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Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season
visitors alike often engage in "leaf peeping" to enjoy the riot of changing color that is fall in New England. You can also take in a fall fair or explore antique stores. Wander the Freedom Trail, Boston's historical walking route. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Map Quest
use your GPS to locate the brand-new Map & Atlas Museum at 7825 Fay Avenue. Or better yet, unfold a crinkly old paper street map to find it. Mike Stone (MBA ’88) might find that latter method more appropriate. A couple of decades ago, Stone began collecting historic... View Details
Keywords: maps
- 10 Nov 2017
- News
Girl’s Pendant Found at Nazi Camp Site Reunites a Family
Chaim Motzen (MBA 2006) More than 70 years ago, the record of a Nazi death camp in Sobibor, Poland, was nearly lost to history. But archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have been excavating the site, uncovering mass... View Details
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Clara Nevins | MBA
changing an antiquated social norm — that men have to make the first move in dating. Bumble turned that on its head and gave the power to women. By creating a tech company that is centered around these values, they created a category... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Aldrich Renovations Reach Halfway Point
antiquated classrooms last summer, with the remainder slated for an upgrade next summer. “The challenge is that there’s no room for error in completing the work,” says Frank Hayes (PMD 75, 2000), chief of operations at HBS. “Classes have... View Details
- 30 Jan 2021
- News
Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
serviced by Simon’s three full-time drivers, Heath writes. The rest of his business comes from walk-ins: wedding gowns and formal attire, or a homeowner looking for careful cleaning of an antique rug, for example. Over the years Parkway... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
sometimes glacial pace and antiquated norms of cancer research; doubled patients’ lifespans; and raised in excess of $165 million for research. Giusti urged graduates to set goals and build a plan around their passion; choose colleagues... View Details
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Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
over the next five years transformed almost every aspect of the sprawling agency, from its antiquated IT systems to its internal management structures. Many Unhappy Returns (HBS Press, 2005) is his insider account of a mission that seemed... View Details
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Bibliography - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Related Collections Site Credits Bibliography Crossman, Carl L. The Decorative Arts of the China Trade: Paintings, Furnishings and Exotic Curiosities . Woodbridge, Suffolk [England]: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1991. Downs, Jacques M. The... View Details
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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
exchanges and influences occurred through many channels—from the Chinese art and antiquities that Americans exported home, the ways in which wealthy traders gave back to their communities, and the archive of records merchants left behind... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
Office ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "You have to like what you are doing. Since you spend more time working than doing almost anything else, it makes a big difference if you're enjoying yourself." When Charles Rossotti became commissioner of the IRS in 1997, he found... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Antiquated Passenger Rail While the US freight rail system is among the best in the world, passenger service ranks 17th globally in annual passenger-miles of service. A 2013 commuter train crash in Connecticut revealed that 700,000 people... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
of antique mustard pots to posters from the Napa Valley Mustard Festival, where the company's product has earned more than a few gold medals. Less expected is the sculpture of a phoenix that graces the office of Plochman's president,... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
The Physical Campus in a Virtual World
On the north wall of my office hangs a series of framed architectural drawings that date from the early 1920s. Each of these antique blueprints depicts a different architect’s vision for what would become the first buildings of the... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
to eating a cookie. Twenty-five years after Pete’s death, little progress has been made in terms of understanding the condition or options for treatment. “The same antiquated autoinjector is still the first line of treatment in... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
pilot’s license when he was just 17 years old, after training in his dad’s antique 1946 Piper J-3 Cub. “It was just a beautiful plane,” he recalls. “I fell in love with flying.” Alhough he considered a career in aviation, he lacked... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
anything. My mother only had a tenth-grade education, but she was a voracious reader who taught herself the jewelry and antiques business," he says. Inspired by his mother — "an eccentric entrepreneur" — and her perseverance, the... View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
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Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
auctions have bids in the last 10 minutes, 37 percent in the last minute, and 12 percent in the last 10 seconds. Antiques were more heavily sniped than computers, but there was lots of sniping for computers too. There was much less late... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
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Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
that can't tell you exactly how much our customers have on deposit. We have 35-year-old systems for maintaining records on tape files. Our collection process and compliance examinations are months or years behind, largely due to View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons