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- 16 Sep 2008
- News
Last Look - September 2008
converting hot rolled steel into cold rolled steel.” Peter II of Yugoslavia (1923–1970) became king in 1934 after his father was assassinated. He went into exile in 1941, was deposed in 1945, and settled in the United States after World... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Interpreting the Gipper
wrote in Newsweek (June 14, 2004), will hinge more than anything else on one question: “How much credit does he deserve for the fact that the Cold War ended far earlier than almost anyone suspected — and on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
today, Levitt’s article caused a minor sensation when it first appeared. Apart from its insightful specifics, its language (“globalization” was a novel term) and expansive vision offered a hopeful alternative to the grim reality of a world economy locked down in an... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Friedman devotes his research to the history of the Left and its struggle to end economic and social inequality. He studies how this struggle evolved, its various cultural contexts, and what paths have been tried and rejected. He is an expert on Russia, China, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
that Carson wrote “not as a scientist, but as a fanatic defender of the cult of the balance of nature.” Invoking Cold War language, Louis McLean, general counsel for Velsicol Chemical Company, suggested that... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
opportunities. “The legacy of the Cold War, governance issues, and the need to maintain stable political regimes and economies represent challenges in the region,” he explains. “Countries like Peru have done a good job over the past 20... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
genocidal Nazi ideology, it was not doomed from the start. Rather it represented Hitler’s best chance to achieve his war aims for Germany. In Ellman’s recounting, Barbarossa did not fail because of flaws in the Axis invasion strategy, the... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
As the Nigeria-Biafra war raged around them, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994), her mother, and her brother made a dangerous dash for a better life. Huddled in the belly of a Portuguese cargo plane returning from delivering arms to the Biafran... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
event/development for business World War II Women in the workplace "Other" Cold War's end Crash of 1929 Second place (tied with "Other") went to "Women in the workplace" , which "broadened the talent base... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
development during World War II, spearheaded the construction of an HBS-like business school in France (INSEAD), and, perhaps most notably, launched the modern venture capital industry. His remarkable life is the subject of a new... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
threats to the global economic system. It survived two world wars and the Great Depression. It won the Cold War. Doesn’t capitalism reign supreme in the 21st century? Looking forward, we certainly can see... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
others have zero case discussion experience. As an example, we had a discussion of medical ethics where I asked one of the physicians to role-play a doctor trying to convince a patient to enroll in a study. Not one of the fifteen physicians in the room would do it —... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
end of World War II, and life under the Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, the Communist Polish United Workers’ Party, had been, as Maj recalls now, “ugly,” but his family had not suffered as many others had. Still, he refused the SB’s... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
he would often lead us in a supplemental African war chant that was in a call-and-response format and really powerful. 1999F's cheer was in a call-and-response format: Section F, are you ready? YES! Section F, are you ready? YES! Let's... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
responsibilities of Christians who are serious about following Jesus. Capitalist West Germany and Socialist East Germany: A Country Divided By James Glenn (MBA 1965) Independently published In the years following the end of World War II,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
ship to launch and recover the submersible. He found a decommissioned US Navy ship laid up in a river in Washington State. The USNS Indomitable was originally built to hunt Soviet submarines at the end of the Cold View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
edge of the most dramatic changes in our history. After earning an engineering degree, he served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force with the Strategic Air Command, America ’s first line of defense during the Cold View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World by Jeremy Friedman (University of North Carolina Press) The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
University, preceded by three years at sea on destroyers. I knew a lot about the Victory at Sea television series on World War II, and nearly as much about hunting submarines from a tossing destroyer in the North Atlantic, but what I knew... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
parents are all engaged in debating both sides of the issue. What would be the fairest solution? Or in Yokohama, Japan. In March 2003, a 22-year-old teaching English at a local junior high school is watching television with other staff members when news breaks that the... View Details