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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
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
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
platforms, and hybrid platforms. We suggest that the world is moving towards more and more hybrids, and we identify the key steps in building a successful platform. 3) Failure is more likely than winner-take-all: mispricing, mistrust,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?
With China hosting the Summer Olympic Games starting this week, some reformers see an opportunity to use the world stage as a platform to pressure the country's leadership into expanding social freedoms. Judging by recent news, they don't... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
could finally afford to buy their domiciles. The definition of home shifted. A home became an anchor, a stake in the community. Veterans from World War II seized upon the FHA and VA mortgages to sink roots... View Details
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Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog
Independent Project are encouraged to reach out to Prof. Kirby at term start. By 2035 China will be the largest economy in the world and an innovation superpower. Engagement with China—as entrepreneurs, investors, or partners—is part of... View Details
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
huge role, even in highly market-oriented economies like America's. There was nothing natural about the creation of the United States' strength in science-based industries. Government policy played a critical role. After World View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
sitting next to him: Allen Carpé. Carpé was a World War I veteran and an accomplished research engineer with Bell Telephone Laboratories whose exploits included the stormy first ascent of Mount Logan,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
to the game." Sender was born and raised in Bom Retiro, a Jewish immigrant community in central São Paulo, the second of four children. Her grandparents, Polish and Russian Jews, fled Europe at the outset of World View Details
- Blog
Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs
situations occurring at our jobs to bring the discussion full circle. TF: Harvard is obviously known for the case method, creating Socratic magic in the classroom, and the world has adopted their case method concept. Moving this to the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
Nobody had told us, but the war was on. The Iraqis certainly knew. As we worked frantically through the night, we came under mortar and heavy machine-gun fire. Forced to withdraw, we scrambled to gather reinforcements, re-attacked, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
MacArthur's tremendous success in rebuilding Japan after World War II. As the supreme commander for the Allied Powers, he was charged with transforming a defeated, militarist empire into a beacon of peace... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
1934. His mother died when he was four, after giving birth to his brother, and his father was killed by the Nazis as an active underground opponent at the end of World War II. Raised by his stepmother,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
celebration, considering Kettle Cuisine's long and bumpy road to profitability. The son of a Polish Jew who fought in the British army during World War II and who later became the owner of a scissors and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
status markers. Religion as a social marker was supplanted by education after World War II. The GI Bill expanded access to higher education to a much more diverse social class. Until midcentury, a college... View Details
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
like other Marwari, were traders who after World War I transitioned into manufacturing, including sugar manufacturing and steel rolling. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/807028-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
University, preceded by three years at sea on destroyers. I knew a lot about the Victory at Sea television series on World War II, and nearly as much about hunting submarines from a tossing destroyer in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
the years immediately after World War I, the School’s other ventures into publishing had been generally less successful. McArthur believed that publishing was critical to HBS for two reasons: the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
workplace. Who is likely to become a leader — and why? Legendary leadership expert Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas's Geeks & Geezers: How Era, Values, and Defining Moments Shape Leaders studies today's young leaders and those of the 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