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- 01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient
Rhenisch Rick Bern/Courtesy Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority A community organizer during the 1960s, Madelyn Rhenisch was a pioneering advocate for better medical care for the people of rural upstate New York. More...
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- 23 Apr 2018
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Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
100 students. “Most of these young people grew up in rural poverty and would never have a chance to take an SAT,” Condo notes. “We learn about them from their high schools or community leaders, who know they have extraordinary potential.”...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2001
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Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
The path from the rural South to the upper echelons of Wall Street is not heavily traveled. Indeed, E. Stanley O’Neal (MBA ’78) is surely the only person who has made the journey from the fields of Wedowee, Alabama — where he labored on...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Patrick Moreton
it’s a balancing act? Yes, and it continues to this day. In the media industry, I think we’re seeing something like the Wal-Mart effect on small rural communities. Consumers love Wal-Mart’s low prices and its one-stop shopping. At the...
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- 27 Oct 2016
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Paying It Forward
the game.” As a student at MIT, Kundu took time out to volunteer as a science teacher in rural India. Kundu is also changing the game outside his industry—for children in India, especially—thanks to the success he’s had in his business...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom
doesn’t look like what I thought it would, but I have learned, once again, that people are so much more varied and interesting than what I could imagine on my own,” writes Margulies, who worked on improving health-care systems and rural...
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- 17 May 2018
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Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
training methodology is such that it gives the trainees confidence, since they learn, among other things, to stand up in front of peers and seniors and speak, something they have never done,” he notes. One success story is that of Jyotika Parmar, a woman from View Details
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
the problem in two different ways. The first is through AACE. The second is by managing the new $100 million Fund for Agricultural Financing in Nigeria, a partnership between Adesina's Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Putting Ghosts to Rest
as a means of reconciliation. To me, it was a startling idea. Spending some time in the rural villages and meeting with farmers themselves painted the picture for me. After the genocide, many villages’ lands had to be completely...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Group who has been working recently with a number of faculty members to develop Asian-based cases for the School’s curriculum. “There’s one Chinese company, for example, that has established an e-mail/postal service that expedites correspondence with people in View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
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Books
to make a living selling buttons, combs, and other sundry items to suspicious and penny-pinching rural homesteaders. From these humble origins, Friedman traces a series of transitions that imposed ever-greater organization and...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Down the Memory Chute
shortly after his return from a fact-finding trip as an AID consultant assessing anti-Vietcong programs in rural Vietnam. Lodge, whose father was the U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam at the time, says this daylong WAC discussion, held in...
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Garry Emmons
- 11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow
humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great ideas can be backed with the...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 11 Apr 2018
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The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
song with the Vietnam War heavy on his mind, and spent much of his life as a social justice advocate who fought for prison reform, Native American rights, and for opportunities for children born into disadvantage, among other issues. No doubt, Cash’s lyrics and life...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons
second of five children, growing up under apartheid in rural South Africa, she credits her parents with stressing the importance of education and for making her politically aware and proud of her Sotho heritage. With this strong...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
language, it wouldn’t focus on hosting Mountain Dew–fueled, all-night hackathons, she says. “That’s not appealing to everybody. But if you say, ‘Let’s try to find innovative solutions to bringing lights to rural villages,’ and it happens...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Apr 2002
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Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
disparity between rural and urban populations widens. Wanda S. Tseng, deputy director of the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department, offered an overview of Asia's current economic strengths and weaknesses. "There are no quick fixes," she...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
species. My Name Is Melvin: The Life of an Extraordinary Ordinary Man by John A. Ehlert (OPM 23, 1996) (Telemachus Press LLC) In this biography of his father, Ehlert tells how Melvin was born in hardscrabble rural Minnesota and spent his...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
operators exist in the countries where Roshan is staking its claim. But it will focus in part on the rural areas that have the lowest service penetration and the fewest social services, a strategy that fits well with the company’s dual...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out
work, nonprofit fellows contribute to and witness transformations in the lives of others — with lasting effects on their own lives as well. One day last August in rural Kharagpur, India, Neera Nundy (HBS '02) accompanied a middle-aged...
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