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Tony Cragg Over the Earth 2014 | About
pace of modern life. Cragg has exhibited at the CAFA Museum in Beijing; the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh; Tate Gallery Liverpool; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid; and Tate Gallery, London. He represented View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
development. Although from the early 1970s Britain experienced a revival in the quality of innovation and improved productivity growth, structural weaknesses in the commercialization environment still... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
in, and when they did, they saw a warm, welcoming city, with attractive facilities and convenient infrastructure. Team Great Britain also vastly exceeded expectations, earning 65 medals in the Games compared to 19 four years earlier and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
tastefully mounted and displayed on the first floor's north and south corridor walls. "We chose images from the 1850s to the early 1930s -- the so-called Second Industrial Revolution -- that characterized industries important to the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 29 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
What Hath the United Kingdom Wrought?
trading block in the world. Financial markets had been complacent and were caught off guard by an early morning earthquake that affected most traded asset classes around the globe. Prime Minister David Cameron announced his resignation,... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
In the early 1970s, as Ali Allawi (MBA ’71) graduated from HBS, Islam was flexing both religious and political muscles that had long been dormant. It came to a head with Iran’s 1979 revolution, an uprising against the ruling political... View Details
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Laying Down the Principles: Management - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School/title>
different arms of the system,” wrote Charles E. Perkins, President of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad. 25 The Pennsylvania Railroad alone, which employed over 110,000 workers by 1891, dwarfed the number of personnel of the United States Army, Navy, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
(PMD 41, 1981) (F.X. Biasi Jr.) This novel tells a story of illegal drugs, murder, and a 150-year-old rivalry between two of North Coast California’s most powerful and affluent family dynasties. Dragons: 10 Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain... View Details
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The Coming of Managerial Capitalism - Course Catalog
of the development of entrepreneurship, modern management, business, technology and finance; to examine other institutions that have affected these areas such as governments, unions, and intellectual property rights; and to analyze the... View Details
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
1989I) won a silver medal in the modern pentathlon team competition, and competed in the modern pentathlon individual competition, at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. More information here. Mark Fusco (MBA... View Details
- 07 Dec 2022
- News
Dubai-Based Proptech Builds Up
Aahan Bhojani (Linkedin) Aahan Bhojani (Linkedin) In early 2020, Aahan Bhojani (MBA 2019) was working for a travel fintech startup in Boston when the coronavirus pandemic resulted in lockdowns around the world. But Bhojani wasn't in... View Details
- Portrait Project
Austin Johnsen
I have been given a second chance. I plan to use it. It all began early one morning, two days before my final Thanksgiving as an HBS student. I stood shivering outside Dunkin' Donuts in the cold fall air, trying to focus on what the... View Details
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
Lalocracio In thinking about the current contested state of global capitalism, and what to do about it, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Seeking the Unconventional in Forging Histories of Capitalism, which... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
was operating as a kind of project manager for her mom—and that she was one of 66 million Americans taking care of an ill, aging, or disabled loved one—she began to build a more modern solution to care management. Wellthy provides loved... View Details
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Working PapersCapitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan (revised October 2009) Authors:Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Japan's industrial landscape is characterized by hierarchical forms of industry organization, which are increasingly inadequate in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
Dan Sprinkles (MBA 1977) was 50 years old when a vision quest inspired him to leave the corporate world and embark on a role as a spiritual healer. “I’d always been hungry or starved for something that would create passion,” he says. After an View Details
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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH LINKS SITE CREDITS GEORGES F. DORIOT Introduction EDUCATION Early Years at HBS Educating Leaders INNOVATION & VC Wartime Innovation ARD... View Details
Platform for Dialogue
critiques that elevated my work in a number of ways. Although I arrived as a historian of early modern South Asia, HBS catalyzed a process of broadening me into a scholar of comparative societies and the... View Details
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Stock Exchanges - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
engraving by unknown artist. [Netherlands? early 17th century]. 19.2 x 29.8 cm AE n1 x The Amsterdam exchange, situated on the Amstel River, was designed by Hendrick de Keijser and opened in 1611. Trading was carried on in the open inner... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
market. By early 1917, Ahmednagar held 1,169 civilians, mostly men in their mid-30s. Although the prisoners’ movements were restricted, they were treated fairly well. They were allowed to build tennis courts, for example. Many spent their... View Details