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Ernest T. Weir
Having formed National Steel through the consolidation of three small steel firms and a furnace company, Weir managed his enterprise in a somewhat hard-line manner, implementing whatever profit-generating methods he deemed appropriate. These measures, View Details
Keywords: Metals
- Career Coach
Fran Davis
Harvard College and through the Extension School. In addition to her work at Harvard, Dr. Davis maintains a private practice for career consulting and individual, couples and family psychotherapy in the Boston suburbs. View Details
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Love and Money - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
] view image Engraving by Jan Saenredam (1565–1607), after Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617). [Netherlands, ca. 1600]. 23.5 x 16.2 cm CF n7 x The second of three numbered engravings after Goltzius called the Marriage Trilogy . A devil joins the hands of a View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- News
Using Technology to Tailor Learning to Each Child
to think of ways to solve our most vexing problems in the social sector, and so we keep doing the same thing again and again, even if it’s not working. “I founded Ready to Blend a couple of years ago because there is a real need for... View Details
Irving S. Shapiro
Initially making a name for himself in politics, Shapiro joined duPont in 1951 as a lawyer, handling some of its most important acquisitions and antitrust cases. His negotiating skills, coupled with his extensive political connections,... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 20 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Sophia Olmos (MBA 2025)
undergrad, my family came together to celebrate me, help me pack, and even drove down to Evanston to help me move in. While most kids took a couple of days to get settled into their dorms, I was moved in within a View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
couple cofounded End Allergies Together (EAT)—a research nonprofit that aims to accelerate treatments and cures for food allergies—with Tom and Kim Hall, another couple whose daughter lives with a similar... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
other, are open-source software communities, in which the participants are much more loosely coupled by comparison. The mirroring hypothesis predicts that these different organizational forms will produce products with distinctly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
HBS Wins Green Business Award
64 cubic yards of growing medium spread over 5,000 square feet and planted with 9,000 perennials, photovoltaic panels, a cogeneration unit, and a full lighting retrofit. Since 2003, HBS has enacted more than 100 energy conservation measures. These measures, View Details
- 5 PM – 10:15 PM EST, 12 Nov 2014
- Campaign
A Vision for the 21st Century - HBS in New York
All alumni are encouraged to attend one (or more) of the regional events taking place around the world over the next couple of years. Dean Nitin Nohria, along with select faculty and senior HBS leaders, will join local alumni and their... View Details
Herbert A. Sklenar
as crushed stone for concrete, where Vulcan is the nation’s largest and most profitable producer. Coupled with this investment and expansion, Sklenar also instituted an array of cost cutting measures, all of which allowed the firm to... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 15 Aug 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
after eating prepared food cooked in a cross-contaminated pan. The couple cofounded End Allergies Together (EAT) to advance scientific and medical research in order to find treatments and cures. Among EAT’s founding principles is a... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
America’s Hottest New Dating Sites: Business School Campuses
iStock iStock The Wall Street Journal had a story this week on the growing trend of couples who meet while at business school. The piece argues that the trend is due in part to growing gender parity at business schools, noting that women... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sasha Grinshpun
don't touch the ground as you get swept up in a sea of hedonism. Not for the faint of heart. A crowd was gathering ahead of me. The cause of the commotion? It was a couple in their 70s. Both were gray-haired and the man had a cane. But, I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Flying High
regulatory issues, as well as intense competition from Europe’s Airbus. “The task here is growth,” said McNerney of his new assignment at Chicago-based Boeing. “That’s the thing we’ve got to get right over the next couple of years”... View Details
- 16 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
3 Key Take-a-Ways From My Summer at Zalando
decision needs to put the customer first. For example, every meeting room has a picture of a customer, describing the reason why they choose Zalando. As part of these customer-oriented culture, Zalando has launched a CuCa training, where employees spend a View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
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Michelle Lee
After obtaining a degree from Dartmouth College and completing three years of consulting with Bain & Company and then a couple more in Education Tech, Michelle Lee took the next, not-so-obvious step: she baked cupcakes. "I've... View Details
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
"setup" of a negotiation itself—its parties, their interests, their no-deal options, the sequence and basic process choices or design-into the realm of strategic and tactical choice. Hiding the Evidence of Valid Theories: How View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Helping high achievers achieve even more
run. The couple has partnered with some two dozen (and counting) universities around the country to offer millions of dollars in merit scholarships to the very best and brightest students. "Inspired by the impact our university... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Helping Women Executives Return to Work
ladder by moving from employer to employer every couple years,” she says. “They’re not going to take the information and go off and start their own business. They’re committed to the organization they’re working for and they are really... View Details