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- 19 Nov 2019
- News
Lessons from IBM in Nazi Germany
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
FamilySearch, is the repository for more than 5 billion pages of freely available digitized genealogical records from some 100 countries—the cornerstone of nearly all American and European family research. Though it was originally... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Burden Legacy
MBA 1988) and Flobelle (Burden) Davis (AB 1991). At the time it was built, Burden Hall was the largest auditorium at Harvard University, with a capacity of nearly 800 and the only place on campus that could hold an entire MBA class. Designed by the View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 12 Feb 2024
- News
Dale LeFebvre to Receive Horatio Alger Award
Dale LeFebvre (MBA 1998), founder and executive chairman of 3.5.7.11 Investments, was recently named by the nonprofit Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans as a recipient of the 2024 Horatio Alger Award. For more than 75 years, the award has been... View Details
- 28 Mar 2024
- News
Rooms with a View
Alexander Mirza (MBA 1997) has spent two decades in the hospitality industry, opening and growing major hotel brands, including Hilton, Starwood, and Caesars, with locations around the world. And with each new project, Mirza faced the same primary challenge. “It didn’t... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
The Musts of 2023
I read, every day, Heather Cox Richardson's Letter from an American. She's a professor of history who places current events in the context of our American history and she's... View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
age of 88. Chandler was perhaps best known for his book The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1978. In it, Chandler argued that... 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
- 09 Feb 2021
- News
Investing in Entrepreneurship
Courtesy Peter and Missy Crisp Courtesy Peter and Missy Crisp Peter O. Crisp (MBA 1960), a pioneering venture capitalist and philanthropist, is known for his firm’s investments in companies that have become household names: Intel, Apple, View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
invented. Now, the average American adult is inundated with digital messages each day. With all this correspondence, capturing a busy reader’s attention is more challenging than ever. Faculty Books How the Harvard Business School Changed... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
practice.) It’s not just Berman’s own history and hope for the future success of children that motivates him—he notes that there is real science behind his belief. In 2000, for example, researchers found that 120 hours of chess... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
city’s darkest days, during the drug and murder epidemics of the late 1980s and early 1990s. When Mayor Marion Barry was busted in an FBI sting for smoking crack in 1990, Dixon’s mother, Sharon Pratt, won the election to replace him, becoming the first black woman to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
teaches Business, Government, and the International Economy in the MBA Program, cites several periods in history when excess capacity has been blamed for economic upheaval. Emmons says that "accurate business forecasting is never really... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
grueling journey to America has fueled Feigin’s lifelong resolve to dream big, work hard, and never quit. Rediscovering Turtle Island: A First Peoples’ Account of the Sacred Geography of America By Taylor Keen (MBA 1997) Bear & Company While Western accounts of North... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
bond is practical, based on sustenance, but also spiritual: In Native American cosmology, Mother Corn—Selu in Cherokee—is the first woman. After well over a decade in business, Keen found a new calling. It’s an epic View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
a Baker Scholar), he never envisioned a future in academia. It did not take long for his plans to change. "During spring semester of my first year, I reflected on what I had seen in the classroom," says Wasserman, who arrived at HBS with five years of experience at... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
economic miracle (1920s); cars in the second (post-World War II) Convenience Store Retailing in Two Countries: Southland and Seven-Eleven Japan How Japanese managers learned from their American counterparts, then taught the teachers The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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