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About This Collection | Baker Library

About This Collection HBS Entrepreneurs was originally launched in 2019. The website was migrated to a new platform in 2025 with the guidance of Adam Jacobi and Jennifer Wilson. Howard Stevenson Sarofin-Rock Baker Foundation Professor,... View Details

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Mariana Romaniak Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results GNEV Perspectives: Mariana Romaniak, Ridni Charitable Foundation Mariana Romaniak 17... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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Promising Starts

fellow’s compensation with support from these donors: David J. Dunn Fund, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation/Richard L. Menschel Endowment, Jorge Paulo Lemann Fund at Harvard Business School, Richard Lumpkin Dean’s Discretionary Fund, Margaret T. Morris View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Protecting critical infrastructure against disasters

Tom Popik (MBA 1988) is an entrepreneur who founded the Foundation for Resilient Societies, a nonprofit that protects critical infrastructure against natural and manmade disasters. (Published April 2014) View Details

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Tim Day Fitness Room | About

service laid the foundation for his success, Tim has dedicated much of his life to supporting the Marine Corps. One of the primary missions of the Timothy T. Day Foundation is to provide fellowships at... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Giving students a chance to attend elite private schools

Teresa Clarke (AB 1984, JD 1987, MBA 1988) reflects on helping start the Student Sponsorship Foundation of South Africa to give black students the opportunity to attend elite private schools. (Published April 2014) View Details

Oscar Gustave Mayer

Mayer is responsible for Oscar Mayer and Company’s rapid growth. Under his leadership, he laid the foundation for a billion dollar operation – a far cry from the $200 million operation he had inherited. View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

24 Jun 2020
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Unleashing Greatness in Others

01 Dec 2017
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Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence

Students partnered with Colgate-Palmolive in Mexico City Students partnered with Colgate-Palmolive in Mexico City Brian Franklin (MBA 2018) admits the prospect of partnering with Colgate-Palmolive to identify a strategy for marketing deodorant to teens in Mexico didn’t... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Improving the service experience requires excellence—but not in everything

Everyone knows what bad service feels like—and that’s something Frances Frei, Professor at HBS, wants to fix. Making the service experience better for everyone, from customers to employees, begins with understanding the services customers value most and then focusing... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn

predecessors to modern computers. The computing revolution naturally followed, in part fueled by government projects like ARPANet, the Defense Department initiative that would lay the foundation for the modern internet. But powering all... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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Making a Difference

CEO of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, leads an organization considered to be a model among disease-focused foundations that pursue research, therapies, and cures. Under Hood’s... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta

James C. Wallace

Wallace embarked on a massive renovation of American Ship Building – establishing a foundation for building ships with expanded carrying capacity. Under his leadership, American Ship Building produced dozens of new cargo vessels,... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

Eugene R. Olson

Olson continued Deluxe’s market dominance in check printing while laying the foundation for its electronic diversification and expansion. He oversaw the acquisition of businesses that produce computer forms and emboss and encode plastic... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Arthur A. Kent

Kent introduced the mass production of high quality receivers. By 1926, Kent had sold more than 1 million sets, with annual sales exceeding $60 million. He was renowned for his philanthropy interests, Atwater Kent Foundation and Atwater... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons

her and her research. Today, millions of people recognize Carson’s courage, dignity, and lasting influence. The year after Silent Spring was published, Carson gave a speech to the Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Permanente Medical Group... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

20 Jun 2014
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Innovation is not a side business to running a company—innovation is the business

Leading innovation is the foundation of a company's success—in bad times as well as good. This is the lesson Lynda M. Applegate, Baker Foundation Professor, has drawn from her research. Applegate has... View Details

01 Jun 2004
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Greenhill Family Gift Enhances Global Research

marketplace at close range.” The School’s Global Initiative oversees research centers and offices in Buenos Aires, California’s Silicon Valley, Hong Kong, Paris, São Paulo, and Tokyo. Foundation Supports Baker’s Historical Collections... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Earl H. Richardson

The inventor of the first electronic iron with the unique "Hotpoint" feature, Richardson is credited with laying the foundation for the billion-dollar household appliance industry. Hotpoint's irons were very successful in the... View Details