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  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

2009 Abstract This chapter explores issues of how Chinese railroads improved social mobility and standards of living along major trunk lines, and how foreign investment shaped the integration of the Chinese View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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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
  • Web

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
  • Web

General File - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Montreal-Vancouver railroad in 1885, close-ups of early computing machinery, cyanotypes of European and U.S. bridges, images of workers in South African gold mines, a series of photos taken of supermarkets around the world circa early... 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 Mar 2019
  • News

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
Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook
  • 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
Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation
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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
  • News

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
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
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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
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

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
  • 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
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
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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
  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

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
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

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
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
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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
  • News

Professor, Historian, and Storyteller

some of the big inflection points and in particular, some of the events that did so much to define the story of American business: the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, the crash of the stock market in 1929, the rise of... View Details
Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
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Historical Research - India

Subjects covered include trade regulations on Indian imports and exports, specifically the textile, dyeing and cotton industries; the introduction of steam navigation, including the Calcutta railroad system and the East India Railway... View Details
  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) has just made its third bid to acquire Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC), one of the largest railroads in the United States. Having rejected the prior offers, NSC’s CEO James... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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