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- 07 Nov 2018
- News
A Market-Based Approach to Solving the World’s Water Crisis
Jennifer Tisdel Schorsch (MBA 1992) is president of Water.org, a Kansas City–based nonprofit dedicated to bringing safe water and sanitation to the world through market-driven initiatives. In this interview she discusses the way the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Martin V. Marshall Remembered
urging of his first wife, Rosanne Borden (HRPBA ’52), spearheaded the effort in the early 1960s to open the two-year MBA Program to women. Martin Vivan Marshall was born on July 22, 1922, in Kansas City, Missouri. He would later say that... View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
have many entrepreneurial friends in traditional industries here in the Kansas City area. Indeed, I believe there are many entrepreneurial opportunities in the Midwest and Southwest but because they're related to industries such as grain,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Benjamin (MBA 1969) Kansas City, MO Cities and Climate Change Thank you for the article “The City Solution” in the September Bulletin. Work like this gets people thinking more about the critical challenges we face. It’s up to cities... View Details
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Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies & Personal Papers - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
the transcontinental railroad in the United States and in promoting the development of the Pacific Northwest. In the 1860s, Villard acted as the liaison between German investors and American railroad companies. Materials in this extensive collection relate to the View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
Romney's (MBA '74) 1994 U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts. Scott recently became one of ten recipients of a national, postgraduate internship awarded by the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, which will allow her to spend two years... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
HBS, A Dream and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise
great school, period.However, my luck in choosing Kansas doesn’t mean my time as a collegiate student-athlete was easy. Far from it. Did you know that the average Division I athlete spends nearly 40 hours per week on athletic commitments?... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
Download Carroll profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1956 Born, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1978 Earns BS, Geology, Skidmore College 1982 Earns MS, Geology, University of Kansas 1982 Joins Amoco Production... View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
Fieldhouse with thousands of people waiting for you to fail. So when she returned to the University of Kansas for a reunion in 2014, Feickert expected to hear similar stories of success from her teammates and other friends who had been... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
English and German contain information on the crises of 1873 and 1893. Firms mentioned frequently include the Kansas & Pacific, Northern Pacific, and Wisconsin Central Railroads, and a number of Oregon firms. Deutsch Bank, Siemens &... View Details
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
Soybean Association or the Kansas Corn Growers Association, which have the power to judge whether the GMOs are performing as intended without side effects. While these groups might have some industry members, they are separate from the... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
opportunities to connect the HBS and HLS alumnae communities in NJ.” KC Club Speaker Series Features Hallquist; Brings Alumni Together In her recent talk, “From Hallmark to Harvard, to High Schools,” hosted on April 26 by the HBS Club of View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
chances. "Moviegoing is embedded in the American social fabric," he says during a conversation at AMC's Theatre Support Center (the company's corporate headquarters) in Leawood, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. "We provide the... View Details
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
Vermont may not be that important to a senator in Kansas, where there are fewer forests," Cohen explains. "If they can do some kind of vote trading between them on that logging bill, then the Vermont senator can do the Kansas senator a... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
duties." 7 From the beginning, Doriot connected the worlds of education and business. He believed teaching business administration should be based on the realities of running a company rather than academic theories. He drew from his own work as director of numerous... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
duties." 7 From the beginning, Doriot connected the worlds of education and business. He believed teaching business administration should be based on the realities of running a company rather than academic theories. He drew from his own work as director of numerous... View Details
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
and darmody1 nominated Alan Mulally as a candidate. Mulally completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Kansas and an SM degree from the Sloan Program at MIT. FAQ proposed Marc Benioff of Salesforce and Satya Nadella of... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
of Kansas City) The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet as a Financial-Stability Tool By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—We argue that the Federal Reserve should use its balance sheet to help reduce a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Harvard Business School
worked in Kansas City, Missouri where he oversaw an experimental summer project for Gordon T. Beaham III (HBS '58). The project, Black Light, Inc., produced comic strips for a television cartoon series marketed for Black children. 16... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
complements 609-043, "Intel NBI: Intel Corporation's New Business Initiatives," and 609-102, "Intel NBI: Intel Corporation's New Business Initiatives (B)." It is one of the failed ventures cited in those cases. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace