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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
attended and taught at Tuskegee Institute and knew Booker T. Washington, brought his family to Philadelphia during the great black northward migration before World War I. America’s father served in the Army in World View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
various aspects of a problem in order to come up with a reasonable solution in a limited amount of time was truly useful preparation for my several careers. Initially, I’d been torn between the military and... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Navy Destroyer Named After HBS Alumnus
secretary of defense for installations and logistics during the Johnson Administration, and a commissioned lieutenant in the Navy during World War II. Admiral John Richardson, chief View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
ever be persuaded to seriously consider a scientist’s point of view. In a later discussion of the war on cancer, he communicated the scientist’s point View Details
- Portrait Project
Zuriel Chavez
I keep a pair of World War II Naval dog tags framed in my living room. They are stamped with the name “James P. Lapp” and represent the impact one man can make. In April 1985, I was carried to this country... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
flaws (e.g., the war profiteer Oskar Schindler in the 1993 movie Schindler's List). Which begs another question that rarely gets asked: in the aggregate, is it possible that we're actually better off with the influence View Details
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
Clubs News Clubs News Singapore War Room Sessions Link Startups with HBS Alumni Mentors The HBS Club of Singapore (HBSCS), in collaboration with the Textile and Fashion Federation (TaFF) and its signature... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Portrait Project
Jake Cusack
seen those things that separate war in the abstract from war in reality: how hard it is to successfully intervene in another country, no matter how noble the goal, no matter how great the effort. The... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
says he hopes it will “enable young, entrepreneurial managers from Poland to lead even more business growth in the years ahead.” Educated as an engineer in England, where his father led a Polish squadron of the Royal Air Force during... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
who served alongside male-only US Special Operations teams in Afghanistan became a bestseller and is being turned into a movie by Reese Witherspoon. But Lemmon, now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is proudest of the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
the bodies up there.’ We ignored that advice.”) Cohen is also proud of her part in effecting the transfer of authority over remote Midway Island from the Navy to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. For... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
of risk and released me from a personal prison of achievement. Some context: In 1999, I joined a large-scale startup providing a new consumer phone service in Brazil. We raised... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Another difference is the sheer size of the industry. Telecom is now of comparable size by some measures but certainly wasn't initially. Before the Second World War there was... View Details
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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
in Fisher, Steel Serves the Nation , 9. 54 While M. Peter Piening is not credited in Steel in the War or Steel Making in America , the design of these volumes is similar to Steel Serves the Nation . 55... View Details
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IFC: Cape Town; Africa Rising - Course Catalog
by meeting and working with other young Africans in the area. We will reflect on a changing international environment marked by COVID, the decline of globalization, a possible global recession and a new Cold View Details
David Rockefeller
Having gained much international experience while serving in the United States military during World War II, Rockefeller joined Chase in 1945, honing his international banking skills as he assumed increasing amounts View Details
Keywords: Finance
Jules S. Bache
Bache took over his uncle’s brokerage business and built it into one of the premier financial services firms in the early decades of the twentieth century. His operation helped to facilitate the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
Performing Arts: Alternative Futures Allen Grossman and Coleman RadellHarvard Business School Case 311-099 Ren Levy took over Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts when it was a group of warring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
the years immediately after World War I, the School’s other ventures into publishing had been generally less successful. McArthur believed that publishing was critical to HBS for two reasons: the dissemination View Details
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Thought Leader
join the Navy during World War II, where he spent three years training pilots, before returning to complete his philosophy studies. Davidson’s writings consisted primarily of “short, crisp intellectually... View Details