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  • 01 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

military enrollment at the onset of World War II. He found that Black people were 90 percent more likely to sign up for military service—potentially putting their lives on the line—in communities with less overt discrimination. “For... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Lehman Brothers Family Partners | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris exhibited 293 pieces from the collection. Robert Lehman’s bequest of over 2,600 works of art to the Metropolitan Museum resulted in the opening of the Lehman Wing in 1975, often referred to as a museum within a museum. Herbert H. Lehman... View Details
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Gallatin Hall | About

Treasury’s accountability. Gallatin set aside revenues to reduce the federal debt and raised internal taxes to help defray the cost of the War of 1812. After his tenure as treasury secretary, he participated in the 1814 peace conference... View Details
  • 15 Aug 2022
  • Book

University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

early Republic, and several became notable national institutions of international repute under the Nationalist government. They educated young Chinese leaders from the back country of Free China during World War II. They survived war,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
  • 19 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?

Democrats (e.g., tax breaks, minimum wage, fuel efficiency) and Republicans (e.g., death tax, border security, war on terror), rating each according to political slant. Zhu and Greenstein then identified some 4,000 articles that appeared... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Publishing
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Aldrich Hall | About

eliminated from the 1920s campus construction for economic reasons, and growing enrollments in the wake of World War II stretched the limits of provisional facilities in Baker and Carpenter Halls. With extensive input from Dean Donald K.... View Details
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

might invite your biggest competitor to follow suit, instigating a costly bidding war. If you lost the war, your company would almost certainly take a hit in the stock market. Even if you won, the bidding war may have driven the price so... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Channels of Influence

Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun & Christopher J. Malloy
  • 2014
  • Book

Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth

By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan
At the time of the American Revolution, China was the strongest, richest, and most powerful civilization in the world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest.... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Leadership; Power and Influence; China
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  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

"I've heard many war stories," says Harvard Business School associate professor Connie Bagley, reflecting on conversations with former students who have started business ventures. To prepare current students for the HBS Business... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Action Plan: Life Study

Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley came to painting a little over a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 18 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

replacing one toxic worker, which is almost double the figure a company gains from hiring a “superstar.” A superstar in the top 1 percent of performers adds $5,303 in increased performance to a company’s profit, Minor’s paper Toxic Workers shows. “Every time you turn... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
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Teele Hall | About

to receive MBAs (1960). Teele, who received the second doctoral degree awarded by HBS in 1933, spent two years in business before joining the HBS faculty in 1935 as an assistant professor of marketing. He became a full professor in 1944. During World View Details
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Greenhill House | About

1953 to 1957. An attorney from Michigan, Humphrey became a leader in the American steel industry as the president of the M.A. Hanna Company and consulted with the US government on industrial initiatives in post-World War II Germany. In... View Details
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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

administered over its trade began to diminish. After the end of the First Opium War in 1842 and subsequent Treaty of Nanking, additional ports were open including the newly formed British colony of hong Kong. By 1843, the Canton trade... View Details
  • April 4, 2009
  • Article

The Return of State-Owned Enterprises: Should We Be Afraid?

By: Aldo Musacchio and Francisco Flores-Macias
The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 has prompted many industrialized states worldwide to increase their stakes in private corporations. This wave of partial nationalizations has come amidst full-scale expropriations in developing countries such as Venezuela,... View Details
Keywords: History; Private Ownership; State Ownership; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Thomas Graeber , Kevin Mohan , Kym Nelson , Julian J. Zlatev Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Livia Alfonsi , Max H. Bazerman , Alex Chan , Jillian Jordan , Michael Norton Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life Alison Wood Brooks Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 View Details
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Dillon House | About

in government. During World War I, Dillon served on the War Industries Board, which coordinated the purchase of war supplies. Dillon’s gift to Harvard Business School honored... View Details
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McCulloch Hall | About

Civil War and provide a stable, national currency. When the measure passed over his objections, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase asked McCulloch to help implement the new system. McCulloch reluctantly agreed, and in 1863, he was... View Details
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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

Civil War represents a marketing revolution in which technology, creativity, and art were marshaled together to serve commercial ends. Drawing from Baker Library’s Historical Collections, The Art of American Advertising, 1865—1910... View Details