War - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 2009
Teaching Note

The Octopus and the Generals: The United Fruit Company in Guatemala (TN)

By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Marcelo Bucheli

Teaching Note for [805146]. View Details

Keywords: Policy; Vertical Integration; Economy; War; Poverty; Government and Politics; Food and Beverage Industry; Guatemala; North and Central America

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Purchase

In 1940, Hurst, an engineer by training, invented two new products that were critical to the growing aviation industry – detachable, reusable hose fittings and self-sealing couplings. As aviation took hold during World War II, these... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

03 Apr 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

British Foreign Secretary Lord Edward Grey contemplated whether to advise King and Parliament to declare war on Germany in the wake of the country’s invasion of Belgium or to stay out of what quickly was becoming a world View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

States didn't always allow technological innovation to run adrift. In the post-World War II era, the country had a tradition of global leadership, spurred in the 1950s and '60s by innovation in semiconductors and in the 1960s through '80s... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2009
News

The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle

Business Plan Contest winner in 2008. With plenty of war stories (literally) and powerful personalities to draw on, Senor and Singer craft an engaging study on the rise of one of the most powerful innovation economies in the 21st century. View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Apr 2002
News

Breakthrough International Negotiation

When the stakes are high - in business, politics, or everyday life - it pays to take a page from the playbook of the world's greatest negotiators. And if you want to learn how to be a world-class negotiator, consider how Richard Holbrooke helped defuse the View Details

Keywords: Michael Watkins; Susan Rosegrant; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2002
News

HBS Vets Support Homeless Comrades

number of homeless Vietnam-era vets exceeds the number of personnel who died in that conflict and that more than a third of all homeless vets served in war zones. Each year, approximately five hundred thousand veterans — from World View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 1999
News

A Class Act

Miller wrote in a 1948 issue. "After July 1, these class notes will emanate from Crossett, Arkansas, where I will be busily engaged in learning the forest products industry." The Bulletin's expanded alumni reporting during World War II... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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Bibliography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Nasrin Rohani. Polaroid . Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2005. Ehrenfried, George. “Working with Edwin Land.” Optics & Photonics News 5, no. 10 (October 1994). Full text available (Harvard users only) Fierstein, Ronald K. A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)

various aspects of a problem in order to come up with a reasonable solution in a limited amount of time was truly useful preparation for my several careers. Initially, I’d been torn between the military and a business career, but the gathering clouds of View Details

01 Jun 2021
What Do You Think?

Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?

willing and able to train new employees in large numbers will have an advantage in this kind of war for talent." That means that we can expect a flood of capable people, mostly women, seeking work during the coming months as the pandemic... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 1997
News

Antitrust in Historical Perspective

Before he became a federal judge, the controversial Robert Bork once labeled antitrust "a policy at war with itself." In this case, he was right. Antitrust laws are problematic. That is not, however, to say that they are without value.... View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

09 Jun 2015
News

Lessons in perseverance lead to high-quality schools for Peru

war that killed 70,000 Peruvians. At a time of political and economic stability, Deza attended HBS while trying to choose between two growth strategies. “I’m an educator first,” she says. “I didn’t know I could do business.” Today, her... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

The Realities of the Refugee Crisis

Illustration by Peter Arkle Since the outbreak of civil war in 2011, 4.9 million Syrians have fled their country, and another 6.6 million are internally displaced, according to the UN Refugee Agency. To better understand the human,... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Training Course in Personnel Administration: 1937 - 1944 | Baker Library

Requirements. Radcliffe College Training Course in Personnel Administration Catalogue, 1941-1942. Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Records. Harvard Business School. The War Years The Training Course in Personnel... View Details

Portrait Project

Mike Lynch

I never saw the rocket-propelled grenade that was meant to kill me that morning. I just heard it scream over my head and erupt in a deafening explosion behind me. The sights and sounds and smells of war were magnified in that instant: the... View Details

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

The puzzle, they explain, has to do with the explanation for Japan's extraordinary economic success in the post-World War II period. The country was heralded around the world for creating what looked like "a new and superior form of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

01 Dec 2012
News

Rival Visions

After its war of liberation from England, America was bankrupt, disjointed, and devoid of experience in governance. "The new country could have broken apart because of its financial problems," HBS professor emeritus Thomas McCraw writes... View Details

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Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen - Coin and Conscience

Vanity and Virtue Misers, Moneylenders, and Thieves Money Devil Biblical and Mythological Scenes Love and Money Politics and War Louis-Philippe Speculation and Credit Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen Stock Exchanges printer-friendly... View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

Origin Story: Tasila Banda (MBA/MPP 2025)

up the most ridiculous songs to sing over it. He was very encouraging of our being expressive and confident.” Roots: “In the 1950s my mother’s parents moved from Jamaica to the UK in what is known as the Windrush generation, invited to the UK to help rebuild the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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