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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

profits and losses, tracking pricing, assessing standardized procedures, and improving technology. Henry Varnum Poor, author of A History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States (1860), editor of the American Railroad Journal... View Details

09 Jul 2020
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It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

information is significant and avoiding information overload. David J. Collis, the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Michael G. Rukstad, the late senior... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

01 Sep 2022
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Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

from them, potentially putting them out of business. You might regard that as bordering on the insane. The matter has caught the attention of no less an observer than Henry Kissinger, who commented recently to Bloomberg News... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Cars on Time

arrangement that shared the risk of car loans between dealer and manufacturer. Its goals were, initially, to smooth out seasonal fluctuations in sales, but the ultimate effect was to dramatically increase the numbers of units sold. Henry... View Details

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

Henry Bloomberg, the late father of New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966). The architectural and intellectual centerpiece of the HBS campus, Baker Library was dedicated in 1927 and named for George F. Baker (1840-1931), the... 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

treat serious medical conditions,” says Ariel D. Stern, the Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS. Stern cowrote the December 2022 working paper with Amitabh Chandra, the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Pharmaceutical

04 Aug 2003
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Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

lessons for business leaders to be found in areas outside business. History itself, literature, theater—look to Shakespeare and Henry V, Julius Caesar, or King Lear. When we look at these enduring works, we find more than just great... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Foods, Johnson & Johnson, USX Corp. (United States Steel), Westinghouse Electric, and Weyerhaeuser. The railway system, as historian Henry Adams explained in his celebrated 1907 autobiography, “required new machinery to be... View Details

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AASU50 - Alumni

Professional Achievement Award W. Don Cornwell, MBA 1971 Herbert P. Wilkins, Sr., MBA 1970 E. Stanley O'Neal, MBA 1978 William M. Lewis, Jr., 1982 Paula A. Banks, AMP 154 Robert L. Ryan, MBA 1970 Lawrence V. Jackson, MBA 1979 Pamela A. Thomas-Graham, MBA 1988 Raymond... View Details

February 2021
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Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (A)

By: Henry McGee, Nien-hê Hsieh, Sarah McAra and Christian Godwin

In 2015, Apple CEO Tim Cook debuted the iPhone 6S with enhanced security measures that enflamed a debate on privacy and public safety around the world. The iPhone 6S, amid a heightened concern for privacy following the 2013 revelation of clandestine U.S. surveillance... View Details

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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Research Interests : developing countries , infrastructure , project finance Interviews Vimal Shah Louisa Mojela & Gloria Serobe Funke Opeke Adrian Gore Shirley Zinn Peter Vundla Sizwe Nxasana View Details

28 Oct 2022
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HBS Announces New RISE Career Fellow Program

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

Lisle, IL Subjects: American History CA Ricardo Reyes Dominguez High School Paramount, CA UT Holly Reynolds West High School Salt Lake City, UT IL Randie-Lynn Reynolds Lakes Community High School Lake Villa, IL GA Chris Rhodenbaugh Henry... View Details

20 Dec 2010
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Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

the limits of attempts by outside governments to improve business and political conditions in other countries. Answering them, however, required a long and detailed romp through the history of US involvement with what Secretary of War View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

founding director of the Risky Business Project, which focused on quantifying the economic impacts of climate change on key US regions and sectors. Gordon has served in senior leadership positions at several nonpartisan think tanks, including the View Details

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Library Search Search Search Lehman Brothers: 1850 - 2008 Exhibition Leadership Transitions The fourth generation of Lehman family in Lehman Brothers included Philip Henry Isles, a nephew of Robert Lehman. Isles, who died in 1960, was a... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Paul Sternhell Business Track Runner-Up Empower is a specialty merchandiser of useful “lifestyle” products for people with disabilities. Music Games, Int. Dana Soiman Henry Tam Igor Tkachencko Sasha Gimpelson Business Track Runner-Up MGI... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Turning Point: Listen to the Music

Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and came to the United States in 1958 with my parents and my brother because my parents thought it was... View Details

Keywords: music; film; purpose; career

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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

save himself from his inner turmoil. Arthur Brooks is the William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Management Practice at HBS. He is the author of From Strength to... View Details

16 Oct 2015
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HBS and the Arts

school for EC year with the confidence of having chosen an industry I am devoted to: the arts. I am excited to continue to mine the resources of classes, faculty, and alumni to build the skills and connections necessary for my career. I may not be on a typical MBA... View Details

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