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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
out: “Stand well with the trade & are in high credit.”[5] The personal nature of some of these details, and the fact that an individual had no access to his or her report, made Dun and other agencies vulnerable to criticism. The Irish nationalist and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis
The flow of refugees from Syria following years of civil war has been called the worst humanitarian crisis in modern times. Working in collaboration with HBS’s global research centers, two HBS professors... View Details
William L. Clayton
In 1916, Clayton moved Anderson, Clayton and Company’s headquarters to Houston, Texas, where he grew the company into the world’s largest cotton trading organization. During World War I, the firm handled 1 million bales of cotton a year.... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Richard Edelman
Chicago community, Edelman finds it natural to give back to society. A Civil War buff, he is an active board member of the New-York Historical Society. His interest in fitness and fighting obesity attracted... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Courage and Hope in Africa
Sierra Leone, the West African nation of five million people, has been the scene of a brutal civil war for most of the 1990s. An accord signed last year has yielded an uneasy truce; with it has come an... View Details
Ian K. MacGregor
Assigned to handle arms purchases for the British government, MacGregor came to the U.S. during World War II. Sensing a fertile climate for business, MacGregor stayed in the U.S. after the war and became the... View Details
Keywords: Metals
Charles S. Woolworth
Taking control of the family discount goods enterprise upon his brother Frank’s death, Charles Woolworth continued to expand the company. In the 1920s, Woolworth began operations in Cuba and Germany, and American operations were extended... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
lights in working order? Maybe not. The state of the nation's highways, bridges, airports, dams, seaports, and tunnels collectively rate a grade of D+, says the American Society of Civil Engineers, which has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built (HarperBusiness), a new book by HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow, presents fascinating biographical essays of seven men whose products and practices have revolutionized the business world from... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
50. Then the Civil War broke out and he became one of the best military leaders in history, and a better president than I had realized before reading the book. In second place is Walter Isaacson-Evan Thomas’... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
shape the moment we find ourselves in. When we consider Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, or Trayvon Martin – how far have we really come? The American Myth is that legislation and civil... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
she took last year helped her to identify ethical issues involved in the struggle to control the diamond industry in Sierra Leone, where diamonds have fueled a brutal civil war for the past decade. "The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Realities of the Refugee Crisis
Illustration by Peter Arkle Since the outbreak of civil war in 2011, 4.9 million Syrians have fled their country, and another 6.6 million are internally displaced, according to the UN Refugee Agency. To... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Stock Exchanges - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Vanity and Virtue Misers, Moneylenders, and Thieves Money Devil Biblical and Mythological Scenes Love and Money Politics and War Louis-Philippe Speculation and Credit Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen Stock Exchanges printer-friendly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941–1945 by Michael Beschloss (MBA 1980) (Simon & Schuster) Noted presidential historian, author, and commentator Beschloss offers an insightful, comprehensive, behind-the-scenes account of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
connecting over a shared interest. The discussion boards were alive with people interested in teapots, Civil War memorabilia, and stamps.” Despite seeing the potential, even Whitman admits eBay grew beyond... View Details
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Melvin Edwards Searching for the Word 1989/2019 | About
Melvin Edwards moved to New York in 1967. In 1970, he became the first African American sculptor to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and in 1978 he had a retrospective at The... View Details
David Rockefeller
Having gained much international experience while serving in the United States military during World War II, Rockefeller joined Chase in 1945, honing his international banking skills as he assumed increasing amounts of responsibility and... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
of the American B-17 Flying Fortresses as they passed over Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, on the morning of September 17, 1944. The sound had become familiar since the United States had entered the Second World View Details
Jules S. Bache
Bache took over his uncle’s brokerage business and built it into one of the premier financial services firms in the early decades of the twentieth century. His operation helped to facilitate the reorganization of the American Spirits... View Details
Keywords: Finance