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Introduction - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
photography between the World Wars, extensive photographic records of the United Fruit Company in South and Central America, advertising images from automobile manufacturers in the 1930s and 40s, nineteenth-century commercial and city... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
What is Web3?
secure, and decentralized framework where individuals own, and have greater control and sovereignty over, their digital assets and interactions within the digital realm. Blocks and Blockchains The foundational technology of Web3 is the blockchain, a distributed digital... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice
the growth of the young American economy. Book credit-so called after the account book in which a storekeeper would record credit or barter purchases-was easily the largest category of pre-industrial credit. The volume of this invisible... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Will He or Won’t He?
required companies to treat stock options as expenses and make deductions from profits.” And Cox himself pledged he would not undermine Donaldson’s work. Describing his predecessor as “a standup guy,” Cox said, “I look at his record as... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
internal reorganization and strategic partnerships have led to greater efficiencies and ongoing growth. In her five-year tenure, Carroll has diversified the mix of commodities the company holds through partnerships and acquisitions. Operating profits in 2011 reached a... View Details
Edward E. Carlson
When he assumed the CEO position of United Airlines, Carlson inherited a company that had just produced a record $40 million loss. Despite no prior experience in the airline industry, Carlson embarked on a stringent cost reduction and... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Success Through Shared Effort
With donations totaling $1.77 million, the MBA Class of 2003 set a new 10th Reunion giving record last spring. "The most important catalyst for giving was leadership at the section level," says Carolyn Wolff Dorros, who served as reunion... View Details
E. G. Higdon
Higdon’s career with Maytag spanned 40 years. During his CEO tenure, he orchestrated Maytag’s initial line expansion efforts – moving beyond washers and dryers to other major household appliances. In the process, he achieved record level... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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Gary Binford
my infectious laughter and emotive vocal music as an entertainer and a recorded music executive. Even when I become world-renowned and my voice resounds, not only on the world stage but also on life's stage, I would like people to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Too Cool for School
14, 2009) reported, other relatives and family friends were clamoring for his services. Eventually he began posting instructional videos on YouTube; to date, more than 1,200 of them have been viewed over 10 million times. That, Khan says, surpasses the views View Details
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Letter from W. J. Filbert, U.S. Steel Corporation, to Frank C. Ayres - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
22, 1932 Business Historical Society Records Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility Contact Email: histcollref@hbs.edu © President and Fellows of Harvard College View Details
- 03 Jan 2016
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NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
Parcells out of retirement. Parcells went on to coach the struggling Cowboys to a 34-30 record in four years, including a 10-6 record his first year. The team made the playoffs twice during Parcells’ tenure,... View Details
Wallace R. Persons
During his twenty year tenure, Persons took Emerson from a small fan and motor maker with sales of $50 million to a large diversified industrial manufacturer with sales of over $900 million. Noted for continuously cutting costs and conservatively acquiring only smaller... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 01 Dec 1999
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Pearson Hunt
the record of a lecture to an alumni club, which my secretary and I deciphered and did our best to transform into something publishable. With no cues for sentence or paragraph breaks, this transformation from disk to text was difficult... View Details
Keywords: Pearson Hunt
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Andrew Boudreau
Despite establishing impressive records in soccer, indoor track, and lacrosse, and despite being named the male athlete who contributed the most to athletics in his high school, Andy Boudreau passed on a lacrosse try-out opportunity at... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
matching the ratio between his cost and the price he charges. For example, if he buys the papers for ten cents and sells them for seventy cents, and his records show that demand is typically ten papers or less six days out of every week,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
entrepreneurship just doesn’t square with reality. Our special focus coverage of entrepreneurship in this issue will help set the record straight — starting with the cover photo. The pictured trio aren’t the future of entrepreneurship at... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
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Heard on the Street (HOTS) - bringing the HBS community together through harmony
concert. Our first show of the academic year just took place On December 2nd via YouTube livestream. Putting together a virtual concert actually required more work on all members. Each of us learned how to use an online software for recording, View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Connecting past to present
in 1983 and has been online for nearly 18 years. It now has some 2 million subscribers, who use the site to explore their family roots, discover their ethnicity, and to seek out relatives. They have created more than 60 million family trees using billions of digitized... View Details