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- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
shot to death in a police car in 1941 because he laughed while standing in line at a movie theatre with his girlfriend. Or how about the hate that led to Timothy Hood’s, murder in the back of a police car? He was a World War II veteran... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Publishing Platform) An autobiographical story of a boy whose life was radically changed in the prison camps on Java during World War II. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, a violent Indonesia revolution forced the evacuation of all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
from a new album of what Gould describes as “funny, original songs about contemporary women’s lives.” Hear more at midlifemomsongs.com. Excerpt Berliner Verlag/Archiv/Corbis “Imagine a checkpoint guard in a black-and-white World War II... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
on emerging geopolitical and economic trends, and on vital lessons from military history. You argue that it is not the war in Iraq or Islamic extremists who pose the greatest challenge to U.S. leadership in the coming decades, but rather... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Action Plan: Border Crossing
my husband’s German grandparents lived as refugees during and after World War II. We were able to walk the streets they walked. It wasn’t a part of the city you would normally visit as a tourist, but it had a profound impact on us.” Check... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
War II broke out and the German army occupied Holland. He left his war-torn homeland in 1948 to attend Fordham University on a scholarship. "I arrived in America with $25 and was washing dishes on my first day in Manhattan," Twaalfhoven... View Details
- Profile
Zayed Muhammed Yasin
designing wouldn't be satisfying to me." Looking for an alternative approach to international development As an undergraduate, Zayed spent a summer in Albania working with refugees from the war in Kosovo. After graduation, he spent a... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Applying Business Principles to Military Problems
required; to be able to help people prioritize. I’m not an operator; I’m a business person, but [my job is] getting the Navy Seal leadership to decide what’s important—what they can trade off—and identifying risk and helping them manage risk on the business side, so... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Founder of Modern Venture Capital
students. He realized his dream of establishing the first Master of Business Administration program in Europe by helping establish the European Institute of Business Administration. Doriot learned the art of bringing science and industry together in World View Details
- Portrait Project
Samantha Gray
expose in writing my vulnerable and invincible selves at war with each other. I aspire to catalyze change at the intersection of science and life. I resolve to indulge the eonophile and the cheese fiend who have taken residence in my... View Details
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Erling Lorentzen | Baker Library
Erling Lorentzen MBA 1948, Aracruz Play Video duration: 1:06:31 Erling Lorentzen, HBS 1948. Interview conducted in March 2000 Erling Lorentzen, HBS 1948, was a leader of the underground resistance against German occupation forces in his native Norway during World View Details
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
making deals. As it says in Warfighting: The U.S. Marine Corps Book of Strategy (Currency, 1995), "The very nature of war makes certainty impossible; all actions in war will be based on incomplete,... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
global emergencies. His work included the planning and delivery of humanitarian aid during the war in Afghanistan—an experience he found both powerful and frustrating. When a US town raised money to donate an ambulance to the Afghan... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Irredeemability of the Past: Determinants of Reconciliation and Revenge in Post-Conflict Settings
By: Kristen Kao, Kristin Fabbe and Michael Bang Petersen
In the aftermath of violent conflict, identifying former enemy collaborators versus
innocent bystanders forced to flee violence is difficult. In post-conflict settings,
internally displaced persons (IDPs) risk becoming stigmatized and face difficulties... View Details
Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; War; Refugees; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Public Opinion; Lawfulness; Iraq
Kao, Kristen, Kristin Fabbe, and Michael Bang Petersen. "The Irredeemability of the Past: Determinants of Reconciliation and Revenge in Post-Conflict Settings." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-011, August 2023.
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
The decisions you make in a life-and-death crisis have a new, lasting importance. You can choose to ignore that, but you do so at your own peril. We are never going back to what we remember as business as usual. Why not? Because COVID is a seismic event—much more akin... View Details
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Lehman Brothers Family Partners | Baker Library
the Metropolitan Museum resulted in the opening of the Lehman Wing in 1975, often referred to as a museum within a museum. Herbert H. Lehman During World War I, Herbert H. Lehman served as chief assistant to Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
lessons I’d learned earlier in combat and proved that they applied not only in war but also in business and life. Here are a few of those lessons; maybe some will ring true. First, I’ve learned that time is a precious gift, and with that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
World War II,” says Thomas. It was assumed then that applicants for a teaching position didn’t want to do anything else, or that they didn’t have many other options, conditions that clearly don’t hold in today’s world, where vacancy rates... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
performance. While Klemmer delights in the anecdotal evidence, he cautions that the sample is too small to claim measurable student improvement. But he is thinking big. "Look at World War II. We had 150,000 trained military personnel in... 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 back of my mind, I thought I might eventually teach English... View Details