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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
fellowship gives me the freedom to pursue my passion for helping suffering communities.” Cenat’s desire to give back stems from her own experience. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Haiti when she was a child, and her...
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- Profile
Alika Phipps
Immersion Experience Program (IXP), Regina Abrami, Alika participated in the Vietnam IXP last winter. “We explored different types of businesses in Vietnam and how they evolve in a macro-political context,” Alika says. “It’s an emerging market, so many of the lessons...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Kresge’s Afterlife
Formerly used to store utensils and cookware, the racks now store the club’s arts-and-crafts supplies. Kitchen equipment Haiti and Jamaica Various charities More than three truckloads of pots and pans, ladles, spoons, china, and rolling...
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Dan Morrell
- Profile
Benjamin Peterson
what classes I should take; and in Haiti, there were millions of people worried if they’d be safe at night.” Determined to understand poverty and what he could do about it, Ben studied international relations at Stanford. His thesis brought him back to View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
IXP Heads to Haiti, Points Beyond
In January, some 500 students participating in the Immersion Experience Program (IXP) will head to an expanded roster of international and domestic destinations to engage in field-based learning. Now in its fifth year, the program emphasizes active learning through...
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- Portrait Project
Judy D'Agostino
“So where are you from?”I cringe when I hear the question, racking my brain to determine what I’ll say. I am Haitian.Sundays were marked with soup joumou, celebrations punctuated by konpa, school breaks spent in the sweltering heat of View Details
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Jennifer Tom
worldwide. I too can save the world. While I have not fought mad scientists or supervillains from outer space, I have begun to battle evil. This past year I worked in Haiti and Rwanda to contribute to Partners In Health's fight against...
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- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
there, nor will she be the last: A student-led Immersion Experience Program (IXP) to Haiti is scheduled for January 2011. Organized by second-year students Andrea Ellwood, Brent Gibson, and Kathleen Hebert, with the assistance of HBS...
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Philippe Taieb
internationally. He was a consultant at Braxton Associates, a strategy consulting firm, in London and Paris and then led business units for Swiss company SGS, the world leader in certification and quality control, in Senegal, Haiti and...
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- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
successes have been nothing short of extraordinary. Goodwin encouraged Marriott to build a hotel in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. The hotel—which Goodwin calls both an astute business decision and smart social one—is scheduled to...
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Jill Radsken
- Web
VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Intermountain Healthcare Joslin Diabetes Center Kaiser Permanente Maine Medical Center Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Mayo Clinic MD Anderson Cancer Center Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital Mirebelais Hospital, View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
A dozen budding social entrepreneurs pitched their ideas for innovative products and services during the annual Social Enterprise Conference in February, and four came away with top honors. The sold-out event marked the 13th year of the conference, which is jointly...
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- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
Case 615-003 Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief: What Can We Learn from Commercial Supply Chains? Organizing speedy and efficient supply operations for unpredictable major natural disasters was a continuing challenge for the U.S. military, and the 2010 earthquake...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Finding sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises
Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007) believes professionals and their companies are the critical link in solving the world's most serious problems. As the cofounder of Executives Without Borders, Goodwin proved his case in developing countries by strengthening humanitarian...
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- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
existing strengths and capitalize on those,” advises Duch, who is currently applying that strategy to the challenge of helping rural farmers in Haiti sell their produce directly on world markets. Since joining the World Bank in 2013, Duch...
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Deborah Blagg
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
Ending poverty and hunger for millions of people around the world may sound like an insurmountable goal, but that hasn’t stopped Pierre Ferrari (MBA 1976) from taking it on—and finding success. “By 2020, we will end poverty for 4 million families,” says Ferrari, now in...
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- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
From the problems posed by the Great Recession to the devastation in Haiti and the Gulf of Mexico, from the continuing economic growth of India and China to a cascade of entrepreneurial ventures, the year 2010 offered a wide assortment of...
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- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816064-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 116-041 Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Partners In Health in Haiti The case describes the application of Time-Driven Activity-Based...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
Case 118-051 Partners In Health: Costing Primary Care in Haiti Partners in Health, a global NGO focused on delivering health care to residents of rural underserved communities, conducts a project on the cost of primary care at five sites...
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Sean Silverthorne