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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
and valuable experience to be right there." But being "right there" last summer meant being in a region rife with political and social unrest. It is widely believed that Liberian president Charles Taylor has been supporting Revolutionary... View Details
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Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies & Personal Papers - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
also contains material gathered by Charles E. Ames in researching his 1969 book Pioneering the Union Pacific , including reading notes, family scrapbooks, account books, and copies of pamphlets and documents... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
hear from administrators and faculty about current School initiatives as well as to work in committees on issues that are relevant to alumni connectedness. This year, the Board has identified three specific areas for committee work. Marketing to HBS Alumni Chaired... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
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Emerging Research on Emerging Markets
Is significant foreign direct investment in China a good thing? Conventional wisdom says yes, but HBS associate professor Yasheng Huang disagrees. "Large-scale absorption of foreign direct investment by China is not a sign of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Katherine Switz (MBA 2000)
(photo by Michael Hanson) I had a psychotic break in late fall of my second year at HBS. I thought I was Jesus, that I could walk on the Charles and baptize people. I was at McLean over winter break, and the... View Details
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The Gift - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
School’s higher mission, as set out by President Charles Eliot and HBS Deans Gay and Donham. 11 “The methods of the Harvard Business School fell in with the results of [Baker’s] great experience and his firm... View Details
- 12 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Lawrence Summers on Market Capitalism’s Historic Opportunity
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Speaker: Lawrence H. Summers, Director of the White House National Economic... View Details
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Introduction - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
student population. With the support of New York banker George F. Baker and the guidance of HBS Dean Wallace B. Donham, construction of the neo-Georgian campus, designed by McKim, Mead & White and located on the banks of the View Details
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Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen - Coin and Conscience
and Law fled the country in disgrace. 65 James Edouard de Rothschild (1844–81) view image Engraving and drypoint by Daniel Charles Mordant (1853–1914). [Paris], Impr. Ch. Chardon, [187–?]. 31.5 x 25 cm,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
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Transforming the IRS
Rossotti Courtesy HBS Press When Charles O. Rossotti (MBA ’64) was appointed commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in 1997, it was the most feared and loathed of all federal government agencies. People told him that he was taking... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference
Current issues in health care; ranging from finance and patients' rights to genomics and personalized medicine; were among the subjects discussed last November at the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association's second annual conference. Held on campus and at the View Details
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Map & Directions | About
North Harvard Street and Western Avenue. Directions by Rapid Transit Coming by MBTA, take the Red Line to Harvard Square. John F. Kennedy Street runs through the center of Harvard Square. Walk south on John... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
1973) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) The Self-Made Billionaire Effect: How Extreme Producers Create Massive Value by John Sviokla (MBA 1983) and Mitch Cohen (Portfolio) Looking at self-made... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
“sell their souls.” Albion helps MBA students give themselves “permission” to be who they really want to be. The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs by Charles D. Ellis (MBA ’63) (Penguin Press) Now a... View Details
- 25 Apr 2012
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How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
of direct process control in which decisions have to be made "in the flow" in situations where there isn't time for conventional analysis (at least by humans). Is this a glimpse into the future of decision-making (without analysis... View Details
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The Competition - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
combined but that the beauty of surroundings actually possess[es] a utilitarian value. The Harvard Business School should be able by its structure to embody this truth for many who otherwise would fail to grasp it.” The New York Times,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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Alumni Book Briefs
good accounting professional? Is altruism inherent in accountancy as a profession? Charles P. Berolzheimer: Teacher, Linguist, Traveler, Scientist by Junius Rochester (PMD 34, 1977) (Tommie Press) This is a... View Details
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Politics and War - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Foreign Secretary Charles James Fox's bill to replace the directors of the East India Company with seven commissioners. Supporters of the bill hoped it would rid the Company of the directors' treachery and corruption in India. It was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Books: Judo Strategy
by David B. Yoffie and Mary Kwak Harvard Business School Press By mastering the principles of movement, balance, and leverage, practitioners of judo, a centuries-old martial art, learn to overcome more... View Details
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Research Links - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Boston Sunday Post , June 15, 1921. Bunting, Bainbridge. Completed and edited by Margaret Henderson Floyd. Harvard: An Architectural History . Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985. Copeland, Melvin Thomas. And Mark... View Details