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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
For several decades, the career path of Alfred L. Cheauré (MBA '71) was fairly straightforward. A first-generation immigrant American from Germany, Cheauré grew up in New Jersey and attended the U.S. Naval Academy. He began his 27-year...
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Susan Young
- 15 Jun 2021
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Turning Point: Tell Me More
talked about their views on everything from immigration to gun control to health care to climate change. Whenever I learned something new, I wrote about it for the Boston Globe. Over the years, two things became clear to me: We have much...
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- 23 Mar 2020
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Signal Boost
inclusion in businesses and organizations in western Michigan. It sprang up in the late 1990s when the area—once largely white—began to undergo a significant demographic change. “A lot of Latino immigrants moved to areas like Holland,...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
companies for which it raised funds were people of color, 25 times the share backed by traditional venture capitalists. Republic now makes inclusion part of every pitch: Company listings are assigned tags such as Female Founders, Veteran Founders, and View Details
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Sasha Issenberg
- 25 Jan 2016
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Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
percent) were in management and another 37 percent were in professional positions such as accounting, law, medicine, engineering, and finance. The report attributed the shortage to emigration of highly skilled workers, immigration...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2023
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Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax mobile clinic in greater Boston he helped to cofound. Photos courtesy David Valesquez David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax mobile clinic in greater Boston he helped to cofound....
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April White
- 01 Mar 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
step-by-step framework for letting go of shame; and how just two minutes can make every day intentional. Fortitude: The Story of My Ancestors by Charles Rentschler (MBA 1964) Authorhouse This is the story of Rentschler’s grandfather, George Adam Rentschler, a German...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity
they’ve shown a willingness to think in new ways about energy and to consider longer-term strategies such as using immigration to support scientific and technical advances. But what’s needed with clean tech is a rational, well-defined...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
phenomenon in the United States. In the years leading up to the Great Depression and World War II, there was a very high percentage of recent immigrants in the United States, and home ownership was beyond the means of most. Before World...
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- 20 Dec 2019
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The 19 Musts of 2019
edited by Dan Morrell; illustrations by Chris Gash use this navigation to explore the 19 Musts MUST READ The Border by Don Winslow “The Border is a gut-punch crime novel that contrasts the desperation of illegal immigrants with the...
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- 09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity
are putting people in places where they are comfortable and can excel.” Forty-five people have been employed through Dandelion, bringing their talents to Australia’s Department of Defence, Department of Human Services, and Department of View Details
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
As a boy growing up in Milwaukee, Herbert H. Kohl (MBA '58) spent afternoons and weekends restocking shelves in his immigrant parents' grocery store. It was good training for Kohl, who joined the family business after graduating from HBS...
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Susan Young
- 04 Nov 2020
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The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
learned to navigate and still come out strong. Sometimes as HBS students, we have a false sense of security. Remember, nothing has a guarantee. I was an immigrant to the US in 2010 and got my citizenship later, so I had to work double...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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What's Cookin'
simple: “We try to challenge workers with new responsibilities and reward them with increased pay,” he says, telling the story of an immigrant worker who started as one of Pasta Cuisine's dishwashers (“dirty, hot work,” Garner adds) and...
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Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2020
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Post-Office
especially for a company in New York or Silicon Valley. The second strategic benefit is hiring. Think about all the talent that is being left behind because they can’t migrate to the US due to the current immigration system. I have done...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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On Credit
19th-century America that exists nowhere else,” says Special Collections Librarian Timothy Mahoney. “That’s why researchers come from far and wide to use it.” A scholar might research women-owned boarding houses, for example, or German View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 15 Jun 2021
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June 2021 Books and Podcasts
ethnicity, and along different points of the political spectrum. The topics ranged from race to guns, from character to party politics, from masks to rallies, from the US Supreme Court to the pandemic to immigration and climate change. On...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
computer-aided design (CAD) software product as "something of a national standard." PTC was founded in 1985 by Russian immigrant Samuel P. Geisberg, who had developed an engineering software product that addressed the missing front end of...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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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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