by Karen Mills - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

limited-liability firms in China, using the example of the Dasheng cotton mills in Nantong near Shanghai. Dasheng, one of the earliest and most successful industrial enterprises in pre-war China, was founded View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2002
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Steven C. Watson

things.” Until he adjusted to the daily grind of preparing lesson plans and correcting tests and homework, Watson regularly found himself logging ninety-hour workweeks — after taking a 90 percent pay cut from the consulting job he held the previous year. But he has... View Details

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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

1957, Olsen and Anderson submitted a four-page, typewritten business proposal to ARD, followed in May by a nine-page proposal. 43 ARD offered the two entrepreneurs $70,000 in equity financing for a 70 percent share and an additional loan... View Details

12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

Moskowitz, and Annette Vissing-Jørgensen Abstract We provide new evidence on the success of long-run risks in asset pricing by focusing on the risks borne by stockholders. Exploiting micro-level household... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Mar 2024
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OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC

Clubs News Clubs News Demystifying AI at Orange County Leadership Breakfast At its first HBS Leadership Breakfast event since before the pandemic, the HBS Association of Orange County (HBSAOC) tackled the potential of AI with a talk titled The Dawning of Artificial... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 1996
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Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur

Debate: The Business of Business Despite the need to exclude so much material, McCraw believes that the papers presented at the symposium paint a rich portrait of the many "remarkable contributions" to management education made by Dean... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Aug 1998
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Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

which develops and markets pharmaceutical products. Starting at age 10, Bertarelli accompanied his father on business trips. By 17, he was helping to craft the company's annual budgets. He was 29 when he became CEO, just when Fabio... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Dec 1996
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Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

turn triggers the adrenal gland and floods the conscious brain with chemicals. By the time the information reaches the thinking part of the brain, the cortex has been tainted by the prior emotional response.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

22 Feb 2022
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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, KitchenAid, and Maytag in his marketing roles at General View Details

Keywords: April White; manufacturing; life experience; leadership; Black; African American; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

gelatin silver print images taken by Margaret Bourke-White captures industrial settings during the early 19th century. Included are pictures of American factories, mines, foundries, and glassworks. Bourke-White was able to depict... View Details

08 Aug 2018
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Getting Life Back in Balance

Photos by Louise Agnew The day he returned home to Australia from three months in Harvard Business School’s General Management Program, Benjamin Gower (GMP 19, 2015) quit his job as senior vice president of operations for Australian... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

20 Apr 2016
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Steps to Success

Solutions Award from the Women and Gender Constituency. “We have assisted nine villages, and three ‘graduated’ at the end of last year by reaching self-sufficiency. That is really the holy grail of the work,” says Ruhr, who visits the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

technology has enabled the people in that mill to view the entire papermaking process on their computer screens. Now everyone is able to understand what is happening upstream and downstream from where they are. They can also recreate... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jan 2012
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Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952

“Back then, the valley was still mostly apricot and prune orchards. When we saw some promising sign, we’d knock on the door,” says Johnson, who worked in a steel mill after earning his MBA and serving in the Air Force. “We’d tell them... View Details

01 Jan 2005
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Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

sells nearly 2 million vehicles per year in India and other developing countries in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. "Given my family background, I knew I wanted to be a businessman by the time I was about 12," says Bajaj. His... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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Where Conservation Means Business

Photos by Webb Chappell Related Links Who Was George F. Baker? Priscilla Anderson demonstrating photo conservation techniques. Stepping into the workaday world of Priscilla Anderson is like taking a step back in time. While most... View Details

Keywords: Roger thompson

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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Wire, [1956?]. American Steel & Wire. Welcome. New Haven: American Steel & Wire, [1956?]. Labor Practices: Body By 1946, the total number of women employed by U.S. Steel dropped View Details

01 Apr 1999
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New Releases

The Intellectual Venture Capitalist(Harvard Business School Press) In the ninety-year history of Harvard Business School, John McArthur's fifteen-year tenure as Dean is exceeded only by Wallace B. Donham's 23 years at the HBS helm. When... View Details