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- 19 Aug 2019
- News
A New Purpose for the Corporation
Offering an update of their statement on “the purpose of a corporation”, the Business Roundtable, an influential group of some of America’s top chief executives, noted that “we share a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders”—and not just their shareholders.... View Details
- 19 Mar 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager
chief sustainability officers in American companies, although their number has been growing rapidly. A new study by George Serafeim and Kathleen Millerexplains who they are, where they come from, and how to make them more effective.... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
who started his first company, Tribeca Designs, an efficient storage CD tower, while a student at Harvard Business School, spent his early post-HBS years working for private equity firms before joining Radio One—an American broadcasting... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
the pledge of allegiance at their naturalization ceremony. Fifteen years after the couple had fled a dictatorship in Brazil, they achieved their dream of becoming United States citizens. Those are just a few of the more than 70 stories... View Details
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- Alumni WDYDWYD
Caren Kelleher
My great-grandmother, a Swedish immigrant, left her homeland at the age of twenty to pursue her American dream; my grandmother, a WWII nurse, outranked her own husband in the Army; and my mother, a purposeful entrepreneur, started her own... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
More Alumni Books
Growing Up with Harry: Stories of Character by Sherman Baldwin (MBA ’97) (iUniverse) How You( ) Are Like Shampoo for Job Seekers: The Proven Personal Branding System to Help You Succeed in Any Interview and Secure the Job of Your Dreams... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
employers to provide essential benefits, including health care after retirement. That meant we didn’t have to face much public responsibility to do that. The American Dream may have to be reinvented, perhaps... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
1999) (Logra Tu Dream Publishing) Achieving the American Dream has become increasingly difficult for many Latinos, despite huge opportunities, because mentorship and... View Details
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n 1960, ARD invested $3.6 million in 18 companies and, by 1961, the firm became the first venture capital firm with shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In the article "Scientific Risk-Taking Keeps Paying Off for View Details
- Profile
Casey Gerald
four MBA students, and one RV Finally, Casey believes, HBS provides the “best possible two years to dream big.” True to his word, Casey is collaborating with three other first-year HBS MBA candidates to create MBAs Across America, an... View Details
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The NAAI Exhibition Opens - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
organizers paid homage to Alfred Stieglitz in a reception dedicated to the "dean of American photography." By the 1930s a new generation of photographers with a modernist sensibility pursued commercial photography as both an artistic... View Details
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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n the latter half of the twentieth century , venture capital investment transformed groundbreaking technologies into sustainable enterprises and contributed to the growth of an American economy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
money. But refunds are many families’ best opportunity to put away a few dollars for their children and their futures. For the past three years, a team comprising researchers, the nonprofit Doorways to Dreams Fund (which I cofounded),... View Details
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Bibliography - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture 1884-1929 . Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Campbell, Heyworth, Art Centre Bulletin (September 1924): 1, no. 1. Calkins, Earnest Elmo.... View Details
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
creditworthy customers are being shut out, that’s a problem. Even worse, if we don't understand why, we can’t fix it. About the Author Karen G. Mills is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School and the author of Fintech, Small Business & the View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
influence extended well beyond the classroom. Here, a few of the ideas and inventions that Doriot helped bring to the masses. (Baker Library Historical Collections) Venture capitalism Before Doriot founded the world’s first VC firm, View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Chai Ling
Freedom. Democracy. For five days, as Chai Ling lay in the suffocating darkness of a nailed-shut crate, these words sustained her more than her meager ration of bread and water ever could. Hidden in the hold of a leaky boat, waiting to make a run to the safety of Hong... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Matt…
among cities.I co-ran our inaugural Mayors Challenge, a competition to inspire American cities to generate innovative ideas that solve major challenges and improve city life. (We launched a second competition in Europe this fall.) I also... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
1895); quote Alfred Bishop Mason, “Things to Do,” Charities Review (March 1892): 212. 29 Rolf Nugent, The Provident Loan Society of New York: An Account of the Largest Remedial Loan Society (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1932), 51. 30 Calder, Financing the View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the PRIDE Club
is a self-proclaimed foodie and travel buff who loves to cook, read food journalism, explore the Boston restaurant scene, and dream up new adventures abroad. When not in class, you can find him on the nearest Peloton bike or singing in... View Details