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- 06 Oct 2016
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“You Could Be Dead Any Second”
the end for Quin. Four of her fellow travelers were killed that day. She quit her job at Xerox, and returned to Yemen to interview the terrorists in prison and published a book about her experience. Then, in 2000, she flew to London and...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students
official. He eventually turned himself in and served four years in prison in Costa Rica and the United States. Currently on probation, he spoke at HBS last November as part of the Leadership & Ethics Forum (LEF), a student-led...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Running faster to compete
number of lobsters caught and has improved the lobster trap-making industry. It is used in about 99 percent of the traps fished in New England. Knott also manufactured WireWall, a leading security fencing that rings many American prisons...
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- 16 Jan 2014
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Learning from Helping Others
centers—were school-related. "The most amazing thing we did was when we spent time at a nearby prison with prisoners who were about to go back out in the world," she says. "We were young school children...
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- 21 Jul 2011
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Social Investing’s Time Has Come
with little or no measurable result, SIBs offer a new way to address intractable societal problems. Here’s how the bonds work. Private investors purchase bonds that finance preventive programs run by nonprofit groups. If the programs, such as reducing homelessness or...
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- 19 Feb 2010
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The MBA Oath Debate
words on a piece of paper will not stop unethical behavior, where steep fines and prison have failed to do so.” Writing in BusinessWeek.com’s online debate over the oath, INSEAD finance professor Theo Vermaelen warned that signing it was...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
Whether it’s an upfront enterprise on Main Street or illegal dealings on Mean Street, competition, risk management, and profitability are primary concerns in both business venues. That’s the theory behind the nonprofit Prison...
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- 18 Nov 2020
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Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
cannot be a leader if you’re not aware.” One way that mass incarceration can impact big businesses, says Jack, is when prison labor is part of a company’s portfolio. In her role at Head of Equity Research at NorthStar Asset Management,...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
brokered creation of the first social impact bond, which supports a program to reduce reoffending rates among former inmates of Her Majesty’s Prison Peterborough, a facility 75 miles north of London housing short-term offenders. The bond...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Letters
publish his recommendations. We truly lost a legend! Leonard (“Ted”) Marks Jr. (MBA 3/’48, DBA ’61) Prescott, AZ Supporting Inner-City Start-ups Congratulations to Catherine Rohr for recognizing the entrepreneurial talent in Texas prisons, reported in the March article...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
the relationship between incarceration, employment, and entrepreneurship (including self-employment). He has a particular interest in the fate of the more than 600,000 people in the United States who return home from prison each year,...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 Apr 2018
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The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
like to have dinner with. What’s your favorite Johnny Cash song? “Why are you always making me choose just one! So many great songs by Johnny Cash, like God’s Gonna Cut You Down, Hurt, The Mercy Seat, Ring of Fire, and Folsum Prison...
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- 01 Jan 2005
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Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
Once they placed their order, customers had to wait ten years to receive it. Finally, Bajaj, whose grandfather had been known as the "fifth son" of Mahatma Gandhi and whose parents and grandparents had spent time in British prisons for...
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- 13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
is a devastating disease that leaves cognitive abilities intact, but robs people of their ability to move, essentially making them prisoners in their own bodies,” Blum says. “The therapeutic hypothesis with tirasemtiv relates to slowing...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall
the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Lawyers for former CEO Jeffrey Skilling (MBA ’79) argued that his 2006 conviction on nineteen counts of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading, and lying to auditors — along with his 24-year View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
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Protecting the Power Grid
that he was only the second member of the public she had ever seen concerned about the agency’s proceedings on grid security; the first had been a federal prisoner and therefore unable to attend meetings in person. As regulators and...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
separation, courage, and transformation through five generations of interracial relationships. Fearful of prison time—or lynching—for violating Indiana’s anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson’s Black father and white...
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- 05 May 2020
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“Walking a Tightrope”
Recovery, WIR. It's in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And it's a brilliant program. It's very costly. But in comparison to the alternative, it actually saves a lot of money. So what WIR does—what WIR does—is that they look at women who are about to be sentenced to long View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
Francisco office of management consulting firm Marakon Associates and plans to continue his ministry as a prison counselor, that journey is clearly an ongoing quest. “Business is actually very spiritual because it relates to who we are...
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- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
of risk and released me from a personal prison of achievement. Some context: In 1999, I joined a large-scale startup providing a new consumer phone service in Brazil. We raised $2.5 billion, hired 4,000 people in two years, and...
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