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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Insights into Business in Islamic World
Bridging differences in political and economic systems has always been one of the challenges of international business. Where religious beliefs influence those systems heavily, as is increasingly the case in Islamic countries, the...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Beacon of Liberty
9/11. We see the sad irony of the Anti-Defamation League (a group formed to “secure justice and fair treatment to all”) opposing the Islamic center and mosque proposed near the former World Trade Center site. Anti-Muslim sentiments have...
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- 23 Sep 2014
- News
What Libya's militia problem means for the Middle East, and the U.S.
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Erdogan's New Powers Do Little to Address Turkey's Old Problems
- 25 Aug 2017
- News
What Iraq's Kurdish Peshmerga Believe
- 09 Feb 2015
- News
Turkey’s secularization in reverse?
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
In the early 1970s, as Ali Allawi (MBA ’71) graduated from HBS, Islam was flexing both religious and political muscles that had long been dormant. It came to a head with Iran’s 1979 revolution, an uprising against the ruling political...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
relationships throughout the value chain. And Kaplan and Cooper explain how product engineers use activity-based cost information to design products and services that meet customers' expectations at minimum cost. Islamic Law and Finance...
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- 06 Oct 2016
- News
“You Could Be Dead Any Second”
(CBS: 60 Minutes) (CBS: 60 Minutes) For anyone else, it would be enough—to somehow survive being taken hostage in Yemen. In 1998, Mary Quin (MBA 1988), a senior executive at Xerox and inveterate traveler was touring the conservative View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Positive impact that hits home
Kiné Seck Mercier (MBA 2014), co-president of the Harvard Islamic Society, recalls a first-year HBS case study set in Saudi Arabia: “There was a lot of discussion about Islam, and there was a lot of misunderstanding about the difference...
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- 16 Dec 2010
- News
The Emergent Arab World
Hayes (now emeritus) coauthored a book on Islamic finance. To me at the time, it seemed like exotic subject matter and an unusual departure for Hayes, who had built his reputation by being a highly renowned and respected expert on Wall...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
them and, in many cases, ruled over them. Arsalan published his response in a series of articles written for the Cairo-based Islamic journal, Al-Manār. Subsequently, these articles were combined and published, in 1930, in a book entitled...
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Margie Kelley
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
people the Americans were talking to—in the push to rid the world of the threat of the Islamic State. You depict street-by-street battles and larger, strategic operations in vivid detail, giving readers a real sense of place. Can you tell...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story
president and general manager at the time, Quin has since seen her life change as a result of her terrifying ordeal, and she is currently taking time off from her business career to write a book about the incident. While on a two-week tour of Yemen, Quin and fifteen...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
INK: Out of Exile
Dina Nayeri (MBA 2006) was born in Iran in 1979, the year of the Islamic Revolution, and grew up amid the sirens and rations of war. Her mother was a doctor, but also a Christian—a crime for which the View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Poverty and Security
“predictable and decent government structures,” while not wholly democratic, can lead to “an effective result.” Asked what the West doesn’t understand about Islam, Wolfensohn said, “When you’re in a conflict, typecasting happens. But there is a richness in Islam, and...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Violence and Islam I am a 93-year-old HBS graduate who has read numerous articles about Muslim extremists who push hard for complete government by theocracy and want to reduce women (some 50 percent of the population) to inferior...
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- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) left his job as an investment banker in New York to move back to his native Senegal as an advisor to the minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. The position would entail developing the country’s private sector;...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
on emerging geopolitical and economic trends, and on vital lessons from military history. You argue that it is not the war in Iraq or Islamic extremists who pose the greatest challenge to U.S. leadership in the coming decades, but rather...
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