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- Portrait Project
Rachel Reddy
Tears rolling softly down my face. My six young cousins carrying the coffin. A deep quiet and stillness despite a church packed to bursting point. Yet, there’s a profound sense of peace and happiness inside me. I had known this wonderful... View Details
- Portrait Project
Lyn Baranowski
ultimately achieving global peace and prosperity. I will be a corporate champion in the public and private sectors and will help companies build relationships across borders for two reasons. First, I believe that trade ties between... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Muhammad Yunus Visits HBS
Yunus Microlending pioneer Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, told HBS students in April that “all human beings are entrepreneurs, even the poorest of the poor,” as he discovered after... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Taking MBA know-how on tour across America
trenches, and lending our skills, experience, and curiosity to the task of helping entrepreneurs and communities bring their visions to life.” He and his classmates have helped students from other business schools take similar trips by building MBAs Across America into... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979)
positions in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors, including director of the Peace Corps, president and CEO of United Way of America, and her present post, U.S. Secretary of Labor. I remember driving to Boston with my parents to... View Details
- Portrait Project
Joan Cheng
hadn't actually tried my hardest. At HBS we're taught to play to our strengths. But in my life I've found humor in being a horrible skier (ask my friends!), a lesson in my failed bid for a promotion, and peace in being unable to make that... View Details
- Portrait Project
Helen Ruiqi Zhang
ever had. I've grown up always striving to be bigger, stronger, faster. But Antarctica teaches me to be small. Here, ego is diminished and anxiety subdued. I realize a strong mind achieves and is not solipsistic; a peaceful heart aspires... 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
- 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
- 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
- Portrait Project
Rye Barcott
father, a servant, and a leader to speak for me. I hope my life's actions inspire others to carry on in our common quest for a more peaceful and equitable world. View Details
- Portrait Project
Polina Yampolska
and attain inner peace. Only this inner peace will allow me to find my place in civilization and journey along my path, improving the lives of people and organizations and living by values akin to those of the Hippocratic Oath: to be... View Details
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CiCi Barrett
everything short of his life to this disease—his career, home, health—appeared happier and more at peace than ever. “I’m grateful for every sunrise,” was his simple response. I spent the next decade studying neuroscience, happiness, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Escape Hatch
Above: Founder Jon Staff at a Getaway tiny house in the Catskills, New York (photo by HollenderX2) Growing up five hours north of Minneapolis, Jon Staff (MBA 2016) was never far from woods, lakes, and a sense of escape. That peace became... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Film School
In 1994, after a career spent mostly in corporate America, Jeff Seder (MBA '74, JD '76) began to feel that his life lacked purpose. "I was a burned-out, sold-out '60s leftover," he told the Philadelphia Inquirer (September 13, 2001). "I was restless and bored." Seder... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- News
Working to Improve the End of Life
dying than I had been when I was younger. As I started finding out more, I realized there was a tremendous amount of misinformation out there about death and dying. “The mission of End of Life Choices New York is to have everybody have the greatest chance possible of... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- News
Commencement and the Winds of Change
To give peace a chance, unleash the power of business. That’s Sir Ronald Cohen’s (MBA ’69) idea for one of the world’s toughest neighborhoods: the Middle East. At an event hosted by the HBS Jewish Students Association on April 9, Cohen,... View Details
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Oded Eran
the radio. Fast-forward 6 months. I am working with a group of Arabs and Israelis on a conference promoting peace through economic cooperation. After the conference, I grabbed a beer with Sari, a Palestinian entrepreneur from the West... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Poverty and Security
“predictable and decent government structures,” while not wholly democratic, can lead to “an effective result.” Asked what the West doesn’t understand about Islam, Wolfensohn said, “When you’re in a conflict, typecasting happens. But there is a richness in Islam, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
Tierney, who moved into this comparatively luxurious setting with his wife, Susan, after he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Chile for two years. But the difference between being a student at HBS and working with farmers in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young