War on Terror - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2002
News

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

02 Apr 2019
News

Remembering William Wilder

William Wilder William Wilder William P. Wilder (MBA 1950), a steadfast HBS supporter and the namesake of Wilder House, passed away in Toronto on March 23 at the age of 96. A prominent business leader and philanthropist, Bill Wilder was a... View Details

10 Mar 2017
News

The Business of Lego Batman

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Lin (MBA 1999) is the Hollywood producer behind the hit films Sherlock Holmes, Gangster Squad, and the Lego Movie. Lin’s most recent... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

Victor Emanuel

During World War II, Emanuel produced all types of military aircraft, including giant bombers, aircraft carriers, and cruisers. After the war, Emanuel led the conversion of AVCO from a producer of aircraft and heavy goods to a... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

Paul V. Galvin

Creating the Motorola car radio, Galvin emerged as the premier producer of car radios in the 1930s. Galvin also invented the walkie-talkie, producing some 40,000 during World War II. In 1947, Galvin introduced the first practical... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Samuel M. Vauclain

States and its World War I allies, including Russia, France and Britain. Combining his vision for Baldwin with his support of post-war rehabilitation in Europe, Vauclain expanded Baldwin into 12 countries, allowing it to become View Details

Keywords: Transportation

01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

was soon known to everybody. He knew exactly how to capitalize on all these contacts. With his subsequent War Production Board service, he soon became the number one go-to man... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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 Dec 1999
News

A Class Act

Class of 1925 February 1940 The first known casualty among the alumni of the Business School during the present war was Lt. Claus von Bohlen und Halbach, son of the head of the Krupp works in Essen, Germany. He was an aviator in the... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

Jules S. Bache

Bache took over his uncle’s brokerage business and built it into one of the premier financial services firms in the early decades of the twentieth century. His operation helped to facilitate the reorganization of the American Spirits... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Sep 2008
News

Raiffa Honored for Life’s Work in Decision Analysis

mathematician by training, Raiffa was an originator of the decision tree and did extensive research on negotiations and choice-making in complex and ambiguous situations. Raiffa was an adviser to the Kennedy and Johnson administrations... View Details

Keywords: awards; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

27 Mar 2014
News

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

01 Mar 2017
News

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

06 Apr 2016
What Do You Think?

As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?

Summing Up--Is Product Security A Potential Distraction for Apple’s Leadership? The saga of Apple’s stand-off with the United States government over the Company’s refusal to assist the FBI in hacking its own iPhone product to aid in a domestic View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

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

Ward Melville

After mass-producing shoes for soldiers in World War I, Melville and an associate opened Thom McAn’s in New York as a low cost, high quality shoe retailer. The chain eventually encompassed over 1,200 stores. With Thom McAn’s as its anchor... View Details

Keywords: Retail

Francis C. Brown

Schering, a German company, was one of the first to be seized by the United States during World War II under the Alien Property Custodian Act. Accepting what he thought was a temporary post, Brown built... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

01 Jun 2000
News

Professors Fox, Mace Remembered

He later took on similar responsibilities in the Pacific until the war ended. In 1946, Mace returned to HBS and one year later created what was probably the first course in... View Details

William L. Stewart

Assuming control of Union Oil from his father, William Stewart’s first task was to repair the company’s finances, which had suffered under his father’s huge waves of expansion. Stewart accomplished this without problems and guided Union to profitability, capitalizing... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

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