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- 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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March Bishop
Afghanistan to be more the beginning of a professional adventure, not a career path exactly. MLK Jr said, "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase" and HBS has given me the confidence to pursue...
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- 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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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
older than me. I leaned on my grandmother when I separated and divorced; I frantically called one of my uncles or my father when I had good news to share. I listened when my great-uncle told me how my great-great-grandfather had walked from View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story
Through this project, Quin became aware of the plight of women in Afghanistan and then worked with Afghan women to help craft the Declaration of the Essential Rights of Afghan Women, a document that she hopes will be formally incorporated...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
half of all girls are married off before the legal age of 16. In this impoverished country, it is said that a man with daughters is rich. The visitor to the shelter that day last August was Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006), a former ABC News producer who has also...
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- 30 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS
the current students. The first was a woman who, by age 25, had founded and sold a retailing business in Canada. I was 26 – yikes! Next was an army interrogator who had spent four years in Afghanistan and from whom I immediately ran,...
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- 24 May 2022
- Blog Post
Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan
Stressful and uncertain environments were familiar to Kiernan from his time in the Marine Corps. He spent most of his military career in special operations, serving as a scout sniper, Pashto linguist, and deployed to Afghanistan where he...
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- 30 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Reflecting on my service
exposing me to brilliant and dedicated leaders. Those sergeants, staff-NCOs and officers taught me countless invaluable lessons while providing opportunities for growth. Their lessons led me from Afghanistan to New York City, from Ireland...
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- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
line half a world away for not only each other, but for another country and way of life. One of these soldiers I will remember forever, and I wear on my wrist every day: SPC GABRIEL D. CONDE ABLE CO 3RD BN 509TH IN (ABN) KIA 30 APR 2018 KAPISA, View Details
- 07 May 2015
- Blog Post
Career Change: From the Military to Consulting
Class of 2015 after serving for six years as an Infantry Officer in the U.S. Army and working in Afghanistan as an aide-de-camp in NATO’s anticorruption task force. Dan spent much of his time at HBS exploring different industries, and he...
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- 14 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Partner Feature: Love Doesn’t Need a Zip Code
Afghanistan and Las Vegas. Finally, after four years, we hatched a plan and Jeremy moved to Las Vegas where we shared the same zip code for the first time since going to school together in Boston. After realizing that we flew over 32,390...
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- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
service industry such as commercial banking. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707485 Shahla Nawabi: Reconstructing Afghanistan Harvard Business School Case 807-023 Explores the strategies...
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Martha Lagace
- Fast Answer
Historical Research - India
Asia from shortly before Indian partition and independence up to 1980. The collection consists of three sections: Section I: Independence, Partition and the Nehru Era, 1947-64 Section II: South Asian Conflicts and Independence for Bangladesh, 1965-71 ...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
Edited by April White A US military convoy was halted on a road north of Fallujah, among the most dangerous cities in Iraq. There was a possible IED in its path. They needed orders: Should they reroute? At the same moment, another Marine convoy discovered a possible...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
broadcasting, flip the channel to FOX. If you want even more reinforcement, there’s talk radio and the blogs. Nor is there any willingness to talk about real costs. We are now fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that are costing nearly...
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- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
case). How should senior management respond? Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111025-PDF-ENG Roshan: Light at the End of the Tunnel in Afghanistan Herman B. Leonard and Qahir DhananiHarvard Business School...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
U.S. Army Captain Blake Hall (MBA 2010), right, in Afghanistan in 2007 with members of his unit Photo Credit: Tony Overman Blake Hall (MBA 2010) knows from personal experience that US military veterans can easily miss out on the benefits...
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- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
is maintained indefinitely. And of course there's always the possible outcome that these interventions are just a bad idea." Maurer's research will take him to Afghanistan this fall, where he will be embedded with NATO troops....
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by Julia Hanna
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
Times best sellers The Daughters of Kobani, Ashley’s War, and The Dressmaker of Khair Khana. (Lemmon started working on Dressmaker during her second year at HBS; she first encountered Mercy Corps in Afghanistan while researching the...
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