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Margaret Regan
I am from a small southwest Louisiana town and grew up with ten siblings. My dad was a major source of inspiration and strength for me. My sense of myself was forged in my extended family. Did I think I would go to HBS when I was eight...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Credit, Decoded
A page from one of 63 credit volumes covering business in Louisiana State. This annotated entry details the success of two “free men of color” (identified by scholars as light-skinned men of mixed race) who worked as exchange brokers in...
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- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
Nohria said OB would become if we were ever to be involved in something that would change the world,” notes Smith, who also is working with the Girl Scouts of the USA Louisiana East to develop an environmental education initiative. “I...
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Ceena Beall
the days of Jim Crow. All of a sudden, he hunched over and started weeping. "He yelled at me like I was dog." I went over to comfort him, but words didn’t seem like enough to console this deep wound. My grandpa's first vocation was picking cotton in the View Details
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Matt Segneri
supporting and retaining New Orleans entrepreneurs. "We helped them select the most viable ventures among more than 100 applicants for the "504ward" $200,000 business plan competition — one of the largest such competitions in View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Moir Donelson
creating a youth development program in rural Louisiana while serving in the Army or increasing revenues (by $39 million) as an engineer and administrator at Motorola in Texas (where he also tutored students), Donelson has shown great...
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Susan Young
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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
and float passed by: “Make me art!” and “We’re the art!” These photographs are not only documents of the event, but also compelling reminders of the power and joy of art. CARRIE MAE WEEMS(American, born 1953)Untitled from The Louisiana...
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- December 2005
- Article
Capitalism and Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Louisiana, 1725-1820
By: Shawn A. Cole
Cole, Shawn A. "Capitalism and Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Louisiana, 1725-1820." Journal of Economic History 65, no. 4 (December 2005).
- Profile
Andrew Pratt
the former president of Mexico! What might people find surprising about you? I make amazing Louisiana gumbo. Why is it amazing? [Laughs.] That’s a secret. Okay, a big part of it is the fried chicken – like so many good things in life!
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Manufacturing/Energy
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
MBAxAmerica Update: Week 6, New Orleans
Village staff, program alumni, successful start-ups, early stage start-ups, impact investors, and the head of the Louisiana Buyout Fund. We also looked at recently released data from the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center and stats...
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Entrepreneurship
- March 2008 (Revised November 2009)
- Case
New Schools for New Orleans 2008
Founded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina as a catalyst for the transformation of the public education system in New Orleans, President Sarah Usdin and CEO Matt Candler must adapt their strategy to respond to a continuously shifting local context. By 2008, conditions on...
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Transformation;
Education;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Situation or Environment;
Adaptation;
Value Creation;
Education Industry;
New Orleans
Childress, Stacey, Scott Benson, and Sarah Tudryn. "New Schools for New Orleans 2008." Harvard Business School Case 308-074, March 2008. (Revised November 2009.)
- February 2008 (Revised May 2012)
- Supplement
The Big Easy, Not So Easy: The Letter
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Ben Creo
A short, supplemental case to "The Big Easy, Not So Easy" (208-068). Doris Koo must respond to new challenges at Lafitte in New Orleans.
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Natural Disasters;
Housing;
Projects;
Risk Management;
Urban Development;
Reputation;
New Orleans
Retsinas, Nicolas P., and Ben Creo. "The Big Easy, Not So Easy: The Letter." Harvard Business School Supplement 208-125, February 2008. (Revised May 2012.)
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
of his time." Like many other immigrants, Gallatin was in part attracted to America by the allure of its wide open spaces. Owner of an ample tract in Pennsylvania, Gallatin as treasury secretary oversaw elements of western expansion such as the View Details
- October 2016 (Revised November 2016)
- Case
Innovating Beyond Ochsner
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Olivia Hull
The Ochsner Health System has developed a proprietary software tool designed to treat hypertension. Built into the system’s electronic medical records, the Hypertension Digital Medicine program allows patients to record their blood pressure at home and share readings...
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Electronic Medical Records;
Telemedicine;
Hypertension;
High Blood Pressure;
Chronic Disease;
Entrepreneurship;
Health Disorders;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Innovation and Invention;
Growth Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Launch;
Product Positioning;
Science-Based Business;
Business Strategy;
Health Industry;
Technology Industry;
New Orleans;
Louisiana
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Olivia Hull. "Innovating Beyond Ochsner." Harvard Business School Case 817-028, October 2016. (Revised November 2016.)
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
distinguished thirty-year career at HBS. An Arkansas native who began his education in a two-room schoolhouse, Stobaugh entered Louisiana State University at 15 and earned his bachelor's degree in 1947. He then spent eighteen years...
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- March 2022 (Revised March 2022)
- Case
Transformation at Loyola New Orleans (A)
By: David Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti
In August of 2018, Tania Tetlow is inaugurated as President of Loyola University New Orleans, in the midst of turmoil. Prior to her start, the university was given a final warning to land a balanced budget by year's end by its accreditors or risk facing probation. It...
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Higher Education;
Financial Condition;
Crisis Management;
Change Management;
Trust;
Transformation;
New Orleans
Fubini, David, and Patrick Sanguineti. "Transformation at Loyola New Orleans (A)." Harvard Business School Case 422-052, March 2022. (Revised March 2022.)
- February 2008
- Teaching Note
The Big Easy, Not So Easy (TN)
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Ben Creo
Teaching Note for [208068].
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- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
Canada, China, and other areas. It's been quite a ride!" It seems all the more remarkable to Cuffe, who never thought of herself as having entrepreneurship in her blood (although her grandmother, having moved from Louisiana to California...
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- November 2012 (Revised April 2013)
- Supplement
The Levees Repaired, a System Still Broken: Post Katrina Turnaround at the Orleans Public Defenders (B)
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Olivia Leskinen
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Olivia Leskinen. "The Levees Repaired, a System Still Broken: Post Katrina Turnaround at the Orleans Public Defenders (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 313-027, November 2012. (Revised April 2013.)
- November 2012 (Revised June 2013)
- Case
The Levees Repaired, a System Still Broken: Post Katrina Turnaround at the Orleans Public Defenders (A)
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Olivia Leskinen
Law Professor Ronald Sullivan was asked to lead a turnaround of the Orleans Public Defenders as a one-year assignment following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The office was underfunded and had perverse incentives embedded throughout the system. Sullivan's new vision to...
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Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Olivia Leskinen. "The Levees Repaired, a System Still Broken: Post Katrina Turnaround at the Orleans Public Defenders (A)." Harvard Business School Case 313-026, November 2012. (Revised June 2013.)