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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
of the Boston area who graduated from West Point in 1943, McDermott became a fighter-bomber pilot in World War II. He then served on General Dwight D. Eisenhower's staff before being sent to HBS to learn the management skills needed to meet the View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
less regulation of business, so they are eager to accept that advocacy groups have little control over public policy. But since the Second World War, Trumbull notes, a pro-business policy approach has given way to a stronger View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Doriot adeptly traversed the worlds of academia and business, educating leaders and building companies that contributed to the realization of the postwar entrepreneurial economy. "[Doriot] was an extraordinary individual, with a quiet... View Details
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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Collection, on permanent loan to Baker Library from the French Cultural Center, Boston, reveals the ideas and ideals of a man who played a pioneering role in the emergence of the postwar entrepreneurial economy. Contact Baker Library... View Details
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
corporate policies that will be administered by corporate support units. Corporate office to business units: The corporate priorities are cascaded into business unit strategies. Business units to support units: The strategic priorities of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
of regional dynamics. Oil industry Postwar oil-field pacification and reconstruction policy has failed. Oil production is under half the 1990 level, and still - after 7 months - under two-thirds the... View Details
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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Doriot adeptly traversed the worlds of academia and business, educating leaders and building companies that contributed to the realization of the postwar entrepreneurial economy. "[Doriot] was an extraordinary individual, with a quiet... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
truths about people and organizations — a foundation that serves as a springboard for an evolutionary leap into a new, networked age." Can Japan Compete? by Michael E. Porter, Hirotaka Takeuchi, and Mariko Sakakibara (Perseus Publishing/Basic Books) Until recently,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
in 1949 following a successful postwar experiment with seven secretaries, changed all that. The lively, conversational style of "Pioneer Class Secretary" Robert R.C. Miller's (MBA 6/'48) first submissions sets the stage for years to come:... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
version of the School's Business Policy course. Named a full professor in 1958 and the first George F. Baker, Jr., Professor of Business Administration in 1963, Christensen began the second major phase of his career in 1968, when Dean... View Details
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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Collection, on permanent loan to Baker Library from the French Cultural Center, Boston, reveals the ideas and ideals of a man who played a pioneering role in the emergence of the postwar entrepreneurial economy. Contact Baker Library... View Details
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
Yangzi region and Manchuria. Growth was slowed significantly in the 1930s by the global depression and by the financial policies of the Nationalist government, and it would be stopped altogether by the onset of the Sino-Japanese and then... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
LED lighting? Pisano: Semiconductor companies were not thinking about the future of lighting. That's not their business. But that's a challenge, and that's the complexity of this. It also suggests a role for public policy in terms of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
himself in the thick of postwar Iraqi politics. Before returning to London disheartened in May 2006, he also served as minister of defense, minister of finance, and as a member of the Transitional National Assembly. Back in London, Allawi... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
about the future of lighting. That’s not their business. But that’s a challenge, and that’s the complexity of this. It also suggests a role for public policy in terms of making sure the country is maintaining a broader set of... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
organizational action."3 By the 1960s, classroom discussions in the business policy course focused on matching a company's "strengths" and "weaknesses"—its distinctive competence—with the "opportunities"... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
and policies that were influential as Europe first took off relative to the rest of the world. They also shed light on the historical interconnection of businesses and governments at the dawn of real globalization. The reigning idioms of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
prepare managers for the transition to a postwar economy. In 1945, Kidder, Peabody & Company titan Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) contributed a prescient essay on the economic impact of peace. Gordon predicted "a major reorientation of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
Its early milestones—comparative product tests launched by Consumer Reports in 1936, the Kennedy administration's Consumer Bill of Rights in 1960, Ralph Nader's critique of the U.S. automobile industry in Unsafe at Any Speed in 1965—became models for subsequent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
has suggested that it happened in the early 1970s, when the postwar order of relationship capitalism showed its first signs of impending collapse. Jensen pointed to the publication in the New York Times Magazine in 1970 of an article on... View Details