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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
leadership during the Tylenol crises of the 1980s set the standard for corporate responsibility. Burke has been hailed as one of the ten greatest CEOs of all time by Fortune magazine. Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA ’69), founder, former View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
Lawrence University Professor “I think the American people are dying to be asked to help solve some of these problems.” —Meg Whitman (MBA ’79), former President & CEO, eBay Inc. “Fear caused by greed needed... View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
The United States housing market is no longer the boat anchor dragging down economic growth. Data from the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show that average home prices in an assortment of American cities have been on the upswing,... View Details
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
(again) American political leaders have repeatedly tried and failed to stem spiraling drug costs. US President Donald Trump said in May that he expected drugmakers to voluntarily cut their costs, providing... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
advertising a $2.46 charbroiled special. Most of the class and even some of the faculty sported long hair, and noting the large percentage of single men in the class, the paper's lead article announced that we would provide "a rich vein for those ladies that will be... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
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Introduction - The Audience - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
industry and intelligence required of the American working man,” Davenport wrote, “perhaps our students could learn to look upon the working man with some degree of respect and sympathetic consideration.” This was an archive that Ayres... View Details
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n 1960, ARD invested $3.6 million in 18 companies and, by 1961, the firm became the first venture capital firm with shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In the article "Scientific Risk-Taking Keeps Paying Off for View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
magazine. Among many honors, he was elected president of the American Finance Association in 1993 and the Western Economic Association International in 1994 and admitted to the View Details
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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
and vice-president at MIT, recognized the challenges of pushing new technologies through the red tape of the military. With Harvard President James Bryant Conant and MIT President Karl Taylor Compton, Bush... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
across the country. The opening day of the conference featured a welcome from HBS African-American Alumni Association president Kenneth A. Powell (MBA 1974). His remarks were followed by a management seminar, conducted by HBS professor... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
sailing feat yet. It was time for me to place another call to update his amazing story (see article). Last March, skippering the 60-foot Great American III, Wilson completed this year’s Vendée Globe, an around-the-world, singlehanded,... View Details
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Research Links - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Foundation. Full Text available as a networked resource Rakesh Khurana. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession . Princeton:... View Details
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
Cultural differences can influence business negotiations in significant and unexpected ways, as many a hapless dealmaker has learned. In some cases, it's a matter of ignorance or blatant disrespect, as with the American salesman who... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
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Concrete Symbols - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Frederick Olmsted, Jr., who, with his brother John, had taken over the business from their father Frederick Law Olmsted, the great American landscape architect. The original competition guidelines noted that the HBS campus had “no natural... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
else struck you as you were writing this book? A: I was surprised that Gallatin was involved so deeply in managing the governments of Presidents Jefferson and Madison, and by the significant diplomatic role he played in negotiating an end... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
policy. “You have to acknowledge that [Gleason] was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating” “I thought, who is this plucky woman amongst men?” Sawyer recalls after seeing... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
Download Jim McNerney profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1949 Born, Providence, Rhode Island 1971 Earns BA, American Studies, Yale University 1975 Earns MBA 1975 Joins Procter & Gamble, Brand Manager 1978 Joins... View Details
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
pocketbooks. Since then, as the stock market roller coaster has shown, the rhetoric has only ratcheted upwards. On April 5, the president threatened tariffs on an additional $100 billion in Chinese goods. China returned fire proposing new... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
Patricia F. Russo (104th AMP) is executive vice president of New Jersey-based Lucent Technologies, a $30 billion communications powerhouse, where she oversees corporate strategy, business development, and corporate operations. A widely... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
for predominantly white spaces is still not enough to keep Black people safe – and there isn’t a job title or degree in the world that can protect Black communities from institutionalized and systemic racism. Members of the HBS African View Details