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Leonard S. Shoen

system of self-advertising via orange painted trucks that U-Haul is known for today. By 1984, Shoen’s initial investment in U-Haul of $5,000 had given rise to a company worth over $1 billion dollars with earnings of $42 million. View Details

Keywords: Transportation

01 Jun 2000
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HBS Community Reaches Out

sites, participants took part in myriad projects that included painting at Allston's Gardner Elementary School and landscaping at Cambridge's Center for Sustainable Building. Volunteer Catriona Fallon (HBS '01) worked at Boston Senior... View Details

20 Jun 2019
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Reframing Modern Art

to think about what she might want to do next, Murrell took the plunge, applying to the PhD program at Columbia University and beginning her studies in the fall of 2007. Sitting in a darkened auditorium, Murrell had a flash of insight when Éduoard Manet's 1863 View Details

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Misers, Moneylenders, and Thieves - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

owed the artist money for two paintings. Rembrandt probably did this portrait in thanks for Uytenbogaert's generosity. 16 Le Plaisir des Vieillards view image Engraved and published by Pierre François Basan (1735–97), after the painting... View Details

26 Apr 2011
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Do You See What I See?

of the novel. “Two students chose a Picasso painting of a mother and child, but they had very different ideas of what the painting meant,” says Sucher. “The work of art is a metaphoric parallel to a complex... View Details

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

28 May 2019
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Look Again

(1869–70), Bazille depicts the same black model very differently: beautifully painted as an exotic, bare-breasted servant to a white odalisque, or prostitute. This was a very accepted way for black women to be portrayed in 19th-century... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Stephen Mathew

painting of my favorite water spring I would swim in back home. I'll leave with a new painting of Aldrich Hall and all the cherished memories with my friends in there. How have diverse perspectives in your... View Details

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Art Nature Business

ecological systems; innovation, industrialization, recycling, and natural resources; changing weather patterns; the resilience of nature; and the human impact on the planet. Installed throughout the first floor of Spangler Center, this exhibition features art in a... View Details

22 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage

advantage—tend to live by it in our own personal affairs every day. For the most part, we all try to do what we're relatively best at and trade for everything else. Take an investment banker, for example. Even if that investment banker were better at View Details

Keywords: Re: David A. Moss

Portrait Project

Esther Hsu

to record the fleeting moments, which quilt together into days, months, and years. But my treasured photos are reminders for today disguised as souvenirs from the past. Taken as a whole, they create a mosaic of my mind's eye. I recall the shots of chipping View Details

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Derrick Snyder

marveled while exploring ancient cave paintings and bonded while riding horses across the horizon. We shared s'mores around the fire, while I spent night after night captivated by the flickering palette of an expansive sky, littered with... View Details

Portrait Project

Dina Wang

how to see the world with an artist's eye. He showed me that even mundane things can be beautiful. No dog was too mangy to be the subject of a quick sketch—the scruffier the better. And we never walked down a street together without stopping mid-conversation to point... View Details

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Lea Carpenter

English author E.M. Forster wrote a mantra for the Moderns; it was this: "only connect." That formula—if we can bleed it both into our lives (our husbands our wives our sons our daughters our parents our friends our work) and into our art (our novels our... View Details

23 Apr 2016
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Tipping His Cap to Open Source

model isn’t about gouging IP but adding value around it,” Whitehurst told The Business Times of Singapore. “It seemed [in 2008] like being a great way to be part of painting a new canvas.” Whitehurst sees big shifts in the business... View Details

Otto Haas

Along with chemist Otto Rohm, Haas founded one of the world’s largest specialty chemical producers. Under his leadership, Rohm and Haas discovered two major products that have had a significant impact on business and society – Plexiglas and chemical View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

01 Dec 1998
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Portrait of a Dean

reception hosted by Dean Kim B. Clark. Painted by George Augusta, the portrait hangs in a newly created "Deans' Gallery" in the large stairwell leading up to the Reading Room in Baker Library. A collection of portraits of past deans is... View Details

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HBS Art Program & Collections | Baker Library

the Tethys mosaic ; marine paintings by James Buttersworth and Fitz Henry Lane; 19th-century landscape paintings by Thomas Doughty and Alvan Fisher; a group of Currier and Ives hand-colored lithographs;... View Details

Portrait Project

Athena Ko

keep painting fences for inner city redevelopment. I will continue to believe though the sufferings around me severely test my faith. I will be honest when everyone feels they need to deceive. I will never let any pain, hardship, scorn or... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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HBS Community Rolls Up Its Sleeves

constructing trails for the Metropolitan District Commission to painting apartments in cooperation with Boston Senior Home Care. Volunteer Michael Echenberg (HBS ’02) did some spring-cleaning at the Cambridge Youth Guidance Center. “The... View Details

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Jodi Yang

which at their first utterance were painted within my skull: "May I have the swagger to feel I can change the world and the humility to know I have so much more to learn." View Details

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