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John R. Simplot
Investing in businesses that ranged from cattle to potatoes to fertilizer, Simplot used his talent at achieving efficiency and at spotting a growing market to garner enormous profits. Simplot capitalized on the Army’s World View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Martin W. Clement
When Clement took the helm at Pennsylvania Railroad in 1935, the largest railway network in the world, operating revenues were $368 million. Clement grew revenues to a peak of over $1 billion in 1944. One of Clement’s major achievements,... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 01 Jun 2002
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HBS Vets Support Homeless Comrades
eighty hours while homeless veterans have to endure the elements every single day," said one AFAA member. In the shadow of Spangler: "We're out there for only eighty hours while homeless veterans have to endure the elements every single... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
Samuel F. Hinkle
Starting as a chemist with Hershey, Hinkle played a prominent role in the development of Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup, Krackel, Mr. Goodbar and fortified chocolate bars issued as K, C, and D rations during World War II. As CEO, Hinkle put... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Bernard F. Gimbel
and Milwaukee, Gimbel ran Saks Fifth Avenue stores in New York, Chicago, Detroit and Beverly Hills. During World War II, Gimbel earned huge profits on scarce consumer goods, which he had purchased earlier at... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons in perseverance lead to high-quality schools for Peru
war that killed 70,000 Peruvians. At a time of political and economic stability, Deza attended HBS while trying to choose between two growth strategies. “I’m an educator first,” she says. “I didn’t know I could do business.” Today, her... View Details
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Zuriel Chavez
I keep a pair of World War II Naval dog tags framed in my living room. They are stamped with the name “James P. Lapp” and represent the impact one man can make. In April 1985, I was carried to this country... View Details
Peter F. Hurst
In 1940, Hurst, an engineer by training, invented two new products that were critical to the growing aviation industry – detachable, reusable hose fittings and self-sealing couplings. As aviation took hold during World War II, these... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
and altitude in a laboratory that included a climatic room, altitude chamber, and treadmills. The Lab made over 150 recommendations concerning clothing, nutrition, and survival gear to the War Department. View Details
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Louis-Philippe, "King of the French" - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
f26 xx Louis-Philippe is pictured jumping over the Channel from France to England. The title is a play on words, which can be read "the big leap" or "the big fool." Previous – Politics and War Next –... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
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Getting Security Right
on emerging geopolitical and economic trends, and on vital lessons from military history. You argue that it is not the war in Iraq or Islamic extremists who pose the greatest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
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Faculty Research Online
who bid on everything from chips to consultants, should be wary in bidding wars of the consequences of competitive arousal and of wanting to win at any cost. View Details
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Training Course in Personnel Administration: 1937 - 1944 | Baker Library
increasingly focused on jobs in the war effort. "The war has created an unprecedented demand for trained personnel workers," the 1943-1944 course catalogue noted. "It therefore... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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Another First
of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the Air Force Academy, she said she plans to build on programs implemented by her predecessor to deal with sexual harassment and allegations of religious intolerance. View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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The Realities of the Refugee Crisis
to work. What’s unusual about flows that come out of war settings is the refugees are mostly there to get away from a war, not to find a job. KF: In our survey, we asked about people’s professions in Syria. The number View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Jul 2021
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Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
session over a week in June, where they were matched one-to-one with seven HBS alumni mentors for guidance on strategy, problem-solving, and more. The club designed the War Room series to allow HBS alumni to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Management Training Program: 1945 - 1955 | Baker Library
Management Training Program: 1945 - 1955 Management Training Program assignment guidelines for report on field work, 1948. Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Records. Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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Ink
Robert Galford (MBA 1976), Cary Greene (MBA 1994), and Bob Frisch. The book is based on the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, which the Office of Strategic Services, precursor to the CIA, issued in 1944 to help European resisters introduce... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
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Letters to the Editor
new car after World War II, and no cars were produced during the war, so all of these vehicles had to be kept in repair until about 1948, when the new ones were more available. I do not know when these... View Details
- 27 Mar 2014
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From Marx to Marketing
Enterprises were over, and was very sorry about that," he recalls. "But that was superseded by my elation that East German people would be freed from the horrible yoke and terror of the Soviet system." For its part, as the world's leading... View Details