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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
and children by not only providing medical care, but also working to rehabilitate people’s homes and provide vocational training for parents. She initially shied away from seeking help from the rich and powerful—people she saw as greedy...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
their nine-year- old daughter, Justine, and eight-year-old son, David. "Right now, I see my children mostly on weekends," he notes. "I want to change that." His other enduring passion is Fountain House, an innovative rehabilitation...
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Deborah Blagg
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
media focus on another crisis, the donations tend to dry up even though, as has been noted in the case of the tsunami disaster, the long-term rehabilitation needs are vast and require a tremendous amount of funds. Q: Many cases featured...
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by Manda Salls
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
employees, rather than doing what's necessary to rehabilitate the business." According to Gilson, this provides compelling evidence that "US bankruptcy laws and restructuring practices have played a critical role in driving the...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
farming communities. In 2007, the two businessmen worked with a group of Nigerian banks to complete the consolidation of a $222 million loan—the largest in Nigeria's history—to rehabilitate the Notore plant. In 2009, a decade after NAFCON...
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John R. Sculley
Leaving his position as CEO of Pepsi-Cola, Sculley’s first task as head of Apple involved cutting costs and cutting people, most notably, Apple’s founder and symbol, Steven Jobs. Though the firing of Jobs was difficult for many to digest, Sculley’s View Details
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Computers & Electronics
Hale Holden
Holden’s role as a railway spokesman was his most significant mark on the development of American business. An attorney by training, Holden was instrumental in successfully arguing railway rate cases on behalf of Chicago Burlington. He also represented the industry in...
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Transportation
Samuel M. Vauclain
States and its World War I allies, including Russia, France and Britain. Combining his vision for Baldwin with his support of post-war rehabilitation in Europe, Vauclain expanded Baldwin into 12 countries, allowing it to become one of the...
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Transportation
Alfred N. Steele
Arriving at Pepsi after defecting from an alienating position at Coca-Cola, Steele immediately began a highly involved rehabilitation process at the battered soft drink maker. Steele installed a more autonomous management structure,...
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Food & Tobacco
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
Marty Cordova (MBA 1974), a Vietnam vet who has seen good days and bad, is dedicating himself to helping other vets get their lives back together. Cordova is finance director of Rehabilitation Services and Veterans Programs (RS&VP), a...
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- 11 Dec 2017
- News
A Pioneer of Affordable Housing
by rehabilitating historic structures in towns and cities in the Midwest. Its work has received numerous state, local, and national awards, including two from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Today, the company focuses on...
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- 17 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Brands Work
of the same Detroit-centric product that have caused Ford's market shares around the world to erode. What do you think? Can Ford rehabilitate its global brand status? Join the discussion on Harvard Business Online.
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- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
rehabilitation projects that resulted in affordable housing, and finally took on historic rehabilitation projects by themselves, working in Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. Today, the company focuses on...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
unharmed. Confined to a wheelchair as a result of the accident but hopeful that an ongoing rehabilitation effort and prosthetic legs will permit her to walk again, Langer maintains a positive attitude. "One of my nurses," she recalls,...
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- 18 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Brand China Can Succeed
is vital that, for 2008, all Chinese raise their game, not just in competitive sport but in commerce. It would be too bad if China is the largest medal winner in 2008 but remains an also-ran in business practices. Do you think China will succeed in its effort to View Details
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by John Quelch
- Profile
Jennifer Kelly
consultants who spent six months in Aceh, Indonesia after the devastating 2004 tsunami tore through the island. "We worked with the government, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank to build a new organization, the View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
countries. Høegh explains that he always tries to include a philanthropic side to his artistic endeavors: "Among those employed in my productions in Norway were rehabilitated drug addicts from a special jobs program. Having this kind of...
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Garry Emmons
- Web
Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of ageAn Overview of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act 1969 Neil Armstrong walks on the moon 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act passed 1973 Rehabilitation Act of prohibits...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
over at the museum at a key time, with the Met in the midst of a campaign to raise $400 million. The article also detailed Houghton's lengthy stint of physical therapy and rehabilitation after a near-fatal accident in 1993 when he was...
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