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- 24 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
My Classroom Experience During Harvard Business School’s Summer Venture in Management Program
Hall. As we streamed through the entrance, a few conversations began around the room with an extended hand and a smile. “What school do you go to?” (Bowie State University, the University of Houston, Princeton University, Morehouse... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
In Search of Innovation
Many of the innovations needed to increase the quality of health care in the United States while reducing its cost already exist, says Professor Richard Hamermesh, faculty cochair of the Forum on Health Care... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
of San Francisco. Wu is currently chairman of the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants as well as a Presidential Innovation Fellow working on the Development Innovation Ventures project at the United View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
the unique juncture at which the United States now finds itself, with many speakers urging their audience to get involved in the issues of the day. The event also featured some twenty sessions led by HBS... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
to enter the medical profession. With the United States on the brink of nuclear war, he wondered, "What use will I be as a doctor if the world is not a betterrun place?" He shifted his field of study and... View Details
- 18 Mar 2015
- News
9 Alumni Named Young Global Leaders
members are: Ruzwana Bashir (MBA 2011), founder and CEO, Peek.com, United Kingdom Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009), CEO, Pampered Chef, United States Sadiq Gillani (MBA 2006),... View Details
Keywords: World Economic Forum
Louis F. Swift
Capitalizing on his father’s success, Louis Swift continued to expand the meat packing company even further. During his tenure the family company became the largest meat packer in the United States and was... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Bruce Barton
In 1919, Barton co-founded the advertising agency for which he acted as president. Barton was responsible for helping to develop a more favorable public image for United States Steel after the Steel Strike... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors
By: William R. Kerr
The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation—with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail.... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Geographic Location; Patents; Ethnicity; City; Innovation and Invention; United States
Kerr, William R. "The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-003, July 2008. (Forthcoming book chapter in Agglomeration Economics.)
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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
engineering to sales. 32 Labor Practices: Slider United States Steel Corporation. Paths of Opportunity in U.S. Steel. [New York?]: United States... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
policymaker in Europe last week, and he confirmed the Japanese auto industry’s belief that its supply chain in the United States would be disrupted should the three automakers fail. That’s because key... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
aspirations of the School’s graduates. The inaugural year for the Alumni New Venture Contest attracted more than seventy teams representing HBS Clubs in the United States and abroad. The seven finalists made... View Details
John C. Malone
formed joint partnerships to build a combined cable telephone system in Britain. Under Malone’s leadership, TCI became the #2 cable television operation in the United States and grew into a media powerhouse... View Details
Keywords: Communications
Oscar S. Wyatt, Jr.
Using his Ford automobile as collateral, Wyatt entered the gas distribution and energy pipeline business with $800 in 1955. His tenacity and determination quickly secured gas contracts throughout Texas, and in short order, Wyatt had built one of the largest suppliers... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
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Teaching Resources - Business History
supplement to cases, textbooks, and other readings. Case Method Teaching The C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning was established in 2004 to promote and support teaching excellence and innovation within Harvard Business School. It also provides... View Details
Forrest E. Mars, Sr.
Uncle Ben’s. By the early 1970s, his candy business amounted to about $200 million in the United States with an additional $55 million in Britain. Of the ten top selling candy bars in the View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Taking That Hill
sought challenging environments, and I get a lot of pleasure when people say they want to take that hill, and we take that hill together.” As PPG’s growth surges internationally, it’s overseas where new and different hills are increasingly popping up. As the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
historic emergence of credit and debt was as important in the rise of civilization as technological invention. In the excerpt that follows, he explains the recently developed symbiotic financial relationship between the United View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
Baker returned to the United States and was involved for many years in a variety of trading activities that took him to some two dozen countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Observing further how... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
An Encore for the MBA Oath
School and inspired over 4,000 MBAs in the United States and around the world to participate. The MBA Oath grew out of concern over the widespread criticism leveled at business schools and MBAs regarding the... View Details
Keywords: MBA Oath