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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
Bert Berkley (MBA 1950) calls it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” Having served in the US Army during World War II for three-and-a-half years, he was offered (and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
things like the Great Depression, which was another moment when the world stood still, and you had the uncertainty that you see surrounding us right now. So if you take that as a precedent—and put aside View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
the VC community to see itself as a real industry.” The venture capital industry began to take shape after World War II on the northeastern seaboard when in 1946 Doriot became... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Catchphrases, Mottos, Cheers, and Mascots
Let me sing the praises of the unknown genius who devised the system in which an MBA section is taught all its first-year courses in one classroom. According to A Delicate Experiment, Jeff Cruikshank’s history of the early years of HBS (p. 282), Dean Donham’s... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
A Century of Birthday Candles
resident. “The View From 100” recounts how Duff was 6 years old at the beginning of the Great Depression and just finishing high school when the United States entered World War II. Most of the boys in her... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Rough start: “I remember coming home from the Naval Academy for Christmas leave as a freshman, and my GPA going into finals was a 0.91. But I loved the challenge, and I adapted.” Ahoy there: “My first command was a View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
only a recent phenomenon. For most of American history, companies in the domestic economy either were protected by tariff laws or were so much stronger than non-U.S. firms that they could act pretty much as they pleased. During the postÐWorld View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 21 Aug 2017
- News
The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together
get. I'm watching how conflict is being handled as a guide, and I'm not encouraged.” In a new essay on LinkedIn, noted hedge fund manager Ray Dalio (MBA 1973) writes that Americans are divided in ways not seen since the Great Depression and the era leading up to View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
when competition for outstanding talent has intensified among private industry and other top-tier business schools." The Class of 1949, one of the first post-World War II HBS classes to be awarded MBA... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
Fifty years ago, a new course was introduced at HBS to provide students with a better understanding of the problems of starting and managing new businesses. The Management of New Enterprises, developed and taught by Professor Myles L. Mace, served the needs of View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
long careers, these legendary faculty members not only helped shape the School and personify it to generations of students and alumni, they were also eyewitnesses to its evolution. When they began their careers, after World View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Leading the Charge
In the first days of military action in Iraq, with Americans unsure of what lay ahead, one commanding, symbolic image in this media–intensive war held sway: a U.S. Marine, ripping down a huge poster of Saddam Hussein in a town in southern... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
influence the present.” Looking ahead, Baker Library Collections director Laura Linard says the library is concentrating on acquiring collections that document contemporary global business during the post–World War View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pearson Hunt
gave me his recording with the instruction: "Don't change a word of it." I never learned if he was pleased with what he saw in print. There was little routine during World War II, when the School hosted a... View Details
Keywords: Pearson Hunt
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
started World War I, and it all collapsed. As percentages of GDP, we didn’t return to those earlier levels of global capital flows until the 1990s. Global free trade is not the natural order of things.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
major HBS report to Harvard's Board of Overseers outlining the School's plan to "enlarge its activities so as to be of still more service to the country" by expanding instruction in public aspects of business. Articles during World View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
The Nature of Change
each year to include data from the current graduating class as well as current business and world events. “This case teaches them that history is alive, that they are part of a long, rich tradition of people with similar concerns who have... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
offering assistance to academics whose work has been impacted by Russia's war on Ukraine. The program, founded in 2001, is dedicated to helping scholars, artists, writers, and public intellectuals from around the View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Japanese Connection
whose father had been stationed in Tokyo after World War II and brought back objects and stories about Japan. “But I also wanted to learn a non-Western language because, in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Where Innovation Rules
incubators of innovation. Issue Focus: Innovation Innovating in Your Business Will This Alum Change Education? HBS Simulations Go High-Tech A Lesson in Israeli Entrepreneurship In the modern era, beginning after World View Details