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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Fıelds of Gold
expensive foods, retailing at $4,000 or more a pound. Iran is the largest producer of this highly prized spice, which stains food a brilliant golden hue, but David Luo (MBA 2011) believes that Afghanistan could become the world’s...
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- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In 2007, Navy SEAL Marcus Lutrell wrote a book called Lone Survivor, which recounted his experience during a 2005 mission in Northeastern Afghanistan that ultimately...
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- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
going to get on the plane. White: So that trip to Afghanistan turned into a case, correct? Lemmon: It did. It turned into a case that we still teach. In fact, we teach it every year and have every year since. And it also, became a book,...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War
actual financial cost of operating the Afghanistan and Iraq wars at $2.7 trillion. (Before the wars, the Bush White House estimated the bill would be $50 billion.) Next comes a question: What could we have done with the money had we not...
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- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Building change from the ground up
Karim Khoja (AMP 156, 1999) is CEO of Roshan, Afghanistan’s leading telecom provider, with nearly 6 million active subscribers. Before the company began operations in 2003, phone calls were a luxury that few citizens could afford; the infrastructure simply wasn’t...
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- 14 Jul 2018
- News
Bringing Afghan Saffron to U.S. Stores
- 05 Apr 2016
- News
A Business Plan with Spice
saffron fields of Afghanistan as cofounders of Rumi Spice, a company which imports one of the world’s most expensive foodstuffs and markets it to top chefs. “Connecting Afghan farmers to the international marketplace is something that's...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
significantly since the end of the Cold War. Panelist Nancy Aossey, president and CEO of International Medical Corps, was a sophomore in college when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Her primary memory from that time was of...
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- 09 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Veterans Day Reflections
Applying to HBS from Afghanistan I remember very clearly the first time I set foot on the Harvard Business School campus. I had recently returned home from my second nine-month deployment to Afghanistan and...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Holding Steady in the Wild Blue Yonder
The day after Northern Alliance troops rolled into Kabul as the Taliban withdrew without a fight, Secretary of the Air Force James Roche (DBA '72) cautioned CNN's Larry King, "This is going to go on for some time. And we can't be elated one day and depressed the next....
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Supporting the Troops
Kohlberg Photo Courtesy Kohlberg Foundation Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are uncertain not only about their long-term health-care benefits, but also about the education benefits that were an inducement for many to enlist. The GI Bill,...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Feedback
primary command and control communication system. —Joe Lanza (AMP 103, 1988) via bulletin@hbs.edu I don’t know if it’s chutzpah or ignorance regarding the history of and current situation in Afghanistan or both that enables the editors to...
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- 02 Aug 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
who have also risen to become commanding officers. “AFAA members were definitely my people at HBS,” he says. Goldenberg’s path to the Endowment began when he saw his sailors returning from Afghanistan and Iraq struggle to find work. In...
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- Portrait Project
Kurt Scherer
I want to keep the sparkle in the eyes of my three glorious children. And others. How can you make the hope that resides in every person grow and thrive? I was standing in Afghanistan two years ago, surrounded by innocent, magnificent...
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- June 2003 (Revised April 2004)
- Supplement
Mercy Corps: Global Social Entrepreneurship (B)
Supplements the (A) case.
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Bartlett, Christopher A. "Mercy Corps: Global Social Entrepreneurship (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 303-140, June 2003. (Revised April 2004.)
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
educational institutions. A Democracy Is Born: An Insider’s Account of the Battle against Terrorism in Afghanistan by Matthew J. Morgan (MBA ’07) (Greenwood Publishing Group) In October 2004, more than 8 million citizens of View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
112-029 Hassina Sherjan was born in Afghanistan but grew up and was educated in the United States. A trip to Afghanistan when she was an adult inspired her to move back to her home country with two missions....
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Jake Cusack
means to owe something. To realize you have to earn that you survived when others did not. I will honor the unique chances I have been given by investing myself in the places where others spent their blood. Over the last two years, I have returned to Iraq and View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
class. He re-upped after 9/11 and spent seven months in Afghanistan before moving on to Iraq. For his “professional and heroic” actions of March 20, 2003, on the Iraq-Kuwait border (described below), Gurfein was awarded the Bronze Star....
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Letters
Fantastic Photos The photo galleries from Iraq and Afghanistan on the Bulletin Web site are fantastic. They portray both the beauty and the ugliness of these countries and put a familiar face on those who serve us during this war. Thank...
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