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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
both. William D. Washburn (MBA '34) February 1961 Heard from Pete Foster, who continues to operate very successfully as a brand man for Procter & Gamble's Germasetic Dreft Soap - which is especially for diapers. His wife reports adequate... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
microprocessors. Equally important, the idea of stock options for employees and the use of venture capital financing became a standard part of the nascent high-technology... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
in 1969. Ginny’s eyes teared up. “He was our father,” she said, and explained that he had developed Alzheimer’s disease in his 50s and died in 1996. Dick Vancil played an enormous role in my life. He was a master of the case method, as... View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
Brickson Diamond (MBA 1999) has never been one to, as he puts it, “just sit back and wait for progress to happen.” His role as cofounder and chair of the Blackhouse Foundation is a case in point. The organization took shape in 2006 after... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
"You have to be absolutely conscious of standards. The reason Bill Gates is the richest man in the world after the Sultan of Brunei is because he captured the standards.... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Me and the Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2 by John Allen (MBA ’62) (Synergetic Press) This memoir chronicles the life of the inventor of Biosphere 2, a... View Details
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
Sage Foundation, 1932). Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson. The Economics of Installment Selling: A Study in Consumers' Credit, with Special Reference to the Automobile, 1st ed. (New York: Harper & brothers, 1927). Wahlstad, Peter P. Credit... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
consider the life of a guy who was twenty years old and living in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Such a young man was facing a very different reality. Factory jobs had mostly disappeared and now he was looking at a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
found the doors open. Wearing a hazmat suit and using a flashlight, he found his way to the storage room that held a number of instruments. He hired a man off the street to haul away his gear, which included... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
Braterman: The man to call when it comes to selling phones. Photo courtesy Russell Braterman When it comes to selling mobile phones to a youthful market, Phones 4u’s marketing director Russell Braterman (MBA ’00) favors ad spots during... View Details
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Barron's described Doriot as a "gentle, soft-spoken man [who] seems ill-suited to the title "General" except that he goes about investing American Research money with a sort of idealistic fervor, as though... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
improved infrastructure for water and for jobs, notes Meyer. There is much at stake for Mbeki - only the second black president of South Africa - as he follows in the footsteps of Mandela. Meyer is careful... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
demonstrate the solidity of France’s business ecosystem and the extraordinary opportunity of being an entrepreneur there. A Song of Humanity: A Science-Based Alternative to the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience
different times, in dissimilar styles and moods. "None of these individually captures me, but together they do," explains Walling, a quietly intense man who has been painting full-time for just a year. A... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
Brother. "His family had a number of serious problems," O'Neill relates. "It was up to this boy to keep them all together, and somehow he did, all the while developing his own natural talent for baseball. "Today that young View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
Emory University, where she graduated with 40 percent more credits than required. A year out of HBS, Wallace and classmate Alex Nelson cofounded Quincy Apparel, an online retailer providing stylish, affordable work clothes for women in a... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
“I realized that it’s not about the idea; it’s about the team,” Medina recalls of those early days. It was a revelation that would serve him well. Medina soon joined forces with product designer Andrew Kinzer and enrolled in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
which no man trusted his fellow." "Revenge," he also writes, "was held of more account than self-preservation." The nuances of Thucydides' thoughts and the milieu View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
becoming president of its Edwards-Finast division. Stemberg's habitual casual dress and modest office at Staples' Westborough, Massachusetts, headquarters bear testament to a man fully in touch with his... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Collection, on permanent loan to Baker Library from the French Cultural Center, Boston, reveals the ideas and ideals of a man who played a pioneering role in the emergence of... View Details