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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
the coming conflict. One important lesson of history is that major wars can arise even when economic globalization is very far advanced and the hegemonic position of an English-speaking empire seems fairly secure. A second important... View Details
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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
establishing the first Master of Business Administration program in Europe by helping establish the Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires. Doriot learned the art of bringing science and industry together in World View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
After witnessing the civil war that has ravaged his country for almost three decades, an historian makes this observation about the moral decline of the nation: "The ancient simplicity into which honor so largely entered was laughed down... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
Bert Berkley (MBA 1950) calls it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” Having served in the US Army during World War II for three-and-a-half years, he was offered (and accepted) the chance to go... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
World War II, members played a key role in the Normandy invasion. When Sundy left the army for the corporate world, he turned his attention to similarly storied names such as Cheerios, Betty Crocker,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
two-year-old Hereford heifers to populate the farm my father had purchased just after World War II. We drove; the “girls” took the train. Dad had built a western-style, open-front pole barn in anticipation,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
For the past 18 months, European policymakers have been trying to deal with a crisis that represents the biggest challenge to the European integration project since its creation after World War II. The very... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
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Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Visit & Contact Us Special Collections Baker Library Search Search Search U.S. Steel Exhibition Shaping the Corporate Image Shaping the Corporate Image: Header Shaping the Corporate Image Shaping the Corporate Image: Intro... 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 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
this first wave of economic fortune tellers: Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C. J. Bullock, and Warren Persons. They thrived in the boom years after World War I, and yet, almost to a man, they... View Details
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
says. “Our goal is simply to backpedal away from this narrative that somehow post World War II, in a world where the current household debt drives everything, everything else... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
learned about foreign intervention and institution-building before World War II," says Maurer, "but the other purpose is to see directly what NATO's strategy looks like on the ground, and how well... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
or those of other states. The national government, which had borrowed huge sums from foreign creditors to fight the long War of Independence, lacked the power to tax its citizens and repay its debts. “It was something of a miracle that... View Details
- 08 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
Shield AI’s unmanned Nova drones are used in war zones around the world. Brandon Tseng calls it “self-driving technology for defense.” The long-distance, 2.8-pound quadcopter drones, running on Shield AI’s Hivemind software, can navigate... View Details
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
From Tunisia to Egypt, Bahrain to Yemen, as a number of nations in North Africa and the Middle East go through cataclysmic changes, the world watches and wonders what the future may hold as myriad protestors risk their lives for... View Details
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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
lived by his word, helping Ipswich soldiers and their families during the Civil War and donating to the Ipswich Female Seminary. While in China, reading became a favorite pastime of Western merchants, and many became known for their... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
boom The Fight Beyond James Holt Green was sent to lead a secret mission in 1944 that the United States thought could end World War II. When the plan fell apart, a new challenge began: survive the Slovakian... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
few months will be working on the Internet sector in Brazil. "Just because the world is becoming more globalized doesn't mean that everything is going to look like Silicon Valley. "I also have a background in venture capital and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
crisis war room, and the speech about resilience. It’s unclear whether social distancing has made people more eager to transact online, or whether it simply demonstrates the limitations of communicating virtually. The historian William... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
can be painfully slow and difficult—and the decade-long surge of refugees and asylum seekers has left staff members scrambling to make timely placements, Paulson says. The war in Ukraine, coupled with ongoing conflicts and instability in... View Details