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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
Charles H. Steinway
Following behind his Uncle William, Charles Steinway focused on the business side of his family’s growing piano empire. Charles introduced the company’s first modern advertising campaign and personally took control of the European... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Ohio C. Barber
Barber’s own match manufacturing company consolidated with three other firms in 1881 to form the Diamond Match Company, controlling about 85% of the trade in the industry. Diamond Match produced the first modern automatic match machine.... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
William Rosenthal
After discovering a need for the product in their dress making business, William and Ida Rosenthal created the “first modern uplift brassiere” in 1923. After the success of that item, business was expanded into lingerie, swimwear and... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Awards Recognize Excellence
Four HBS professors have received the annual Charles M. Williams Award for outstanding teaching and contributions to student learning. The recipients are David Moss for his Creating the Modern Financial System course; Jan Rivkin for his... View Details
Clarence Saunders
characteristics of Saunders’ Piggly Wiggly stores. Though this format of grocery market was drastically different from its competitors, the style became the standard for the modern supermarket, and in 1922 Piggly Wiggly had grown into... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
McCraw Wins Prize for Biography of Economist Joseph Schumpeter
way the book “skillfully connects Schumpeter’s landmark analysis of entrepreneurship to the history of modern business enterprise.” Schumpeter (1883–1950) taught at Harvard for twenty years and spent hundreds of hours at Baker Library... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Allston to Get Harvard Museum
Construction on the 125,000- to 135,000-square-foot, three-story museum is expected to begin in the fall. When completed in late 2009, it will house modern and contemporary art and include retail space and a café. Construction of the... View Details
- 08 Jan 2025
- News
Mapping Pain Points at the IRS
Having spent a decade helping retailers optimize customer service, Fumi Tamaki (MBA 2014) could not pass up the opportunity in June 2024 to take on the challenge of improving the customer experience at the government organization that serves more Americans annually... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Belsky has compiled their most powerful (and often counterintuitive) practices, such as generating ideas in moderation, reducing all projects to just three main components, encouraging fighting within your team, and seeking competition and sharing ideas liberally.... View Details
Henry R. Towne
added later. This and other techniques, many of which were the invention of Towne himself, helped make his company the leader in locking equipment, from small household locks, to bank locks, and night latches. Towne was also known for creating a View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
on display in Morgan Hall, titled "The Emergence of Modern American Business." The exhibit features large black-and-white photographs, colorful advertising cards, informative broadsides, and other memorabilia selected from the Baker... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
that had previously given it coherence and meaning,” Allawi argues, asserting that under colonial rule, traditional institutions and ways of life were replaced by modern equivalents that spoke little to the people. The deterioration... View Details
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Sally Aaron
Modern medical technology gave me a chance to be happy and healthy when I was young. I want to make sure others have the same chance and privilege. I was born with a dislocated hip that was saved only by View Details
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Melvin Edwards Searching for the Word 1989/2019 | About
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem; and Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. Edwards taught at Rutgers... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Training managers in the developing world
aims to help build a modern professional management class, help create jobs, spark value-added processing of raw materials, and encourage competitive manufacturing. “There are up to 100 institutions in Africa that define themselves as a... View Details
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Tony Tasset Arrow Sculpture 2015 | About
including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt. Tasset lives and works in Chicago and is represented by Kavi Gupta Gallery. View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From a ‘blank slate’ to ‘Mr. China’
Against the advice of many, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to build his own company. Through trial and error, Perkowski learned that the key to its success was in hiring young mainland Chinese with... View Details
Charles D. Wiman
As the great-grandson of the company founder, Wiman was principally responsible for expanding and modernizing Deere’s operations, putting it on a path to become the largest and most successful supplier of large-scale agricultural... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
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