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Morris Hall | About
first two senators to represent the state of Pennsylvania. Morris served as superintendent of finance from 1781 to 1784, before the office of Secretary View Details
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
age after World War II, the firm supported established companies like IBM (International Business Machines) as well as emerging enterprises such as DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), which produced a second generation View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
Class of 2022 In 1942, my grandfather, a California-born Japanese American, left his home with two bags in hand. The U.S. was at war with Japan, and wartime fear had led to xenophobic, racist, and baseless... View Details
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
considering cellophane. It’s deliberately transparent, after all. You’re meant to consider whatever it’s wrapping instead. Yet, it turns out that cellophane has a story worth telling. A new research paper exposes the historical significance View Details
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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... View Details
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Cotting House | About
Lee, Higginson & Company. After serving in the Army Air Service during World War I, he returned to the investment firm, where he became a partner. Cotting served as chairman of the board and director from... View Details
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
For more than a century, the long, stately rows of Encyclopædia Britannica have been a fixture on the shelves of many an educated person's home—the smooshed-together diphthong in the first word a symbol... View Details
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Morgan Hall | About
States. Two years later, Morgan was able to underwrite federal bonds to help finance Civil War debt. The firm was reorganized after Drexel’s death and renamed J.P. Morgan & Company in 1895. By 1900, Morgan’s firm was one View Details
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Historical Data & Sources - Business History
Conflict Correlates of War (1820-1990) Department of Peace and Conflict Research (2000) Download Data Set in Excel Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) KKR Firm History Map created by... View Details
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
This opinion piece, first published in the New York Times in August 2005, has been updated by Pankaj Ghemawat for HBS Working Knowledge.Mighty Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, must feel less like a hotbed of retailing and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 13 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion
civilizations when we visited the 600+ year old Changdeokgung and Gyeongbokgung Palaces nestled in the middle of 20-year-old skyscrapers. South Koreans take tremendous pride in their past and it motivates them to build their country... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
war, yet they are not the solely affected. Women, children, communities, the environment all bear the toils of warfare. The Islamic State’s war in Syria was no different. Women’s freedom vanished – they were... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
Europe during World War II. At the end of the war, he returned to Dayton and a job as a sportswriter at the Dayton Journal Herald, where he helped humorist Erma Bombeck get her start at the paper. He earned... View Details
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
actually makes you better.” An idea taking root Despite the success of his firm, Brown had not been immune to brushes with bias. Growing up in a small segregated town in Florida after World War II, Brown... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
Brandon Tseng (MBA 2017) remembers his aha moment. It was April 2015, and Tseng was a US Navy SEAL approaching the end of seven years’ service; his next step would be Harvard Business School. Tseng was reading about a military effort to... View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
of power. In 1938, as the Great Depression was beginning to lift, but war was imminent, many families were struggling, and only 10 percent of engagement rings sold in the... View Details
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Howard E. Cox | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Cox, HBS 1969, started his career in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the summer of 1968 and continued there through 1971. Part of a... View Details
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AASU50 - Alumni
Black Business Leaders Series (HBS Cold Call podcasts) The Road to Zero Wealth (Prosperity Now report, pdf) Racial Progress is Real, But So Is Racist Progress ( New York Times , January 21, 2017) Fighting Racism is Not Just a War View Details