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Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog
diplomacy : Christiana Figueres guides the Paris climate talks to a near-unanimous agreement in 2015; Colombian President Juan Santos ends a 50-year civil war with the FARC guerillas; US Trade Negotiator... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
Then the Civil War broke out and he became one of the best military leaders in history, and a better president than I had realized before reading the book. In second place is Walter Isaacson-Evan Thomas’ The... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
David Rockefeller
Having gained much international experience while serving in the United States military during World War II, Rockefeller joined Chase in 1945, honing his international banking skills as he assumed increasing amounts of responsibility and... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 30 May 2017
- News
At Home with History
kept six, all of which are already owned or will eventually be owned by the CAHPT and open to the public. The houses Jenrette worked to preserve for future generations to visit are “part of our heritage,” he said. “Each one could be a time capsule or case history... View Details
Jules S. Bache
Bache took over his uncle’s brokerage business and built it into one of the premier financial services firms in the early decades of the twentieth century. His operation helped to facilitate the reorganization of the American Spirits... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
directly impacts the success or failure of American companies abroad. For example, wars currently impede ordinary business in the Mideast and Africa. Anti-Americanism is curtailing the flow of students from... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Zuriel Chavez
would lead them to the doorstep of a 6’5” blue-eyed 80-year-old white American World War II veteran. James P. Lapp lived alone in a small California town. Meeting “Grandpa,” as I would come to call him,... View Details
Jack Frye
58 minutes, a record at that time. In 1945, Frye gained authorization for Trans-World Airlines to begin flights to Europe, setting off a price war for European flights among the three major American... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
look at leadership in American public life. If you spend as much time as I do around politicians, you hear a lot about leadership. They all promise to offer it, in different shapes and forms. Strong leadership. Bold leadership. Tested... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Leading the Charge
In the first days of military action in Iraq, with Americans unsure of what lay ahead, one commanding, symbolic image in this media–intensive war held sway: a U.S. Marine, ripping down a huge poster of... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Founder of Modern Venture Capital
students. He realized his dream of establishing the first Master of Business Administration program in Europe by helping establish the European Institute of Business Administration. Doriot learned the art of bringing science and industry together in World View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
or specific job history. Like Shackleton, today’s leaders need team members and other stakeholders who can acknowledge turbulence, embrace its opportunities, and meet its challenges with confidence and effect. Abraham Lincoln When Doing Nothing Is the Best Action As... View Details
Charles S. Woolworth
Taking control of the family discount goods enterprise upon his brother Frank’s death, Charles Woolworth continued to expand the company. In the 1920s, Woolworth began operations in Cuba and Germany, and American operations were extended... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
position currently held by Robert Morgenthau, Snyder, who often pins a small American flag on her robes, is drawn to the ongoing war against terrorism. “I would love to find some way to help, but haven’t... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
After witnessing the civil war that has ravaged his country for almost three decades, an historian makes this observation about the moral decline of the nation: "The ancient simplicity into which honor so... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Negotiators Share Lessons from High-Stakes Global Diplomacy
Madeleine Albright was interviewed for the American Secretaries of State Project, a collaboration among faculty members at HBS, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Law School designed to extract lessons in negotiation and diplomacy for... View Details
Keywords: University Collaborations
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pearson Hunt
gave me his recording with the instruction: "Don't change a word of it." I never learned if he was pleased with what he saw in print. There was little routine during World War II, when the School hosted a number of programs designed to... View Details
Keywords: Pearson Hunt
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
highways versus 5 million in the US—is a significant barrier to economic growth. His advocacy for developing a South American Riverways System to facilitate trade and transit in Colombia and neighboring countries dates to the mid-1990s,... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
shape the moment we find ourselves in. When we consider Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, or Trayvon Martin – how far have we really come? The American Myth is that legislation and civil... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
School’s Leadership Initiative. But there’s another way to assess business success, as found in the pages of Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership. Mayo (MBA ’88) is the book’s coauthor, with HBS... View Details