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01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

not yet a partner, he was able to get Weinberg’s okay that a study of Goldman Sachs’s new business activities might be worth undertaking. The study was authorized on January 20, 1956, and completed several months later. But on the advice... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2020
News

The Devil You Don’t Know

of ways, but it won’t solve the tangible barriers to production and consumption that the pandemic has imposed. So it won’t be enough to turn a downward spiral into an upward spiral, as in the past. To be sure, large scale government... View Details

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Art Nature Business

2011 Oil on linen and wood Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, 2012.1 Born in Denver, Paul Jacobsen grew up in a small mountain town in Colorado in a family of artists. Largely self-taught,... View Details

01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

network offers help on a range of issues, Walker says, from something as simple as how to buy groceries to something as serious as the emotional stresses of displacement and change in family life. "We also... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

06 Dec 2018
News

Cold Call Horror Stories

didn’t read the case because I thought he’s never going to call on me, because my mother’s with me. So I’m sitting there—“Page, since your mother’s here, why don’t you open the case?” Oh my God! And my View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

The Future of Stem Cells

cardiovascular disease. In addition, apart from any possible therapeutic benefits, embryonic stem-cell research could play a central role in helping to understand the nature and development of disease generally. Spar, the Spangler View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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From Concept to Product | Baker Library

Morse and Polaroid’s Creative Ethos Polaroid Corporation Annual Report , 1948, 3. Polaroid Corporation Administrative Records, Box 1.464, Folder 12. Eudoxia Muller Woodward, “Notes for Tape for Land Memorial at Hynes Auditorium, Boston,... View Details

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

materials that enables impoverished Mexican families to build their own housing; or in Brazil, with Kodak's no-frills camera/film packages, or the department store Magazine Luiza's merchandise, payment plans, View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

17 Feb 2015
News

The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)

housing trust fund in Arkansas and the development of legislation that protects families during recessions in Connecticut. Currently, we are providing our research findings to legislators who are preparing... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024

operations in a manner consistent with the intentions of donors and the terms of each gift. Harvard Endowment Returns FY24 9.6% FY23 2.9% FY22 -1.8% FY21 33.6% FY20 7.3% FY19 6.5% FY18 10.0% FY17 8.1% FY16 -2.0% FY15 5.8% The generosity... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

Well, media sites just weren’t buying it, unfortunately—they weren’t set up to integrate the technology quickly and take full advantage of its benefits. We parted ways as friends View Details

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

When the pandemic forced employees to flee offices and work from home in droves last year, many business leaders worried that productivity might take a dive. Would remote workers be too tempted by the lures of Netflix or too distracted by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

leading Bay Area companies. It also offered plenty of opportunities for alumni to network, compare notes, and catch up with friends and classmates. As Harvard University... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

22 Jan 2020
News

What It Takes

Middle East, running a huge sovereign wealth fund, took it over. He was a royal family member. And I had never met him before, so I was going to be the first person who managed money for this giant... View Details

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