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- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
Conference hosted by the HBS Club of the GCC (The Gulf Cooperation Council). His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Cabinet Member and Minister of Tolerance, United Arab Emirates, gave opening remarks for the 6th annual...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
successes and setbacks —from launching start-ups and taking on the family business to helping kids in the Persian Gulf and harnessing new technology and developing clean energy—they reveal how the next generation of ideas, aspirations,...
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- 26 Apr 2022
- News
Leading on Climate Change
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) welcomed Her Excellency Mariam Bint Mohammed Saeed Hareb Almheiri, the Minister of Climate Change and Environment for the United Arab Emirates, and Paul Polman,...
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Margie Kelley
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
Admiral Norvell Ward, who commanded a fleet of 52 supply ships deployed in the Gulf of Tonkin, supporting US troops in Vietnam. It was there that he observed a tragedy that only added to a series of hints at what would become his later...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
and Suharto came and went. Vietnam vets were joined by their Gulf War counterparts in the struggle to put their lives back together after the trauma of armed combat. Noriega was captured. Castro wasn't. The effects of South Africa's...
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Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
1,200 employees work, reopened just ten days after Katrina wrought destruction of “biblical proportions” on the Gulf Coast community. Oreck recently talked about that experience and the future. Were you prepared for Katrina? We had always...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
plane smashes into the ship. Come in too high, and its tailhook misses the arresting wires needed to bring the aircraft to a screeching halt. Baldwin, who counts a Navy Commendation Medal for heroic achievement among his many honors, recalls his experiences in the...
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James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
D’Avella arrived at HBS just a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina had devastated much of the Gulf Coast. In January 2006, he traveled to New Orleans on a student-led trek with 56 other MBAs to apply their HBS skills to projects ranging...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
year, Taylor hasn’t succeeded in using his military service to outflank his opponent. Edwards is a hawk on military matters, voting for the first Gulf War and the invasion of Iraq. Local veterans praise his efforts to safeguard their...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Turley (PMD 43, 1982) The Brier Patch Petroleum engineering professor Tony Zanatelli signs a summer-job contract to manage the drilling of a 20,000-foot-deep exploration well in the Gulf of Mexico. Energy company MillPet owns the lease...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
BP oil spill,” the 2010 disaster that devastated the environment and businesses along the Gulf Coast, including in the small town south of New Orleans where he grew up. Bagala watched his father’s business falter and then fail in the...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
instead identify what is actually required to do a job well, you can create organizations that are better at learning, where people from different backgrounds, with dissimilar approaches to problem solving, can have a strong impact on effectiveness. Whether you work on...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
very difficult to say that this situation would have parallels to the Gulf War or any other war we've experienced. Take oil prices, for example. One might assume that oil prices will rise if we attack Iraq, but oil prices have already...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
Gurfein and friends at Iraqi marketplace Courtesy David Gurfein Marine Major David (“Bull”) Gurfein (MBA ’00) was a platoon commander during the 1989 invasion of Panama and the first Gulf War. He left active duty as a reservist in 1998...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
anything they can eat or sell. Payatas and the orderly, verdant Harvard Business School campus — nearly equals, as it happens, in terms of the acreage they occupy — are separated by a gulf far greater than any measure of miles or...
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- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
Europe at the start of the first Gulf War, the engagement ring sewn into the bottom of his backpack for more than a month. At that time, he could not afford the requisite romantic gondola ride, so he took her back to Venice this spring to...
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Jennifer Myers
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
Conference Palace in Baghdad, built for the Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement. When Iraq went to war with Iran, the conference moved to India and the palace sat unused until the United States destroyed it during the 1990–1991 Gulf...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
dumped into Iraq after the overthrow of the regime. It was the main market for cars coming from the Gulf area. It was a very, very scruffy and dirty town. As we moved up into Iraq proper, we followed the main north-south Euphrates...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
of familiarity, cultural gulfs and local differences often remain hidden. Amid these conflicting realities, however, HBS alumni report anecdotal evidence that a youthful and growing cosmopolitan business class is bringing these different...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
East with its dependence on foreign oil a factor (as President George H.W. Bush said at the time, freeing oil-rich Kuwait was necessary “to defend our way of life”). Yet even this wake-up call, the Gulf War of 1991, was also eventually...
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