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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Last Look
you on what we have learned in the next issue. Thank you! Last issue’s LAST LOOK: Thanks to Floyd Bradley (MBA ’75), Vern Brown (MBA ’74), Laurence Golding (MBA ’84), and Olivier Manuel (MBA ’03) who, along with former Harvard Magazine... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
For the Records
Kelleher in Gold Rush Vinyl’s listening room In the first days of 2025, when Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) went from owning one small business to two, she entered an alternating reality. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, she’s still the... View Details
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Politics and War - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
the suspension of gold payments by the Bank of England. Prime minister William Pitt was forced to implement the issue of paper money when the Bank announced a gold shortage, due to loans it had made to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
In 1984, two board members of the Walt Disney Company (WDC) — Stanley Gold and Roy Disney — mounted a targeted campaign to convince major shareholders that Michael Eisner and Frank Wells were the right team to lead the faltering... View Details
Donald H. McLaughlin
McLaughlin spent 55 years with Homestake Mining creating the largest supplier of gold in the United States. An ardent supporter of the gold standard, McLaughlin was equally adept as both a hands-on miner and... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
BRADOO: Mining old tech for gold by Constantine von Hoffman When most people's phones break, all they see is a problem. Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) sees an opportunity. Bradoo is the cofounder and CEO of BlueOak Resources, a company... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Editor’s Letter
In 1984, I took my babysitting money to the Sam Goody store at the Short Hills Mall and purchased a copy of Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A., on LP. It was the best-selling album of the year and, for a kid growing up in New Jersey, not owning it was unthinkable.... View Details
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
chronologically. Please let me know about Olympians in your class or section who are missing here. Dick Davies (AMP 93, 1998) was a member of the US basketball team that won a gold medal at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. More information... View Details
Daniel Guggenheim
and took control of ASARCO in 1900. Guggenheim bought copper mines and gold fields in Chile, tin mines in Bolivia, and a rubber plantation and diamond mines in the Congo and Angola. Guggenheim became the nation’s most successful miner. View Details
Keywords: Metals
- Portrait Project
Tina Chen
chilled us to the bones. “Stupid” was one of my first English words, because that’s what my new classmates called me. “It’s not fair” I cried, each of the ten times I had to change schools because we were moving again. “Don’t worry, true View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
HBS 2+2 Information Session at UC Berkeley
Join us to learn more about the 2+2 application process to the MBA at HBS. The event will include a presentation and an opportunity to ask questions to an Admissions Officer. The session will begin promptly at 5:30PM n the Blue & Gold... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Constructive Summer at HBS
pedestrians - both near and far - may notice a new gleam in Baker Library's recently restored bell tower. RJA Painting, based in Watertown, Massachusetts, repaired, painted, and applied fresh gold leaf to the structure, completing the job... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- Portrait Project
Thomas Nassim
the musicians packed up, the lights turned down. I plan to walk to the end of the battered wooden pier and sit for a while. As the day fades, molten gold streaks the leaden waters. A chill November evening on the bay. On the shore behind,... View Details
Alonzo B. Hepburn
Hepburn was instrumental in building Chase’s global finance presence. After three years of his tenure, the Bank declared a 400% dividend. A strong proponent of the gold standard, Hepburn became a prominent figure in international banking... View Details
Keywords: Finance
James S. Bell
Bell created the brand name Gold Medal for his company's flour. During the 1890s, Bell created selling and buying networks as part of a vigorous program of vertical integration. Bell also increased the company's production from 8,000... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
Internet security industry. Let's apply this thinking to the recently reinitiated global conversation about climate change. If one subscribes to precepts of entrepreneurial management, there should be a pot of gold at the end of a climate... View Details
James R. Moffett
the discovery and exploration of natural resource deposits around the world, especially the Grasberg gold mine in Papua, Indonesia. As CEO, Moffett oversaw a massive growth plan for the combined entities and expanded the firm’s mining... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 23 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Trends in Consumer Products
With that immense growth, we've been able to share our mission with more people and help consumers evaluate how to best minimize waste in their everyday products. Amanda Burlison ’14, Sr. Brand Manager, Gold Medal Flour & Betty... View Details
Berry Gordy, Jr.
Gordy’s Motown Records became the most successful African-American enterprise of its time with sales in the early 1970s of $50 million. Gordy’s first gold record came just one year after the founding of Motown - Smokey Robinson and the... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Curtis L. Carlson
Carlson was the first entrepreneur to develop a loyalty program for the grocery chain through the issuance of Gold Bond trading stamps. What began as a simple loyalty program for grocers in the Midwest grew into one of the largest service... View Details
Keywords: Services