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- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
the second theme, which is mass production. So we're taking the mechanization and we're just doing it faster and more of it. Once we get good at that, then we begin to run out of customers. Beginning after the Civil War into the turn of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
1934. His mother died when he was four, after giving birth to his brother, and his father was killed by the Nazis as an active underground opponent at the end of World War II. Raised by his stepmother, Andresen served as an apprentice and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
celebration, considering Kettle Cuisine's long and bumpy road to profitability. The son of a Polish Jew who fought in the British army during World War II and who later became the owner of a scissors and shears distributorship in New York... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
status markers. Religion as a social marker was supplanted by education after World War II. The GI Bill expanded access to higher education to a much more diverse social class. Until midcentury, a college degree wasn’t considered... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
playbook—maybe in even a larger and more extreme way. It’s what in military circles people call “fighting the last war.” This is a familiar trap, when military planners become so obsessed with the last war that they focus all of their... View Details
- 11 Jul 2025
- News
Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast
supply chains and exports.” Discussing deglobalization in aerospace and defense in Denver. At the same time, Mobius adds, rapid advances in defense technology and an increase in the flow of venture capital into A&D present opportunities for the industry to build... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
his homeland's descent into madness and destruction. Recalls Djelic, who counts some thirty family members killed by Croatian and German Nazis during World War II, “The worst was the 1999 NATO bombing campaign. All of my extended family,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the government took so long to move could have been as simple as structure. “There are lessons to be gleaned from how the war on terrorism played out, post–9/11, where there were all these fiefdoms that sprang up,” says Josh Lefkowitz... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
record of real-world achievement speaks for itself. Even a cursory summary of the accomplishments of entrepreneurial alumni since World War II suggests an extraordinary record of business enterprise. Among the postwar classes, consider,... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
because they have been out of their home districts while serving our country,” says Shultz, himself a Marine Corps veteran. Other members of With Honor’s advisory board include next-generation veteran Nate Fick (MBA 2008), whose story of being a young lieutenant during... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
decide to stay in Cambridge rather than transfer to the U.S. Naval Academy. Entering the Marine Corps after graduation, Mixon trained as an artillery officer and landed in Vietnam in 1965 just as American involvement in the war began to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Rough start: “I remember coming home from the Naval Academy for Christmas leave as a freshman, and my GPA going into finals was a 0.91. But I loved the challenge, and I adapted.” Ahoy there: “My first command was a World View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
Christopher Hitchens, a surprising Iraq war advocate, quit in a huff in 2002, accusing the magazine of being soft on Saddam. Firebrand columnist Alexander Cockburn remains on board, but derides The Nation as only “slightly left of center... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
usually transformed itself rapidly when faced with gaiatsu, or foreign pressure. It happened in the 1850s when Commodore Perry arrived and again in the aftermath of World War II. The country is going through the same sort of thing right... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
in a responsible manner relative to the public and their own shareholders. In my view, these are the most widespread allegations of wrongdoing on Wall Street since World War II. People got sloppy. People got greedy. Now we've got to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
about what would come next. “I didn’t think I needed business school at first,” he recalls. “But, you know, there are two ways to learn things. One is experience, where you do things. And the other is through war stories. So when I heard... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
workplace. Who is likely to become a leader — and why? Legendary leadership expert Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas's Geeks & Geezers: How Era, Values, and Defining Moments Shape Leaders studies today's young leaders and those of the World View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
technological changes that blessed our nation with an unparalleled period of prosperity. From this base, millions of people were rescued from the desolation of World War II into the prosperous world initiated from America. Author John... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
War II, tracing the decentralizing effects of the draft, rationing, and Ferdinand Eberstadt's Controlled Materials Plan. Also included are overview chapters on the impact of women and African Americans on business, as well as... View Details