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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) , President & CEO, World Wildlife Fund Debora L. Spar (PMD 62, 1991) , Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society; Board Director,...
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Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
African Americans and worked with Vice President Johnson to draft civil rights legislation. Racial Disparities in Healthcare The Racial Divide in American Medicine: Black...
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
College. Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Lehman Brothers "partners' room," 1957. Courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. Photo by Dan Weiner; Copyright John Broderick. Aerial view of Pan View Details
- 03 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business
winning team). But what's the point? Behavioral scientist Michael I. Norton became interested in mourning rituals after reading Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust's This Republic of Suffering, which describes elaborate ways...
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
President Nixon, took over as head of Lehman Brothers. His restructuring of the firm, including reducing the number of employees and expanding its financial services, resulted in record revenues. Under Peterson’s watch, Lehman Brothers...
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Loeb House | About
along with his wife, Frances Lehman Loeb. Loeb’s deep devotion to Harvard was noted at the time of his death by Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine, who said, “Harvard University has lost the friend of a lifetime.” Loeb’s...
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- 01 Sep 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?
stimulate debate about important issues in a community whose media were controlled at the time by one family with one point of view. It got me on a list prepared by an alumnus (and ignored by the person to whom he sent it, the President...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap
came about over 25 years, the result of another civic- and business-led effort. And it’s wonderful, many agree. But there are still a good number of Chattanooga residents who’ve been left out of the picture. As in so many American cities,...
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- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
Roundtable, working with President Obama and congressional leaders on solutions to restore the industry, including the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. Described by a fellow CEO as having a “banker body, preacher soul,” Davis believes that bankers...
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- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
Approach to Partner Choice in Mutualisms Authors:Marco Archetti, Francisco Ubeda, Drew Fudenberg, Jerry R. Green, Naomi E. Pierce, and Douglas W. Yu Publication:The American Naturalist 177, no. 1 (January 2011) Abstract One of the main...
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- 09 Jun 2022
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From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages
In 2021, US Foods faced a problem that has become all too familiar: As thousands of Americans re-evaluated their work lives in the middle of the pandemic, the company—one of the largest food service distributors in the United...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2
different approaches adopted by Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin and concludes with a vision outlined by Russia's third post-Soviet president, Dmitry Medvedev. The case focuses on problems of state authority, fiscal capacity,...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done
develop, and integrate smart minds governs how prosperous you will be.” Studies on whether immigrants to the United States take jobs away from Americans or constitute a drain on social welfare are mixed, says Kerr, with some research...
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- 25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories
American Petroleum Institute. At Harvard and Harvard Business School, Hess learned the language of business and the languages of the countries where Hess did business, including Spanish, Arabic, and Farsi. “I had no idea at the time that...
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Cars on Time
Individual cases reveal that in Plymouth, as in the rest of the country, borrowers would go to extraordinary lengths to fulfill their contracts, even in the depths of the Great Depression. 23 James Surowiecki, “Masters of Main Street,” The New Yorker , July 12, 2010....
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Resources - Advancing Racial Equity
to deeper learning and authentic self-reflection. In this spirit we are sharing a selection of resources and reading recommendations to expand your learning on both the Black American experience and allyship. Recommended Reading A...
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- 02 Nov 2016
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Gillian Hadfield, University of California, Gould School of Law
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
new chapter on the conduct of industrial governance and American capitalism." - Malcolm S. Salter But the President left the door slightly open for selective intervention when he pledged...
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Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling
credit. Pianos and elegant furniture, though not new products, represented gentility and social aspiration: for many American families, going without a piano meant forfeiting membership in the middle class. Farm machinery could be...
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Building Collections | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Reserve Board of Governors by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Previously, he served in the Kennedy Administration as deputy assistant and assistant secretary for economic affairs at the U.S. Department of Commerce. He served on the Federal...
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