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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Thomason (MBA 1970) Schiffer Military History At the end of World War II, high-performance jets with unfamiliar operating characteristics were replacing propeller-driven airplanes. As accident rates soared,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
hired hand who shot the boy, grows as the meatpackers' muscle. The close of World War I ends the monopoly, and the company cleans up Hixson and his mess with a series of accidents. Returning home from a... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Rough start: “I remember coming home from the Naval Academy for Christmas leave as a freshman, and my GPA going into finals was a 0.91. But I loved the challenge, and I adapted.” Ahoy there: “My first command was a View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built (HarperBusiness), a new book by HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow, presents fascinating biographical essays of seven men whose products and practices have revolutionized the business View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
direction. But for Baldwin and other Navy pilots, nothing created more anxiety than landing on the carrier at night -- a feat that amounted to a controlled crash on a deck that was, in the case of the World View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
end, though, all the tools in the world won’t make you a successful mix-master. For that, you need to bring your own creativity and insights to the table. The master? Steve Jobs. When the exiled CEO returned to yank Apple out of near... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
venture funds, he has eloquently and vigorously made the case for this source of economic development in a continent long dominated by big business and risk-averse managers and investors. Born and raised in The Hague, the son of a physician, Twaalfhoven had just... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
formed. American Business, 1920–2000: How It Worked by Thomas K McCraw (The American History Series/Harlan Davidson) The past decade has brought such enormous change to the business world that it can be easy to lose sight of the equally... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
There’s no problem the business world can’t solve. That’s the thinking of Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2008), who believes companies—and the great minds who run them—can find sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises. “For whatever reason,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
assumed after World War II that we’d never have thermonuclear war. What do people in the oil industry think about your book? I’ve heard criticism that it’s preposterous we have any problems. We’ve been doing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Noted & Quoted
World War II that includes two Croix de Guerre and one Purple Heart. (Dallas Morning News, November 18, 2011) “We need to help create a new understanding of what capitalism is all about.” —University... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
disclosure. Women Find New Path to Work Recently retired professor Myra Hart’s New Path program helps HBS alumnae reenter the work world. Here is a look at what participants learned about life, work, and the rapidly changing world of... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
As the Nigeria-Biafra war raged around them, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994), her mother, and her brother made a dangerous dash for a better life. Huddled in the belly of a Portuguese cargo plane returning from delivering arms to the Biafran... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
examine his attributes. Perhaps the key to his success was his total knowledge of military history, tactics, and procedures. That knowledge, combined with his own World War I combat experience and his great... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- News
Last Look - September 2008
converting hot rolled steel into cold rolled steel.” Peter II of Yugoslavia (1923–1970) became king in 1934 after his father was assassinated. He went into exile in 1941, was deposed in 1945, and settled in the United States after World... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Breakthrough International Negotiation
When the stakes are high - in business, politics, or everyday life - it pays to take a page from the playbook of the world's greatest negotiators. And if you want to learn how to be a world-class negotiator, consider how Richard Holbrooke helped defuse the View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Vets Support Homeless Comrades
number of homeless Vietnam-era vets exceeds the number of personnel who died in that conflict and that more than a third of all homeless vets served in war zones. Each year, approximately five hundred thousand veterans — from View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
School, Harvard University, and the worldwide business community, an undertaking that is ambitious, but with some historical precedent at HBS, Spar says. “When the United States was in World War II, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
After its war of liberation from England, America was bankrupt, disjointed, and devoid of experience in governance. "The new country could have broken apart because of its financial problems," HBS professor emeritus Thomas McCraw writes... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
World War II saw a massive invasion of America's own shores, with wave upon wave of returning veterans - along with their civilian countrymen - eagerly anticipating the fruits of peace and the comforts of... View Details