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- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
page turner in terms of how we were going to escape the claws of this hostile predator who in fact, had bought Lincoln Savings in New York and Union Oil in Canada. And within a year or two from the time that we were successful in terms of...
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Food and Beverage Stores;
Retail Trade
- 01 Mar 2013
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Sweet Deal
administration's rescue and restructuring of General Motors, spent months trying to save the bankrupt company from dissolving. But the bakery workers' union ultimately refused to accept a proposed deal. "Given the historical...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
It’s a drab gray morning in April, and real estate developer Nadine Ngouabe Dlodlo (MBA 2008) is standing at the corner of West Baltimore and South Calhoun Streets in Baltimore’s historic Union Square district. Behind her, a chain-link...
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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
at Eastman Dillon, Union Securities and Company, where he was drawn to the finer points of finance. "I think I was the only person in the office who enjoyed reading company prospectuses," he laughs. "At that point it became clear that...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
Lauri Union (MBA 1992) manages Union Corrugating Company (UCC) from Boston, where she lives with her husband and two young children. While her early years at the company required more time on-site in North...
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Manufacturing
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
as the School’s first Goldman Sachs Fellow, and was elected copresident of the African American Student Union (AASU). “I had never taken an accounting or finance class before I went to HBS,” he notes. “The AASU study groups and community...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
You were right all along. From being a left-wing-dominated party, we have become a centrist-dominated party. OK, maybe we remain one or two clicks to the left of you, but still pretty darn close. (And, yes, a lot of us agree the teachers’ View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Silvers (MBA ’95) illustrates a one-sided picture of the real world of union organizing. This is especially apparent in Silvers’s response to the question, “What’s wrong with secret ballot elections?” According to Silvers, the proposed...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
“If each household ” Union of Concerned Scientists “Common Sense on Climate Change, Solution #3” “The top 3,000 .” UN Environmental Program Finance Initiative. 2010. “universal Ownership: Why environmental externalities matter to...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Students Negotiate a Victory
Patrick Chung and Aman Kapadia worked together over the course of six tension-filled days in March to draft a contract between a flight attendants union and an airline struggling to survive the turbulence of a post–September 11...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Baker’s Man of Steel
A day at the office is a little different for Bobby Delaney. As crane operator for the Baker Library construction project, he uses a combination of levers and foot pedals to swing tons of steel through the air, placing the load in just the right spot with delicate...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
viable.” —President George W. Bush (MBA 1975) in December 2008, on diverting $17.4 billion in government funds to bail out GM and Chrysler “I went to business school because I thought it was important that unions understand how companies...
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- 06 Jun 2018
- News
The Business of Social Justice
the foundation—partnering with teachers’ unions and grassroots advocacy groups to make lasting and impactful policy changes—may be more important today than ever, as the Trump Administration threatens budget cuts to public education or...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Kiwi Star
ones,” the New Zealand Herald (January 16, 2012) reported. “Mum only had one coat but we were always clean and tidy,” he recalled. From those modest beginnings, Whineray went on to star on his country’s legendary All Blacks national rugby View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The Harvard Business School Campaign: Regional Events
Jamie Dinan (MBA 1985), Clifford Press (MBA 1983), (standing) Beth Fascitelli (MBA 1984), Mike Fascitelli (MBA 1982), Elizabeth Miller (MBA 1985), and Elizabeth Sawyer (MBA 1983) at the New York City HBS Couples Dinner held in December at the View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
AASU Looks Ahead
"Back to the Future: Leveraging Past Successes to Shape the New Millennium" was the theme of this year's African-American Student Union career and alumni conference. The 27th annual AASU event offered a variety of thought-provoking...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Staying Afloat
foreign investors or foreign capital. In 1991, due in large part to defaults on payments by customers in the Soviet Union and other crumbling communist economies, the shipyard found itself $260 million in debt, hounded by five thousand...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Damon Silvers
freshman year at Harvard, where he worked part-time in a student dining hall and took an interest in the workers’ ongoing contract negotiations. When he started wearing a union button to work, “it just changed the relationship I had with...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
in the Media Age by Steven Rosefielde & D. Quinn Mills (Cambridge University Press) Professor Mills and his coauthor assert that the United States will confront a series of fundamental challenges posed by terrorism, Russia, China, and the European View Details
- 06 Nov 2009
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Health Reform Paths Not Taken
No issues in the ongoing Congressional health-care debate have generated more heat than the so-called public option and proposed taxes on “gold-plated” health insurance plans. Conservatives view a new government-run health insurance option as creeping socialism. View Details