War - Publications - Faculty & Research

Web

Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

during World War II and the emergence of venture capital firms after the war also fueled the growth of high-tech startups. The greater Boston area flourished into a hub of innovation; many firms would expand... View Details

June 2011
Teaching Note

Paul Bremer at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq (TN)

By: Robert Steven Kaplan

Teaching Note for 411010. View Details

Keywords: Government and Politics; Power and Influence; Civil Society or Community; War; Decisions; Iraq; District of Columbia

Citation

Purchase

01 Dec 1999
News

A Class Act

Miller wrote in a 1948 issue. "After July 1, these class notes will emanate from Crossett, Arkansas, where I will be busily engaged in learning the forest products industry." The Bulletin's expanded alumni reporting during World War II... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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

Daniel Willard

After reviving the battered B&O railway line with $60 million in investment funds he personally solicited from Wall Street, Willard was required to turn over control of the company to the government during World War I. The extensive... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

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

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

01 Dec 2018
News

Trade Off

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

09 Jun 2015
News

Lessons in perseverance lead to high-quality schools for Peru

war that killed 70,000 Peruvians. At a time of political and economic stability, Deza attended HBS while trying to choose between two growth strategies. “I’m an educator first,” she says. “I didn’t know I could do business.” Today, her... View Details

Web

Training Course in Personnel Administration: 1937 - 1944 | Baker Library

Requirements. Radcliffe College Training Course in Personnel Administration Catalogue, 1941-1942. Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Records. Harvard Business School. The War Years The Training Course in Personnel... View Details

Glenn L. Martin

Martin created the largest pre-World War II airplane manufacturing firm in America. He was the creative inventor of numerous airplanes mostly designed for military purposes (e.g. the famous B-10 bomber, B-26 and huge “Clipper” seaplanes).... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

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

16 Sep 2008
News

Last Look - September 2008

converting hot rolled steel into cold rolled steel.” Peter II of Yugoslavia (1923–1970) became king in 1934 after his father was assassinated. He went into exile in 1941, was deposed in 1945, and settled in the United States after World View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson

01 Sep 2017
News

Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up

and two other amazing, true stories NEW Hotel Scarface by Roben Farzad “There’s so much unresolved about Miami’s cocaine coming-of-age. I found the address where the Cold War crashed into the war on drugs... View Details

Keywords: April White; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

James S. Love

Beginning as a rayon producer, Love built the world’s largest textile mill by the mid-1950s. Love, the architect of the company’s growth, expanded the company to 22 plants by 1936 and bought six hosiery mills. After World War II, he... View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

22 Jul 2021
News

Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women

Clubs News Clubs News Singapore War Room Sessions Link Startups with HBS Alumni Mentors The HBS Club of Singapore (HBSCS), in collaboration with the Textile and Fashion Federation (TaFF) and its signature The Bridge Fashion Incubator... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Portrait Project

Jake Cusack

seen those things that separate war in the abstract from war in reality: how hard it is to successfully intervene in another country, no matter how noble the goal, no matter how great the effort. The... View Details

Web

Management Training Program: 1945 - 1955 | Baker Library

School. Crossroads for Educated Women After World War II, the Training Course in Personnel Administration was renamed the Management Training Program and experienced a brief postwar enrollment boom. The new name reflected a broader scope... View Details

Elmer F. Pierson

Pierson founded the Vendo Company in 1937 after perfecting the development of the first truly workable vending system - a lid called “The Red Top.” Originally designed for Coca-Cola bottles, the new vending machines were quickly converted to handle a variety of... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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