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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
it hit us that all these heroic, wonderful people who had rushed back to the WTC were probably dead." Eventually, they found a janitor who was able to lead them to safety, as they stumbled through the darkness of some basement tunnels... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)
lay on his cot having been in the country for 12 hours as the mortars came in, trying to figure out how he was going to take this unit and find the bad guys ” When I came back from Afghanistan, I told Professor Jim Cash that the Harvard Business School case study... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
remarks, Professor David Gergen, director of the Center for Public Leadership at KSG, lamented the performance of Washington pols. “As a group, the people running Washington over the last twenty years have... View Details
Keywords: Government
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Site Credits - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction 1837: The Hard Times 1873: Off the Rails 1907: The Banker's Panic 1929: The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Just Keep Our Money
families save to withstand economic shocks. Lawmakers should consider an option by which they could help quell the recent chaos, raise as much as $250 billion a year, strengthen families, and enhance civic engagement. It’s simple: Just keep our money. Instead of... View Details
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
high. But when meeting customer demand is bad for society at large, then competition has a flip side," says Victor Bennett, an assistant professor at the USC Marshall School of Business, who cowrote the paper with Lamar Pierce of View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
worldwide. “About six months after I started at State, the security chief resigned,” Cohen says. “That post typically had been held by career foreign-service officers, who I think are terrific. But for that job in these times, I insisted... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
solid data to answer the question of who mattered. So he made lists of US presidents and British prime ministers that dated back to George Washington in 1789 and Britain's Charles Grey in 1830. He noted how... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
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European Economic History & Philosophy | Baker Library
collection of books was purchased in 1901 by The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, who donated it to the University of London. His second collection, acquired after his death by the Harvard Business School through a monetary donation made by Claude View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
helps us keep everything in perspective.” What has your typical client been most concerned about, given the harsh realities of today's investment climate? You know, I don't really have any “typical” clients, and that's one of the best... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2025
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Agenda: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963)
In the early 1970s, Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) was CEO of Texas International Airlines, a struggling regional operation. There were whispers of change coming for the airline industry as Washington considered the pros and cons of ending regulation. “If there was a list of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
formative. “As is the cliché with most teenagers, I was dying to get out of my hometown,” he says. “For me, Washington was that break. It was the most eye-opening, confidence-building experience of my life up until that point.” Now based... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
In Harmony
finance director of the New York City Opera. For the next 35 years, Weinstein made his way through arts organizations in roles as general director of the Pittsburgh Opera, executive director of the Washington Opera at the Kennedy Center,... View Details
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Burden Park | About
class and captain of the football team. Returning to his native New York, he launched a career on Wall Street with the firm James D. Smith & Co. He died in 1909. His grandson, William A.M. Burden III, became a journalist after graduating from HBS, working as a reporter... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
joined a start-up in Seattle, the Rocket Research Corporation, where I was VP in charge of all business activities for 6 years. Then I became self-employed for 38 years as an expert witness in finance and economics in Washington and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
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Dean Clark Addresses Journalists
Declaring himself “appalled” and “dismayed“ by recent acts of greed and wrongdoing in corporate America, Dean Kim B. Clark told a National Press Club audience in Washington last February that “we need solutions that are driven by a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Thumbs Up Down Under
September 11, they had interrupted their departure preparations at the Chelsea Piers to race to Ground Zero to assist with rescue efforts. Wilson, a severe asthmatic, used his knowledge of the condition to aid medical technicians treating... View Details
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Bibliography - The Human Factor - – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The Exhibition Bibliography Bibliography... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
study with Deniz Aydin, an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis’s Olin Business School. Test case in Turkey To test how small firms manage and use their debt, Aydin and Kim turned to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
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What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
essay with the Washington Post, which published it on March 27. The concern about shortages of masks, ventilators, hospital gowns, and testing kits got me to thinking about the Vietnam War, when I was the senior civilian official... View Details