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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Association and the American Psychological Society. David Thomas David A. Thomas, Ph.D., president of Morehouse College, is internationally recognized for his expertise in organizational management and... View Details

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Laying Down the Principles: Management - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School/title>

different arms of the system,” wrote Charles E. Perkins, President of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad. 25 The Pennsylvania Railroad alone, which employed over 110,000 workers by 1891, dwarfed the number of personnel of the... View Details

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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

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

Harvard Business School, including an extensive collection of student reports from the Manufacturing course. This collection also contains documents from Doriot's involvement with American Research and Development (ARD), including his... View Details

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The Dedication - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

dedication addresses in the afternoon. A reported four thousand people, including business leaders, senators, representatives, and university presidents, attended the festivities held on the steps and lawn of Baker Library. The eighty-seven-year-old George F. Baker... View Details

19 Feb 2020
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Running a Decathlon

first president of Academic Decathlon and subsequently helped guide its transformation from a small local event to the international competition it is today. After Patton left the Olympic committee, he became the View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

02 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses

Additionally, a July 2016 American Express OPEN report found that nearly half (49 percent) of small business owners are concerned about cash flow issues at their company, and more than one-quarter (27 percent) experienced a cash flow... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

01 Sep 2020
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Maintaining a Resilient Democracy

While many in this election year are focused on issues that divide the United States and the damage this discord may be doing to democracy, historian David Moss offers a perspective rooted in American democracy’s resilient past. “There... View Details

Keywords: Deb Blagg

01 Sep 2004
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One-on-One with Robert McNamara

Americans of the second half of the 20th century. But regardless of how history may judge his record, McNamara’s decades of service in the public and private sectors enable him to speak with singular authority about the strengths and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Apr 2001
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Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan

After 35 years with IBM, Tatsuyuki Saeki could have chosen to put his feet up and relax — perhaps after a few rounds of golf. But that just isn’t Ted Saeki’s style. Instead, the feisty 60-year-old veteran executive has started a second career as View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

14 Apr 2010
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The First African-American MBAs at HBS

Cunningham in 1913-14 and a year later The election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States had me wondering who the first African-Americans were to earn Harvard MBAs. I thought I’d have to slog... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2005
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Have Ideas, Will Travel

With a growing body of knowledge supported by its global research centers, the School last May conducted its first research symposium abroad, hosting an all-day event in Rio de Janeiro for a select group of 45 Latin American business... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Mar 2022
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Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year

these virtual events included Moderna Therapeutics CEO Stefan Bancel (MBA 2000), JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982), and the president and CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy (MBA 1997). “We’ve all worked together to be able to provide... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Feb 1998
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Touching All the Bases: Stephen A. Greyser

Classroom guests (and case study sources) have included sports executives such as Rick Welts, president of NBA Properties; Ed Horne, marketing VP for the NHL; Donald Dell, founder of ProServ; Larry Cancro and Stuart Layne, marketing heads... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

We are on the cusp of a new millennium; yet the face of corporate power in the United States remains overwhelmingly white. People of color hold less than 1 percent of all senior executive posts. But what about leaders such as Kenneth Chenault, View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

13 May 2014
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Inside Africa

“The tone most Americans bring to discussions of Africa is one of pity; pity for people who are poor and helpless,” says Teresa Clarke (MBA 1988, JD 1987, AB 1984). Clarke is working to change that: eliminating those preconceptions by... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People

their communities,” she states. “They want to build their businesses and create jobs, and they want to make a difference.” Mills lives in Brunswick, Maine, with her husband, Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College, and their three... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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