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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
This has led reinsurers to take increasingly public stances on the risk of human-induced climate change and the need to take urgent action to contain it. Democracy: A Case Study by David Moss (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) Professor Moss invites readers to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Baker Library Photo Exhibit
Hudson Motor Cars plant. At top left, a photo (circa 1934) by Fred C. Seely, titled “Combination slicing and wrapping machine,” taken at the Continental Baking Company, features an American icon, Wonder Bread. To view the Baker exhibit,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
of the American B-17 Flying Fortresses as they passed over Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, on the morning of September 17, 1944. The sound had become familiar since the United States had entered the Second World War almost three years earlier;... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit
the United States and examines how the state influenced railroads’ development on both continents. (Indeed, some researchers suggest that American railroads were sometimes inefficient, lumbering organizations whose scale was achieved... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Field Study
epic battle is the Murr Center, the brick edifice at the open end of the Stadium. A 1998 gift of Michael Murr (MBA ’75), the building houses squash and tennis courts; a Harvard athletics history hall; and administrative offices, including... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
tract. Seated at his camp desk day after day, the weeks turning into years, he recorded in his smooth, plain script a huge body of work. His surviving papers, almost by themselves, constitute a military history of the Revolutionary War.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch (IA ’43) (University of Wisconsin Press) The producer of such film classics as West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven, Mirisch... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Community Building
Ruth Mulan Chu Chao, beloved matriarch of a prominent and accomplished Chinese-American family with significant Harvard ties. This building is the first on campus named after a woman and an American of Chinese descent. A scholar in Asian... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
INCAE Making Global Impact
one of its earliest international ventures, INCAE, the Central American business school, is an established and vibrant institution. As it approaches the fiftieth anniversary of its inception, INCAE is preparing to launch a development... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
He Loves New York
banking whiz, Wasserstein was purchasing or founding other below-the-radar media properties, including the American Lawyer and the Deal. Asked about New York’s storied history and its role in helping bring... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- News
Jane Fraser Named CEO of Citi, Breaking Wall Street’s Glass Ceiling
Latin American division and its corporate strategy and M&A group. “I am honored by the Board's decision and grateful to Mike for his leadership and support,” Fraser said in the statement. “Citi is an incredible institution with a proud... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line
entrepreneurial finance professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School. In view of this year's conference theme, HBSAAAA president Kenneth A. Powell (MBA '74) notes that Chicago was chosen "in part because of its history as a primary... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Doriot Papers Arrive at HBS
pioneering work in the field of venture capital through records from the American Research and Development Corporation, the world’s first publicly funded VC firm that he led for a number of years. View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Interpreting the Gipper
wrote in Newsweek (June 14, 2004), will hinge more than anything else on one question: “How much credit does he deserve for the fact that the Cold War ended far earlier than almost anyone suspected — and on terms that Americans had... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
(“Rocky”) Aoki fell in love with New York City. The son of a restaurateur in Japan, Aoki eventually opened his own four-table unit in Manhattan in 1964 and called it Benihana (after a Japanese flower), the name of his father’s first establishment. Watching View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941–1945 by Michael Beschloss (MBA 1980) (Simon & Schuster) Noted presidential historian, author, and commentator Beschloss offers an insightful, comprehensive, behind-the-scenes account of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
advancement of African Americans in the business world. "Being the first Fitzhugh professor is a particular honor," Thomas noted during a recent interview. "He spent much of his life trying to facilitate the creation of a more diverse and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
sad story of our slippage in mathematics and science. In fourth grade, American children are ahead of almost everyone in the world. By the eighth grade they are even, and by twelfth grade they are seriously behind. If you walk through the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
classroom was, in the words of former American Association for Higher Education president Russell Edgerton, like watching “Rostropovich and Bernstein conduct a symphony.” Six feet tall and loose-limbed, he was constantly on the move,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
A Remarkable Life Story
didn’t help her self-esteem when she fumbled her first cold call. Not one to hold a “pity party,” Lambert joined an effort in 1967 to recruit black students from other schools (the number swelled 450 percent in the Class of 1970) and was a founding member of the... View Details