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- April 3, 2018
- Article
Insight on Syria: What Are Putin's Motives?
By: Rawi Abdelal and Alexandra Vacroux
Russia’s direct entry into the Syrian conflict in September 2015 was spurred by a plethora of motivations. Russian scholars Rawi Abdelal and Alexandra Vacroux unpack the various rationales.
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Abdelal, Rawi, and Alexandra Vacroux. "Insight on Syria: What Are Putin's Motives?" Epicenter (April 3, 2018).
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
'Atlantic' Publisher Had Role in Brokering US Hostage’s Release
- 21 Jun 2016
- News
Rescuing Families from ISIS-Led Genocide
partner of a tech firm in Winnipeg to help Yazidis leave refugee camps in Syria and Turkey to start new lives in Canada. Five hundred members of this ancient ethno-religious minority were killed by ISIS in the 2014 onslaught. Women and...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis
The flow of refugees from Syria following years of civil war has been called the worst humanitarian crisis in modern times. Working in collaboration with HBS’s global research centers, two HBS professors have brought a better...
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- 16 Mar 2017
- News
‘We Don’t Leave When Things Go Wrong’
work in areas of conflict. We work in areas where there is a large number of disadvantaged people to try and persuade them that Daesh is not the answer to their lives. We work teaching English. We do extraordinary things, like, for example, extracting over 2,000 Syrian...
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- 14 Dec 2015
- News
Building Platforms of Life for the World’s Poorest Children
the primary humanitarian emergencies. I myself have been to Lebanon and Jordan, sitting and meeting with refugees. We are engaged with these refugees who are moving from the Syria area into Europe these days. I was this month in...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Analyze This
and China (937). What about the Middle East? Answer: Iran (4), Israel (225), Jordan (11), Lebanon (31), Pakistan (74), Saudi Arabia (103), Syria (1), Turkey (135), and the United Arab Emirates (127). No copies ship to Iraq or Afghanistan....
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) Penguin Press In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. But that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little...
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Margie Kelley
- December 2011
- Case
Negotiating the Path of Abraham
By: James K. Sebenius and Kimberlyn Leary
The Abraham Path Initiative board faces strategic and negotiating challenges in revitalizing a route of Middle East cultural tourism following Abraham's path 4000 years ago. The Path begins in the ancient ruins of Harran, in modern-day Turkey, where Abraham first heard...
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Nonprofit Organizations;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Partners and Partnerships;
Negotiation;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Religion;
Culture;
Tourism Industry;
Israel;
Syria;
Middle East;
Turkey;
Jordan
Sebenius, James K., and Kimberlyn Leary. "Negotiating the Path of Abraham." Harvard Business School Case 912-017, December 2011.
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
currently focused on recruiting students from Syria and northern Iraq. Elsewhere, DeFehr has developed an idea for an overland shipping route in southern Mexico to rival the Panama Canal. Business opportunities in that part of the world,...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Realities of the Refugee Crisis
and opportunity here is Afghanistan. Syria is a relatively small pool of migrants. In Afghanistan, you have a potentially enormous pool of refugees who could arrive at any moment in Europe. One of the things that Europe is starting to...
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April White
- Web
Middle East & North Africa - Global Activities 2021
Mission to Improve the Health Care System Nora Rabah (MS/MBA 2022), a fellowship recipient who emigrated from Syria at age five, is a member of the first cohort of the MS/MBA in Biotechnology: Life Sciences joint degree program. She is...
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- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
says Bradley. Freeing Gillis and Foley had taken six weeks; when Foley’s parents asked Bradley to help again, he agreed. “But Syria is not Libya. Syria is heartbreak. Syria is...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
depicted in the book were reconstructed from interviews, using the perspectives of multiple people. I made seven reporting trips to northeastern Syria in all, between 2017 and 2020, along with conducting more than 100 hours of interviews...
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- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
process? I think that these sorts of scenarios, along with doubts about the effectiveness of recent US foreign policy decisions regarding Syria and Iran, have had a negative effect on how we're viewed by business and government leaders in...
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by Jim Aisner
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
Clubs News Clubs News Toronto Alumni Explore Shift in Talent Markets On February 9, the HBS Club of Toronto held an in-person fireside chat and Q&A with Ethan Bernstein, Edward W. Conrad Association Professor of Business Administration, to explore the post-pandemic...
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Margie Kelley
- 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
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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
Nora Rabah (MS/MBA 2022), a fellowship recipient who emigrated from Syria at age five, is a member of the first cohort of the MS/MBA in Biotechnology: Life Sciences joint degree program. She is leveraging the program—a partnership among...
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- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
refugees view the politics of postconflict reconciliation and reconstruction. We find that refugees desire peace in Syria more than anything else, yet they also desire harsh punishments for the perpetrators of violence, especially against...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
cope with the Arab Spring, with war in Syria and Yemen, as well as the threats from Iran and ISIS and continuing friction between Palestinians and Israelis. The key to these issues is Vision 2030—the plan his son, the Crown Prince, has...
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Dina Gerdeman