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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Photography by Jared Leeds "Our students use traditional academic theory to take on problems that have fundamental relevance in today's business world," says Janice McCormick, executive director of the HBS Doctoral Programs. "Many come in... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
bond is practical, based on sustenance, but also spiritual: In Native American cosmology, Mother Corn—Selu in Cherokee—is the first woman. After well over a decade in business, Keen found a new calling. It’s an epic history that has its... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
two dilapidated row houses that had been vacant since 1978. She intends to replace them with affordable rental apartments—the opening salvo in an ambitious plan to redevelop West Baltimore Street, whose boarded-up windows and abandoned storefronts belie its View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
critical role in global society. In the lead-up to COP26, the Business & Environment Initiative asked HBS alumni business leaders from a wide range of sectors and disciplines what they see as the role of business and business leaders in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
McCraw Wins Prize for Biography of Economist Joseph Schumpeter
HBS professor emeritus Thomas McCraw has won the Business History Conference’s 2008 Hagley Prize for the year’s best business history book. Prophet of Innovation: Joseph... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
When HBS professor Leonard A. Schlesinger and the other architects of the new MBA introductory "Foundations" curriculum decided that a thorough understanding of capitalism's underpinnings was essential, they asked Professor Thomas K.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
also failed to note the first women DBAs to graduate from HBS. Fortunately, the Baker Library Web site dedicated to the history of women at HBS goes into much more detail, including listing the first three... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
at Harvard College, Strassler had had little time to pursue that interest after graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar. But now he was able to turn his attention to history - and to other interests in... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Thomas K. McCraw, 1940–2012
Thomas K. McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus, and winner of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in History for his book Prophets of Regulation, died in November. He was 72 years old. "Tom was an extraordinarily... View Details
Keywords: obituary
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Weaving Success in India
Creating Emerging Markets Oral History Collection at Baker Library. This winter, the HBS Business History Initiative, which launched the project, hosted a conference in India... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built (HarperBusiness), a new book by HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow, presents fascinating biographical essays of seven men whose products and practices have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Centennial Goes YouTube
on the project’s new Web site: www.hbs.edu/centennial/im/. It’s participatory history in the making and available to anyone who has an HBS story to tell. The Web site also features a multimedia View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
University Press) Walter Friedman’s Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America documents the history of salesmanship, from the days of peddlers to the creation of modern sales forces at companies like National Cash... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Leviathans Multinational Corporations and the New Global History edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and Bruce Mazlish (Cambridge University Press) In this collection of articles gathered by HBS professor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Editor's Note
Worth the Wait HBS plans a memorable Centennial year The first centennial I remember happened in my North Carolina hometown in the late 1950s. The men grew beards, wore funny hats, and puffed on awful-smelling cigars. The town held a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
is the Bakken formation, a 25,000-square-mile underground deposit that—thanks to a rise in fracking and new oil extraction technologies—has produced as much as 1 million barrels of oil and gas a day, or about the production equivalent of the United Kingdom. We asked... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
by the number of personal papers — mostly diaries and family letters — contained in these business records. “These personal writings reveal the depth of the Historical Collections and underscore the variety of ways that the business manuscripts can be used to study the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
The Nature of Change
“The Class the Dollars Fell On” by Fortune magazine). The case, authored by HBS professors Richard Tedlow and Nancy Koehn in 2001, was originally taught in The Coming of Managerial Capitalism, where Tedlow continues to use it. “I have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Of all the great HBS professors, Chris Christensen was unequaled as a champion for case-method teaching. He elevated the School’s signature method of instruction to an art form and then devoted much of his career to helping other teachers... View Details