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- 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
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Award for Teaching Excellence. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the Inaugural Hakan Orbay Research First Prize Award in 2015 for “Resident Networks and Corporate Connections: Evidence from World War II Internment... View Details
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
from the Strategic Management Society. David B. Yoffie : Overall winner of the 2015 Case Centre Awards and Competitions for “Cola Wars Continue: Coke and Pepsi in 2010” with Renee Kim (HBS Case 711-462) and... 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
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners.... View Details
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Wilder House | About
Wilder’s career in Canada stands “as an eloquent expression of just what we hope our graduates can achieve in their communities around the world.” A Toronto native, Wilder served in combat during World War... View Details
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Outdoor Spaces | About
have served their country in times of war and peace. The granite wall is intended to inspire us to reflect on the enduring contributions of veterans and others who have... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
with beating Microsoft. His battle was futile. He left the company as Novell began a long downward slide. The fighter pilot mentality of several U.S. airlines led to a price war in which billions View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
to the medical model–the practices of listening, observing, and testing in which the fields of human relations and organizational behavior are rooted. By telling the history of... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
young woman about to make a splash is, of course, beautiful, very much alive, and inconvenienced by the cement block wired to her leg). By the time he died in 1986, MacDonald had published nearly 500 short stories and 78 books, with sales... View Details
- Research Summary
Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration
The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
Chandler observed. Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. was born in Guyencourt, Delaware, on September 15, 1918. A 1940 graduate of Harvard College, Chandler returned to Harvard after service as a Navy officer in World View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
If women wanted to shake up their makeup regimen 10 years ago, Sephora was the place to go. Beauty product junkies loved Sephora’s candy store-like display of sample-size face creams, glittery lip glosses, and eyeshadows in every shade... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
hospital systems in New York, Chicago, and Boston pledged to confront inequities in hiring, leadership, and patient care. ‘Embedded in the fabric of this country’ Growing up in India, Chandra says, he absorbed a rosy idea View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Edward E. Matthews, MBA 1957
By the time Ed Matthews arrived at HBS in 1955, he was a married Korean War veteran eager to advance his real world education. “As an undergraduate, you learn things from a theoretical perspective,” says Matthews, a graduate View Details
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U.S. Steel | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Depression to the war years to the post-war boom, photography served as a persuasive tool in PR campaigns focused on promoting goodwill and a favorable attitude about policies concerning the corporation’s size, labor practices, and profit... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
resulting void at the center of the business school curriculum eventually caused business educators to take a second look at the discipline of economics. Economics, in the decades prior to World View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
The details differ slightly, but the story, in its telling, is always the same. Ninety or so MBA students sit nervously awaiting the start of their first Marketing class. At the appointed time—not a minute more or less—a slight man with... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance
urged prospective home-buyers to save the entire purchase price before acquiring a home. In practice, however, most home-buyers and home-builders after the Civil War got themselves a mortgage—or three or four. By the 1920s, economists... View Details