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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
German Family to Give $11M After Learning Extent of Nazi Past
After an internal investigation revealed his company’s historic ties to Nazi Germany, JAB Holdings’ managing partner Peter Harf (MBA 1974) announced that the company intends to donate 10 million euros to a yet-to-be-determined charity. The research found that, in...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
scale up globally, and the 1990s saw lasting social and policy shifts in Germany and Spain that encouraged their entry into the wind game. By 1996, the largest wind energy companies in the world included one US, two German, and five...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
responsibilities of Christians who are serious about following Jesus. Capitalist West Germany and Socialist East Germany: A Country Divided By James Glenn (MBA 1965) Independently published In the years following the end of World War II,...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Ferrell (42nd PMD) Greenwich, CT Charles F. Milner, Jr. (MBA '65) Adamstown, PA Heiner Thorborg (12th ISMP) Frankfurt, Germany Chairman, HBS Fund Thomas C. Theobald (MBA '60) Chicago, IL President of the HBS Student Association Ronald P....
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Cathy Connett
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
began to meet the officials and advisers who were attached to my first ministry, and I discovered the varying qualities of those people. Before I went back to Iraq, I spent a lot of time reading about the occupations of Germany and Japan...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Euro Vision
financial services. "But over time, those differences are going away," he says. "I wouldn't want to typecast any of them, because entrepreneurs move around very fluidly. You can do anything anywhere." If Rimer went to Germany looking only...
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Jason Feifer
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Porter Ranks Competitiveness
The United States and Germany remain at the top of the latest global Business Competitiveness Index produced by University Professor Michael Porter and two colleagues at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. China slipped nine...
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- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
HBS professors Ramon Casadesus‐Masanell, left, and Sunil Gupta, listened to a presentation about the layout of the Siemens Electronikwerk Amberg manufacturing facility during the faculty immersion in Munich. (photo by Willy C. Shih) The remarkable success of the...
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- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
LifeQube mobile clinic management Asia-Pacific HBS Club of Shanghai Oliver Segovia, MBA '10 Jennifer Kelly, MBA '10 AVA invitation-only shopping platform Canada HBS Club of Toronto Zaheed Poptia, MBA '06 CardSwap online giftcard marketplace Europe HBS Alumni...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
estimating that Germany could see a shortage of 3 million skilled workers by 2030; China, which accounts for about 20 percent of the world’s manufacturing production, will have a high-skilled labor gap of about 24 million by 2020,...
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Dan Morrell
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
Association of Germany Matthew Perkins, MBA 2009 Founder Yield Pop agricultural resource platform latin america HBS Club of Brazil Jonathan Assayag, MBA 2010 CEO Lema21 Brazilian eyewear mid-atlantic us HBS Club of Washington, DC Angela...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
David Perez (MBA 1996) readily admits that launching Avance Investment Management in May 2020, at the height of the pandemic, was “the worst timing ever.” But the Cuban native, who studied engineering in East Germany and saved his...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
Northern California Events in conjunction with students Madrid and Barcelona Northern California Video conferences with faculty Pakistan Philippines Topics addressed at the events included “Innovation, Regulation, and Biomedical Business in View Details
- 28 Mar 2019
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California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
leaders. The ECLM was followed by the School’s Campaign Celebration, where attendees joined Dean Nohria and more than 250 alumni and guests at the Natural History Museum in London to celebrate the conclusion of a successful campaign. HBSA of View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
Germany is just as extraordinary to them as showing an English person the travel wonders of Zimbabwe. It’s as relevant in Honduras as it is in Hungary and Hampstead Heath.” The project took shape when Main Wilson was a young executive at...
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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
relevant in Korea as it is in Germany or Argentina,” says Whitman, noting that eBay is now in 39 markets around the world. Whitman built the brand by listening and responding to customers and through smart acquisitions, expanding into...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
Harris on the steps of Harlem's St. Charles Borromeo Church On a summer day in 1983, Carla Ann Harris (MBA ’87) stood before an audience of East Germans in a Leipzig church. Well before the Berlin Wall came down, Harris and other members of the Radcliffe Choral Society...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
annual energy demand. The Passive House movement got its start in Germany in the early 1990s; by the mid-2010s, there were an estimated 60,000 Passive House buildings in the world. But many of those are boxy, modern structures. An...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons
graduating from Harvard College in 1988, Audrey Choi went to West Germany on a Fulbright scholarship to study literature. But with the Soviet empire tottering, she found herself drawn to the sea changes taking place around her and the...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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The Fight Beyond
Nazi Germany finally seemed to be in sight. In June 1944, Allied troops had come ashore on the beaches of Normandy, pushing the Axis forces east as the Soviet Union forced them west. In late August, Allied tanks had liberated Paris, which...
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