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Thomas Stemberg | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content HBS Entrepreneurs Collection Profiles About This Collection Contact Us Special Collections Search Paul Baier PurchasingCenter.com/Excara Frank Batten Weather Channel Steven B. Belkin Trans National Group (TNG) Hakeem...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Trouble in Mouse Land
In 1984, two board members of the Walt Disney Company (WDC) — Stanley Gold and Roy Disney — mounted a targeted campaign to convince major shareholders that Michael Eisner and Frank Wells were the right team to lead the faltering...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling, Frank V. Cespedes laments the fact that sales and strategy rarely make a joint and complementary appearance in MBA classrooms or academic journals. Professors stick safely...
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- 15 Nov 2016
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HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking
Professor Lauren H. Cohen (photo by Eliza Grinnell) Professor Lauren H. Cohen (photo by Eliza Grinnell) Professor Karim R. Lakhani (photo by Richard Howard) Professor Karim R....
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Saving Grace
Illustration by Neil Webb About a year before he reached retirement, Frank Chapman started mapping out the travels he and his wife envisioned for their golden years. A career accountant for British telecom...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2024
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Action Plan: Yes, Chef!
the kitchen but the job also was a chance to escape a brutish stepfather at home. Alas, not long after he started, he was abruptly fired by a volatile cook. Despondent to the point of desperation, Puck says, “a light went on in my brain:...
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Christine Speer Lejeune
- 01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
involving the development of a “Center and Museum of Tolerance,” to be housed at the University of Mississippi; and, most important and personal, Hope for a Cure for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). Berman provides a blueprint for realizing each of these projects. Slaughter...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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A Fine Collection
for its Depression-era pieces, also includes prints by artists such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol; it is said by experts to be among the...
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Introduction - The Medium - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
and by Frank and Lillian Gilbreth in the early 1900s. For Harvard students, Ayres was particularly interested in documentary records that illustrated action and labor-saving devices. For all their faithful...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs
Channel by Connie Sage (University of Virginia Press) Among his many accomplishments, the late Frank Batten Sr. (MBA 1952) created the Weather Channel in 1982, which became the largest private weather...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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HBS Press Books in Brief
The Weather Channel: The Impossible Rise of a Media Phenomenon, by Frank Batten (MBA '52) with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (51st PMD), is the story of a cable network that succeeded when all the experts predicted...
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- 18 May 2011
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Man with a Plan
Rane: Giving consumers a way to connect with his business. Photo courtesy Jimmy Rane By now, Jimmy Rane (OPM 11, 1986) is used to the questions. Wherever he goes, people ask, “Where’s your yellow shirt? Where’s your yellow hat?” Rane, the...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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GE's Jeff Immelt
September 25 event used a “town hall” format to give the audience ample opportunity to question the leader of a company that employs more than 300,000 people in over one hundred countries. “You're going to school at a tough time,” Immelt said with a brisk View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
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Ink: Talking Shop
people say and instead concentrate on what people feel—is profound. Of course data matters, but not exclusively, and especially not in a ‘me-tail’ world.” Empire of Things How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
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Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
How the US’s Inflation Reduction Act has opened new business opportunities across multiple sectors Re: Julia Brady (MBA 1997); Christian Weeks (MBA 2010); Matt Arnold (MBA 1995); Heather March Takle (MBA 2006); Monica Varman (MBA 2016); Rahul Shendure (MBA 2001); View Details
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Lessons from History - Creating Emerging Markets
watched a short video of Yusuf Hamied discussing the necessity of incremental innovation in the pharmaceuticals industry in the 2000s. Lively discussion then ensued, moderated by HBS Professors Tarun Khanna, Srikant Datar, and Geoffrey...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Campaign News
Campaign Chair Dick Spangler addressed the audience at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. More campaign photos. Photographs by Steve Boljonis, Richard Morgenstein, and Todd Rosenberg As of late April, thanks in part to two extraordinary...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Emerging Information
"a huge chicken-and-egg game" between signing up data suppliers and finding customers willing to pay for the data. But Mueller's perseverance has paid off. Mueller attributes much of Internet Securities' success to learning what customers want. He enlisted Citibank...
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Lessons from Jazz in the Live Online Classroom
the Executive Education program Developing Yourself as a Leader—Virtual, organizational behavior expert Frank Barrett encouraged executives to embrace Davis's mindset, reducing their reliance on the tried-and-true in the effort to allow...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
An Emmy Award–winning television writer, Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) started out by taking a sitcom writing class at the UCLA Extension School while working as a senior business planner at Walt Disney Studios. Now an executive producer for...
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