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Burden Park | About
hospital, music, and St. Thomas Episcopal Church in New York, where she was a lifelong member. William A.M. Burden (AB 1927) Florence and William’s eldest son, William A.M. Burden (AB 1927) , father of William III, spanned aviation, government, View Details
- 02 Mar 2011
- News
Last Look - March 2011
class is being taught by General Mills.” David Krieger (MBA ’00) and Beth Ferguson (MBA ’01) agreed. Beth provided details: “These chorus women were the troops to General Mills (Andrew Vogel)Â as he sang ‘I am the very model of a modern... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Professor at Stanford University, presents Flash Talk, “Identity Theft Rediscovering Ourselves after Stroke”, at the 2019 Gender and Work Symposium. Finsta: A Mental Health Resource for the Modern Age: What happens when authenticity and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Rothschild, creator of the modern bond market; and William Lever, of the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership. Entrepreneurs in Every Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop Their Next Leaders by Allan Cohen (MBA 1961) and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Thomas K. McCraw, 1940–2012
phrase 'a scholar and a gentleman,'" said Dean Nitin Nohria. McCraw, who retired from the active faculty in 2006, came to HBS in 1976. A protégé of the late HBS professor Albert Chandler, he led the effort to develop the required MBA course Creating View Details
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Henry R. Towne
added later. This and other techniques, many of which were the invention of Towne himself, helped make his company the leader in locking equipment, from small household locks, to bank locks, and night latches. Towne was also known for creating a View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
early-twentieth-century social scientists is what we call "the meaning and organization problem." One of the main trends of modern society was the rise of large formal work organizations. Capitalists and managers encouraged the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Bibliography - The Human Factor - – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Hawthorne Experiments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Handy, Ellen. Images from the Machine Age: Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection. New York: International Center for Photography, 1997. Hine, Lewis W. Men at Work: Photographic Studies of View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
this authenticity-challenged modern age. Ask Wilson why he undertakes this grueling event and he will tell you that what drives him is an educational mission. Wilson is the founder and president of sitesALIVE!, a nonprofit that has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Himalayan Journey
schools, health-care system, or electricity. Even today, in a country whose capital has only one traffic light, our route over the breathtakingly narrow mountain passes required all our drivers’ considerable skill and patience. We cheered! Evening lectures on the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Social Enterprise Pioneer
examining how, in their teaching and research, they can best prepare students for leadership roles in this key sector of the economy. The Prophet of Start-Ups A new biography of HBS professor Georges Doriot declares him the prophet of View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
detailed in Cohen’s new working paper, The Impact of Forced Migration on Modern Cities: Evidence from 1930s Crop Failures, co-written by HBS finance professor Christopher J. Malloy and Quoc Nguyen, an assistant finance professor at the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 May 2002
- Book
Bringing the Master Passions to Work
unknown that lurks in other minds and to harness these minds for our ends. Impeccable justification is the hallmark of successful persuasion. Much of modern science bears the mark of the ambitious who needs to conquer other minds through... View Details
Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria
- 17 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Brands Work
Harvard professor Theodore Levitt praised Japanese manufacturers for their focus on "what every consumer in the world is seeking: world-class modernity at affordable prices." Either because they didn't understand regional... View Details
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Maya Burhanpurkar | MBA
autonomous robotics, modern physics (quantum computing/superconductivity) Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: My startup, Adventus Robotics, recently won the Harvard Center for Technology and... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
King of his castle
After a foray working in the modern worlds of consulting and wireless technology, George Appling (MBA/MPA 1998) fulfilled a promise he'd made to himself. "Once I hit 40, I wanted to make sure I was spending my time on something I loved."... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Capitalizing Poetry
Barr Photo courtesy Poetry Foundation In 2002, pharmaceutical heiress Ruth Lilly made a gift in excess of $100 million to the Modern Poetry Association (now the renamed Poetry Foundation). Tapped in February to figure out what to do with... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Publications August 2013 Palgrave Macmillan The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World By: Reinert, Sophus A., and Pernille Røge, eds. Abstract—This volume recasts our understanding of the practical and theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
predecessors to modern computers. The computing revolution naturally followed, in part fueled by government projects like ARPANet, the Defense Department initiative that would lay the foundation for the View Details