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- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
clear that this is the case, and it is certainly not clear that every leader matters. Sometimes leaders have no choice. No president could have avoided declaring war on Japan after Pearl Harbor. But a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
In a 2012 Harvard Business School case on corruption at German conglomerate Siemens AG, Peter Solmssen —brought in to clean house —reflects on how people approach a business bribe. "The stupid View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
technological changes that blessed our nation with an unparalleled period of prosperity. From this base, millions of people were rescued from the desolation of World War II into the prosperous world initiated from America. Author John... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
about what would come next. “I didn’t think I needed business school at first,” he recalls. “But, you know, there are two ways to learn things. One is experience, where you do things. And the other is through View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
factory, and it was here that he became fascinated with mechanics and factory operations. With experience in the automobile industry, Georges was chosen to serve as an engineering officer in the French heavy artillery regiment during World View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice
that a lack of hard currency did not cripple long-distance trade. Between the 1720s and the 1760s, Thomas Hancock-uncle of Revolutionary War patriot John Hancock-deployed a wide variety of credit transactions to build View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
startup formation has been on the decline since the early 1980s; and real median household income is well below its peak in 1999. Most economic gains have gone instead to the wealthy and big businesses. Today’s 5.1 percent unemployment... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
dramatically. But we don't have money for civilian national service because so much money, trillions of dollars, is being spent on a futile war in Iraq. The view of America and Americans around the world has... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
often discussed with Uncle the expediency of my buying a house in town, in which all the family could be collected to live in the winter,” John Heard wrote. “He approved the idea, and I was not, therefore, much surprised when he told me View Details
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
leave for home by 5:30 p.m.? How did HUL develop a cheaper, better product to beat its competitor, Nirma? What do Taj Hotels, HDFC, HUL, L&T, and BPCL have in common? They are the win-win corporations! Based on over a decade of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
efficiency and innovation, between maintaining existing businesses and creating new ones, between revenue growth and increased profitability. They must strive to make progress on all these fronts—simultaneously. 2. Innovate with abandon.... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- Profile
Ameel Somani
structures," he says, "I had to consider competitive position and how we'd grow going forward." Combining passions Despite his satisfaction with investment banking, one important area remained unfulfilled: helping others.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
MARSHALL Speaking from his home at the Meadows of Napa Valley, a retirement community tucked among vineyards north of San Francisco, Marty Marshall (MBA 2/’47, DCS ’53) expounds on the virtues of his relatively new (since 2006) stomping... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
had occurred, but we were prepared," Lhota explains. "We had done a tremendous amount of contingency planning for disasters and terrorism events. Within a few hours, we were able to set up a command post at the Police Academy View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Union College 2012 Named Chairman, The Walt Disney Studios Chairman, The Walt Disney Studios After two years working on the Ivory Soap account at Procter & Gamble, Alan Horn was approached by Hollywood... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
to publish underground publications throughout the Soviet bloc. As Bronisław Komorowski, a fellow activist who went on to serve as Poland’s president from 2010 to 2015, explains through a translator: “For my father and his generation—the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
McNamara Illustration by Zak Pullen For a man who once commanded huge organizations and made decisions affecting the lives of millions, Robert S. McNamara (MBA 1939) is mostly on his own these days. Dressed casually in khakis and a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
unflappable? “I don’t think I feel risk the way most people do,” she says with a shrug. “I think it’s because of my mom.” Margaret Whitman was the sort of bold character who volunteered for the Red Cross during World War II and hopped... View Details
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
replace food, shelter, clothing, etc.," Gary Myers raises an issue that might warrant further discussion. While he points out that information leads to improvements in the efficiency with which goods are produced, he then goes on to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett