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01 Jun 2011
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Who Was George F. Baker?

whose $5 million gift funded construction of Harvard Business School, continued to jealously guard his near anonymity. In a rare 1923 interview, he told a reporter, “Business men of America should reduce their talk two-thirds.” Pausing,... View Details

Keywords: Finance

28 May 2020
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How to Fit in at HBS

We immigrated from Colombia in the late 90s and lived the first decade of our American lives as undocumented immigrants after various attempts to adjust our immigration status failed. We joined the many first-generation immigrants who are the View Details

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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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New HBS Fund Chairs Take the Helm

world’s largest producers of wallboard for the construction industry. Both are active on boards and in their community and are particularly interested in issues related to education, arts and culture, and community improvement. The couple... View Details

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Online Management Course | HBS Online

Change at Fuerte Construction Featured Exercises Small group process analysis Peer feedback exercise 10-12 hrs Module 2 Shaping the Decision-Making Process Analyze the decision-making process and evaluate potential drivers and pitfalls.... View Details

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Dissertation: "Essays in International Non-market Strategy and the Political Economy of Environmental Regulation"

My dissertation is part of a research agenda intended to advance our understanding of the interaction between companies and non-market actors (e.g. regulators) in an international context. The empirical setting of my analysis is the European Union Emissions Trading... View Details

2015
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"Level II" Negotiation Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping to Solve Their Internal Problems

By: James K. Sebenius

Many negotiators have constituencies that must formally or informally approve an agreement. Traditionally, it is the responsibility of each negotiator to manage the internal conflicts and constituencies on his or her own side. Far less familiar are the many valuable... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Deal

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28 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation

streamlined process allows BTD drug developers to get extra attention from these regulators, Stern says. “This allows drug developers to focus on executing efficient clinical trials,” she says. This attention leads to more constructive... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Pharmaceutical

W. Earl Sasser

Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details

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Cotting House | About

Cotting House Cotting Cornerstone Ceremony 1967 Cotting House was made possible by, and is named in honor of, Charles E. Cotting (Harvard 1911). Constructed in 1967 during the tenure of Dean George P. Baker and designed by Robert Shaw... View Details

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McCulloch Hall | About

named for secretaries of the US Treasury at the suggestion of George F. Baker, the prominent banker who funded the construction of Harvard Business School's original campus . The building was named for Hugh McCulloch (1808-1895), a... View Details

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Land in China's Political Economy

By: Meg Rithmire

Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights under Reform

Published October 2015

China since the 1980s has been the scene of unprecedented efforts at urban construction and growth, even in the absence of privatization... View Details

Teaching Interest

Design of Field Research Methods (DFRM)

Field research involves collecting original data (qualitative and/or quantitative) in field sites. This course combines informal lecture and discussion with practical exercises to build specific skills for conducting field research in organizations. Readings include... View Details

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Dillon House | About

& White as part of the original 1920s campus plan. Construction was delayed until 1965, however, during the tenure of Dean George P. Baker. When it first opened, the three-story, 5,800-square-foot, stucco and brick building provided... View Details

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Brandon Graves

Coming to HBS is like Entering a new world in which the words “not possible” or “no” don’t exist. HBS fosters an environment that constructively challenges my self-imposed limits and assumptions. Conversations with section mates and... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Case Study: The Home Team

Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

05 Jun 2009
What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

Summing Up If not useful growth, what are we measuring? And why? This column does not thrive on general agreement. And this past month discussants came close to general agreement on the proposition that economic growth is not measured properly by GDP, gross domestic... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Construction; Construction; Construction

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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details

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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links New Levels of Capitalism: Finance The rapidly growing industry required an extraordinary amount of capital for construction and... View Details

10 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

startup capital, such as construction and child care. Industries that need more startup capital—such as farming, retail, trade, and hotels—have declined from 55 percent of self-employment in 1970 to 23 percent in the last decade. Kerr and... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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