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Events - Business History

Events Events Upcoming Events Business History Seminars Nov 25 25 Nov 2024 Business History Seminar Charles Fawell (Yale University), “Empire on the Line: Shipping Corporations, Sovereignty, and the Sea Corridors of European Colonialism,... View Details

07 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

Battalion. While at HBS and SEAS (the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences), Weston built his own video game, Regent, and honed his product management and entrepreneurial skillset. He is also Co-President of the HBS Show... View Details

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

Ships and Sea Transport (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1931), opp. p. 8, map. Distances Between Ports U.S. Navy, Hydrographic Office, Table of Distances Between Ports (Washington: GPO, 1942), opp. p. 4, map. Ford: Countries of... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering

catalyze collaboration between HBS and SEAS as Harvard’s Allston campus evolves into an epicenter of research and innovation. A Focus on Education Education has been at the heart of Nunnelly’s and Dupré’s philanthropic efforts and... View Details

28 Feb 2019
News

New Program Will Develop Leaders of Innovative Ventures

passionate about making a difference in the world—and many of them are driven to create,” says SEAS Dean Frank Doyle. “Thanks to the generous support of the Roberts family, this program will equip a cohort of remarkable students with new... View Details

Portrait Project

Ankit Tandon

completed on the ride out because my school was destroyed. In the coming days adrift in a sea of upheaval, my family would relocate to Houston, Texas, as newly minted refugees. In those roughest hours, however, the simple kindness and... View Details

10 Nov 2015
Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

“Authenticity has become the gold standard for leadership” —Harvard Business Review, January 2015 In the last 10 years, authenticity has become the gold standard of leadership. This is a sea change from 2003 when I wrote Authentic... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

Portrait Project

Sneha Biswas

once told me that I must study well because men want educated wives. So, I did. But somewhere along the journey, my goal shifted. I wasn’t doing it for a husband, but for the respect that women, like my mother, deserve. I worked on ships in the deep View Details

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Morgan Hall | About

atrium with light wells runs lengthwise through the 117,707-square-foot building with a unique focal point: a fourth-century Roman mosaic of the Greek sea goddess Tethys set into the floor inside the front entrance. About the Name John... View Details

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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment

record on Earth [3] . Sea Level Rise By 2050 at least 570 cities and some 800 million people will be exposed to rising seas and storm surges [4] . Extreme Weather Annual weather-related natural disasters... View Details

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Ratnika Prasad

life to balancing public mandates with the realities of environmental conservation. For me, climate change was a reality we lived with, experienced in wildly fluctuating rains that flooded my house, turbulent storms that eroded roads, and increases in View Details

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

telegraph varied commodity by commodity and the bulk of communications continued by sea post until the early twentieth century. London had a unique role as the international service centre for the emergent global economy, providing... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

25 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

all cities for women to shop by themselves, to be out on the streets actively spending money. So this is one important aspect of a sea change," says Koehn. "Madam Walker was part and parcel of that evolution and can't really be... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

18 Feb 2020
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A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

weddings, but until I met Seiko, I didn’t know what ‘love being patient’ really meant. After our second date in August 2016 I told Seiko, “I’m going to sea for a few months, but I’ll be back soon.” She didn’t understand that as a Navy man... View Details

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7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

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Sumit Malik

The shards of my family scattered in a sea of refugees. When I was thirteen, my grandfather brought me to rural Punjab, to the remnants of a home splintered by religious intolerance. I gazed across a quiet pasture from the life he and so... View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Climate Adaptation: How Investors Think About Resilience Senior Lecturer John D. Macomber (MBA 1983) + More Info – Less Info Wildfire, river flooding, drought, extreme heat, and sea rise perils seem to be getting worse in many parts of... View Details

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Tory Voight

It’s 3 am; I awake in a sea of newspapers stacked over me in the beat-up van we sometimes slept in; my Goodwill clothes still on from the day before. It’s time to help my single mother deliver them before her house cleaning jobs and... View Details

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Sonakshi Bose

“I’m going to be mean.” This was the thought that entered my 8-year old mind, as I felt my eyes well up. It was September 2001, I had just moved to New York from Singapore, and I stuck out – dressed in ponytails in an Abercrombie world. Brown, in a View Details

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Socioeconomic Inclusion - MBA

awake in a sea of newspapers stacked over me in the beat-up van we sometimes slept in; my Goodwill clothes still on from the day before. It’s time to help my single mother deliver them before her house cleaning jobs and before my classes.... View Details

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