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Bibliography - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

Advertising Awards . New York: Barton, Durstine, & Osborn, Incorporated, 1925. Kennedy, Peter Stanners Ross. " Above the Marketplace: A History of the Harvard Advertising Awards ," 1924-1930. Thesis, Harvard University. 2003. Lears, Jackson. "Uneasy Courtship: View Details

29 Sep 2021
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Latinx Women in the Spotlight: Marimar Pérez-Riera (MBA 1994)

inside the majestic Shad Hall); the cylindrical, copper-clad modern chapel on campus; the work-hard play-hard treats with so many friends; and the not-so-favorite, but understandingly necessary, humbling feeling that I was going to get... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis

The flow of refugees from Syria following years of civil war has been called the worst humanitarian crisis in modern times. Working in collaboration with HBS’s global research centers, two HBS professors have brought a better... View Details

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

33 In 1946, Doriot became president of American Research and Development Corporation (ARD), the first publicly funded venture capital firm and one of the first modern venture capital companies established after the war. Located in Boston,... View Details

Marvin Bower

Bower is considered the father of modern management consulting. He led McKinsey’s worldwide expansion and created many of its consulting tools and applications, increasing the company’s billings tenfold in the process. He pioneered the... View Details

Keywords: Services

18 Aug 2020
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Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew

brew is typically brewed in a device no more complicated than a mason jar. We identified another style of cold brewing (cold drip) that more efficiently extracts the coffee solubles and went about redesigning it to better fit in a modern... 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
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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

01 Dec 2002
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Clusters and Competition

in the modern economy,” he noted, “and clusters enhance both.” As an example, Porter pointed to the California wine cluster, where the close proximity of related enterprises — grape growers, wine-equipment manufacturers, PR firms that... View Details

Earl D. Babst

When Babst took over the helm of American Sugar Refining, he embarked on a major investment in equipment and initiated the construction of a modern refinery in Baltimore, Maryland. During his tenure, Babst also built and purchased mills... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

15 May 2019
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The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

Lalocracio In thinking about the current contested state of global capitalism, and what to do about it, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Seeking the Unconventional in Forging Histories of Capitalism, which... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

curse to the economic fortunes of the county. On the one hand, it has poured massive investment into infrastructure improvements, as anyone who has witnessed the incredible growth of mega-cities such as Shanghai and Shenzhen can see. Along with that, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

25 Jul 2011
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How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

evolved over the past several hundred years. Even more than most organizations, traditional universities are products of their history. That history is shared, because most universities have emulated a handful of elite American schools that began to assume their View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources

Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956 (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1993). Dun & Bradstreet Corporation. Dun & Bradstreet and the Rise of Modern Business: A History of the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (New... View Details

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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

Donald V. Fites

During his tenure as CEO, Fites grew Caterpillar, the world’s #1 producer of earth-moving machinery, from a $10 billion company to a $20 billion plus company. Fites successfully implemented a $1.8 billion modernization program to cut... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

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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
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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

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Prelude - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

economics through his working relationship with Paul Samuelson. Perhaps more than any other economist to date, Paul Samuelson is credited with ushering in the modern era of mathematical economic analysis incorporating formal probability... View Details

13 Feb 2023
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Alumnus Gift Will Nurture Basic, Therapeutic Science

been a partner of the School for over two decades, and I am delighted to continue to support the HMS community in its important work by helping to modernize these landmark facilities to keep pace with therapeutics innovation." Bertarelli... View Details

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