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- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
and philanthropy and executive director of the Mattel Children's Foundation, based in El Segundo, California.) “Business can be the greatest force for good on this planet.” At ExecWB, Goodwin and his team recruit for-profit partners to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 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... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Breakthrough International Negotiation
When the stakes are high - in business, politics, or everyday life - it pays to take a page from the playbook of the world's greatest negotiators. And if you want to learn how to be a world-class negotiator, consider how Richard Holbrooke helped defuse the View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
service academies has influenced how leadership is taught at the School. HBS faculty, students, and alumni with military backgrounds have played important roles in contributing to the transformative nature of the HBS experience. With America at View Details
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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Archival Collections, Baker Library, Harvard Business School Georges F. Doriot Papers, 1921 - 1984 on permanent loan from the French Cultural Center in Boston The papers of Georges F. Doriot includes Doriot's notes, course materials,... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
A: Hamilton really became Hamilton on two occasions: his six years of experience during the War of Independence; and when he was appointed Treasury Secretary in 1789. During the war, it quickly became clear... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
the demands of highly defined and idiosyncratic groups such as “Newly Released Ex-Cons” and “Christian Zionists.” The country may have been built on the idea of individualism, but we have come to expect that it be factored into... View Details
Keywords: Government
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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
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
Above: Drone Racing League Founder and CEO Nick Horbaczewski is having a magic moment. (photo by Jordan Hollender) Drone Racing League (DRL) founder and CEO Nick Horbaczewski (MBA 2008) wants to be clear: He didn’t invent the sport that pits View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Where Innovation Rules
hundreds of cases, HBS students are trained to view every business situation as open to improvement, and therefore an opportunity to build a new or better product or service. HBS alumni even have gone on to create entire industries, such... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
Winners the HBS New Venture Competition don’t rest on their laurels for long—the ink is hardly dry on those prizewinning checks before it’s time to shift to a higher gear. (This year’s cash prizes in the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
No less intense was the off-field rivalry between the world's leading athletic equipment companies. With their dueling events, giveaways, and advertising - and through the on-field heroics of the teams and stars they equip - the companies' ongoing multinational... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
a nurse, took him on visits to local hos-pitals, where he sometimes observed surgeries. After leaving the military in 1997 and before coming to HBS, Sanchez worked as a manager of research and development at Stryker Leibinger, a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 21 Aug 2017
- News
The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together
get. I'm watching how conflict is being handled as a guide, and I'm not encouraged.” In a new essay on LinkedIn, noted hedge fund manager Ray Dalio (MBA 1973) writes that Americans are divided in ways not seen since the Great Depression... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
evident, once again, last summer. The country was mired in the fifth year of a costly, bloody war in the Middle East, a conflict many believed was driven in part by a desire to secure access to Iraq’s petroleum reserves. “Black gold”... View Details
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Schlesinger Library Archives Collections - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
well as volunteer activities; explore the impact of world events (the Depression and World War II); remark on social change (civil rights and affirmative action); and describe the obstacles and... View Details
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Polaroid Films - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
the SX-70 camera, Polavision, and sonar focusing An Invention that Controls Light Edwin Land describes the invention that launched Polaroid The Vectograph Polaroid developed a type of 3-D photography for use in World War II A Simple... View Details
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Kurt White
veterans was not what I expected. Veterans are incredibly well treated at both schools. Even people who are opposed to the politics behind the [Iraq] war are incredibly supportive.” Books, comic and .com In his first summer break, Kurt... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of a Distinguished Service honoree. In 1961,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
aftermath of World War I, the Great Depression, and the beginning of World War II. In this turbulent era, he developed a distinctive focus and pedagogy that helped define business as a profession and grew a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg