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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
York, NY MA Holly Troiano Monument Mountain Regional High School Great Barrington, MA Subjects: AP U.S. History, College Prep/Honors U.S. History, Politics, Current Issues, Life & Death MN Laura Tucci Fairview Alternative High School... View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
The technology to make soap was known for several thousand years, but the product was rarely used for personal washing, especially by Europeans who largely avoided washing with water after the Black Death in the Middle Ages, believing it... View Details
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Lehman Brothers Family Partners | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Lehman Robert Lehman, also known as Bobbie, led Lehman Brothers from 1925 until his death in 1969, guiding the firm through the Great Depression into the postwar economic growth of the 1950s and 60s. Robert’s great passion was art. After... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
A business plan predicated upon asking customers to adopt new priorities and behave differently from how they have in the past is an uphill death march through knee-deep mud. Instead of designing products and services that dictate... View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
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The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation
reasons. To evaluate the BTD program, the research team looked at the time spent in late-stage clinical testing, as well as data collected from the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System, which relies on reports of negative side effects ranging from headaches and nausea... View Details
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News - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Millions to Boost Baltimore Economy Businesses Pledge Millions to Boost Baltimore Economy by Michael E. Porter Mar 15, 2016 Media Mention The costs of inequality: Faster lives, quicker deaths The costs of inequality: Faster lives, quicker... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
a GED, but no college and no job, we would make a big impact on this. We have to have the psychological armor to defend ourselves against the racism that's all around us. Neeley: George Floyd's death has reawakened corporate America to... View Details
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Morgan Hall | About
States. Two years later, Morgan was able to underwrite federal bonds to help finance Civil War debt. The firm was reorganized after Drexel’s death and renamed J.P. Morgan & Company in 1895. By 1900, Morgan’s firm was one of the most... View Details
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
Democrats (e.g., tax breaks, minimum wage, fuel efficiency) and Republicans (e.g., death tax, border security, war on terror), rating each according to political slant. Zhu and Greenstein then identified some 4,000 articles that appeared... View Details
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
William Street Fund. Lehmans from subsequent generations also served as partners. The death of Robert Lehman in 1969, however, left a void in the company, as he was the last family member to lead the firm. "Ready for the New Era in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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Who Was George F. Baker?
banking and finance. Remembering George F. Baker: After his death in 1931, the boards of many of the dozens of companies and philanthropies Baker had served on wrote tributes that are stored in a finely crafted chest, now part of the... View Details
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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni
as dozens of observers looked on. As outrage about his death rips across the city, General Mills’ CEO Jeff Harmening must decide what to say and do about this wrenching event in his company’s hometown. By exploring with Jeff how he... View Details
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Teele Hall | About
health reasons and became vice chairman of the Putnam Management Company, where he had long been a trustee. At the time of his death in 1967 at the age of 61, Teele had returned to his undergraduate alma mater, Amherst College, to serve... View Details
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Philip Lehman, took over leadership from his father in 1925. Robert’s uncle, Arthur Lehman served as a senior partner of Lehman Brothers until his death in 1936. In 1928, Lehman Brothers moved to One William Street, an eleven-story... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
soon became the electoral kiss of death for Panamanian politicians. Q: What has happened since the transfer of control? A: After the United States removed Noriega, the Panama Canal underwent a management revolution. Once the political... View Details
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Dillon House | About
investment bank. Dillon joined the Wall Street bond brokerage firm William A. Read & Company in 1912. Following William Read’s death in 1916, Dillon bought a majority interest in the firm; the company’s name was changed to Dillon, Read &... View Details
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Joe Coleman
I spent my 23rd birthday in a psychiatric hospital. Family and friends reassured me during visiting hours, but I was still terrified by my diagnosis bipolar disorder—an incurable condition that felt like a death sentence. Looking back,... View Details
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Dean’s House | About
just two years before the death of George F. Baker, the prominent banker who funded the construction of Harvard Business School’s original campus. The brick, 10,978-square-foot Georgian Revival-style building includes a gracious entry... View Details
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
secularization after the death of dictator Francisco Franco. Relevant. Governments can’t sway the opinion of a disinterested audience. The imagery and associations of the place need to matter to the targeted audience. A branding campaign... View Details