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01 Jun 2004
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something relevant.” In 2000, Nkontchou, a veteran of Andersen Consulting and Merrill Lynch, started LiquidAfrica with $250,000 of his own money and $2.5 million from Modern Africa, a Washington-based private equity fund. Among his goals... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

24 Apr 2014
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Steering a steady course for Argentina's future

Cristiano Rattazzi (MBA 1973), CEO of Fiat Argentina and president of the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, talks about helping to steer a steady course for the country's future. (Published April 2014) View Details

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Digital Marketing Workshop - Course Catalog

based on lectures and custom-built hands-on exercises for HBS students to help build foundational knowledge of the modern tools of digital marketing and analytics. The course was tailored for aspiring entrepreneurs and marketers curious... View Details

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Sky Hopinka Riverside Cahokia 2023 | About

Fellow. His work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Walker Art Center, among others. Hopinka is... View Details

28 Aug 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How can business history influence current practice? What can the work of Joseph Schumpeter tell us about... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo

12 May 2016
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What Ernest Shackleton has in common with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk

Dean Nitin Nohria penned a piece for the Boston Globe magazine that draws parallels between famed Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and modern space entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Reflecting on a recent family trip to... View Details

22 Sep 2015
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Putting Entrepreneurial Skills to Work in City Hall

Now teaching HBS’s first course in “public entrepreneurship,” Professor of Management Practice Mitchell Weiss (MBA 2004) served as chief of staff for late Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, helping lead what the New York Times called “one of the greatest transformations of... View Details

William Levitt

Levitt was a pioneer of fast, affordable housing construction. In many ways, he created the modern suburban landscape. Among other projects, his company built two Levittowns (Long Island and Bucks County) – mass-produced building projects... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

01 Sep 2011
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Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit

Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism, an exhibit in the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, confirms there is still much to learn about railroads, whose scale and complexity spawned modern business’s management model. Recent... View Details

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Rail Transportation; Transportation

William E. Corey

Corey presided over a period of re-investment and modernization for United States Steel. During his tenure, he increased earnings over $20 million from $109 million to $131 million with an asset base of over $1.5 billion – the largest of... View Details

Keywords: Metals

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Introduction - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

and making possible an unparalleled level of commerce. The railroads, unprecedented in size and complexity, became the model on which modern business would be based. While few dispute the transformative nature of the industry, recent... View Details

Donald N. Pritzker

Pritzker assumed management of just one hotel in 1959, but throughout the next 13 years he acquired dozens more throughout the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean, totaling 26 hotels by the time of his death. Under Pritzker's leadership, Hyatt Hotels grew into the upscale,... View Details

Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging

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Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business . Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1977. Full text available as a networked resource. Chandler, Alfred D., ed., The Railroads: Pioneers in Modern Management . New York: Arno Press,... View Details

Erwin C. Uihlein

Though the company was not producing during Prohibition, Uihlein revived it in 1933 and began a huge wave of modernization and expansion. Spending over $100 million to build new facilities and purchase equipment, he increased the... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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Creating Mindful Leaders: How to Power Down, Power Up, and Power Forward

Join Joe Burton (PMD 75, 2000) for a fun and expert peek into mindfulness as the antidote to stress. Attendees will learn practical, actionable techniques to reduce stress, increase resilience, and improve their well-being and performance. View Details

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Matthew Wyble

athletic competition: modern pentathlon, which requires combined mastery of running, swimming, fencing, pistol-shooting, and horsemanship. “Even if you’re good at modern pentathlon, it’s a humbling... View Details

Cyrus H. K. Curtis

Curtis pioneered many tactics that are hallmarks of modern magazine publishing including securing large-scale advertising revenue by building mass circulation through low subscription prices, introducing market research for target... View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

Nelson Doubleday

1947 as the largest publishing house in the nation with annual sales over $30 million. Doubleday was a keen manager who readily terminated unprofitable enterprises and embraced modern advertising techniques and market strategies. View Details