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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
many Americans will be unable to participate in an information-based economy. "Forty percent of eight-year-olds can't read," he observed. "If you can't read, you can't run a Web browser. You just fall further and further behind."... View Details
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Instrument of Pictorial Publicity - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
(1934):133. By permission of the Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution. Victor Keppler. Beer and Target, ca. 1934. olvwork490099 Documentary, public relations, and advertising... View Details
- 27 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur
iStock What do these people have in common? The daughter of former slaves, pioneers in the private space race, and oddball inventors who created the green business industry. They all overcame long odds to become great American... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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The Significance and Consequences of Financial Models - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Prize, Robert Merton's contributions to financial economics have been celebrated frequently over the past quarter century in both the academic and finance communities. He has received honorary degrees from several universities, both in the United States and abroad, as... View Details
- 25 Oct 2019
- News
Jane Fraser Named President of Citigroup
Jane Fraser (MBA 1994) was named president of Citigroup this week, also taking on the role of CEO of Global Consumer Banking at the bank. The position, notes CNN, makes her second-in-command at the country’s third-largest bank, as well as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
Are big banks using bankruptcy as a bullying tactic? A recent report by the American Bankruptcy Institute suggested that a longtime—and increasingly popular—mechanism in the US code that allows for expedited, less-democratic asset sales... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 13 May 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #5: Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader
future; it was scalable to a global market; the company had a Black female CFO, an Asian American attorney as well as a number of women engineers; the company was already in alignment with Athena’s goal of... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
“The country was on fire,” says Jan Hammond, the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing. “You saw the strength of public response in the composition of the people who were protesting. They comprised a wide swath of American society: no... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
huge global companies that are very well run and have been very financially successful. In the US beer business we have a little bit less than 2 percent market share. So, we have to keep the heart and passion of a small business.... View Details
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Classroom and Field Work - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
country offered apprenticeships, including Sylvania Electric Products, General Electric, Bloomingdales, American Optical Co., American Broadcasting Co., Metropolitan Life Insurance, and R. H. Macy.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in business and in public education
saving it from bankruptcy and building a profitable business. Numerous nonprofits also have benefitted from his leadership, including the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and the City Parks... View Details
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
actually had no intention of being a civil rights leader. His desire was to be a great minister, and he had been extremely well schooled, certainly for an African American in those days. He'd gone to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
Our experience shows, however, that if that sector is provided breathing room for a period of time and is well managed, it can recover and become strong." Stewart cites his firm's representation of companies or workers in four industries... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
their pistols and muskets and attack only with swords and bayonets. Hamilton's troops silently crept up on the British, then surged into the trenches and began screaming like madmen. After ten or fifteen minutes of vicious hand-to-hand fighting, the View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
1946, when the late Georges Doriot, a long-time and legendary member of the HBS faculty, founded American Research and Development as a willing and able source of financing for the new ventures that were coming to life just after World... View Details
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Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies & Personal Papers - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
the transcontinental railroad in the United States and in promoting the development of the Pacific Northwest. In the 1860s, Villard acted as the liaison between German investors and American railroad companies. Materials in this extensive... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions for David Garvin and Michael Roberto
describe collaborative problem-solving. The "advocacy" process they mention is more of a contest among multiple points of view.Lagace: What leaders come to mind as people who use or have used the inquiry process to great advantage? Garvin and Roberto: Harvey... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Thaddeus Mosley Illusory Progression 2020 | About
materials and local sawmills, as well as fallen logs sourced from Pittsburgh’s Forestry Division, Mosley’s carved abstractions, or “sculptural improvisations,” as he calls them, show the influence of jazz on his artistic process. He often... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Business of Babies
“We have a business that doesn’t feel like a business,” she noted. “Nobody wants to acknowledge the extent of commercialization.” Yet Americans alone spent $2.7 billion on fertility treatments in 2002. Procedures such as egg and sperm... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
integration doesn't guarantee that you can do everything well simultaneously. Focus, we've discovered, is critical. What does "focus" mean in terms of the health-care industry? It means more integrated facilities that center on providing... View Details