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Britt Williams

Painted faces, excessive candles, and neon costumes adorned the large, wooden dining table. Music emanated from the mini speaker in the kitchen, inviting us to dance while we did the dishes. Another typical Sunday evening. Growing up, my... View Details

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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

photographs his subject in front of a painted backdrop he constructs that portrays the sitter’s aspirations. Apagya explains: “I have always tried to find out what my clients like best, what they dream of, what they desire, their... 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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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Plymouth Motor Corporation Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

accompanied materials in an exhibition about Plymouth that was mounted at Baker Library in the mid 1930s. Photographs illustrate various stages of automobile production from building engine blocks and transmissions to assembling and View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Project outreach

Devon E. Winey (MBA '98) prepares to paint a hallway at Second Step Transitional Living Center, a home for victims of domestic violence. Three students plant flowers at Boston Senior Home Care. A group of enthusiastic students spent the... 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

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Biblical and Mythological Scenes - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

published by Cornelis Galle the Elder (ca. 1576–1650), after Tiziano Vecellio (Titian, 1477–1575). [n.p., early 17th century]. 24 x 18.8 cm, image CC n4 x 32 [ St. Roch Giving Alms to the Poor ] view image Etching by Guido Reni (1572–1642), after the 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

Portrait Project

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

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

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

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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

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Blasting bodies to a base - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 next Blasting bodies to a base ca. 1933 Packard Motor Company Photographer unknown Blasting bodies to a base that firmly grips the foundation View Details

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