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Research Links | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
including well known artists such as Russell Aikins, Fritz Henle, Fred Korth, and Robert Yarnall Richie. Collection guide: https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/bak00245/catalog View the Gary Works Photograph Album Baker Old Class Collection... View Details
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FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness
and guide the Project’s research. This definition makes clear that neither lower American wages, nor a cheaper dollar, nor job creation per se can lead to true competitiveness. Why is the Project’s research focused on PK-12 education,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Edited by Jennifer Gillespie FOUR FOUNDERS From left: Clifford Darden, Lillian Lincoln Lambert, Theodore Lewis, and Leroy Willis (photos courtesy of HBS Archives) Just over 50 years ago, at the end of a summer that saw race riots across the United States as View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
The MBA Oath: Setting a Higher Standard for Business Leaders by Max Anderson (MPA/MBA ’09) and Peter Escher (MBA ’09) (Portfolio) The MBA Oath has become a worldwide movement for a new generation of leaders who care about society as well... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941–1945 by Michael Beschloss (MBA 1980) (Simon & Schuster) Noted presidential historian, author, and commentator Beschloss offers an insightful, comprehensive, behind-the-scenes account of... View Details
- 07 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers
Mark Zuckerberg delayed action and side-stepped responsibility. Two Million Fake Accounts: Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo Coming out of the financial crisis, Wells Fargo was one of the world’s most... View Details
- 23 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
How I Sourced My Internship Outside of the US: Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu
Nyantekyi-Owusu. “I heard this recommendation from my personal mentors as well but spending the summer in the US didn’t set me on fire. It didn’t give me that buzz. My intuition told me to look for opportunities with startups in Africa,... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
to William Lever. After his death, the Overseas Committee became the institutional embodiment of this paternalistic oversight role. Philips too conformed to this model: the Philips family dominated the company's top management until well... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
Cyril Taylor (MBA 1961) (Amberley Publishing) As a social entrepreneur and education reformer, Taylor helped establish 3,000 specialist schools and over 1,500 academies in the UK as well as founding and working as chairman of the View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
and members of the American public. According to the authors, America retains and enjoys many strengths. However, various economic indicators show that the US economy has failed to deliver strong growth and shared prosperity for nearly... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line
entrepreneurial finance professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School. In view of this year's conference theme, HBSAAAA president Kenneth A. Powell (MBA '74) notes that Chicago was chosen "in part because of its history as a primary destination for African View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Lighting It Up
interest in lights, especially since 2002, when he acquired American Lighting, a specialty lighting company in Denver, Colorado. The firm sells its products to lighting showrooms, restaurants, amusement parks, and casinos as View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
At the other end of the supply chain are the unseen farm laborers—most of them women—who tend the coffee trees each day on the hillsides of rural Kenya. Margaret Nyamumbo (MBA 2016) founded Kahawa 1893 in 2017 to shorten the distance between these Kenyan farmers and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
sharing upward mobility with all African Americans was the theme of the 26th annual HBS African-American Student Union (AASU) Career/Alumni Conference, "The Next Step: Revitalizing Our Community," held January 22-25. Taking place at HBS... View Details
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
countries no longer maintain such regimes and b) a corporate tax rate that stands well above rates employed by other OECD countries. From a firm point of view, the transactions highlight a) the increased mobility of activity in today's... View Details
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
Black patients and their doctors may be more open to new medications if drug trials included more Black people, new research shows. Currently, Black Americans represent just 5 percent of drug trial participants. Nearly three-quarters of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
1776, by David McCullough In any survey of great American corporations that have left their mark on business history, IBM would always hold a special place. Its origins date back to the late 1880s, when mechanical time recorders and... View Details
Carle C. Conway
Conway grew Continental Can to become the second largest can manufacturing company in the world, second only to American Can Company. Conway did this by acquiring nine can manufacturing companies. Over time, he operated 30 can... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
equality , Cuz: an American Tragedy , and Talking to Strangers: anxieties of citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education. She has chaired numerous commission processes and is a lead author on influential policy roadmaps, including... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- News
Prepare to Exit
Jimmy Tran (MBA 2008) Jimmy Tran (MBA 2008) For the last seven years, Jimmy Tran (MBA 2008) appeared to be well on his way along the professional path he’d set out for himself: He had risen to the level of vice president of a Fortune 150... View Details