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- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power Episode 7 of Climate Stories focuses on Janice Tran and her first two years as CEO and co-founder of Kanin Energy. Trained as an accountant, the Canadian-born 35-year old daughter of Vietnamese View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
public services and infrastructure have been most directly affected by an influx of Syrian refugees. The refugee crisis is a global problem, not just that of a few countries.” Native tongue: Igbo. “My parents were very particular about us...
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Julia Hanna
- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
Morrell Tell me about your own childhood—how was the idea inspired by your own experience? We're from Lebanon originally, and my family left there when I was 6, while the country was in the middle of war. We literally left on a boat and ended up in Cyprus. Eventually,...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Turning Point: Step Change
inside. The school’s former principal, he explained that Serbs didn’t allow Muslim students to attend during the war—and he himself was Muslim. Later, the school became a refugee shelter and had been dilapidated ever since. When I asked...
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- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
Editor’s note: Last Friday, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order indefinitely preventing Syrian refugees from entering the United States, suspending all refugee admission for 120 days, and...
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- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
their bags packed, but they never got to leave. And to this day, we only hesitatingly normalized relations with Cuba. And that was a big reason why we had the cocaine explosion. And to say nothing of what happened in 1980, where Fidel Castro allowed 120,000 View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
greater. When Exit Is an Option: Effects of Indiscriminate Violence on Attitudes Among Syrian Refugees in Turkey By: Fabbe, Kristin, Chad Hazlett, and Tolga Sinmazdemir Abstract—Most research on the effects of violence on civilian...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
Authority.) Eighteen months after the near-miss deal, after an eruption of hostilities, the two leaders found their political fortunes reversed. Sharon's poll numbers were way down (due to suicide bombers and insecurity inside Israel) while Arafat's were way up (as...
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- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
it worked. "We saw an opportunity to bring the fragrance to the United States and to create a new innovative category—a fragrance with a function for the outdoor-chic lifestyle. Once we tracked down our supplier, we learned that the fragrance is hand mixed by Burmese...
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- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-007_e181fd00-4426-4db8-8f70-89b1b5054a8f.pdf January 2015 Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies International Migration and Innovation: Insights from the U.S. Experience...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
to Chu, himself a Wall Street refugee with grounding in consulting and buy-outs, microfinance has "a double bottom-line." It brings above-average returns for first-movers who tap into what finance specialists see as a new...
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by Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
"second-generation" perspective on accountability that is interpretive and culturally embedded. How Does Accountability Affect Mission? The Case of a Nonprofit Serving Immigrants and Refugees Authors:R. Christensen and Alnoor S....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
going forward is whether this location is going to present more opportunities than challenges. The current turbulence in Iraq and Syria points to the latter. Turkey has almost four million Syrian refugees at the moment, and an on-going...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
evaluating the responsibilities of business leaders to society, especially from the perspective of human rights. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315108-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-142 German Business and the Syrian View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
refugee women about reproductive health. “I was shocked the first time I heard some kids call me La Blanche—“The White Lady”—because I am a lighter-skinned African American,” she laughs. Working in West Africa put the future into sharper...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
workforce pipeline to groom local interns and AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers for full-time positions at the school, where he pushes them to pursue postsecondary training. And he’s hired a number of ex-miners and other refugees from...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
lifetime relationship between an Iranian father and a daughter, seen through the prism of global immigration and the contemporary refugee experience. It ultimately asks: Must home always be a physical place, or can we find it in another...
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- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
join an Uber-like platform to match skilled refugees with talent-hungry companies. A visionary journalist-turned-entrepreneur closed social divides by giving 50 million social media users access to free local education and culture. Read...
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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
healthcare providers caring for refugee patients. Sacerdote Runner-Up Award: Gramhal Post-harvest services of storage, credit, and market linkage for smallholder farmers. ALUMNI WINNERS Grand Prize: Blueland Eliminate weight and waste...
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