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    George S. Parker

    Designing and selling "parlor" or board games since he was seventeen, Parker, along with his brother, founded Parker Brothers, maker of the world's most popular games, including Monopoly. Parker was known for his creativity in designing original games, as... View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods

      James S. Love

      Beginning as a rayon producer, Love built the world’s largest textile mill by the mid-1950s. Love, the architect of the company’s growth, expanded the company to 22 plants by 1936 and bought six hosiery mills. After World War II, he increased the company’s annual sales... View Details
      Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

        Arthur D. Little

        Little founded the largest unendowed commercial industrial research laboratory in the United States. Little, who was initially interested in chemistry of cellulose and its application in production, gradually expanded his interest to include other fields of applied... View Details
        Keywords: Services

          Edmund D. Libbey

          Using Mike Owens’ invention for blowing glass bottles, Libbey revolutionized the glass industry. Libbey’s adept commercialization of this invention was the most innovative contribution to the glass industry since the original art of glass blowing. The company... View Details
          Keywords: Fabricated Goods

            Alanson B. Houghton

            During his presidency, Houghton tripled the size of Corning Glass. Producing about 40% of the bulbs and tubing for incandescent electric lights and 75% of the railway signal glass used in the U.S., the company became one of the largest glass producers in the industry. View Details
            Keywords: Fabricated Goods

              Walter S. Gifford

              During Gifford’s presidency, AT&T experienced tremendous growth. Gifford increased operating revenue from $657 million to $2.25 billion. During Gifford’s tenure, the wire mileage of AT&T rose from 39.5 million to 113 million, and the number of Bell telephones... View Details
              Keywords: Communications
              • 20 Sep 2016
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              September 20, 2016

              of both mechanisms successfully generates a sizable secular increase. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51107 Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Evidence from the Massachusetts Natural Experiment By:... View Details
              Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
              • 24 Apr 2014
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              Breaking the cycle of poverty in urban areas

              found compatriots with Wall Street backgrounds who wanted to change careers or make social enterprise an integral part of their career. A few years after graduation, Silbert founded the Center for Women & Enterprise, which empowers women to become economically... View Details
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              Marco E. Tabellini | Working Knowledge

              of the Civil Rights movement, both in the South and in the North of the United States. Professor Tabellini earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018, and spent the academic year 2018-2019 as a... View Details
              • 27 Oct 2021
              • Blog Post

              HBS Impact Investing Fund Course: An Experiential Education in Social Financing

              barriers to capital, with the dual goals of making profits and creating social change. Entrepreneurs of color in Massachusetts have an unmet capital demand in the order of $574 million annually, according to The Boston Foundation and... View Details
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              VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

              Intermountain Healthcare Joslin Diabetes Center Kaiser Permanente Maine Medical Center Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Mayo Clinic MD Anderson Cancer Center Memorial Sloan... View Details
              • 01 Mar 2023
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              Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions

              MAKING DREAMS ATTAINABLE READ MORE STORIES It has also enabled him to make a difference in health care while still a student. Velasquez has worked with Massachusetts General Hospital, MassHealth, and the View Details
              Keywords: April White
              • 01 Jun 2005
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              Stephen Fuller Remembered

              as a great teaching colleague. Steve made a difference everywhere he went.” Gifts in Fuller’s memory may be made to the Belmont Hill School, 350 Prospect St., Belmont, Massachusetts 02478 or to Delta Tau Delta, Ohio University, Athens,... View Details
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              Is That Economic Forecast You Just Heard Reliable? | Working Knowledge

              Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Christopher Roth, a professor at the University of Cologne. Beyond leaving a message To parse what people omit in the communication chain, researchers first needed to figure out how to measure... View Details
              • 08 Dec 2017
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              Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits

              2005), the former state auditor of New Mexico, who was elected mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico in November; Margaret Busse (MBA 2001), who is running for Massachusetts state senate; Adem Bunkeddeko (MBA 2017), who is running for a US... View Details
              Keywords: politics
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              Prelude - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

              lessons of probability theory to the stock market has been a key focus of twentieth-century American finance. As a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late '60s, Merton was able to both draw on the... View Details
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              2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

              Discrimination: Joint versus Separate Decision Making Corinne Moss-Racusin , Skidmore College Testing Interventions to Reduce Gender Bias in STEM Fields Emilio Castilla , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management... View Details
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              Ellen Harris

              interested in coaching across industries and functions. Clients include: Boston Bruins, Biogen, Novartis, Bain Capital, BCG, McKinsey, Harvard departments as well as graduate programs, MIT, INSEAD Business School, Hult International Business School and EF, P&G,... View Details
              Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Hospitality; Manufacturing; Retail; Social Enterprise
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              American Business History Records | Baker Library

              resource for understanding the business, social, and cultural world of 19th-century America. Boston Manufacturing Company Records Administrative material, financial records, correspondence, and labor and production records of the Waltham-based textile firm founded in... View Details
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              Stereograph Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

              landscape. Stereographs and photographs appear in Series XVIII in the collection guide. Pinion making room, fine watch department , ca. 1900. Waltham Watch Co. Collection Mss: 598 1854–1929 52 stereographs Founded in the 1850s, Waltham Watch operated a plant in Waltham... View Details