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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Check Is in the Mail
plan, credit cards, and home mortgages can make the existence of personal credit seem like a relatively recent development. An exhibit at the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center tells the story of how those now-familiar innovations came to be — but it also View Details
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Anh M. Nguyen
My mom travels with a frying pan. A fifty-cent yard sale purchase, the pan makes the world's best banh xeo, a Vietnamese dish. To most people, the grease-stained sides and wobbly handle suggest nothing more than an unexceptional piece of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
giving, plus inspiring donor profiles, visit HBS’s annual Contributors Report. VISIT REPORT Immersive Field Courses, offered for the first time in 2012, give second-year MBA students the opportunity to apply their learning hands-on with... View Details
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Patrick McGinnis
Seven years ago, I traveled from Bogotá to Buenos Aires, mostly by land. The first leg of the trip was to be a twelve hour "luxury" bus ride. On the way, the television, bathroom, and air conditioning broke; the bus nearly fell... View Details
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Cecily Kovatch
I want to have no regrets. After working for six years after college, I had done some amazing things few people have an opportunity to do. I'd worked on over 300 oil rigs, traveled from Alaska to Hawaii recruiting hundreds of engineers,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Marvin S. Traub, MBA 1949
This spring he planned and helped to open a 200,000-square-foot Bloomingdale’s in Dubai. At Traub’s side throughout has been his wife, Lee, whom he married after his first year at HBS. The pair still travel together — on his business... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Comfort Zone
and Brazil. It’s not a stretch to understand why this is the case: If airports can reduce processing time through security and reduce anxiety, they will be increasing leisure time inside the airport—and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
1st-Year MBAs Learn from Global Partners
Market Research: Forty-two MBA students traveled to Accra, Ghana, where this team spent time at a local market. The world became HBS students’ classroom in January as the entire first-year class spent a week... View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
Through three decades of international business travel as founder and president of the Netherlands-based Caldic Chemie, BV, Joop van Caldenborgh (AMP 71, 1975) also pursued his lifelong passion for collecting modern and contemporary... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: A Nation Transformed by Information
Cortada travel back in time to seek enlightenment about the future. To a large extent, they write, “historical perspective is crucial to our understanding of information in the role of the transformation of... View Details
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IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog
adequate processing time for all visas, as travel fees are not refundable if a student does not secure visas on time. For detailed information about what the course program fee includes and excludes, as well... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
business team needing to travel from Boston to Syracuse, New York, for example, could simply phone in the night before and book a nonstop sixty-minute flight for not much more than the cost of last-minute business-class tickets on a... View Details
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Research Links - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
traveled to Chicago's Lakeside Press Galleries. At a time when photography had become the medium of choice for most print advertising, artists were pursuing commercial photography as both an artistic... View Details
- 24 Feb 2016
- News
Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
William Alden (MBA 1952) was sorting mail when he had the thought: The concept behind the automated conveyer system he was perfecting for routing letters could be used to move people. It was the 1950s, a time of great investment in... View Details
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South Asia - Global Activities 2020
44 HBS students traveled to the small Sri Lankan fishing town of Hambantota, currently undergoing a major redevelopment, and found it to be a microcosm of the entire two-week study experience in January 2020. Pictured: Students in front... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream Series: Marty
the company culture: 18 years later, the policy remains in place, and is regularly utilized in recruiting new employees to the firm. It also ties the senior staff together through shared experiences and a commonly held ethos about time... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jan Swartz (MBA 1996)
cruise-director cheeriness. "It's a 24/7 business, with ships sailing every day, everywhere in the world," Swartz says by phone from her office in Valencia, California. "Our ships are small cities." Time on the road: 10 days a month. "We... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Hair Today
the business Winters launched in 2019 with initial funding from classmate Ekaterina Lazaroff-Puck. Like so many startups, Upgrade was born from a pain point. As an MBA, Winters, lacking options in Boston, traveled to New York to have her... View Details
- 25 Oct 2018
- News
Bringing the Background into Focus
passion for art in night classes, working her ways towards a master’s in art history. After traveling during a paid non-compete period, Murrell made a change. “With some time and reflection, I realized I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt authorized public road projects on a massive scale. The cooperation between the government and the budding automobile industry helped make motor transport the dominant mode of the twentieth century. From the New York View Details