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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
(UNI). “Involvement in Model UN definitely led me to my current work,” says Van Gerpen. “I always had a strong interest in travel and other cultures, and I quickly gravitated to the international studies side of political science.”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Researching Business and Politics in China and Southeast Asia
says, explaining that China is a good place to conduct research on the topic. “China is in the middle of a political and economic reorganization, and we don’t know what will happen next,” she observes. “The backlash against China’s global... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
became a political leader during Reconstruction. Eventually, Kearns discovered that he is a descendant of Emanuel Cumbo, his 10th great-grandfather, who was born to parents who arrived in Point Comfort, Virginia, from the Kingdom of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
promotions was not my thing. I wanted to make great records, not promote bad ones, so I kept going until I got the opportunity to do the thing I came to New York City to do: make iconic rap records. —Drew Dixon (MBA 2004) Hard Work and Lucky View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
get. Alan Horn (MBA 1971) Chief Creative Officer, Disney Studios Content Business Should Lead the Way BIO It is time for business leaders to respond to the challenge of climate change in a powerful and effective way. It is clear—and widely believed—that the View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
with ideas on how to fix the problem. Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights under Reform by Meg Rithmire (Cambridge University Press) Assistant Professor Rithmire explores the... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
unemployment that peaked at 28 percent, while more than 44 percent of the population slipped below the poverty line. And violent protests.So many years of protest, much of it fueled by anti-austerity anger and the inherent tensions from years of View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
manager for Chrysler in Pakistan, Turkey, and the Philippines before coming to HBS. But it did not prepare him for the economic disparity and differences in political systems he witnessed in these countries. "I was shocked," he says. In... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Gold Mettle
City bidders interested in landing the Games, and to make matters worse, the local organizing committee was in financial and organizational disarray. The scandalous situation made news around the world. Searching for a savior, the Salt... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
effectively by teaching them to interrupt unwanted impulses and bringing them to a state of mindfulness before the impulses turn into action. The Awkward Ozarker: A Curious Tale of Self-Reinvention in a Scantily Settled Land by Blant Hurt... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
exemplifies energetic government and vigorous federal programs for economic growth. Gallatin symbolizes low taxes and less intrusion by government." Not surprisingly, the two men (after whom two HBS buildings are named) were political... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
between sectors within countries, as international. Agriculture will need ever-greater amounts of water to feed growing populations, even as burgeoning cities — with their greater wealth and political clout — typically draw off more water... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
began with the Giants’ cross-bay rivals, the Oakland A’s. As a political science major at the University of California, Berkeley, Baer fed his passion for journalism and sports by serving as business manager and sports director of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
and employs 1,149 people. Political fallout from 9/11 has profoundly changed the operations of the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), the independent public agency that operates Boston’s Logan International Airport. After hijackers... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
2010, the upscale national grocer—at the gentle suggestion of Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow—came to look at properties in central Detroit. One of them was a vacant piece of land that Cummings owned on Mack Avenue in Midtown, next to... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Kennedy School knowledge," Keen says of the legislation he helped draft around raising the minimum wage and reforming the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court. But he also got a bruising lesson in politics when he spoke out against... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
obvious: Environmentalists have long known that the city has water run-off issues, but there had never been any political will to solve the problem. “Hurricane Harvey showed everyone that we just can’t be on the sidelines anymore,” Coady... View Details
Keywords: April White