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16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

Black man who rarely saw protagonists who looked like them in the classroom. These acts may seem small, but nearly 80 percent of business school cases taught around the world are developed at Harvard. If we... View Details

16 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

knowledge, mechanical comprehension, and assembling objects. They were asked to guess their total number of correct answers, as well as how their performance compared to others. A woman who actually had the same score as a View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

in the mid-1950s, ADL called in Philip Donham (MBA '33), a Booz Allen consultant and son of former HBS Dean Wallace Donham, to help ADL determine its own future direction; Donham liked ADL and stayed on with the company. He would later... View Details

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Preface - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

through usury. "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt. . ." and "No man can serve two masters . . . ye cannot serve God and Mammon" 1 form but a part of the Bible's... View Details

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

We tend to think of the moment of insight and creativity in sudden and shocking terms: the bathtub overflowing (Archimedes), the apple beaning off the head (Newton), the bolt View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Mar 2016
News

The New Space Race

leader in technology,” he says. “Somehow, over the years, we had become the nation’s technology broker to outside companies.” The 2011 shuttering of the shuttle program—and its $600 million per launch costs—left them without a... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

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Research in Black and White | Baker Library

earliest Polaroid film, Type 40, produced sepia-toned prints that had limited tonal range. Morse and her lab would next focus on producing black-and-white images that exhibited greater detail, a wider tonal range, and a color palette more familiar and appealing to... View Details

18 May 2017
News

Pioneer Spirit

with the company’s president one day, the man suggested that Ross go to HBS. “It was an unbelievable experience,” Freeman recalls. “Competing against such a talented group of people, at that level, really... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Sep 2016
News

Code name: Miesiąc

dry—contraband in the eyes of Poland’s Communist government, which approved all publications in the country. Maj held his breath as an officer of the Służba Bezpieczeństwa—the secret police—walked by the... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki

27 Oct 2016
News

Paying It Forward

saved the lives of hundreds of children since it was first established nearly 30 years ago. “It’s an amazing story,” says Kundu. “A man named Balaram Karan was working in a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

be derailed, they won’t be retaliated against or have to navigate hostility, they won’t be the ones reassigned to avoid the person victimizing them, and they won’t be forced to be isolated in their organizations.” A man accused View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 May 2022
News

Onboarding

very hard to gain acceptance. And there is research that shows that even today, competence is often presumed when a man joins the board. For women, it’s often a matter of having to demonstrate or prove your... View Details

30 Sep 2016
News

Competing Against Luck

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Welcome to the inaugural episode of Skydeck, the Harvard Business School alumni podcast. I'm Dan Morrell, editor of the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and... View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

To The Rescue

need to seek medical care, although cultural differences still persist. “One man called us in the middle of the night and said, ‘I need a lady now.’ To him, that was an emergency, to us it wasn’t,”... View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Telecommunications; Information

13 Mar 2018
News

Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In 2007, Navy SEAL Marcus Lutrell wrote a book called Lone Survivor, which recounted his experience during a 2005 mission in Northeastern Afghanistan that ultimately claimed the lives View Details

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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

testing of the finished product. Man bagging meat . Deepfreeze Distributors, Inc., Chicago, Illinois Mss: 641 1912 D959 1 album, 23 photographs Deepfreeze Distributors, Inc. was a Chicago-based distributor... View Details

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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

turning the knob of the goggle lenses. Polaroid also produced goggles for military dogs and mules to protect their eyes from debris. In 1944, Life magazine noted that "every U.S. fire-control instrument is equipped with filters and every... View Details

26 Aug 2016
News

Connecting with the Past

we found a birth protocol attached to his marriage banns showing he was born in 1903. It’s impossible to imagine, when this started, we would be called upon to produce proof to certify the oldest man in the world,” says Diamond, who, last... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Aug 1998
News

Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

enthusiasm, high spirits, and intellectual energy. Traveling to Soldiers Field from all over the world, alumni from the Classes of 1928, 1933, 1938, 1943, 1948, 1978, 1983, 1988, and 1993, along with graduates View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

makes sense to many people because they are so influenced by the most spectacular fragments of men's consumption that appear on the popular culture radar: Harley rallies in Sturgis, the Million Man March,... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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