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- 01 Dec 2001
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A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
immigrant who shrewdly spotted an opportunity in the nascent steel industry and became one of the richest men in his adopted country. Carnegie's era also saw an unprecedented explosion of branded consumer goods, among them Ivory Soap,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
authors have helped scale hundreds of hypergrowth Internet sites through their consulting practice. Drawing on their experience, they present 50 clear, proven, and up-to-date scalability rules and practical guidance for applying them.... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
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Fashion's Retail Revolution
Mukti Khaire. The fashion retail industry didn’t always understand what a business school grad could bring to a creative business, and MBAs, without a strong network in the sector, didn’t see great opportunities in the industry. One View Details
- 08 May 2012
- News
Screen Saver
between what he learned at HBS and his day-to-day duties at the JBFC. “I went from negotiating a $6.5 billion transaction to a $4.5 million industrial development bond,” says Apkon, who will publish a book... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
the Air Force's Exceptional Civilian Service Award. Christenson also participated in the development of the U.S. Army's first cost-based budgetary control system. His publications include Strategic Aspects of Competitive Bidding for... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Sep 2005
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Predictable Surprises
Administration at HBS and is also formally affiliated with Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Psychology Department, Center on the Environment, and Program on Negotiation. Predictable Surprises (HBS Press) was published in 2004. You... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
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A Capitalist in China
published his first novel in January, China Fortunes: A Tale of Business in the New World, (www.johndkuhns.com) about a young American lured to China in the 1980s as the country embarked on economic reforms that transformed it into a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
collisions with other trains, loose rails, and fires in wooden cars occurred with some frequency in the first decades of the railroads. But the industry soon grew more organized and invested in extensive track and bridge construction.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
coaches to fledgling enterprises) and wondered if a similar phenomenon were taking place in Asia. “We looked at industries from timber to Internet software and found that there is a real difference between... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Noted & Quoted
“Why don’t they have cassettes with books on them? We have to have that.” —Anthony Schulte (MBA 1953), former Random House executive, quoted in his obituary. (New York Times, June 25, 2012) View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
MORE Farzad on the lasting allure of 1980s Miami on the Skydeck podcast MORE Farzad on the lasting allure of 1980s Miami on the Skydeck podcast The Bookshelf Journalist Roben Farzad (MBA 2005) on his new nonfiction tale, Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
More Newsmakers
Each week, the new Alumni website features stories about HBS alumni, in addition to those that appear in the Bulletin. Recent alumni profiled include Tope Lawani (MBA 1995/JD 1996), Carter Roberts (MBA 1988), Will Rogers (MBA 1985), and Fran Seegull (MBA 1998). For... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
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Effective Leadership and Decision-Making
In feature articles in the September issue of Harvard Business Review, three HBS professors offered useful ideas about leadership and decision-making. In "What You Don't Know about Making Decisions," Professor David Garvin and Assistant Professor Michael Roberto... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Driven
In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, HBS professor emeritus Paul Lawrence and professor Nitin Nohria explore one of the most basic questions of human behavior: What motivates us to act the way we do? Drawing on theories of evolutionary biology and social... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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A Classics Enterprise
Robert Strassler (MBA ’61), a self-described “scholar without credentials,” worked for seven years on his own dime to produce an unlikely 1996 bestseller: The Landmark Thucydides, a reader-friendly version of the Greek philosopher’s famously dense and convoluted... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
Capital: The Story of Long-Term Investment Excellence by Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963) (Wiley) Ellis’s latest book takes an inside look at The Capital Group Companies, revealing the people, practices, and values that have brought this firm consistent success. Manager’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
Straight Talk on Investing coauthored by John J. (“Jack”) Brennan (MBA ’80) (John Wiley & Sons) Brennan, chairman and CEO of The Vanguard Group, provides a hands-on, straight-forward guide to investing. Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest by Linda Carlson (MBA ’80)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
How to Grow When Markets Don't by Adrian Slywotzky (MBA '80) and Richard Wise (Warner Books) Slywotzky brings his expertise in global strategy consulting to his sixth book, which examines the difficulties of sustainable growth and offers insights on what companies can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
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Gompers, Merton Honored
The 2002 Geewax, Terker & Company Prize in Investment Research, offered by the Rodney L. White Center at The Wharton School, has gone to Professor Paul A. Gompers and coauthors Joy Ishii and Andrew Metrick for their paper “Corporate Governance and Equity Prices.”... View Details