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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Swap ’Em If You Got ’Em
Hall (right): An online market for military personnel. Blake Hall (MBA ’10) grew up in a military family, became an Army Ranger, and was a platoon leader in Iraq for fifteen months. A conversation with a... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
Blake Hall (right): An online market for military personnel. Related links Learn how alumni apply military experience to leadership in nonprofits, industry, education, and more. Maura Sullivan (MBA 2009),... View Details
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator D uring the 1930s, in addition to his classes at HBS, Doriot taught at the US Army Industrial College where he trained officers in the preparation of adequate military supplies and equipment. At the... View Details
- 28 Sep 2012
MBA Admissions
Harvard Business School invites you to attend Military Prospective Students’ Day. Jointly sponsored by HBS MBA Admissions and the Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA), MPSD is an opportunity for members of the View Details
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Rebecca Greenbaum
In high school, Rebecca Greenbaum realized that she wanted more than an ordinary college education. She wanted the "opportunity to be part of something bigger than myself. I don't come from a military family, but I was pulled in by... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
Charles Erwin Wilson
Despite his reluctance to produce military goods, Wilson was nonetheless an excellent manager during World War II and helped his company garner over $14 billion worth of military contracts. In the post war... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
modern space race and what that means for the future of the sector. Space has long had national security implications, Weinzierl says. The very first forays into orbit took place against the backdrop of the Cold War, as the United States and the USSR, vying for View Details
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Ben Faw
For Ben Faw, a lifelong interest in both military history and leadership made West Point a logical destination. But upon graduation, when Ben had many options at his disposal, he responded to a calling that went deeper than mere logic. “I... View Details
Joseph W. Crosby
Crosby built a small $3 million military supply (jet propulsion fuels) company into a $275 million advanced research and development operation. During his tenure, Thiokol designed sophisticated rocket launch equipment used for the Mercury... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- Profile
Juliane Schwetz
Many HBS graduates will manage brands; few, however, will be responsible for a brand as storied – and as important – as the one that will be under Juliane Schwetz’s care: the United States Military Academy at West Point. An Army captain,... View Details
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
Drawing on lessons from the battlefield is common practice for business leaders seeking tested strategies to succeed against adversity. Today, the battle against COVID-19, an invisible enemy, feels to many observers like a military... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
Bernard M. Baruch
Intercontinental Rubber Company. During World War I, Baruch served as Chairman of the War Industries Board, where he helped to facilitate the military preparedness of the nation’s businesses. View Details
Keywords: Finance
Pierre S. du Pont
per month to 1 million pounds per day. duPont manufactured close to 1.5 billion pounds of military explosives during the war, and employed a high of 86,000 workers. In the process, duPont totally reorganized the explosives industry. View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
U.S. Army Captain Blake Hall (MBA 2010), right, in Afghanistan in 2007 with members of his unit Photo Credit: Tony Overman Blake Hall (MBA 2010) knows from personal experience that US military veterans can easily miss out on the benefits... View Details
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Emily Hannenberg
Personally, I felt an ability to inspire trust in others and lead them toward goals. I had the physical fitness required to contribute as a member of a team, and I shared the military's core values: loyalty, integrity, duty, respect." After graduating from the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Helping vets become resident landlords
Reed Benet (MBA 1991) is founder and CEO of HeroHomes.com, an online organization that helps military veterans secure no-money-down VA loans to purchase and live in small multifamily homes for housing themselves and income purposes. In... View Details
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Brett Gibson
Although his grandfather was a "full-bird" Marine Corps Colonel who had served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, Brett Gibson had not considered the military as a career option and did not participate in ROTC while in... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
Author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) has been here before—speaking with palpable enthusiasm and urgency about women who have defied cultural norms and changed the world around them through acts of bravery and heroism. In her first book, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In Service of Others
Mike Zak (MBA 1981) After studying engineering at Cornell and serving four years in the Marine Corps, Mike Zak (MBA 1981) arrived at HBS in 1979, one of only a handful of military veterans in his class. The transition was not easy. “I... View Details
- 17 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Video Blog: My Experience as a Veteran in the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
Just a little about me. I grew up in a really strong military family. I was born in Okinawa, Japan. My mom and my dad were both Air Force pilots and navigators. And just like any good son, I had to do the exact opposite thing. So, for... View Details