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- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
1946, when the late Georges Doriot, a long-time and legendary member of the HBS faculty, founded American Research and Development as a willing and able source of financing for the new ventures that were coming to life just after World... View Details
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Collection Highlights | Baker Library
foundation of the South Sea Bubble Collection held in Baker Library. It consists of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, Parliamentary acts, engravings, broadsides, plays, ballads, and assorted ephemera. Muriel Siebert Collection American... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
named him assistant secretary of labor for international affairs, a position to which he was reappointed several years later by President Kennedy. In 1962, Lodge, who had strong views about issues such as foreign aid, unemployment, and View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
of MasterCard and American Express. Likewise Coca-Cola is in, as always, but Pepsi's out. That's one big reason why Pepsi has had trouble gaining brand traction in international markets. What about all the other companies that can't land... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
interrelationships between three distinct parties: payers, providers, and consumers. Each group has its own perspective accompanied by a set of unique incentives, which complicate the adoption of a value-based health care system. To transform the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
extensive American military action between the U.S.-Mexican and Civil wars. Based on a half-century of research and a wealth of carefully selected new material, itpresents the history of the conflict through... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
businesspeople were forcefully reminded, yet again, of the ups and downs of the economy. By World War I, there were only about ten forecasting agencies operating in the United States. Professional economists, like Irving Fisher and Warren... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
and in front of it, and as a rare representation in Hollywood—backed by an even rarer megabudget—of Black culture. Like Disney’s Encanto and Pixar’s Coco, animated hits that featured Latin American culture in a way that audiences also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
phenomenon in the United States. In the years leading up to the Great Depression and World War II, there was a very high percentage of recent immigrants in the United States, and home ownership was beyond the means of most. Before World... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
After its war of liberation from England, America was bankrupt, disjointed, and devoid of experience in governance. "The new country could have broken apart because of its financial problems," HBS professor emeritus Thomas McCraw writes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
givers was “generational, not ideological.” Reason and civility to the rescue! I was embarrassed for HBS, as I felt we had been badly trumped by KSG. But then I arrived at the article on social entrepreneurs and HBS’s Social Enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
economic successes of the Allied war economies ensured that the new empires created by the Axis powers did not endure for long. Two models of state-led production—the American and the Soviet—passed the test... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
direction. But for Baldwin and other Navy pilots, nothing created more anxiety than landing on the carrier at night -- a feat that amounted to a controlled crash on a deck that was, in the case of the World War IIvintage Midway, less than... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 02 Feb 2002
- What Do You Think?
Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?
nearly evenly divided on the question. However, several arguing for the relative importance of September 11 expressed concern that the question was even asked. Keith Sawyer remarked, "Rubbish... As Bush says, this war has no end in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
collections on Photography and Photographers , collections of particular interest to those doing research on photography and advertising related to the 1934 NAAI exhibit include Margaret Bourke White Papers Papers of the American... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Phelps), companies (P&G, Target), and social organizations (Saddleback Church, the civil rights movement). He offers a framework for changing bad habits: identify the routine, experiment with rewards, isolate the cue, and have a plan.... View Details
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
animating insight sprang from his study of Korean War air battles between American F-86s and Soviet Union-made MiG-15s. Although the Soviet plane could accelerate faster, was better armed, and could perform... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
first vaccine doses administered in the West, and saved thousands of lives in the UK as new variants struck. In The Long Shot, Bingham shares an insider’s view into how the Vaccine Task Force beat the odds, and delivered a scientific miracle. I Did It: The Largest... View Details
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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n the latter half of the twentieth century , venture capital investment transformed groundbreaking technologies into sustainable enterprises and contributed to the growth of an American economy... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
As the Nigeria-Biafra war raged around them, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994), her mother, and her brother made a dangerous dash for a better life. Huddled in the belly of a Portuguese cargo plane returning from delivering arms to the Biafran... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli