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- 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
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
Clarence M. Woolley
of the major European markets. As business picked up in the United States in the 1910s, especially with the onset of World War I, American Radiator began handling annual sales of $10 million and by the time... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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Ben Schumacher
access to a quality education. Indeed, the American Dream is but a mirage to millions of minority students, and this is not for a lack of will, intelligence, or courage. This is a civil injustice, pure and... View Details
- 11 Jun 2015
- News
A personal mission to serve veterans
and hearts,” said the former marine captain and Iraq veteran. Sullivan deployed to Fallujah in 2005, and returned with a commitment to help the young marines she sent into dangerous situations. “The one percent who step up in time of war... 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
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Core Body of Knowledge - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
The Competition McKim, Mead & White The Campus Emerges Concrete Symbols The Dedication Building the Campus Research Links Bibliography Archival Collections Digital Resources Site Credits Core Body of Knowledge “I have reached the conclusion that the greatest need of a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
Before he became a federal judge, the controversial Robert Bork once labeled antitrust "a policy at war with itself." In this case, he was right. Antitrust laws are problematic. That is not, however, to say that they are without value.... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
else struck you as you were writing this book? A: I was surprised that Gallatin was involved so deeply in managing the governments of Presidents Jefferson and Madison, and by the significant diplomatic role he played in negotiating an end to the View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Interpreting the Gipper
wrote in Newsweek (June 14, 2004), will hinge more than anything else on one question: “How much credit does he deserve for the fact that the Cold War ended far earlier than almost anyone suspected — and on terms that View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
fifty-year history, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were the big guys on the block. We had the money. We were helping to reform a world after World War II and gradually mutated into an institution to assist in... 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
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
accounting, improve price and volatility discovery, and expand international risk intermediation activities. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-026.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsC. R. Smith and the Birth of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
swept across vast swaths of the country, taking town after town and spreading terror as the civil war burned all around it. From that unlikely showdown in Kobani emerged a fighting force that would wage... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Narrative Arc
RIGHT AT HOME For Ty Kim, a long career in journalism and filmmaking driven by the power of story (Photo: Christina Gandolfo) When Ty Kim (MBA 2000) joined the television news magazine 60 Minutes, the correspondent Ed Bradley gave him a nickname: “He called me... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
civil rights group protesting segregation in the Chicago schools. A Decisive Decade: An Insider's View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s, by Robert B. McKersie (MBA 1956/DBA 1959) "If... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 02 Sep 2016
- Op-Ed
The Twitter Election
Every four years, a new American presidential campaign gives a fresh boost to social media. This year the winner is Twitter. Donald Trump has racked up 11.3 million Twitter followers (and counting) compared with 8.5 million for Hillary... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Wire, [1956?]. American Steel & Wire. Welcome. New Haven: American Steel & Wire, [1956?]. Labor Practices: Body By 1946, the total number of women employed by U.S. Steel dropped by more than half from its... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
nothing away from the brave men and women who brought victory in World War II to say that without the outpouring of weapons and equipment from US companies, the war might have been lost. View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
C. Gregg Petersmeyer learned about giving back from his parents. He observed in them and their contemporaries a tremendous empathy for their fellow citizens going through the shared hard times of the Depression and World War II. “Today,”... View Details