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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
printing technologies and marketing strategies. Through Baker's collections, the role these inventive forms played in marketing mass-produced products to the evolving American consumer is explored. Railroads and the Transformation of... View Details
- 29 Oct 2024
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A Fearless Fighter Honored
On September 5, 2024, a plaque was unveiled in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, memorializing a mission led by James Holt Green (MBA 1935) on its 80th anniversary. As recalled in a 2019 Bulletin article, Green and his team of six Office of Strategic Services (OSS) officers... View Details
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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
picture Indigenous people variously as warriors engaged in violent conflicts; as skilled hunters, peaceful potters, or ceremonial dancers; or as stoic figures stepping aside, waving on, and even seeming to welcome the arrival of the View Details
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Core Body of Knowledge - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
school was to establish a body of knowledge that offered more than a technical education. Harvard economist Edwin Gay, the first dean of HBS, helped establish the core curriculum including courses in accounting, commercial law, transportation (with an emphasis on View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
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Speaking for the Airlines
rose to the position of president and COO of that commercial bank, and five years at Conrail, where he was instrumental in returning the troubled railroad to profitability. So it was not surprising that, with his background in finance and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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The Fight Beyond
flight. Some had also joined the group as it traveled, including the British SOE team and Maria Gulovich, a Slovak partisan who served as a translator. One night, Green and several others ventured out to evaluate the situation. On their sortie, they blew up a View Details
- 06 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Art of American Advertising
in the years following the Civil War—when the railroad industry created a new, national network for manufacturing and distributing consumer goods. (These were the days when "posting" referred to hanging posters on the sides of... View Details
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American Business History Records | Baker Library
German-born financier Henry Villard (1835-1900) played key roles in the financing of the transcontinental railroad and development of the electrical industry. R.G. Dun & Co. Credit Report Volumes Credit reports created by America's first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Déjà Vu All Over Again
common cyclical nature, whether the crash in question was fueled by land speculation, railroad expansion, the booming life insurance industry, or lax regulation of regional stock exchanges. So, will a deeper understanding of these moments... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
executive board of the Deutsche Bundesbahn and the Deutsche Reichsbahn from 1991 to 1994, Heinz Dürr played a leading role in unifying the East and West German railroads into one national system that is scheduled to be fully privatized in... View Details
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Melvin Edwards Searching for the Word 1989/2019 | About
formed from tools, chains, railroad spikes, and steel scraps—Edwards works in a wide range of media, from barbed-wire installations to large-scale painted steel sculptures. His powerful and moving sculptures engage with history and... View Details
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
of peak industrial or business upheavals, notably the mid-nineteenth century explosion within the textile industry and growing industrialization; the development of the national railroad system and the telegraph from 1880-1920; and the... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2017
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3-Minute Briefing: Wick Moorman (MBA 1989)
can do more to take advantage of. People don’t have that inherent kind of belief about trucks. I spent 12 years on the engineering side of the railroad industry, supervising infrastructure maintenance. I then had what I always describe as... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Collection Highlights | Baker Library
in the financing of the transcontinental railroad and development of the electrical industry. Henri A. Termeer Papers Document the career of an entrepreneur and biotechnology executive known for leading Genzyme Corporation from 1983 to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
steadily improved. Railroads were the big breakthrough, but by 1939, 10 percent of all intercity freight was shipped by motor vehicles. Getty Images For nineteenth-century passengers, riding the rails was a heady experience marked by the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
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Who Are We?
and Pepsi aren't comfortable with this. "But if they have any brains, they're going to get into this for real," Birnbaum says. "Because it is happening." —DM TRANSPORTATION Matthew Moore and Jessica Le Roy Moore Union Pacific Railroad... View Details
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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910
cultural landscape after the Civil War. By the 1860s, the railroad industry had created a national network for the manufacture and distribution of industrial and consumer goods and, with it, the need for eye-catching, widespread... View Details
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Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Works, Worcester, Massachusetts. Scooping up loose iron ore, Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., Birmingham, Alabama. By-products coke ovens, Geneva Steel Plant, Geneva, Utah. Spinning wire into suspension cables on Delaware Memorial... View Details
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Trade Publications - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Dodge, 1868-1961). Note: issues from March-November, 1870 online with Google Lloyd’s Register of British and Foreign Shipping (London: Cox and Wyman, printers, 1764-1913). Note: issues from July, 1878 – June, 1979 online with Google Manual of the View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
From the dawn of the U.S. transcontinental railroad in 1869 to the widespread embrace of consumer products like cell phones and iPods in our time, the story of American business is in constant motion, never at rest—or at ease. A new... View Details