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William Nickerson, Jr.
Nickerson founded and led the first African American life insurance business established in the state of California. Under his leadership, Golden State expanded to other states... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
neighborhoods across Baltimore, with competitive admissions) is annually ranked among the best public schools in the United States. This year, 96 percent of the school's graduates are college bound, many to elite institutions in the View Details
John P. Morgan, Jr.
Morgan Jr. continued his father’s methods and policies in dealing with industry, railroads, banks and other institutions and grew J. P. Morgan and Company’s business. He made his most important impact through government-financed projects during World War I. From early... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 2022
- Case
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
Cox, Lisa C., Mitchell B. Weiss, and Jorrit De Jong. "Charting a Course for Boston: Organizing for Change." Cambridge, MA, United States: Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative Case, 2022.
William R. Hearst
journalism" enabled him to capitalize on the public's thirst for exaggerated stories, and in the process, his circulation numbers soared. Though he was reviled as a journalist, Hearst built the largest publishing conglomerate in the View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
option to her online consignment ceramics offerings, Giridharadas recouped about half of her investment within four months. Now she sees a bigger opportunity: Party supply rentals were a $5 billion industry in the United View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 17 Sep 2021
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
When Xiao Wang (MBA 2014) and his parents immigrated to the United States from China three decades ago, the process was a difficult and expensive one. The family spent the equivalent of five months’ rent on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
about the project. Why did HBS launch the project? Rivkin: Many of us at the School have come to believe that the ability of firms in the United States to be competitive in the world economy and to support... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
to the people who came to the United States illegally and learn how they escaped unimaginable conditions and couldn’t wait to enter the country legally. To do this, we don’t need to be professional... View Details
- 18 Sep 2014
Amsterdam MBA Fair
Meet HBS alumni and staff at this event brought to you by Ivy Circle Netherlands with support of Strategy&. The event will feature top MBA programs in the United States and Europe. View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
explains. “Rather than abandon U.S. manufacturing, my thinking was that once we had established a capability in China, we could then reinvest back in the United States and reinvent ourselves as a global... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
with the job, to getting it done well. It’s not much time — even the president of the United States gets one hundred days — but HBS associate professor Michael Watkins insists that it can be done. In his new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
operators in the United States were only able to glean a general estimate of location from mobile calls, thus hampering response times. Now, thanks to technology developed by RapidSOS, calls received from... View Details
- 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
Norris, Michael, Rawi Abdelal, and Kimberlyn Leary. "Leading Through Challenging Times: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms." Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative Case 0036TC, 2021.
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
LME Fund Makes HBS Dreams a Reality
This year’s 34 recipients hail from the United States and nineteen other countries, including many from the developing world. They are among the 841 first- and second-year students at the School who receive... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
children, especially from low-income communities; also a founder of Ashoka University The pandemic has been a disaster for education overall and has exacerbated inequity as well. Unlike in the United States... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Sep 2016
Amsterdam MBA Fair
Meet HBS alumni and Admissions staff at this event brought to you by Ivy Circle Netherlands (with the support of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants). The event will feature top MBA programs in the United View Details
- 13 Jun 2013
- News
Learning Curve
help as many people as I can in my lifetime. The greatest social issue we have in the United States is the disparity in children's education. If you don't get a good education, it's extremely unlikely that... View Details
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General File - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
manufacturing, and transportation industries in the United States as well as Canada, Europe, Africa, and Asia. James D. Dole, President Hawaiian Pinapple Company , ca. 1907. Significant photographs include... View Details
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
A recent issue of the Harbus offers a quick glimpse of what a few MBAs have been up to over the past three months. Internships based in the United States (at Major League Baseball, MTV Networks, and the U.S.... View Details