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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors discuss modern finance as a U.S. invention,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
to Angella about CAP, the challenges a modern nonprofit faces, and how a new breed of donors has shifted the sector. CAP'S CHARGE "We bring the experience of HBS alumni to nonprofits that may not otherwise be able to access those types of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
All Aboard
Railroad management used to be a hot topic at HBS, but that was a few decades before David Gunn (MBA '64) arrived at Soldiers Field. Too bad, because Gunn is a modern incarnation of the quintessential railroad man. These days, that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Manufacturing: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech
supply chain. Nothing defines manufacturing more than the supply chain, and digitalization has allowed manufacturers to bring in inputs—both raw materials and finished products—from around the world and assemble them in a modern factory.... View Details
- 09 Nov 2016
- News
The Seeds of Learning
manner, and the issues that are facing the planet and what they can do about them. “They don’t know, most of the time, about where their food comes from. We’re incredibly disconnected, in this modern society, from the sources of our food... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
School’s 100th MBA Class Graduates
(Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise); David Moss (Creating the Modern Financial System); Tom Nicholas (The Entrepreneurial Manager); Thomas Piper (Financial Reporting and Control); and Zeynep Ton (Coordinating and Managing... View Details
Keywords: Graduation
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate
Agree or disagree—and even his colleagues disagree—Theodore Levitt's controversial article "The Globalization of Markets" reshaped the debate on globalism and consumer marketing, and continues to provide modern managers with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Theater Foundation, the nation’s largest modern dance organization, and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. He has also been a board member of the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Sundance Institute, and The Public Theater. Raymond J. McGuire... View Details
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Introduction - The Worker - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Production The Worker Chapter Introduction Chapter Images The Audience Bibliography The Worker: The Human Factor The more you see of modern machines, the more may you, too, respect the men who make and manipulate them. Lewis Hine, 1932... View Details
- 09 May 2022
- News
Green House
so little energy, the solar production will far exceed the annual energy demand. Many high-performance homes are boxy, modern structures. But an energy-efficient house can’t leak air where walls meet, as typical houses do, making more... View Details
- 28 May 2021
- News
Unspent Love
In a Modern Love column for the New York Times called “She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box,” Genevieve Kingston writes that she shared a birthday with her mother, Kristina Mailliard (MBA 1981), who loved to arrange elaborate... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
example of what a modern workplace should be—a leader in creating a more human workplace, where the heart is just as important as the head, and where we show that we care about each and every member of our team equally,” she writes. READ... View Details
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
political economy. This book highlights the parallels between issues discussed by Serra and modern political and scholarly consciousness and illustrates the importance and influences of historical debate in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Father of Modern Management by Bob Buford (OPM 2, 1977) (Worthy Publishing) Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care by Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997) and Stephen Baker (Portfolio) Bush, the cofounder and CEO of... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
threat of such legal action. Forecasters' reliance on science and statistics as methods for accessing the future aligns their story with conventional narratives of modernity. The German sociologist Max Weber, for instance, argued that a key component of the View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
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Investment Management and Capital Markets - Course Catalog
tail risk hedging, futures and swaps, etc.). Students also explore investing from the asset owner perspective, learning modern practices in portfolio construction for personal and institutional investors (family offices, endowments,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
struggled to determine if they were getting good deals,” Baron says. “They had to take their dealer’s word for it.” Years later, after spells at Google and HBS, Baron is now using modern tools—from cloud computing to machine-learning—to... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
skills (cyber security, technology, global, social media, modern HR practices, etc.) versus a long-standing board member with dated experience. This can help activate the difficult discussions about board member retirement, which in turn... View Details
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Contemporary Corporate Archives | Baker Library
hedge funds, etc., responsible for the development of modern global finance infrastructure; papers of significant leaders and thinkers in the financial field; and biotechnology industry records, especially those that illustrate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Serving through TechnoServe
encourages its clients to “look at production as a business and figure out what their competitive advantage is,” Tierney explains. He has led efforts to modernize the organization, which was founded in 1968 and is based in Connecticut.... View Details