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- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
Grant, Millicent is designed to make it easier for the world’s 1.7 billion marginalized and unbanked people to access financial services, according to a recent article in Forbes. Dyer moved to the United Kingdom as a refugee from Nigeria....
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- 14 Dec 2015
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Building Platforms of Life for the World’s Poorest Children
the primary humanitarian emergencies. I myself have been to Lebanon and Jordan, sitting and meeting with refugees. We are engaged with these refugees who are moving from the Syria area into Europe these days. I was this month in...
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- 29 Sep 2020
- News
A Righteous Path
When Rich Leimsider (MBA 2003) became the executive director of the Safe Passage Project in 2016, his mandate was to expand the organization. Today, there are 40 staffers working in partnership with 450 pro-bono attorneys to represent 1,001 young View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Advancing Change
Outside the Building, Kanter profiles many such people, including Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981), the president and CEO of Sesame Workshop who brought the power of Sesame Street to refugee children, and offers a roadmap for others preparing to...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
more competitive market for Chinese-language media. Lai plans to invest $15.5 million to publish a new Mandarin-language magazine, which he predicts will overshadow his Hong Kong readership in five years. Throughout his journey from View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
Asalaam alekum (Peace be upon you) is the greeting and farewell heard everywhere in Sudan, even in the teeming refugee camps and villages to which millions of uprooted Sudanese have been chased by fear and death. In these places created...
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- 28 May 2019
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Action Plan: Border Crossing
my husband’s German grandparents lived as refugees during and after World War II. We were able to walk the streets they walked. It wasn’t a part of the city you would normally visit as a tourist, but it had a profound impact on us.” Check...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
generations of Cuban refugees fought for control of the drug trade in Miami.” Classic Havana Nocturne How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T.J. English “All these mobsters are dead, but the author, through...
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- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
the New York–based nonprofit, which was founded five years ago to provide legal assistance to young refugees who arrive in the United States alone. Launched with a single full-time employee, the organization had grown to 13 when Leimsider...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
public services and infrastructure have been most directly affected by an influx of Syrian refugees. The refugee crisis is a global problem, not just that of a few countries.” Native tongue: Igbo. “My parents were very particular about us...
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Julia Hanna
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
doctors to screen for COVID-19 in underserved and refugee populations. Jordan Lebovic (MD/MBA 2020) was the company’s chief research officer until he began his medical residency in June. “The creative problem-solving the i-lab fosters is...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Turning Point: Step Change
inside. The school’s former principal, he explained that Serbs didn’t allow Muslim students to attend during the war—and he himself was Muslim. Later, the school became a refugee shelter and had been dilapidated ever since. When I asked...
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- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
Morrell Tell me about your own childhood—how was the idea inspired by your own experience? We're from Lebanon originally, and my family left there when I was 6, while the country was in the middle of war. We literally left on a boat and ended up in Cyprus. Eventually,...
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- 21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
iStock MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR On February 27, Dean Srikant Datar sent a message to the HBS community regarding the invasion of Ukraine, noting the resources available to those looking to offer support and highlighting learning opportunities available at HBS....
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
Authority.) Eighteen months after the near-miss deal, after an eruption of hostilities, the two leaders found their political fortunes reversed. Sharon's poll numbers were way down (due to suicide bombers and insecurity inside Israel) while Arafat's were way up (as...
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- 11 Aug 2014
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The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
it worked. "We saw an opportunity to bring the fragrance to the United States and to create a new innovative category—a fragrance with a function for the outdoor-chic lifestyle. Once we tracked down our supplier, we learned that the fragrance is hand mixed by Burmese...
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- 16 Nov 2017
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The Business of Social Justice
refugee women about reproductive health. “I was shocked the first time I heard some kids call me La Blanche—“The White Lady”—because I am a lighter-skinned African American,” she laughs. Working in West Africa put the future into sharper...
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Jennifer Myers
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
their bags packed, but they never got to leave. And to this day, we only hesitatingly normalized relations with Cuba. And that was a big reason why we had the cocaine explosion. And to say nothing of what happened in 1980, where Fidel Castro allowed 120,000 View Details
- 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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- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Afghan citizens who returned to their country after years spent in Pakistani refugee camps. When Khoja was nine, the family moved to London; there, kids on the playground called him a “Paki,” the shorthand slur for all Southeast Asians;...
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Julia Hanna