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U.S. Steel | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
photographers around the country to document the inner workings of the company and its subsidiaries as part of a national public relations campaign. These efforts occurred at a time when the steel industry, like today’s technology behemoths, reigned central in the... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Award for Teaching Excellence. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the Inaugural Hakan Orbay Research First Prize Award in 2015 for “Resident Networks and Corporate Connections: Evidence from World War View Details
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
will give the world something new.” Edwin Land, "Annual Christmas Message to Employees of the Polaroid Corporation," December 23, 1942 4 Edwin Land defined greatness as bringing "to the world a wonderful and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
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Zone Defense
war zones around the world. Brandon Tseng calls it “self-driving technology for defense.” The long-distance, 2.8-pound quadcopter drones, running on Shield AI’s Hivemind software, can navigate through buildings without a pilot, streaming... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
private equity in Asia, Kim was born 60 years ago into a very different Korea. In 1970, when Kim was seven years old, Korea’s annual GDP per capita was just under $280. Still recovering from war and finding its financial footing, it’s a... View Details
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
isolationism Influence: High 40 1940 s 19 War Production Board readies nation for WWII U.S. becomes a global power Creation of IMF and World Bank Marshall Plan Cold war begins... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
support all these activities through a conscious and proactive effort to be as effective and clear as possible in their communication to both internal and external stakeholders. To learn more, read Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion
exams wrapped up in May my classmates and I flew to 12 different cities around the world for our FGI capstone projects. My destination city was Seoul and my Global Partner (GP) was a 25-person start-up on its way to a billion-dollar... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
Chandler observed. Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. was born in Guyencourt, Delaware, on September 15, 1918. A 1940 graduate of Harvard College, Chandler returned to Harvard after service as a Navy officer in World View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance
Great Depression, when foreclosures on residential properties soared alongside farm foreclosures. Scholars still know relatively little about the American real estate industry before World War II. The U.S.... View Details
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
the case details, by 1916, she turned her horror of the barbaric practice of lynching into a powerful campaign against it. Her efforts toward African American participation in international peace discussions after World View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
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David Moss is Rewriting History
power over state laws. You may have learned about the federal negative in an 11th-grade American history survey course that careened from the American Revolution to the Vietnam War in just 180 days. But it’s unlikely you learned about it... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
of power. In 1938, as the Great Depression was beginning to lift, but war was imminent, many families were struggling, and only 10 percent of engagement rings sold in the United States included diamonds. De Beers hired an ad agency that... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
diagnoses. Others advocated tax and non-tax solutions. The case against hasty change was made by Dave: "Market based capitalism is the greatest driving force of prosperity in the world today, but if we forget this and marginalize it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
The westward expansion of the railroad blazed the trail for transcontinental commerce in the second half of the 19th century. Entrepreneurs and capitalists like F. L. Ames, Jay Gould, J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Henry Villard increasingly invested in the... View Details
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
the counter on a per-order basis, after conferring with customers individually. Some grocers did experiment with self-service meat marketing in the 1930s, but soon gave up due to refrigeration and packaging challenges. Not until after View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
looked to a new "profession of business" for nothing less than saving modern, industrial civilization from itself. As the professionalization project that had provided the agenda for American business education from its founding up until the outbreak of View Details
- 21 May 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
capital. In order to do all of this, certainly my background in finance helped, but I also earned the FSA credential levels I and II that is issued by the SASB and this allowed me to apply their framework when evaluating public equities... View Details
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
indicators on business decisions Discover the short- and long-term impact of interest rates, inflation, trade, and investment Learn distinctive approaches and frameworks that help you think about the world and organize information Who... View Details
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley