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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
the Cold War as “the end of history,” he was one of many who promoted what I consider to be a mistaken notion: that capitalism and democracy would triumph globally, and that it was only a matter of time... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
The Nature of Change
School are much different now, Kester observes, yet the Class of 1949 entered a period of uncertainty, characterized by the Cold War and nuclear proliferation, that is not unlike the current anxieties... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
and two other amazing, true stories NEW Hotel Scarface by Roben Farzad “There’s so much unresolved about Miami’s cocaine coming-of-age. I found the address where the Cold War crashed into the View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
war’s progress? In matters of the human spirit, numbers could be deceiving. After teaching accounting and control for three years at HBS, McNamara became a War Department consultant and later was inducted into the U.S. Army Air Corps. In... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Editor’s Note The December issue’s “Last Look” photo generated several richly detailed e-mails that appear below. Cold in the Wintertime I know the “Last Look” scene well, having lived at Harvard Way Extension from the summer of 1946... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
Thailand, India, Poland, and Argentina, even if there is a one- or two-year setback, there will be growth," he declares. For a man who rightly saw the potential in a town that looked like a Cold War relic,... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
Snook: Our world changed in 1989. The Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union collapsed. Almost fifty years of living in a bipolar world had shaped a very strong and static sense of professional identity built around a Cold View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World by Jeremy Friedman (University of North Carolina Press) The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in... View Details
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
The most captivating item in Michael Norton's office is a Star Wars The Force Trainer, a toy that allows would-be Jedi warriors to levitate a Ping-Pong ball within a tube using only the power of focused thinking. Norton, a marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
IFC: Ghana; Africa Rising - Course Catalog
working with other young Africans. We will reflect on a changing international environment marked by COVID, the decline of globalization, an oncoming global recession and a new Cold war ignited by the... View Details
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Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent - Course Catalog
does the rise of China mean for Africa ? Are we seeing a new cold war emerging in the Sahelian region. What impact will demographics have on Africa's place in the world. We will deal old industries like... View Details
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
economic and geopolitical scenarios. As an example, this book takes as a starting point the breakdown of old alliances caused by the end of the Cold War, and projects how the world will look in terms of alliances in 2010, 2015, and 2020.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Friedman devotes his research to the history of the Left and its struggle to end economic and social inequality. He studies how this struggle evolved, its various cultural contexts, and what paths have been tried and rejected. He is an expert on Russia, China, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
today, Levitt’s article caused a minor sensation when it first appeared. Apart from its insightful specifics, its language (“globalization” was a novel term) and expansive vision offered a hopeful alternative to the grim reality of a world economy locked down in an... View Details
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
Spring 2018 Journal of Cold War Studies The Enemy of My Enemy: The Soviet Union, East Germany, and the Iranian Tudeh Party's Support for Ayatollah Khomeini By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—This article examines... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
2015 Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
opportunities. “The legacy of the Cold War, governance issues, and the need to maintain stable political regimes and economies represent challenges in the region,” he explains. “Countries like Peru have done a good job over the past 20... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
that Carson wrote “not as a scientist, but as a fanatic defender of the cult of the balance of nature.” Invoking Cold War language, Louis McLean, general counsel for Velsicol Chemical Company, suggested that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
uses were bound by age-old religious and cultural beliefs. Yet somehow these delicate flora became the foundation of a global industry made strong by a century of virtually uninterrupted growth that not even economic meltdowns and world View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
genocidal Nazi ideology, it was not doomed from the start. Rather it represented Hitler’s best chance to achieve his war aims for Germany. In Ellman’s recounting, Barbarossa did not fail because of flaws in the Axis invasion strategy, the... View Details