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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

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

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

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

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Behavioral Economics for Managerial Decision Making - Course Catalog

understanding of the behavioral biases that can hinder effective decision-making. It also requires a foundational understanding of the modern analytical toolkit, which can mitigate the risk of mistakes and guide managerial decisions. This... View Details

17 Sep 2020
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HBS Grads Launch Cybersecurity Nonprofit to Fight Infodemic

Spangler in late October 2019 when Bastian and I met for one of those “coffee chats” where students learn about each other’s background. Bastian and I ended up geeking out on the current security problems facing the modern internet:... View Details

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Thomas Weisel | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

merchant bank for emerging companies. Thom is actively involved in competitive skiing and cycling. He is also a passionate collector of modern art and has built a superb collection; three galleries are named for him at the San Francisco... 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

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

25 Jun 2019
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Ann Sarnoff To Lead Warner Bros. Studio

Sarnoff also discussed the challenge of meeting the needs of the modern audience. “We need to emotionally connect with our audiences and build a connection that can last into future generations,” she told Deadline. “They’re experiencing... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

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Lynda Benglis Cloak-Wave Pedmarks 1998 | About

Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Modern, London; and the Whitney... View Details

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Louise Bourgeois Eye Benches II 1996-1997 | About

quality of your eyes and the strength of your eyes that are expressed here. Nobody is going to keep me from seeing what is instead of what I would like.” In 1982, Bourgeois was the first female artist to have a retrospective at New York’s Museum of View Details

25 Mar 2019
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Rent The Runway Joins the Unicorn Club

milestone, CEO Jennifer Hyman (MBA 2009), told Forbes that the company “has created a new consumer behavior of dynamic ownership and clothing rental has become an essential utility in our members’ lives.” Hyman goes on to say that RTR is meeting the market’s changing... View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2007
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A Classics Enterprise

time with a hefty publisher’s advance. Soon he was funding and editing a series of classical histories, including Xenophon’s Hellenica, Arrian’s work on Alexander, and Polybius’s Histories. After a successful career in the oil-field equipment business, Strassler has a... View Details

Keywords: ancient Greece; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

02 Mar 2011
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Last Look - March 2011

class is being taught by General Mills.” David Krieger (MBA ’00) and Beth Ferguson (MBA ’01) agreed. Beth provided details: “These chorus women were the troops to General Mills (Andrew Vogel)Â as he sang ‘I am the very model of a modern... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson

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Lynda Benglis Migrating Pedmarks 1998 | About

Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Modern, London; and the Whitney Museum of... View Details

25 Apr 2014
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King of his castle

After a foray working in the modern worlds of consulting and wireless technology, George Appling (MBA/MPA 1998) fulfilled a promise he'd made to himself. "Once I hit 40, I wanted to make sure I was spending my time on something I loved."... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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Capitalizing Poetry

Barr Photo courtesy Poetry Foundation In 2002, pharmaceutical heiress Ruth Lilly made a gift in excess of $100 million to the Modern Poetry Association (now the renamed Poetry Foundation). Tapped in February to figure out what to do with... View Details

Keywords: poetry; Arts, Entertainment; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

02 Aug 2021
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Cracking the Code

Bubble, which is designed to help people turn their ideas into startups and which was cofounded by Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012), received $100 million in Series A funding, according to TechCrunch. The company’s click-and-drag interface allows users without any coding... View Details

10 Jan 2017
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Street Smarts

The next time you get to work on time or find a parking spot with ease, you may have Bryan Mistele (MBA 1995) to thank. Since 2005, his company, INRIX, has been working to cure one of modern society’s biggest headaches—traffic congestion.... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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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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