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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
2011, Harvard College banned ROTC—but Harvard Business School has long recognized the synergy between military experience and business education. In fact, the Executive Education Advanced Management Program was founded in 1945 as a war... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Seventy Years Out: Class of 1932 Celebrates Reunions
career was with the Air Force, in and out of uniform. His active duty in World War II took him to New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan, and he later served in Korea. A... View Details
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
highest US military medal given to non-combatants). In addition, he was decorated a Commander of the British Empire and awarded the French Legion of Honor. 29 "Doriot learned how to become a venture capitalist during the war," Doriot's biographer Spencer E. Ante notes,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
trait. Although he didn’t arrive in the United States until age 10, Ted Levitt didn’t look back, rarely discussing what must have been a difficult childhood for a Jewish boy during Hitler’s ascendancy. After serving in World View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
A Legacy of Investment
donated the entire cost of building the campus in the 1920s. In the 1930s, the “Two Hundred Fifty Associates” funded research and case-writing activities threatened by the Great Depression. Post-World War II... View Details
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
control," Deighton says. "In the 1950s, Dove's advertising approach was similar to a World War II military campaign with a heavy bombardment of 30- and 60-second messages with... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Ghemawat The organizational challenges involved in World War II were a vital stimulus to strategic thinking. The problem of allocating scarce resources across the entire... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Schrader (MBA ’64) Alexandria, VA Torn Down by 1950 The “Last Look” photo looks very familiar. I remember it being called Harvard Way, just like the street. It was temporary housing during World War II, put... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
major HBS report to Harvard's Board of Overseers outlining the School's plan to "enlarge its activities so as to be of still more service to the country" by expanding instruction in public aspects of business. Articles during World View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
he has reflected upon considerably since September 11. Recalling his grandfather's legacy as a Navy chief petty officer and World War II submarine veteran honored for valor and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
influence over so many areas of business and society. "World War II catalyzed mass production techniques, quantitative analysis methods, women in the workplace, and world trade... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Japanese Connection
whose father had been stationed in Tokyo after World War II and brought back objects and stories about Japan. “But I also wanted to learn a non-Western language because, in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
sector, HBS professor Bill George noted that business leaders often are picked by the wrong criteria. “We mistakenly make choices based on charisma, image, and style when we should be choosing based on character, integrity, and substance.” Business also suffers from... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Great Gamble: A New Look at German Strategy, Operation Barbarossa, and the Axis Defeat in World War II by James Ellman (MBA 1994) Stackpole Books On June 22, 1941, Hitler... View Details
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
highest US military medal given to non-combatants). In addition, he was decorated a Commander of the British Empire and awarded the French Legion of Honor. 29 "Doriot learned how to become a venture capitalist during the war," Doriot's biographer Spencer E. Ante notes,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone
Behavioral ecologist Toni Rapone knows that natural selection is the law of the planet. But for the vibrant and down-to-earth MBA-cum-scientist, that knowledge comes from more than textbooks. Rapone, whose given name, Antoinette, honors her father Antonio, who died in... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
Business Administration (INCAE). After enlisting in the U.S. Navy at the age of 17 during World War II and graduating with honors from Harvard College in 1950, Lodge began his... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
ability to enforce the terms of foreign loans often led to pitched political battles of will with the implicit threat of war as the only recourse for creditors. Between the end of World View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
the 1929 stock market crash revealed disastrous investments made by his superiors, Weinberg, who became head of the firm in 1930, worked tirelessly throughout the Great Depression and World War View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
War II broke out and the German army occupied Holland. He left his war-torn homeland in 1948 to attend Fordham University on a scholarship. "I arrived in America with $25 and was washing dishes on my first... View Details