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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
C. Gregg Petersmeyer learned about giving back from his parents. He observed in them and their contemporaries a tremendous empathy for their fellow citizens going through the shared hard times of the Depression and World War II. “Today,”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
tensions between China and Japan exploded. On September 18, 1931, less than three months before Moore’s departure, the Japanese Army invaded northeast China, the first incursion of an occupation that would last until the end of World... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
behind one of pop culture's most successful icons. Over the past decade, Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, has frequented star-studded galas thrown by LeBron James and Jay-Z, hung out with the CEO of Walt... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
It is ten o'clock on a mild March morning in Charleston, South Carolina. A gentle mist is falling, weighing down the yellow Lady Banksia roses in the garden outside Roper House, an impeccably restored Greek Revival mansion that overlooks... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
the better for it. Mary Callahan Erdoes (MBA 1993) CEO, JPM Asset Management, JPMorgan Chase & Co. “The sheer terror of a cold call changes you forever—until you realize that life is made up of cold calls in different formats. Once you... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
says he hopes it will “enable young, entrepreneurial managers from Poland to lead even more business growth in the years ahead.” Educated as an engineer in England, where his father led a Polish squadron of the Royal Air Force during World 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... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Bradley led 1.23 million men as commander of 12 Army Group on the Western Front to bring an end to World War II. Bradley was the youngest and last of nine men to earn five-star rank and the only army officer... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Sumner Feldberg (MBA 1949), who died on July 1, 2022, was remembered in an obituary in the Wall Street Journal as an innovator in the field of retail. He grew up in Newton,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Corey, Lombard Remembered
Corey taught in the School’s MBA, Doctoral, and Executive Education programs; in the latter, he also took on several administrative roles. An early advocate of adding cases with ethical dimensions to the Marketing syllabus, Corey authored... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
influence over so many areas of business and society. "World War II catalyzed mass production techniques, quantitative analysis methods, women in the workplace, and world trade through the Marshall Plan and Japan's economic renaissance,"... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
where some of a rough sense of respect for the other parties that is individually-based and not based on the positions they're taking forward, that becomes key. Because at the end of the day, there is a peace that comes through View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
shows how a culture that has existed for centuries can be warped and transformed by external forces like war and colonialism, and how members of an ethnic group migrate to survive not only drastic changes but economic realities. Borders... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
Photo courtesy Jeff Madrick When I graduated from HBS in 1971, I chose journalism (at BusinessWeek) over business, a career decision that enabled me to observe “up close and personal” the coming Wall Street revolution. It was a revolution no View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Helping vets become resident landlords
thing called the VA Loan Guarantee. That’s a no-money-down home-buying power, which was a result of the GI Bill after World War II. And what they particularly don’t know is that you can use this up to a no-money-down $417,000 to $721,000... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
them featured in the Bulletin’s “Last Look” photos), and serenades of professors in the last class. The most common game played during class was Bingo, called Section Bingo or Turkey Bingo. It was begun by 1972A in their first year and was still being played in 1990H.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
the demands of highly defined and idiosyncratic groups such as “Newly Released Ex-Cons” and “Christian Zionists.” The country may have been built on the idea of individualism, but we have come to expect that it be factored into... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 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 War II and hopped... View Details