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LeRoy A. Petersen
In his 22 years with Otis, Petersen helped the elevator manufacturer transition from war to peacetime production and become increasingly profitable in the process. Though the firm’s defense division still remained an integral part of... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
John K. Northrop
After frustrating attempts at aircraft engineering with many other firms, John Northrop founded Northrop Aircraft and helped it grow into a very lucrative defense contractor, providing everything from bombers, fighter jets, and... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
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2013 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Theresa Vescio Speaks at the 2013 Gender & Work Symposium Sugar-Coated Discrimination: How Subtle Sexism Undermines Women Sugar-Coated Discrimination: How Subtle Sexism Undermines Women Work/Family Irene Padavic Speaks at the 2013 Gender & Work Symposium The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The Western Front
summer, Hendrickson and a colleague opened an office in Silicon Valley called the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, or DIUx for short. Their mission: discover new technologies that can be useful to the military, and figure out ways... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
McCANN: Former defense atforney learned the bakery business from scratch. The lessons Sheila McCann (OPM 24, 1996) learned from the surprising failure of her second House of Bread retail bakery turned out to be an essential ingredient in... View Details
- 21 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Meet the AFAA Club
members and the HBS community at-large, such as a Veterans Day ceremony and local charity events to support veterans in need. This year, the club was especially honored to be part of the Soldiers Fund Gala, an event which included former Secretary of View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 18 Apr 2005
- Lessons from the Classroom
NFL Players Touch Down at HBS
each other as well as with HBS faculty and MBA students. "Usually on the field you just want to knock the crap out of each other," said Je'Rod Cherry, defensive back for the New England Patriots. "But here I can talk to... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Future Leaders Dive into the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
serving in the Israeli Defense Forces, being at HBS and SEAS has exceeded their expectations. “As engineers, we’re excited by new technologies, pushing the limits, and building sophisticated things, but sometimes we might miss early... View Details
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Club Conferences | MBA
Conference March 9, 2025 Social Impact Club Future of Work Club Entertainment & Media Conference March 29, 2025 Entertainment & Media Club Business of Sports Club Entrepreneurship Club Conference March 30, 2025 Entrepreneurship Club National Security Conference April... View Details
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Nikki Talerman
housing/homelessness space. Furthermore, she is happy to discuss social impact work more broadly, and help direct students to the right social impact resources within the Harvard ecosystem for whatever topic they might be interested in. Work Experience: Bain &... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) was a government official in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He served as assistant secretary of defense for installations and logistics and, from 1967 to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
have to compete at a global level and maintain a world-class standard of quality. What's the biggest shortcoming of American business? Its low-trust culture, characterized by defensive and protective communication, hidden agendas,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
executives from the aerospace and defense industries, Fortune 500 presidents, general managers in the Boston area, and heads of nonbusiness organizations about their decision-making. Based on his interviews, Roberto concludes that leaders... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A revolution in healing
government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Moderna funding to develop mRNA to combat infectious diseases and biological threats. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
Francisco’s Exploratorium, Grace Cathedral, the Environmental Defense Fund, Stanford’s Bio-X, the Asian Art Museum, QB3, the United Religions Initiative, the Institute for Systems Biology, SFJazz, the Xoma Corporation, Creative Capital,... View Details
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
Defensive medicine spurs innovation They found, ultimately—and perhaps counterintuitively—that far from being an inhibitor to innovation, the practice of defensive medicine might have actually encouraged it.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
occurred," he recalls. A friend who had gone to work for Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (MBA 1939) suggested he interview for a defense systems analyst position at the Pentagon. From 1965 to 1969,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Giving Together
the MBA Class of 2001 National Defense Fellowship. Rich Doyle, Tom Murphy, and Stephen Quazzo (all MBA 1986) To honor the memory of Bob Bennett (MBA 1986), who passed away in August 2011, a month before his 25th Reunion, former roommates... View Details
- 22 Feb 2010
- Op-Ed
Tragedy at Toyota: How Not to Lead in Crisis
insiders who are defensive about criticism. He should add the world's top quality experts to his fix-it team and listen carefully to their advice. 3: Dig deep for the root cause. When Toyota's problems first surfaced, the company blamed a... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?
Negotiation to Gendered NegotiationsHow does gender affect negotiations within organizations or rather how do organizations affect gender relations? Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-Family Narrative as a Social View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne