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- 01 Dec 2012
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Chao Family Donates $40 Million to HBS
A MEMORABLE DAY: Dr. Chao and his daughters, flanked by Dean Nohria and Harvard President Drew Faust. HBS and Harvard University have received a $40 million gift from a foundation of Dr. James Si-Cheng Chao and family, in tribute to the...
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Betsy Edwards
as the Career & Professional Development liaison with the Social Enterprise Initiative and Healthcare Initiative in support of their MBA and alumni programs. Outside of work, Betsy serves on the Board of Directors and is the former Board View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
developing “ecosystem” for starting new ventures. HBS professor Lynda Applegate moderated the event, which was inspired by a case she coauthored with Alexander Meyer (MBA 2005), SAP vice president of global business development. “Rising...
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- 25 Aug 2016
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Announcing the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
University President Drew Faust explained, “Issues that people care deeply about—their safety, their job prospects, their health, their schools, and their pocketbooks—are often shaped largely by local policies. As more and more people...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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A Better Way to Go on Strike
W hen President Clinton imposed a cooling-down period in the American Airlines pilots' strike, he recognized that a strike would impose huge costs on those not involved in the labor dispute - from travelers...
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- 12 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Lawrence Summers on Market Capitalism’s Historic Opportunity
University Professor, Harvard University In this keynote address, former Harvard president Lawrence Summers shared his view of the challenges facing America at a time of financial and economic turmoil, and the opportunities they present....
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- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Leadership in Motion
For self-described compulsive worker Jane Veron (MBA 1991), the decision to step away from her marketing role at American Express some 18 years ago reflected the desire to put down roots with her husband and young daughters in Scarsdale,...
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- 01 Oct 2015
- News
Banking on Trust
she brought in a former government minister who had guided a similar transition in his South American country. “Hearing directly from someone who had been through it helped convince the president and...
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Policy - Business & Environment
ice cap, a rise in sea levels, warming of the oceans ” Industry internal document 1968 American Petroleum Institute [10] 1970s - 1980s In a 1978 presentation to Exxon executives and scientists, James Black of Exxon’s Products Research...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Roger Ferguson and HBSAAA president Ken Powell: honoring pioneers and celebrating bench strength. Photo Courtesy HBSAAA The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) presented its fifth annual...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Chai Ling
suddenly reassigned for six months to an earthquake-relief mission. At sixteen, she was named one of the two hundred most outstanding students in China. Later, at prestigious Beijing University, where she studied child psychology, she was elected View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
superiority or inferiority of a given race (Gannon, 2016; Goodman, 2003; Kolbert, 2017), the color line persists as an enduring social issue in the United States. Over 150 years post-emancipation, the wealth gap between blacks and View Details
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Introduction - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
States. These studies reveal how the relationship between the railroads and the state influenced the way railways developed. Other scholars have questioned the idea that American railroads were models of management and suggest they are...
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Site Credits - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Printing: Ram Printing, Inc. Lenders to the Exhibition: Cambridge University Press Denver Public Library, Western History Collection Getty Images Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division National Museum of American History,...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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What Industrial Policy?
"Taxation, meet Representation." Following up on his pledge to provide greater support for manufacturing, President Obama has announced a proposal to cut the effective tax rate for manufacturers to 25 percent. A number of economists...
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Stereograph Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Haynes, whose images were meant to promote the region and encourage further settlement, recorded towns, settlements, new construction, military garrisons, miners, mining villages, farms, Native American settlements, and natural scenery...
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The NAAI Exhibition Opens - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
organizers paid homage to Alfred Stieglitz in a reception dedicated to the "dean of American photography." By the 1930s a new generation of photographers with a modernist sensibility pursued commercial photography as both an artistic...
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Introduction - The Request - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
instruction at Harvard Business School. Ayres and Davenport corresponded with the gamut of American companies, ranging from General Electric to International Harvester. Eager to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of their...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Proposed Chair Would Honor African-American Business Pioneer
Fitzhugh's honor. Fitzhugh, who passed away in 1992, graduated with honors from Harvard College in 1931, despite being forced to live off-campus because of his race. He was one of the first African Americans to attend HBS, where he...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
members, Epsilon engineered many of the customer relationship' techniques that make today's customer loyalty programs so successful," says Brierley, who served as Epsilon's president and CEO for its first ten years. In 1980, serving...
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