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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 onset of View Details
Dwane L. Wallace
In 1936, Wallace took complete control of Clyde Cessna Aircraft and set out to make it the #1 light plane manufacturer. Wallace’s sharp engineering skills allowed him to create high quality, low cost planes that could be made on efficient assembly lines. Securing an... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
David Rockefeller
Having gained much international experience while serving in the United States military during World War II, Rockefeller joined Chase in 1945, honing his international banking skills as he assumed increasing... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
coauthored by Steven L. Ossad (MBA ’76) (Taylor Trade Publishing) With a subtitle World War II’s Greatest Forgotten Commander, this is a biography of the highest-ranking American Jewish officer ever killed... View Details
Jules S. Bache
Company. He helped to attract middle-class investors to the brokerage business and prior to World War I, Bache & Company maintained the largest private wire system in the United States. View Details
Keywords: Finance
- Portrait Project
Bena Shah
years. We will start tickle wars with our children and laugh until our bellies ache. We will surprise them with donuts on Sunday mornings and spend hours getting to know them over lazy Sunday dinners of kichadi and cudhi, which they will... View Details
Paul V. Galvin
Creating the Motorola car radio, Galvin emerged as the premier producer of car radios in the 1930s. Galvin also invented the walkie-talkie, producing some 40,000 during World War II. In 1947, Galvin... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
John L. Collyer
In 1940, Collyer brought to market the first tire with a substantial man-made rubber content. Goodrich’s tire was 50% synthetic rubber at a time when man-made rubber was not yet cost competitive with crude rubber. However, shortly thereafter, with the outbreak of 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 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
especially from those who proclaim themselves to be our leaders. The events of 9/11 brought the country together like nothing since World War II. But in their wake, the only thing Washington asked of us was... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) In a kind of twisted and sometimes painful way, I learned from a Japanese norm how to achieve great things in life, even if the path I took wasn’t... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Founder of Modern Venture Capital
students. He realized his dream of establishing the first Master of Business Administration program in Europe by helping establish the European Institute of Business Administration. Doriot learned the art of bringing science and industry together in View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- News
Remembering William Wilder
extensive renovations to update the building and make it ADA accessible. Home to a succession of departments over the years, Wilder House today is occupied by the HBS Career & Professional Development Office. Following service in the Royal Navy during View Details
- 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 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
share the same religious background.” What is his definition of “few”? How many “few” have fought violently in Iraq, Afghanistan, and all over the world for many years now? How many “few” are there in Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Kiwi Star
WHINERAY: A national hero looks back. Photos by (L) Getty Images; (R) David White/ New Zealand Herald One of five brothers growing up in New Zealand during World War II, Sir Wilson Whineray (MBA 1969)... 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