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  • October 2005
  • Case

General Eisenhower and the D-Day Invasion

Describes the way in which General Dwight D. Eisenhower worked with his commanders, as well as political leaders, to plan the June 1944 D-Day invasion. View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Strategic Planning; Leadership; War
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  • Fall 2022
  • Article

Are the West’s Sanctions on Russia Working?

By: Rawi Abdelal and Alexandra Vacroux
Russia invaded Ukraine, first in 2014 and then again in February 2022. The United States and Europe—the West—imposed waves of sanctions on Russian individuals, firms, and the country itself. Six months into the West’s efforts to isolate Russia, it is reasonable to ask... View Details
Keywords: Russia; Sanctions; War; International Relations; Trade; Russia; Ukraine; Europe; United States
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  • May 29, 2023
  • Article

Putin Wants You to Think He’s an Anti-Woke Crusader

By: Jeremy Friedman
Keywords: Political Elections; War; Conflict and Resolution; Russia; United States; Ukraine
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  • Web

Wartime Schools Collections | Baker Library

Wartime Schools Collections When the United States entered World War II, Harvard Business School (HBS) found its enrollment dropping as men were called to fight overseas. At the same time, the U.S. military was facing an increased need... View Details
  • 08 Nov 2024
  • HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

Walt Disney’s time in Paris during the waning days of World War I helped shape him into a visionary entrepreneur who would ultimately build a beloved international brand. Dwight Eisenhower and Robert McNamara discovered the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation
  • March 2022
  • Supplement

Ukraine: On the Border of Europe and Eurasia (B)

By: Rawi Abdelal, Jonathan Schlefer and Cressida Arkwright
Supplements the (A) case. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 raised questions about democratization and a possible reshaping of the global order. It arose from deep roots in the history of both nations but also turned on contingent decisions by their... View Details
Keywords: Global Order; Social Issues; Government Administration; History; War; Ukraine; Russia
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  • 02 Mar 2023
  • News

A Century of Birthday Candles

resident. “The View From 100” recounts how Duff was 6 years old at the beginning of the Great Depression and just finishing high school when the United States entered World War II. Most of the boys in her class were drafted; not many came... View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 28 Oct 2001
  • What Do You Think?

What Can We Expect in the Other War?

In light of the outset of the war on terrorism, how does this affect what has been called the war for talent? A book by the same name 1 has recently characterized this as an "endless journey" to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

Pearson Hunt

gave me his recording with the instruction: "Don't change a word of it." I never learned if he was pleased with what he saw in print. There was little routine during World War II, when the School hosted a number of programs designed to... View Details
Keywords: Pearson Hunt

    Alfred B. Dick Jr.

    During World War II, under Dick’s direction, approximately 50% of A. B. Dick and Company’s facilities were devoted to war materials production. After the war, Dick launched the 400 series of A. B. Dick... View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
    • Portrait Project

    Matt Brady

    I took my last breath on the side of a mountain, one summer's day in Afghanistan, when my Army helicopter was shot out of the sky. My name, along with 18 other Americans, joined a growing list of casualties from an escalating war on... View Details

      Andrew J. Higgins

      biggest suppliers to the military mobilization effort for World War II. Over 90% of the navy vessels produced during the war were designed by Higgins Industries including most of the landing ships which... View Details
      Keywords: Fabricated Goods
      • 21 Aug 2017
      • News

      The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together

      “It seems to me that we are now economically and socially divided and burdened in ways that are broadly analogous to 1937. During such times, conflicts (both internal and external) increase, populism emerges, democracies are threatened and View Details
      Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
      • Web

      Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

      Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator D uring the 1930s, in addition to his classes at HBS, Doriot taught at the US Army Industrial College where he trained officers in the preparation of adequate military supplies and equipment. At the onset of World View Details
      • 1986
      • Book

      Banking and Empire in Iran

      By: Geoffrey Jones
      This is the first of two volumes of a business history of a major British bank in the Middle East. Volume 1 traces the history of the bank from its foundation in 1889 as The Imperial Bank of Persia, through the years it was the state bank of Iran, and its development... View Details
      Keywords: Banks and Banking; International Relations; Business History; Economic History; Political History; War; Iran; Russia; Great Britain
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      • 01 Apr 2020
      • News

      What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages

      each problem, and their corrective actions were reviewed personally by the secretary of defense. Second, to ensure that crucial items arrived when they were needed, we put together a rapid-resupply system called the Red Ball Express—a name inherited from the famed... View Details
      • 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 War... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace

        Bernard M. Baruch

        Intercontinental Rubber Company. During World War I, Baruch served as Chairman of the War Industries Board, where he helped to facilitate the military preparedness of the nation’s businesses. View Details
        Keywords: Finance
        • Portrait Project

        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 by my young parents who were... View Details
        • 11 Dec 2018
        • Research & Ideas

        Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

        and started World War I, and it all collapsed. As percentages of GDP, we didn’t return to those earlier levels of global capital flows until the 1990s. Global free trade is not the natural order of things. Globalization is a project, and... View Details
        Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation