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- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
probably before, Bohemian glass wages were just a fifth of ours. "Beggar-thy-Neighbor" was scarcely a derisive term in the glass business, for as de Tocqueville pointed out in 1832, we were blessed with a comparatively large internal market. For View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
major HBS report to Harvard's Board of Overseers outlining the School's plan to "enlarge its activities so as to be of still more service to the country" by expanding instruction in public aspects of business. Articles during World War II... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
didn't tell him that his work wasn't nearly good enough. I was just trying to be nice to Bob, and then I wound up having to fire Bob, not so nice after all. Dan: What is it about Silicon Valley that has made it such a good training ground for your management ideas?... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
OCTOBER 6 Rajendra Aneja (AMP 175, 2008) brought his expertise in marketing in rural areas to the task of stopping the spread of the COVID-19, which he deems “the biggest and most serious problem facing mankind since World War II.” In... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Curtis, an American journalist held for nearly two years by an al-Qaeda–linked group in Syria. Bradley’s involvement in the hostage issue began in 2011 as an ad hoc response to an overheard conversation between editors about Clare Morgana... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
post–Civil War era to commission-based canvassers hired and trained by manufacturers to sell agricultural products and books by Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, for instance. “Drummers,” who acted as the middlemen between manufacturers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
classroom was, in the words of former American Association for Higher Education president Russell Edgerton, like watching “Rostropovich and Bernstein conduct a symphony.” Six feet tall and loose-limbed, he was constantly on the move,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
and we being the Black community, we being the American community in general, we need to make sure that we take advantage of these opportunities when people are prepared to help other people and help the Black community. DM: I know that... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
“Despite the progress the United States has made, Black Americans are too often denied basic privileges that others take for granted,” wrote Mason. “I am not talking about the privileges of wealth, education or job opportunities. I’m... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
the hardships of World War II, with its shortages, rationing, bombardments, and Nazi occupation. After the war ended, at the age of 17, he went to Switzerland, where he obtained his federal high school... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
individuals. Entrepreneurial Spirits: Through the Seventeen Success Principles of Napoleon Hill by Poly Emenike (OPM 38, 2009) (The Napoleon Hill Foundation) A testimonial to the efficacy of the principles of Napoleon Hill (1883-1970), an View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
song with the Vietnam War heavy on his mind, and spent much of his life as a social justice advocate who fought for prison reform, Native American rights, and for opportunities for children born into... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Bower Associate Professor Harvard University Press In the first decades after World War II, many newly-independent Asian and African countries and established Latin American states pursued a socialist... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
indispensable tale that belongs on the bookshelves of anyone with an interest in American or financial history, The Panic of 1907 is an expert retelling of one of the most important, but least well-known crises of the last 200 years.... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
major corporate renewable buyers and the war in Ukraine, you have major tailwinds for our industry. Then you add on the passage of the IRA, and the opportunity for renewables and US manufacturing is unlike anything we have ever seen.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Harmony Growing up in late-1960s Milwaukee, Bill Ahlhauser was a self-described “young radical,” a teenager who took part in civil rights marches and who dropped out of his Catholic private school in order to start up an independent high... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
Santos-Dumont—not the Wright brothers—made the first manned flight in 1906.) Twenty years ago, this kind of consumer class would have been unthinkable. "In 1994, Brazil was really stuck in the mud," says Jorge Domínguez, Harvard's vice provost for international affairs... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
US Army War College was having a three-day workshop on critical infrastructure threats. He wangled an invitation from a retired general and drove seven hours from his home in New Hampshire to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he listened to... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
Conference Palace in Baghdad, built for the Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement. When Iraq went to war with Iran, the conference moved to India and the palace sat unused until the United States destroyed it during the 1990–1991 Gulf... View Details
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- 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... View Details