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McCulloch Hall | About

Civil War and provide a stable, national currency. When the measure passed over his objections, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase asked McCulloch to help implement the new system. McCulloch reluctantly... View Details

04 Aug 2003
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Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

indeed, Scott became a martyr, a great hero for English history. This meant that Shackleton was perceived to be out of the loop when he started to raise money. And as the winds of what would become World War I started whipping across... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

PA Bowen Borgeson Hill School Pottstown, PA TX Bryan Boucher St. Mark’s School Dallas, TX Subjects: AP U.S. History, US History and Government CT Karen Boyea Greenwich High School Greenwich, CT Subjects: AP U.S. History, College Prep/Honors U.S. History, College/Honors... View Details

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Morgan Hall | About

later, Morgan was able to underwrite federal bonds to help finance Civil War debt. The firm was reorganized after Drexel’s death and renamed J.P. Morgan & Company in 1895. By 1900, Morgan’s firm was one of... View Details

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Medium-High 60 1960 s 19 Civil rights movement gain strength Antiwar sentiment divides electorate FDA approves oral contraceptive pill Influence: High 70 1970 s 19 National Organization for Women mobilizes for Equal Rights Amendment Roe... View Details

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Events - Business History

across Post-World War Two Industrializing Asia" Oct 31 31 Oct 2022 Business History Seminar Thomas Fetzer (Central European University), "Nationality and multinational corporations: Insights from a historical perspective on German and... View Details

19 Jan 2015
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Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?

Democrats (e.g., tax breaks, minimum wage, fuel efficiency) and Republicans (e.g., death tax, border security, war on terror), rating each according to political slant. Zhu and Greenstein then identified some 4,000 articles that appeared... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Publishing

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Curb Appeal

Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

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

federal lands were surveyed and one tenth were set aside as land grants for railroad development. After the Civil War, state government subsidies began to be replaced by more substantial federal aid. Other major infusions of capital came... View Details

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Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance

urged prospective home-buyers to save the entire purchase price before acquiring a home. In practice, however, most home-buyers and home-builders after the Civil War got themselves a mortgage—or three or... View Details

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

Conflict Correlates of War (1820-1990) Department of Peace and Conflict Research (2000) Download Data Set in Excel Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) KKR Firm History Map created by John Regan, MBA 2016 Download Data Set in Excel Largest US... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

02 Oct 2006
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Negotiating in Three Dimensions

diplomat Lakdhar Brahimi. Prior to his recent efforts negotiating interim governments in Afghanistan and Iraq, he took the lead in ending the bloody, seventeen-year civil war in Lebanon. Should the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Jun 2021
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A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

hospital systems in New York, Chicago, and Boston pledged to confront inequities in hiring, leadership, and patient care. ‘Embedded in the fabric of this country’ Growing up in India, Chandra says, he absorbed a rosy idea of the United States—its victories in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

21 Feb 2005
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Is Business Management a Profession?

looked to a new "profession of business" for nothing less than saving modern, industrial civilization from itself. As the professionalization project that had provided the agenda for American business education from its founding... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

18 Oct 2017
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How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

2000. As an exploitative plantation industry, the rubber and palm oil industries in Indonesia and Malaysia couldn’t be considered a civilizing force, at least initially, Giacomin says. Yet, after rubber clusters based on foreign-invested... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave

military matériel at factories in upstate New York. World War II carried MacDonald to India in 1943, and then to Burma, Ceylon, and China as an OSS ordnance officer. To pass the time, and since regular letters were heavily censored, he... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Harvard Business School

of Boston who served in World War II, Herb Lyken became a professor of Finance and Accounting at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and taught for 15 years. He was also a founder and board member of the Unity Bank and Trust in... View Details

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