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Booker T. The Negro in Business . Boston: Hertel, Jenkins & Co., 1907. Weems, Robert E. Business in Black and White: American Presidents & Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth Century . New York: New York... View Details

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Political News

What are good sources for political news? Cook Political Report: independent, online newsletter that analyzes elections and campaigns for the US House of Representatives, US Senate, Governors and President as well as View Details

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Bibliography - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture 1884-1929 . Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Campbell, Heyworth, Art Centre Bulletin (September 1924): 1, no. 1. Calkins, Earnest Elmo.... View Details

28 May 2019
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@Soldiers Field

PITCH PERFECT POWER SOURCE On March 8, Nina Bowman (MBA 1994) of Paravis Partners, former Johnson Publishing CEO Desirée Rogers (MBA 1985), and Benaree Pratt Wiley (MBA 1972) of the Wiley Group kicked off the 46th H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference, hosted by the African... View Details

28 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 28

unsure whether America was ready to elect its first African American President. It also explores how President Obama was able to gain support from the American people despite... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2002
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The World According to MTV

Roedy Photo courtesy MTV Networks International Youth must be served, and few people do it on the scale of 54-year-old Bill Roedy (MBA '79), president of London-based MTV Networks International. According to a Business Week International... View Details

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

33 In 1946, Doriot became president of American Research and Development Corporation (ARD), the first publicly funded venture capital firm and one of the first modern venture capital companies established... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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New HBS Alumni Board Members

president of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Japan, based in Tokyo. Porté serves as a trustee of the American School in Japan and of Camp Rising Sun, an international leadership camp. A magna cum laude and Phi... View Details

19 Apr 2017
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Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action

developing “ecosystem” for starting new ventures. HBS professor Lynda Applegate moderated the event, which was inspired by a case she coauthored with Alexander Meyer (MBA 2005), SAP vice president of global business development. “Rising... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Emmanuel

12 Jun 2009
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Business Summit: Lawrence Summers on Market Capitalism’s Historic Opportunity

University Professor, Harvard University In this keynote address, former Harvard president Lawrence Summers shared his view of the challenges facing America at a time of financial and economic turmoil, and the opportunities they present.... View Details

21 Sep 2016
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Leadership in Motion

For self-described compulsive worker Jane Veron (MBA 1991), the decision to step away from her marketing role at American Express some 18 years ago reflected the desire to put down roots with her husband and young daughters in Scarsdale,... View Details

01 Oct 2015
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Banking on Trust

she brought in a former government minister who had guided a similar transition in his South American country. “Hearing directly from someone who had been through it helped convince the president and... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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Make or Break

BLOOM: Build it and good things will come. Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) has been an investment banker, a special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers, and cochairman of President Obama’s task force... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

01 Apr 1998
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Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue

America; Anna Lloyd, president of C200; and Andrea C. Silbert (MBA '92), founder and executive director of the Center for Women & Enterprise. A number of sessions focused on entrepreneurship. Susan Willet Bird, founder and View Details

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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Stereograph Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Haynes, whose images were meant to promote the region and encourage further settlement, recorded towns, settlements, new construction, military garrisons, miners, mining villages, farms, Native American settlements, and natural scenery... View Details

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The NAAI Exhibition Opens - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

organizers paid homage to Alfred Stieglitz in a reception dedicated to the "dean of American photography." By the 1930s a new generation of photographers with a modernist sensibility pursued commercial photography as both an artistic... View Details

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Introduction - The Request - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

instruction at Harvard Business School. Ayres and Davenport corresponded with the gamut of American companies, ranging from General Electric to International Harvester. Eager to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of their... View Details

01 Jun 1999
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Proposed Chair Would Honor African-American Business Pioneer

Fitzhugh's honor. Fitzhugh, who passed away in 1992, graduated with honors from Harvard College in 1931, despite being forced to live off-campus because of his race. He was one of the first African Americans to attend HBS, where he... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Chai Ling

suddenly reassigned for six months to an earthquake-relief mission. At sixteen, she was named one of the two hundred most outstanding students in China. Later, at prestigious Beijing University, where she studied child psychology, she was elected View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; photograph by Webb Chappell

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