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- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
and the brightest our country had to offer, they really weren’t going into the hamlets and towns where the war was being waged and were losing the hearts and minds. Halberstam claimed that the problem lay in what he called hubris, which... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
of the Boston area who graduated from West Point in 1943, McDermott became a fighter-bomber pilot in World War II. He then served on General Dwight D. Eisenhower's staff before being sent to HBS to learn the management skills needed to... View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
development, patents, sales, personnel, mass production, and marketing would serve him well in his subsequent breakthrough with instant photography. But in the early 1940s, the research and manufacturing efforts of the Polaroid Corporation would turn toward the View Details
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
If Google is forced to exit China, will it be a blow financially? A: I don't think so, although they were looking to make progress in China with other lines of business, such as the Android mobile phone platform. Q: Do you think Google has at least won the PR View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
war, yet they are not the solely affected. Women, children, communities, the environment all bear the toils of warfare. The Islamic State’s war in Syria was no different. Women’s freedom vanished – they were subjected to the strictest of... View Details
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The Case Method Classroom | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
building dedicated solely for classroom use. Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr. funded the construction in honor of his father-in-law, Nelson W. Aldrich, Senator from Rhode Island and chairman of the National Monetary Commission and the Federal Reserve. View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
some argue that the process could actually shift into reverse, toward even greater economic isolation, if the experience between the two World Wars is any precedent. Whatever the ultimate direction, though, the differences that make... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
to move into palm oil—a much more capital intensive crop to process, with higher barriers to entry for small farmers. Geopolitical forces also played a part in the palm oil industry’s development, Giacomin says. After World War II,... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Inaugural Hakan Orbay Research First Prize Award in 2015 for “Resident Networks and Corporate Connections: Evidence from World War II Internment Camps” with Umit Gurun and Christopher Malloy ( Journal of Finance , 2017). Thomas R.... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
military matériel at factories in upstate New York. World War II carried MacDonald to India in 1943, and then to Burma, Ceylon, and China as an OSS ordnance officer. To pass the time, and since regular letters were heavily censored, he... View Details
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Truelove, and Kent Linebeck ( Harvard Business Review , June 2014). The prize was established by Harvard Business Review and the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. Summer R. Jackson : Selected for the Fleet Seminar Fellowship, Naval View Details
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
Auschwitz, and other members of his (and his wife's) extended family lost their lives in the Holocaust and because of the fighting in World War II. In 1944 and especially early in 1945, young Andy was a hunted child. Life under the... 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 of dollars were lost. Even in small... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
economic times. The Great Depression, for example, spawned many of the great underdog stories in history: In 1938, Seabiscuit, the little horse that nobody wanted, beat the likely winner War Admiral and became a symbol and inspiration for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
Class of 2022 In 1942, my grandfather, a California-born Japanese American, left his home with two bags in hand. The U.S. was at war with Japan, and wartime fear had led to xenophobic, racist, and baseless claims that all Americans were... View Details
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Harvard Business School
of Boston who served in World War II, Herb Lyken became a professor of Finance and Accounting at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and taught for 15 years. He was also a founder and board member of the Unity Bank and Trust in... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
and lively debrief, while uncovering valuable lessons in strategy and risk-analysis along the way. Beijing and Moscow: Unlimited Friendship or Unrequited Romance? Professor Jeremy Friedman No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info Instead of the... View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
order. In fifth grade, he and the late humorist Erma Bombeck started a school newspaper; in high school and later, after serving in World War II, Levitt worked as a reporter and sportswriter for the Dayton Journal Herald, where he helped... View Details
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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