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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
dots of these disparate actors. Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong by Neil Monnery (MBA 1987) London Publishing Partnership In the fifty years from the end of the Second World View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
attended and taught at Tuskegee Institute and knew Booker T. Washington, brought his family to Philadelphia during the great black northward migration before World War I. America’s father served in the Army... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
unflappable? “I don’t think I feel risk the way most people do,” she says with a shrug. “I think it’s because of my mom.” Margaret Whitman was the sort of bold character who volunteered for the Red Cross during World View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
threats to the global economic system. It survived two world wars and the Great Depression. It won the Cold War. Doesn’t capitalism reign supreme in the 21st century? Looking forward, we certainly can see... View Details
- 25 Mar 2008
- News
Whistling Past the Graveyard
The experts are finally seeing the light: most now agree we are in a recession. Harvard professor Martin Feldstein (http://www.nber.org/feldstein), former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, says it could be the worst since View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
phenomenon in the United States. In the years leading up to the Great Depression and World War II, there was a very high percentage of recent immigrants in the United States, and home ownership was beyond... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
the most is my lead class that Nitin Nohria actually taught, because every day is about lead. How do I manage-- in the case of The Lego Movie, we actually have 1,000 people working on the movie in all different parts of the world from Los... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the decades of research and teaching that began immediately after World War II. By the late 1960s, however, institutional interest in the subject (reflective of broader educational trends) had waned, and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
interaction—enthusiastic gamers, a largely oblivious and skeptical public, and occasionally supportive video game publishers who saw marketing opportunities, but didn’t dream bigger. It wasn’t until the 1998 release of StarCraft, a game of View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
prosper. We know that many white banks, for example, the Bank of Italy, they were the beneficiary of the federal government after the Second World War saying that, "We want to create a middle class in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
deployed after the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as during world wars, previous pandemics, and other disasters. With that structure in place, the hospital was able to make the “crisp decisions that are required in warlike times,” says... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
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
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
on Wall Street. And W.R. Grace's Peter Grace told us he wouldn't invest in Third World countries unless he had over 50 percent ownership. What would he say today? Verbosity ruled. Classroom performances were supplemented by mutterings... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
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, including surveys of thirteen thousand... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
his focus to the nonprofit world and launched Bridgespan, an organization dedicated to helping address society’s most complex problems. Tierney has a knack for making it seem like his success is accidental. As a high-school student when... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
and international negotiator, has crafted a thought-provoking thriller that immerses us in one of history's most pivotal moments. In this novel inspired by two true stories from the Second World War, a young British nurse and a seasoned... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
end of World War II, and life under the Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, the Communist Polish United Workers’ Party, had been, as Maj recalls now, “ugly,” but his family had not suffered as many others... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
the coming conflict. One important lesson of history is that major wars can arise even when economic globalization is very far advanced and the hegemonic position of an English-speaking empire seems fairly secure. A second important... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
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,... View Details