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Wilder House | About

Wilder’s career in Canada stands “as an eloquent expression of just what we hope our graduates can achieve in their communities around the world.” A Toronto native, Wilder served in combat during World War II View Details

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

reversal of European integration already underway. The EU was created by people who had seen World War II and never wanted to see Europeans go to war with one another again. In... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

01 Nov 1999
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Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

structure, social history, and educational system, companies developed under a system of family management that emphasized personal relationships more than formal structures, and relied more on broad-gauged financial controls than View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

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Outdoor Spaces | About

have served their country in times of war and peace. The granite wall is intended to inspire us to reflect on the enduring contributions of veterans and others who have dedicated their lives to service, and... View Details

11 Sep 2006
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Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

making deals. As it says in Warfighting: The U.S. Marine Corps Book of Strategy (Currency, 1995), "The very nature of war makes certainty impossible; all actions in war will be based View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports

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The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa

By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou

We examine the long-run consequences of a neglected aspect of colonization, the artificial drawing of borders during the Scramble for Africa and uncover the following empirical regularities. First, apart from the land mass and water area, no other pre-colonial trait... View Details

Keywords: Africa; Conflict; Development; Ethnicity; War; Development Economics; Geography; Africa

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01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s... View Details

Keywords: podcasts

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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

federal lands were surveyed and one tenth were set aside as land grants for railroad development. After the Civil War, state government subsidies began to be replaced by more substantial federal aid. Other major infusions of capital came... View Details

08 Nov 2024
HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

started. And during his tenure, Eisenhower leaned on “the Gang,” a group of corporate leaders who had become advisers, to bring their business skills into his administration, saying, “I must learn the value of a dollar.” “Military is all... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation

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

at the firm, served as a director of a number of its portfolio companies, and became one of the leading women in the US venture capital field. A steady stream of individuals who trained at HBS entered the Quartermaster Corps, and Doriot... View Details

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

worked with Vectographs during the war effort, signed off on an experiment conducted by researcher Eudoxia Muller in which she transferred a negative onto a positive image. 53 View Details

02 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

for these long-standing disparities.” For the past 20 years, Chandra has been examining differences in health outcomes between white and Black Americans, searching for solutions to shrink the gap. In a recent working paper published through the National Bureau of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 May 2013
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Edward E. Matthews, MBA 1957

By the time Ed Matthews arrived at HBS in 1955, he was a married Korean War veteran eager to advance his real world education. “As an undergraduate, you learn things from a theoretical perspective,” says Matthews, a graduate of Princeton... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance

Great Depression, when foreclosures on residential properties soared alongside farm foreclosures. Scholars still know relatively little about the American real estate industry before World War II. The U.S.... View Details

17 Oct 2022
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Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

recognized, and cultivate enduring connections,” they write, “then we can together make extraordinary progress toward making our system one in which it could be worth living—and one that people would believe... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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U.S. Steel | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Depression to the war years to the post-war boom, photography served as a persuasive tool in PR campaigns focused on promoting goodwill and a favorable attitude about policies concerning the corporation’s... View Details

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T.J. Root

I walked away from the Army just six years short of a pension, having spent my entire adult life in uniform. It was the only job I’d ever had. I knew if I didn’t leave then, I never would. Ironically, quitting feels like one of the... View Details

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

Leadership Initiative was organized to be a catalyst for research on leaders and leadership, and to design effective leadership development programs that are relevant for the 21st century. The goal of the Initiative is to support Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

change—business leaders have entered a new era requiring new ways of leading. Traditional management methods seem no longer sufficient to address the volume of change we are seeing. I label this VUCA 2.0. In a 1998 report designed to train officers for the twenty-first... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

January 2020
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A Tough Call: SEAL Team Leader in Kandahar (A)

By: George A. Riedel

The case, which is a disguised version of real events, is set in Kandahar, Afghanistan (2013) during the long running Afghan war. Lt. Paul Rickson, a Navy SEAL Platoon Commander, is leading a team of 30 U.S. and Afghan soldiers on a mission to clear hostile forces in... View Details

Keywords: War; Leadership; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Decision Choices and Conditions; Afghanistan

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