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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
The Nature of Change
School are much different now, Kester observes, yet the Class of 1949 entered a period of uncertainty, characterized by the Cold War and nuclear proliferation, that is not unlike the current anxieties...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
and two other amazing, true stories NEW Hotel Scarface by Roben Farzad “There’s so much unresolved about Miami’s cocaine coming-of-age. I found the address where the Cold War crashed into the View Details
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
The most captivating item in Michael Norton's office is a Star Wars The Force Trainer, a toy that allows would-be Jedi warriors to levitate a Ping-Pong ball within a tube using only the power of focused thinking. Norton, a marketing...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Editor’s Note The December issue’s “Last Look” photo generated several richly detailed e-mails that appear below. Cold in the Wintertime I know the “Last Look” scene well, having lived at Harvard Way Extension from the summer of 1946...
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- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
Snook: Our world changed in 1989. The Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union collapsed. Almost fifty years of living in a bipolar world had shaped a very strong and static sense of professional identity built around a Cold View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
Spring 2018 Journal of Cold War Studies The Enemy of My Enemy: The Soviet Union, East Germany, and the Iranian Tudeh Party's Support for Ayatollah Khomeini By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—This article examines...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
today, Levitt’s article caused a minor sensation when it first appeared. Apart from its insightful specifics, its language (“globalization” was a novel term) and expansive vision offered a hopeful alternative to the grim reality of a world economy locked down in an...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
Thailand, India, Poland, and Argentina, even if there is a one- or two-year setback, there will be growth," he declares. For a man who rightly saw the potential in a town that looked like a Cold War relic,...
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Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
war’s progress? In matters of the human spirit, numbers could be deceiving. After teaching accounting and control for three years at HBS, McNamara became a War Department consultant and later was inducted into the U.S. Army Air Corps. In...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
that Carson wrote “not as a scientist, but as a fanatic defender of the cult of the balance of nature.” Invoking Cold War language, Louis McLean, general counsel for Velsicol Chemical Company, suggested that...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
event/development for business World War II Women in the workplace "Other" Cold War's end Crash of 1929 Second place (tied with "Other") went to "Women in the workplace" , which "broadened the talent base...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World by Jeremy Friedman (University of North Carolina Press) The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in...
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Commencement 2020 Address | About
diploma. From now on, you will forever be graduates of Harvard Business School. During your time at the School, you read and dissected nearly 500 case studies; you survived cold calls (including on Zoom); you completed papers and...
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IFC: Ghana; Africa Rising - Course Catalog
other young Africans. We will reflect on a changing international environment marked by COVID, the decline of globalization, an oncoming global recession and a new Cold war ignited by the Ukrainian crisis....
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- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
As the Nigeria-Biafra war raged around them, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994), her mother, and her brother made a dangerous dash for a better life. Huddled in the belly of a Portuguese cargo plane returning from delivering arms to the Biafran...
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Ralph Ranalli
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Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent - Course Catalog
nonetheless needs global solutions to climate change which represents a real existential threat for humanity. What does the rise of China mean for Africa ? Are we seeing a new cold war emerging in the...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
genocidal Nazi ideology, it was not doomed from the start. Rather it represented Hitler’s best chance to achieve his war aims for Germany. In Ellman’s recounting, Barbarossa did not fail because of flaws in the Axis invasion strategy, the...
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- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
economic and geopolitical scenarios. As an example, this book takes as a starting point the breakdown of old alliances caused by the end of the Cold War, and projects how the world will look in terms of alliances in 2010, 2015, and 2020....
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
2015 Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
opportunities. “The legacy of the Cold War, governance issues, and the need to maintain stable political regimes and economies represent challenges in the region,” he explains. “Countries like Peru have done a good job over the past 20...
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