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Making Sense of Past and Present
Throughout my life as a student, from elementary school to undergrad, I was fond of my history classes. I have always been fascinated by how past events shape our present. I read all of my history books in advance, even those of the... View Details
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Andrew Kinard
go next?" Much of that immediate future was occupied by seventy-five surgeries and eighteen months of rehabilitation. While recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, however, a chance encounter opened new possibilities. "I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
drove productivity in the IT sector. These entrepreneurs, and so many others, have fundamentally improved our economy by making goods and services better, cheaper, and more accessible. But can you name any innovators in our bloated,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
high-pitched speaking voice, he made a powerful impression. I next encountered him in March 1944. I was chief of the Third Army’s Test and Inspection Section, and our unit had been ordered overseas. At his headquarters in an elegant estate about 100 miles north of... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
having a hard time getting funded. In fact, only 1 percent of venture capital money was invested in companies run by female CEOs in 2010, the most recent year available according to Dow Jones VentureOne. Not... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library
government addressed the mortgage crisis by infusing funds into U.S. banks and purchasing toxic assets and equity. In 2009, General Motors and the Chrysler Corporation declared bankruptcy. In March of that year, the Dow View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
Working PapersPlatform Envelopment Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To dislodge them, entrants generally... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
there is great uncertainty as to whom the successor should be and how the process of finding a successor should be managed. There is something very wrong with this picture. I would have been surprised by this situation before completing... View Details
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Bankruptcy | Baker Library
private-sector rescue plan for Lehman Brothers. That weekend, Bank of America announced it would acquire Merrill-Lynch. By Monday, September 15, 2008, with no buyer, Lehman Brothers, whose stock had plunged over 90 percent since February... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Here? What It Takes to Create an Authentic Organization by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones (AMP 184) (Harvard Business Review Press) The authors make six key recommendations leaders should follow to transform... View Details
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
assuring price transparency so advertisers know what they're buying. I explain the need for these rights by presenting specific practices causing particular concern. The Decline and Renewal of British Multinational Banking... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
leftover whipped cream I’d made for an apple pie—so I put a little in my iced coffee. Now every morning I say, ‘It’s a pandemic, I can have whipped cream in my coffee.’ ” In the queue: From Scratch, based on a memoir by Tembi Locke with... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
participants attended a variety of talks, panel discussions, and seminars, including sessions led by Professor James L. Heskett and Associate Professor Kathleen L. Valley. A highlight of the conference was the presentation of professional... View Details
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Director’s Foreword | Baker Library
grateful to Paul M. Cohen, Senior Partner, Lehman Brothers, who was instrumental in bringing this collection to Harvard Business School, as well as to the firm’s leaders who agreed to donate these archives in 2002. Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford View Details
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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Motor Co. United Fruit Co. Smaller Collections Yousuf Karsh Portraits Margaret Bourke-White Farm Security Administration 1934 Art and Industry Exhibition Early Aviation Electric Railway Jones & Laughlin Steel 19th-Century Boston Portrait... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
share of the criticism. Patrick Duffy summed up the gist of many other comments by pointing out that "few CEOs want to accept their mortality." Suggestions for improving the process were varied and quite creative. Michelle Malay... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
Sternhell and Oakes on the job. Photos by Jared Leeds One lives in a Manhattan studio five blocks from Wall Street, the other on the second floor of a triple-decker in Jamaica Plain, a culturally diverse neighborhood in Boston. Both are... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 9
hospital, we find support for our hypotheses. Our findings suggest that frontline workers' participation in problem solving is motivated by some inherent characteristics of the problems as well as by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
Paralympics, Golden Age Olympics, Senior Olympics, Junior Olympics, Special Olympics, or HBS Section Olympics. But I did mine the following nuggets about actual HBS Olympic athletes from the HBS Web site and the Harvard College list. The nuggets are arranged below... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9
unavailable at this time. Opening Platforms: When, How and Why? Authors:Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Publication:Chap. 6 in Platforms, Markets and Innovation, edited by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace