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Henry Villard Business Papers | Baker Library

promoting the Pacific Northwest, and in the development of the electrical industry in the United States and Germany. The collection primarily consists of business records created by Villard and his... View Details

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

01 Dec 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

(ForeEdge) The authors tell how an ad hoc, underfunded group of citizens worked together to challenge Boston boosters, the United States Olympic Committee, and the International Olympic Committee and derail... View Details

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

As Harvard Business School professor Laura Phillips Sawyer sifted through historical documents to trace the history of competition policy in the United States, an interesting figure emerged: Edna Gleason, who became known as the “mother... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

01 Dec 2003
News

HBS Launches Alumni Survey

MBA. The magazine asked the schools to provide contact information for the Class of 1992. Five business schools — Wharton, MIT Sloan, Yale, the Marshall School at the University of Southern California, and HBS — declined. “At HBS, we have... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

2022
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Charting a Course for Boston: Organizing for Change

By: Lisa C. Cox, Mitchell B. Weiss and Jorrit De Jong

Michelle Wu had been elected on the promise of systemic change, but four days after her November 2021 election and just eleven days before taking office as mayor of Boston, she was still considering how best to staff and manage a range of over-arching priorities.... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Selection and Staffing; City; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Boston

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22 Dec 2016
Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

A recent Washington Post editorial suggested that the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) is, in many ways, a remnant of days gone by. The arguments implied that small businesses that make up... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

Elmer A. Sperry

A prolific inventor, Sperry was instrumental in creating technological advances in navigation. He invented gyroscopic compasses and stabilizers that became fundamental components for both ships and airplanes. His inventions were adopted by the View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Francis B. Davis Jr.

In 1928, United States Rubber lost $10 million due to the collapse of the world crude rubber market. Taking over the helm in 1929, Davis reorganized the company, putting in place a multi-divisional... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

01 Mar 2010
News

How to Spur Prosperity

by venture capital in the past decades, there were many failures. But collectively, the companies that did succeed represent a significant fraction of the private-sector jobs in the United States today. The... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

18 May 2015
News

Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges

with the HBS US Competitiveness Project, Kanter convened a national summit at HBS that drew leaders from government, business, labor, technology, and community coalitions. Together, they worked on overcoming barriers that have prevented the View Details

21 Apr 2014
News

A lifetime of quiet leadership

The late John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947, LLD 1995) garnered enough career achievements for three lifetimes—as a business leader, public servant, and philanthropist. After retiring as cochairman of Goldman Sachs, where he worked for 38 years, Whitehead served as US Deputy... View Details

31 Jan 2019
News

A Global Mission

to allow displaced Cambodians to return to their country after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Then it was on to Somalia, where he served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and cofounded International Development... View Details

Keywords: April White; human rights

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International Job Search Resources

Creating a target list of multinational company locations. Creating a target list of companies headquartered in one country with operations in another country. Capital IQ Example: Companies headquartered in China but operating locations in the View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Groundwork

River,” O’Brien explains, “Baker Lawn was the central green. By the 1950s, the campus had a southern edge bordered by Morgan, Baker Library, Aldrich, the Dean’s House, and Kresge—all still following the river’s arc.” Jumping ahead to the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; George F. Baker III; real estate; Tata Hall; Educational Services; Real Estate

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

States. But that was then; this is now. Just in the past few years, said Lerner, "we've seen a lot more syndication transactions across the United States and Europe and more early-stage involvement by... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

Crawford H. Greenewalt

As the tenth president of duPont Corporation, Greenewalt built the Savannah River Plant for nuclear processing, one of the largest construction projects in the United States. As CEO, Greenewalt generated a stellar return on equity... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

2021
Case

Leading Through Challenging Times: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms

By: Michael Norris, Rawi Abdelal and Kimberlyn Leary

Keisha Lance Bottoms took office as Mayor of Atlanta in 2018 with a progressive agenda and hopes to “keep Atlanta moving forward, leaving no one behind.” She was an Atlanta native, had previously served as a local judge and city councilor, and came into office with... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; City; Problems and Challenges; Health Pandemics; Social Issues; Economy; Atlanta; United States