Nixon - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1997
News

Doing Something Real

percent) that President Nixon (that laissez-faire Republican) imposed wage and price controls, to a world where each of our kids has more computing power on his or her desk, and each of us on his or her lap, than all of Harvard had in its... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

was publisher of the Washington Post during the Watergate investigation. Coming hard upon the heels of her decision to brave the wrath of the Nixon administration and publish a series of articles based on the Pentagon Papers, Graham had... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

01 Dec 2004
News

One-on-One with William H. Donaldson

of the Yale School of Management; under-secretary of state during the Nixon administration; chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange; and chairman and CEO of Aetna. Along with his impressive résumé, Donaldson brought a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Oct 1999
News

The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change

to the case method of separating the wheat from the chaff.) Nixon led McGovern in our Presidential class poll, the reverse of '73's, probably because fully 38 percent of our class were veterans. Thanks to Professor John Kotter, there's no... View Details

Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer

01 Jan 2004
News

Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964

Pennsylvania. After earning her degree from HBS, Franklin worked in strategic planning for the Singer Company and later for Citibank, where she received a phone call from an HBS classmate working in the Nixon White House. He was looking... View Details

01 Jan 2006
News

William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958

public service. He worked as the administration’s point man in dealing with that year’s crisis in the world oil supply. After Nixon resigned in 1974, he went to the White House to serve as counsel to newly appointed Vice President Nelson... View Details

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

from an alumnus to the president of The Ohio State University at the time, demanding a reprimand or worse. How times change. Of course, a few years later, president Richard Nixon embarked on his momentous trip that literally changed the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

cast votes in public referenda. 13 By the early 1970s, with organizations like the RAND Corporation, The Brookings Institution, and the Sloan Commission all calling for more supportive regulation of cable, pressure for change was building. 14 The View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

10 Dec 2014
News

Front-Row Seat

White House intern the summer of the Watergate hearings. (“It’s amazing how much whiteout you can use to get that off your résumé.”) Seeing people whose careers had been made by Nixon go to jail—John Ehrlichman, Bob Haldeman, Egil “Bud”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

frustrated since Richard Nixon left office in the throes of the Watergate scandal in 1974. Our so-called political leaders have just completed a grand game of chicken, and the United States is the loser. I won't dwell on the inanity of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

Eugene B. Kogan Abstract—President Richard M. Nixon was elected in 1968 with the widespread expectation that he would bring about an end to the costly and unpopular war in Vietnam. The task largely fell to National Security Adviser Henry... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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