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- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
customs and port authority data on the international shipments of all U.S. publicly-traded firms, we show that firms are significantly more likely to trade with countries that have a strong resident population near their firm headquarters. We use the formation of World... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
greater. When Exit Is an Option: Effects of Indiscriminate Violence on Attitudes Among Syrian Refugees in Turkey By: Fabbe, Kristin, Chad Hazlett, and Tolga Sinmazdemir Abstract—Most research on the effects of violence on civilian... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the government took so long to move could have been as simple as structure. “There are lessons to be gleaned from how the war on terrorism played out, post–9/11, where there were all these fiefdoms that sprang up,” says Josh Lefkowitz... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
out: “Stand well with the trade & are in high credit.”[5] The personal nature of some of these details, and the fact that an individual had no access to his or her report, made Dun and other agencies vulnerable to criticism. The Irish nationalist and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
connecting over a shared interest. The discussion boards were alive with people interested in teapots, Civil War memorabilia, and stamps.” Despite seeing the potential, even Whitman admits eBay grew beyond... View Details
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
underlies future lock-in. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-038.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAbraham Lincoln and the Civil War Harvard Business School Compilation 805-115 Analyzes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Bibliography - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Hammond, Bray. Banks and Politics in America, from the Revolution to the Civil War . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957. Full text available as a networked resource. (Harvard users only: Harvard ID... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
the Civil War era. Those trees are still home to bald eagles, dozens of species of migratory songbirds, and one of the largest blue heron nesting sites in the Chesapeake, with more than 400 blue heron... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
with case studies on projects in Venezuela, Kuwait, China, and Thailand, among others. For example, Esty and research associate Fuaad A. Qureshi coauthored a case on a $1.4- billion aluminum smelter in Mozambique known as the Mozal project. Ravaged by a 17-year View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Web
Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
lived by his word, helping Ipswich soldiers and their families during the Civil War and donating to the Ipswich Female Seminary. While in China, reading became a favorite pastime of Western merchants, and... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
50. Then the Civil War broke out and he became one of the best military leaders in history, and a better president than I had realized before reading the book. In second place is Walter Isaacson-Evan Thomas’... 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 world from... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Publication:Journal of Peace Research (forthcoming) Abstract This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic, and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
supporting the process. We are also offering our contributions to the civil support activities of the NGOs.” As of February 16, Anadolu Group has sent 179 lorries of food, water, and other supplies to address urgent needs, providing... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
shot to death in a police car in 1941 because he laughed while standing in line at a movie theatre with his girlfriend. Or how about the hate that led to Timothy Hood’s, murder in the back of a police car? He was a World War II veteran... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Leslie Crocker Snyder (HRPBA ’63) is the essence of grace and civility as she welcomes the Bulletin to her courtroom on a gray, snowy day in early March. With her shoulder-length blonde hair, discreet... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
pessimist on the subject? Why? What’s your projection of US growth and prosperity? What do you think? Related Reading: Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (New York: W. W.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog
public, etc. In diplomacy : Christiana Figueres guides the Paris climate talks to a near-unanimous agreement in 2015; Colombian President Juan Santos ends a 50-year civil war with the FARC guerillas; US... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
And thanks to the people he got to know while serving, he believes veterans hold a key part of the solution to the current hyperpolarization and lack of civility in American politics. Barcott has established a federally registered,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli