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- 08 May 2024
- News
Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) Awarded Medal of Freedom
Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) was one of 19 people awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House on May 2. “From finance to media to philanthropy, Michael Bloomberg has revolutionized our economy,” President Biden said as he conferred the Nation’s highest... View Details
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Joel Hurd
history multiple times but rarely gets any credit. Who was the founding dean of HBS? Edwin Gay from Detroit. Who showed Joseph Stalin how to industrialize the USSR? Henry Ford of Detroit. Who built the planes, tanks, and guns to win WW2?... View Details
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David Velasquez
my three brothers, and simply being kids. Playing endless 2 vs. 2 basketball games, pulling out the Nerf toy guns and chasing each other around the house, or – a classic favorite – performing a ritual that involved smashing my face into a... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
verifiable answer," says Zhu. "They can be quite subjective or even controversial." History, they say, is written by the victors, and can read very differently depending on who is telling the tale. Even modern-day issues such as immigration, View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
the form of the First World War. In a strange, sad twist of fate, two of the Endurance crew would be killed in the war. Imagine the extraordinary irony of having survived all that, only to be slaughtered by machine gun fire in the first... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
innovative new products and services, new commercial ventures, or new approaches that create social impact. These are also the kinds of problems rising leaders care about: climate change, race and gender inequities, education shortfalls, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
Feeling that the gun had been aimed at me too, I was scared and felt alone in this world. No one knew what was going through my mind these days, because no one knew that I could have been there myself that night. While I was scared about... View Details
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
structure, and a thoughtful investment strategy that aligns with the foundation's mission. CalSTRS Takes on Gun Violence (819079) by Vikram Gandhi and Caitlin Lindsay Reimers Brumme NOVEMBER 2018 (REVISED DECEMBER 2018) In Spring of 2018,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Leading at State
in discussions about expanding this type of leadership training to other government agencies. “In the Cold War, when we were competing with the Soviet Union, we were competing with guns and missiles. In today’s world, we are competing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
a meth pipe, and a small quantity of weed in his shoe. There are no weapons in the car, but a brand-new paintball gun and pellets suggest the pair may have been shooting paintballs at cars, a popular diversion. Suspecting the car may be... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
every time you saw him there was that unquenchable curiosity. Chandler's curiosity was a force of nature, and it didn't stop. When I last spoke to him he was going great guns on his next project. My sense was that Al took his measure of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
business journalists aware of the research, and encouraging them to write about it themselves, in news articles and feature stories. Talking to journalists is an effective way to publicize research, but there are translation risks. For instance, journalists sometimes... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
ideas, and deciding which of those ideas are worth pursuing. When most people hear a new idea, it's human nature to see its flaws, so during the brainstorm processing, no criticism should be allowed. I know of a manager who brings along a squirt View Details
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
Gun Deaths, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Expanding the waiting period policy to all 50 US states would prevent more than 900 additional gun homicides per year,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty
Best-Selling (MOST POPULAR) Cases:
1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
to drastically decrease gun use. In a recent study, cities that employ the system saw a 28.8 percent drop in gunfire on average; Fall River, Massachusetts, for example, saw shootings drop by 58 percent. But efficacy hadn’t led to... View Details
- 03 Nov 2020
- News
One Paramount Priority
In the four years since the last US presidential election, Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) has been interviewing more than 500 voters, talking about everything from gun control to COVID-19. This years-long project has made clear to Hessan that... View Details
Keywords: Government
Harvey S. Firestone, Jr.
Firestone inaugurated the company’s Liberian manufacturing operations and developed and expanded the company’s auto supply and service stores. Firestone manufactured over 50% of all mobile anti-aircraft gun units during World War II and... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
produced by the Polaroid Corp." 27 In 1943, Newsweek magazine featured on its cover a photograph of U. S. Army General George Patton wearing Polaroid goggles. 28 The Polaroid facility included a machine gun training room with 20-foot high... View Details