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- 25 Mar 2008
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Whistling Past the Graveyard
The experts are finally seeing the light: most now agree we are in a recession. Harvard professor Martin Feldstein (http://www.nber.org/feldstein), former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, says it could be the worst since World View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
C. Gregg Petersmeyer learned about giving back from his parents. He observed in them and their contemporaries a tremendous empathy for their fellow citizens going through the shared hard times of the Depression and World War II. “Today,”... View Details
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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Archival Collections, Baker Library, Harvard Business School Georges F. Doriot Papers, 1921 - 1984 on permanent loan from the French Cultural Center in Boston The papers of Georges F. Doriot includes Doriot's notes, course materials,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
are 1.57 billion Muslims in the world; a very small number have extreme views, and even fewer act on them. In my own life, through speaking engagements, op-ed articles, and financial support, I focus on... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
factory, and it was here that he became fascinated with mechanics and factory operations. With experience in the automobile industry, Georges was chosen to serve as an engineering officer in the French heavy artillery regiment during World View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
says he hopes it will “enable young, entrepreneurial managers from Poland to lead even more business growth in the years ahead.” Educated as an engineer in England, where his father led a Polish squadron of the Royal Air Force during World View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
phenomenon in the United States. In the years leading up to the Great Depression and World War II, there was a very high percentage of recent immigrants in the United States, and home ownership was beyond the means of most. Before World... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
I believe will be historically important. Both my choices top 700 pages, hence my hesitancy. The first book is Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. It inevitably appears on the list of greatest war novels of all... View Details
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Research Resources | Baker Library
1905–2000 (Series III) Records of Polaroid scientists documenting the manufacture of innovative products during World War II and the creation and development of instant black-and-white and color photography. Photographs and Correspondence... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
Illustration by ROBERTO PARADA On the day after the White House asked Thomas T. Riley (MBA ’75) to be the next ambassador to Morocco, a dozen suicide bombers struck in Casablanca, killing and injuring more than 100 people. As Riley... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
War II?" And I was obviously disarmed by that question because, in fact, I do. But, at the time I didn't reveal that immediately. I said, "I might." And I believe his response then was to give me a little bit more detail View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
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How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Sumner Feldberg (MBA 1949), who died on July 1, 2022, was remembered in an obituary in the Wall Street Journal as an innovator in the field of retail. He grew up in Newton,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Corey, Lombard Remembered
Corey taught in the School’s MBA, Doctoral, and Executive Education programs; in the latter, he also took on several administrative roles. An early advocate of adding cases with ethical dimensions to the Marketing syllabus, Corey authored... View Details
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Wall of Recognition of Service to Country | About
Wall of Recognition of Service to Country The Wall of Recognition of Service to Country is a tribute to all Harvard Business School community members who have served their country in times of war and peace. View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
becomes an unlikely entrepreneur, supporting her siblings when her father and brother are forced to flee the Taliban. Ashley’s War (2015) centers on the US military’s Cultural Support Teams, a pilot program... View Details
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
at the firm, served as a director of a number of its portfolio companies, and became one of the leading women in the US venture capital field. A steady stream of individuals who trained at HBS entered the Quartermaster Corps, and Doriot... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
companies touted cleanliness as good for health and success, but also for beauty. Hair washing, long unfashionable, was also a 20th-century phenomenon. This 1905 German advertisement promotes one of the first shampoos. Image Courtesy... View Details
- 08 Jul 2016
- News
So Why Don't You Have Your Dream Job Yet?
There are three forces, says author James Citrin (MBA 1986), that are “at fundamental war with one another” when people are trying to find a job: compensation, lifestyle, and job satisfaction. “So if you... View Details
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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
antitrust issues increasingly factored into the strained relationship between the government and the steel industry. In testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly in 1957, American steelmakers argued they could not... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Helping vets become resident landlords
thing called the VA Loan Guarantee. That’s a no-money-down home-buying power, which was a result of the GI Bill after World War II. And what they particularly don’t know is that you can use this up to a no-money-down $417,000 to $721,000... View Details