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R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

[credit] & standing believed safely worth from 400 to 500m$ [$400,000 - $500,000]. Consid [Considered] good 504.500.5046. Have been many years in bus. [business] in Montgomery Ala. [Alabama] & here some years. The elder brother being of Lehman & Frest [sic]: Liberty... View Details

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Jeff Nelson

Since his undergraduate days at Cornell, housing has been a major theme in Jeff Nelson’s career. As a college student, he volunteered for Habitat for Humanity, building houses in the upstate New York communities near his campus, and in... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)

Born in Vienna, Austria, Edgar Koerner grew up in New Orleans and New York. A former partner at Kuhn Loeb and managing director at Lehman Brothers, he has for many years been... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance

October 2016 (Revised November 2016)
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Innovating Beyond Ochsner

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Olivia Hull

The Ochsner Health System has developed a proprietary software tool designed to treat hypertension. Built into the system’s electronic medical records, the Hypertension Digital Medicine program allows patients to record their blood pressure at home and share readings... View Details

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Carter Romansky

on leadership through his involvement with Habitat for Humanity on the January New Orleans Service immersion. A self-described "un-handy man," Carter was initially intimidated by his lack of... View Details

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Tiera Brown

help a social-justice organization, Appleseed, grow its Massachusetts office. In the New Orleans immersion, she led a team of six that consulted with Neighborhood Housing Services. "They had been in the... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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A Wide Screen Approach

of Michelle Wilson) Michelle Wilson (MBA 1992), Co-President, WWE (photo courtesy of Michelle Wilson) While the Superdome in New Orleans was hosting WWE’s WrestleMania 30 in April 2014, Michelle Wilson sat... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes

Sustaining a Successful Enterprise course via the OpenIDEO platform to write “The Capitalist’s Dilemma,” published in Harvard Business Review Illustration by Theispot “It’s a steamy summer night in New View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; faculty research; faculty books

06 Dec 2004
What Do You Think?

Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?

Article Two years ago I participated in a disaster drill at Southwest Airlines. It was a simulation of a Southwest plane crash at the New Orleans airport. As part of the exercise, I boarded a plane in Dallas... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007

D’Avella arrived at HBS just a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina had devastated much of the Gulf Coast. In January 2006, he traveled to New Orleans on a student-led trek with 56 other MBAs to apply their HBS... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

01 Oct 2000
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The Class of 1975 in Review

more or less predictable, categories: The Young and Foolish. George W. Bush, we did know each other, but I have to say I never saw you do anything foolish.I can't say as much about the person in our class — who shall remain nameless — who skipped out for a few days to... View Details

Keywords: J. Hans Stumm

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Leading Change

anywhere. A little serendipity, a passion for making a difference, and degrees in computer science, math, and engineering (plus his MBA) brought him to this point. After HBS, Khan was working as a hedge fund analyst in Boston when a young cousin living in View Details

01 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'

first head coaching job in 2006 with the New Orleans Saints, and won the Associated Press NFL Coach of the Year award that year; Chuck Noll, who took his first head coach job with the Pittsburgh Steelers in... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

have described as characteristic of the modern neo-liberal regime. 2013 pub Fashioning an Industry: Socio-cognitive Processes in the Construction of Worth of a New Industry By: Khaire, Mukti Abstract—This study of the high-end fashion... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

05 Apr 2018
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A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art

Solitary,” a traveling exhibition of African-American abstract art that opened at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans in fall 2017. Now on view at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

09 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

Enterprise Community Partners must determine whether to rebuild the Lafitte housing projects in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans and, if so, how to mitigate the risks. Set in January 2007, more than a year... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Mar 2016
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On Credit

Decoded A detailed breakdown of a report from the R.G. Dun & Co. Collection Should you sell lace on credit, for example, to Henrietta Bruckman & Co., a milliner at 403 6th Avenue in New York City? Here’s the scoop: “The extent of her... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

15 Aug 2019
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The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS

Orleans after graduating from Princeton. While pursuing her degree, Hurricane Katrina hit and she decided to take a service trip to New Orleans—motivated to provide future generations of children with access... View Details

05 May 2022
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Lesson Plans

accidental, as Khan relates in his TED Talk from 2011. TED Talk: I was an analyst at a hedge fund and I was in Boston and I was tutoring my cousins in New Orleans remotely. And I started putting the first... View Details

23 Oct 2018
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Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart

and go to places like Detroit and New Orleans and rural Montana and see what was happening and see if we could use our education not just to make a buck but to make a difference. Everybody thought we were... View Details

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