Prisoners Of War - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Nov 2019
News

Lifting Fallen Families

percent of the population serves.” So the Children of Fallen Patriots began to show the public how to support military families and the children who are left behind when parents are killed in combat, in... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

20 Dec 2018
News

Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni

party held deep beneath the streets of Westminster—in the Churchill War Rooms, an underground bunker that allowed Britain's leaders to plot the allied route to victory in WWII. More than 100 alumni and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Feb 2018
News

HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86

the hardships of World War II, with its shortages, rationing, bombardments, and Nazi occupation. After the war ended, at the age of 17, he went... View Details

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Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

(September-October 1959). Full Text Available (Harvard Users Only). EXPLORE MORE OF THE EXHIBIT EXPLORE x HOME EMERGENCE OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY The Invention of the Polarizer A... View Details

01 Jan 2008
News

Meg Whitman, MBA 1979

courageous, strategic, fast, and right.” CURRENT READING Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, by Robert Draper “Today, eBay does more than double the trading volume of the New York Stock Exchange.... View Details

08 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

This blog was originally published in 2021. Brandon Tseng (MBA 2017) remembers his aha moment. It was April 2015, and Tseng was a US Navy SEAL approaching the end of seven years’ service; his next step would be Harvard Business School.... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

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Research Links | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

United States Steel: A Corporation with a Soul ; Steel in the War ; Steel Serves the Nation ; and Steel Making in America . Researchers will also find valuable resources documenting the emergence of the... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette

frame the bay view from the piazza, and the sizable chunk of a Civil War cannon that came to rest in the sturdy house's attic after being blown apart by the Confederates as Union troops approached. "We get a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Cristina Ros Blankfein

more from a wishful conversation over cocktails than the classic Aha! moment often associated with compelling concepts. Being part of the Millennial generation that has embraced craft beers and innovative cocktails, the pair wondered... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

economic miracle (1920s); cars in the second (post-World War II) Convenience Store Retailing in Two Countries: Southland and Seven-Eleven Japan How Japanese managers learned from their American counterparts, then taught the teachers The... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 1996
News

Entrepreneurship at HBS

Fifty years ago, a new course was introduced at HBS to provide students with a better understanding of the problems of starting and managing new businesses. The Management of... View Details

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

01 Mar 2017
News

Lego Stays on Script

you ask to use a company’s main brand, because that affects all of its employees and business,” he says. “But the way we play with Lego is a mash-up. My son’s Batman minifigure interacts with a Star Wars... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jan 2005
News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

answers." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "One of the most important elements of leadership is fairness. You have to be consistent in the decisions that you make and the messages that you deliver. An organization... View Details

02 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?

strategy on artificial intelligence research and development ” As he put it, “DARPA is a government agency responsible for developing and deploying weapons for war fighters of the future. We need CARPA—the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

after being caught. The Cost Of Doing Business Siemens had moved aggressively into developing countries following World War II, when a German company was persona non grata to most View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Aug 2012
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

cause the lack of sufficient organic growth as opposed to the growth by mergers and acquisitions. As he put it, "Toobigs are enormously complex, with massive, self defeating strategies at war within,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services

07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

coastal cities like Mumbai or Lagos or Bangkok as people seek jobs or flee wars or drought. The fact of migration exposes more people to weather-related disturbances. If sea rise were to accelerate, many... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

make a distinction in meaning, it is usually in reference to levels in a hierarchy. People at the very top provide "leadership"—whatever that is—or at least they are supposed to. People in the middle do the "management," again with little clarity about what that means.... View Details

Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

conjuring up. 3. Emphasize coaching and mentoring over managing the details. Talent is the most important strategic resource for future success, suggests Hargrove. You can't win the talent wars without putting leadership development at... View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

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