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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

cultural landscape after the Civil War. By the 1860s, the railroad industry had created a national network for the manufacture and distribution of industrial and consumer goods and, with it, the need for... View Details

05 Jun 2017
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Reflecting on the Section Experience at HBS

first semester, you tend to know the type of comment someone is about to say when they raise their hand. Aside from classwork, we shared personal stories, helped tutor each other before exams, and held sessions to teach other students about various View Details

01 Apr 2002
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Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club

innovative new programs, such as the club's "Books for Breakfast" series, which features authors from the cutting edge of academia and business. HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter kicked off the program last year with Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

for rigorous accounting research. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50473 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Hiding Personal Information Reveals the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Nov 2016
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Memoirs of an International First Year Student

As an Indian national who was working in the Middle East in the petroleum industry, my decision to apply for an MBA was fueled (pun intended) by two reasons. One was the obvious need to get a business perspective after staying in the... View Details

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Collection Highlights | Baker Library

Collection Highlights R.G. Dun & Co. Credit Report Volumes Credit reports created by America's first commercial reporting agency. This collection is an invaluable resource for understanding the business, social, and cultural world of... View Details

27 May 2021
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History’s Future

Courtesy Amr AlMadani Courtesy Amr AlMadani Millennia ago, the AlUla region in northwestern Saudi Arabia was a thriving commercial and cultural center, a stop on the trade routes that connected the spices, silks, and other luxuries of... View Details

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2017
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Bridging Domains

companies, and for scientists and engineers to better understand how businesses can enhance the impact of their ideas.” Karen, Sanjeev’s classmate at Harvard College, majored in government as an undergraduate and holds a master’s degree in View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

company’s culture on three cornerstones: quality, performance, and valuing the individual employee. As for strategy and the bottom line, the commercial areas he focused on were the medical-services business and the fiber division—even... View Details

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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

expression in the arts” with an emphasis on industrial and commercial arts. 24 The Center hosted several shows including “Foreign Advertising Photography” in 1931, which introduced viewers to international trends. In 1932 the Center mounted its “First View Details

23 Feb 2011
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measures of national political instability—Alesina and Perotti's (1996) well-known index of instability, a subsequent index derived from Banks' (2005) work, and two indices of managerial perceptions of nation-by-nation political... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Sep 2017
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Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

humanity. As employers like Google attempt to create authentic cultures that enable people to be themselves, categorizing them according to their gender, race, or national origin inhibits people from... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

12 Mar 2019
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What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program

forced to scale back their plans or exit markets entirely. Because of a combination of cultural context and a lack of robust systems to ascertain the trustworthiness of unknown market participants, building and maintaining strong... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue

search firm RobinsonButler, for a quick rundown of the day. Was there a takeaway from the event that struck you—an insight that really resonated? Kent Thiry (MBA 1983), cochairman and CEO of DaVita, one of the world's largest dialysis companies, talked about how he... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; healthcare; HBSAAA

03 Apr 2012
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programs. Finally, the authors suggest approaches to mitigating barriers to implementing leadership development programs and highlight the major reasons why health care delivery organizations, residency programs, and national... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Jan 2025
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Mapping Pain Points at the IRS

federal government. NASA sends people to space; the Federal Aviation Administration keeps air travel safe; the Department of Defense protects our country; the National Park Service cares for our natural and View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; IRS; customer service; government service; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Mar 2017
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Ask the Expert: Capital Architect

Brunell spent five years helping Vietnam transition to a market economy, instituting government transparency measures and a national competitiveness index. (© Whitehotpix/ZUMAPRESS.com) David Brunell (MBA 1962) is a master at making... View Details

09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity

passing over it of the loyalty to country and alma mater and a lasting suggestion that they should devote their manhood developed by study and play on the banks of this river to the nation and its needs. In that spirit, Fieldhouse, the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

(MBA 1980) Crown This book is a fresh, intimate look at a series of American Presidents who took the nation into war and mobilized the country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any... View Details

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

everyday racism and gendered racism , she also pioneered in developing theory on social and cultural cloning . The now classical 1984 (in Dutch) Alledaags Racisme (English version, Everyday Racism , 1990 has been republished in 2018.... View Details

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