War On Terror - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2012
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Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech

Investing in HBS Great Expectations Model Teamwork Donor Spotlight FIELD 2: Global Intelligence FAQ For one day last November, it was every hand on deck and every eye on screen... View Details

Keywords: Professor V.G. Narayanan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Dec 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Oct 1998
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A Long and Winding Road

the Charles. A passionate Gloria Steinem rocked us with her irreverence. From Washington, George Romney and Caspar Weinberger took the campus by storm. Ray Kroc of McDonald's reminded us, "I still put my pants on View Details

Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)

01 Oct 2001
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HBS Press Books in Brief

The War for Talent, by Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod, presents a strategic view of what managers must do to hire and keep the best employees. Drawing on five years of research,... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management; Finance

11 Apr 2018
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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

01 Jun 2002
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HBS Vets Support Homeless Comrades

eighty hours while homeless veterans have to endure the elements every single day," said one AFAA member. In the shadow of Spangler: "We're out there for only eighty hours while homeless veterans have to endure the elements every single... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

25 Sep 2008
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Been There, Seen That

global warming was a looming catastrophe. Lo and behold, here we are in 2008: war in oil-rich Iraq, $4 a gallon gasoline, an economy in free fall, and melting ice caps. On the economic front, the recent... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Government; Management

01 Dec 2013
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Len Schlesinger Returns

and cons of working in business vs. academia? It's not an issue of pros and cons. They are both great, and different. Historically, there's been a general assumption that those who can, do; and those who can't, teach, but I don't see that separation. There is no... View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Feb 2002
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Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future

memory of war on one's home soil. We know how tragic history can be, and we understand the fragility of society." A native of France who relocated to New York last summer, Hannezo recalled John F. Kennedy's... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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Rival Visions

After its war of liberation from England, America was bankrupt, disjointed, and devoid of experience in governance. "The new country could have broken apart because of its financial problems," HBS professor emeritus Thomas McCraw writes... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Action Plan: Casting Call

Bert Berkley (MBA 1950) calls it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” Having served in the US Army during World War II for three-and-a-half years, he was offered (and accepted) the chance to go home one day early if he signed up for the Army Reserves. Called... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

26 Sep 2018
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Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

the Civil War era. Those trees are still home to bald eagles, dozens of species of migratory songbirds, and one of the largest blue heron nesting sites in the Chesapeake, with more than 400 blue heron... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2015
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The Military and the MBA: Gene Markowski (MBA 1973)

in 2013. I was stationed in a tank unit out in Colorado Springs when the Vietnam War started up. I didn’t think I wanted to be in a tank in Vietnam, so I volunteered to go to flight school. Six months later, I was in combat. I was a... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

22 Feb 2022
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Brand New

World War II, members played a key role in the Normandy invasion. When Sundy left the army for the corporate world, he turned his attention to similarly storied names such as Cheerios, Betty Crocker, KitchenAid, and Maytag in his... View Details

Keywords: April White; manufacturing; life experience; leadership; Black; African American; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2015
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Feedback

Military Memories Re: The Military and the MBA Photo courtesy of Phil Curtis As a member of the Class of 1974, we were thrown into the midst of the travails of the Vietnam War and were populated by a number of patriotic officers serving... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)

two-year-old Hereford heifers to populate the farm my father had purchased just after World War II. We drove; the “girls” took the train. Dad had built a western-style, open-front pole barn in anticipation, and our somewhat skeptical... View Details

Keywords: Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100 years of View Details

01 Mar 2017
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The Realities of the Refugee Crisis

to work. What’s unusual about flows that come out of war settings is the refugees are mostly there to get away from a war, not to find a job. KF: In our survey, we asked about people’s professions in Syria. The number View Details