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Bernard F. Gimbel
and Milwaukee, Gimbel ran Saks Fifth Avenue stores in New York, Chicago, Detroit and Beverly Hills. During World War II, Gimbel earned huge profits on scarce consumer goods, which he had purchased earlier at... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 21 Aug 2017
- News
The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together
get. I'm watching how conflict is being handled as a guide, and I'm not encouraged.” In a new essay on LinkedIn, noted hedge fund manager Ray Dalio (MBA 1973) writes that Americans are divided in ways not seen since the Great Depression and the era leading up to View Details
Harvey S. Firestone, Jr.
Firestone inaugurated the company’s Liberian manufacturing operations and developed and expanded the company’s auto supply and service stores. Firestone manufactured over 50% of all mobile anti-aircraft gun units during World View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Edward G. Budd
During the 1910s and 1920s, Budd constructed a successful business supplying car bodies, including an all-steel sedan body, to auto manufacturers such as General Motors, Studebaker, Ford and Chrysler. In the 1930s, Budd pioneered the fabrication of stainless steel.... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
assumed after World War II that we’d never have thermonuclear war. What do people in the oil industry think about your book? I’ve heard criticism that it’s preposterous we have any problems. We’ve been doing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
from a new album of what Gould describes as “funny, original songs about contemporary women’s lives.” Hear more at midlifemomsongs.com. Excerpt Berliner Verlag/Archiv/Corbis “Imagine a checkpoint guard in a black-and-white World View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
foreign policy, because for the last 100 years, we’ve always had strong allies. China, Russia, and Europe all sided with us against Germany and Italy during World War II, but our role in the View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
School, Harvard University, and the worldwide business community, an undertaking that is ambitious, but with some historical precedent at HBS, Spar says. “When the United States was in World War II, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
Ernest H. Volwiler
its pharmaceutical products. He contributed to the commercialization of penicillin and sulfa drugs during World War II and produced top level financial returns for Abbott during his tenure as CEO. View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Breakthrough International Negotiation
When the stakes are high - in business, politics, or everyday life - it pays to take a page from the playbook of the world's greatest negotiators. And if you want to learn how to be a world-class negotiator, consider how Richard Holbrooke helped defuse the View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Vets Support Homeless Comrades
number of homeless Vietnam-era vets exceeds the number of personnel who died in that conflict and that more than a third of all homeless vets served in war zones. Each year, approximately five hundred thousand veterans — from View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
Edward V. Rickenbacker
Prior to purchasing Eastern in 1938, Rickenbacker had successful careers in automobile racing and the auto industry at large, in addition to his distinguished service in the United States military in World View Details
Keywords: Transportation
Paul W. Litchfield
substantial expansion and investments. Under his direction, Goodyear began to experiment in the development of airplane parts and fighter aircraft, becoming one of the ten largest producers in this field during World View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Frank A. Seiberling
Despite being forced out of his firm during its post World War I financial troubles, Seiberling’s diligence and faith in the growth of the rubber business allowed his company to become the largest... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 16 Sep 2008
- News
Last Look - September 2008
converting hot rolled steel into cold rolled steel.” Peter II of Yugoslavia (1923–1970) became king in 1934 after his father was assassinated. He went into exile in 1941, was deposed in 1945, and settled in the United States after World... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
Jacob H. Schiff Professorship of Investment Banking. During the Korean War, Fox was an advisor to the Office of Defense Mobilization. Previously, during World War II, he had spent four years in Washington,... View Details
Samuel M. Vauclain
States and its World War I allies, including Russia, France and Britain. Combining his vision for Baldwin with his support of post-war rehabilitation in Europe, Vauclain expanded Baldwin into 12 countries,... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Where Innovation Rules
incubators of innovation. Issue Focus: Innovation Innovating in Your Business Will This Alum Change Education? HBS Simulations Go High-Tech A Lesson in Israeli Entrepreneurship In the modern era, beginning after World View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Richard Edelman
Whether it is dolphin-rights advocates and tuna producers, or insurance companies and victims of the 9/11 tragedy, Richard W. Edelman is interested in bringing different worlds together. He is comfortable with conflict, and his 25 years... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Supporting the Troops
(MBA 11/’47), cofounder of the Wall Street firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, served in the Navy in World War II and says the GI Bill helped him earn degrees from Swarthmore College, HBS, and Columbia Law School.... View Details