strategies such as using immigration to support scientific and technical advances. But what’s needed with clean tech is a rational, well-defined... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
invest outside the country and immigration rates to rise. Is the immigration trend related to the growing number of Western-educated Chinese? Over 300,000 Chinese students enrolled in various US colleges and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
For several decades, the career path of Alfred L. Cheauré (MBA '71) was fairly straightforward. A first-generation immigrant American from Germany, Cheauré grew up in New Jersey and attended the U.S. Naval Academy. He began his 27-year... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
says he hopes it will “enable young, entrepreneurial managers from Poland to lead even more business growth in the years ahead.” Educated as an engineer in England, where his father led a Polish squadron of the Royal Air Force during World War II, Makowski View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
edited by Dan Morrell; illustrations by Chris Gash use this navigation to explore the 19 Musts MUST READ The Border by Don Winslow “The Border is a gut-punch crime novel that contrasts the desperation of illegal immigrants with the... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
executive order that restricts entry, including reentry, into the U.S. for citizens and nationals of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen on both immigrant (permanent residence or green card) and non-immigrant visas. Foreign... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Sumner Feldberg (MBA 1949), who died on July 1, 2022, was remembered in an obituary in the Wall Street Journal as an innovator in the field of retail. He grew up in Newton, Mass., the child of Jewish View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- News
DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground
A recent article in Fast Company details the $130 million fundraising round by educational technology company, DreamBox Learning, and profiles the company’s president and CEO, Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990). Woolley-Wilson traces her background—her View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
cultural heritage and you do not want people to hide their immigrant background. How do you balance those things? AL: Great question. So I truly believe that being an immigrant myself, that 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 of Hollywood as leader of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
step-by-step framework for letting go of shame; and how just two minutes can make every day intentional. Fortitude: The Story of My Ancestors by Charles Rentschler (MBA 1964) Authorhouse This is the story of Rentschler’s grandfather, George Adam Rentschler, a German... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
especially for a company in New York or Silicon Valley. The second strategic benefit is hiring. Think about all the talent that is being left behind because they can’t migrate to the US due to the current immigration system. I have done... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
(OPM 30, 2001) and Blair S. Walker Wiley This is the true story of resolute immigration lawyer and activist Loida Lewis, beginning with her adventure-packed Philippine upbringing. A torrid love affair with brilliant, irascible financier... View Details