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Collection Highlights | Baker Library
collection includes his lecture and seminar notes and almost the entire body of his professional correspondence. Wartime Schools Collection During World War II, the U.S. military was facing an increased need for officers trained in... View Details
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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH LINKS SITE CREDITS GEORGES F. DORIOT Introduction EDUCATION Early Years at HBS Educating Leaders INNOVATION & VC Wartime Innovation ARD DEC View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
After witnessing the civil war that has ravaged his country for almost three decades, an historian makes this observation about the moral decline of the nation: "The ancient simplicity into which honor so largely entered was laughed down... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
like A. Lange & Söhne., founded in 1845 in the village of Glashütte, Germany. It began making precision pocket watches that eventually became world famous. After World War II, the East German country expropriated the company and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
Fifty years ago, a new course was introduced at HBS to provide students with a better understanding of the problems of starting and managing new businesses. The Management of New Enterprises, developed and taught by Professor Myles L. Mace, served the needs of World... View Details
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Georges F. Doriot
came to the U.S. in 1921 and became one of the 20th Century’s most dynamic business influencers, changed the rules, both in the HBS classroom, and in the world of commerce.During World War II, he joined the Quartermaster General’s office... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
shot to death in a police car in 1941 because he laughed while standing in line at a movie theatre with his girlfriend. Or how about the hate that led to Timothy Hood’s, murder in the back of a police car? He was a World War II veteran... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
sells out by April 1870. “Worth nothing was wealthy before the war but was ruined by the war. Can’t recommend him for credit,” reads a July 1873 report. A year later, the final words: “Little credit no means business quite small.”[1]... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent - Course Catalog
does the rise of China mean for Africa ? Are we seeing a new cold war emerging in the Sahelian region. What impact will demographics have on Africa's place in the world. We will deal old industries like energy , View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
forthcoming Journal of Finance Brokers and Order Flow Leakage: Evidence from Fire Sales By: Barbon, Andrea, Marco Di Maggio, Francesco Franzoni, and Augustin Landier Abstract—Using trade-level data, we study whether brokers play a role in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
Her focus, with the support of her boss, USIP President Lise Grande, is to help a relatively new field gel – to consolidate political and business leaders’ appreciation of the linkages between environmental “tensions and grievances” and View Details
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
reversal of European integration already underway. The EU was created by people who had seen World War II and never wanted to see Europeans go to war with one another again. In the years since the Treaty of... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
greatest success factor: disciplined leadership. The authors relate the stories of executives who have successfully broken through the barriers of growth to identify what they all have in common. They supplement these findings with decades of industry expertise.... View Details
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
coastal cities like Mumbai or Lagos or Bangkok as people seek jobs or flee wars or drought. The fact of migration exposes more people to weather-related disturbances. If sea rise were to accelerate, many of the newcomers would be in... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
Publication:Journal of Corporate Finance (forthcoming) Abstract In recent years, boards have become significantly more likely to implement non-binding, majority-vote (MV) shareholder proposals. Using a sample of 620 MV proposals between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
many households, the most important symbol of their place and economic possibilities was where they lived. Before World War II, about 40 percent of families owned their own home. In 1970, a firm majority — 62 percent — did. By the late... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
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Pricing Paradise
including carbon sequestration, watershed protection, and the creation of intellectual property. (Star Wars director George Lucas, for example, found Death Valley National Park to be the perfect locale for Luke Skywalker’s home planet of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
glasses. And just, was this really modern young person, who was trying to change her country. White: Your second book is also set, in part, in Afghanistan. Ashley's War is about the women of the cultural support teams who went into battle... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Fact, Fiction, and Polygamy: A Tale of Utah War Intrigue, 1857–1858 ―A. G. Browne’s The Ward of the Three Guardians By William P. MacKinnon (MBA 1962) (Editor) and Kenneth L. Alford (Editor) University of Utah Press Fact, Fiction, and... View Details
- 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 war and dynamic social... View Details