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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Research Brief: Political Capital
particular responded more strongly to such efforts than their Republican counterparts, a fact the researchers argue helped push President Obama into office. Advertisements, on the other hand, worked better View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
was soon known to everybody. He knew exactly how to capitalize on all these contacts. With his subsequent War Production Board service, he soon became the number one go-to man... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Global Forum Set for June
upward of 1,000 alumni to consider the interweaving of the public and private worlds and the impact on financial markets, innovation and technology, executive compensation, and society as a whole. The forum will feature presentations by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
C. Gregg Petersmeyer learned about giving back from his parents. He observed in them and their contemporaries a tremendous empathy for their fellow citizens going through the shared hard times of the Depression and World War II. “Today,”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
fifty-year history, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were the big guys on the block. We had the money. We were helping to reform a world after World War II and gradually mutated into an... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
Executive Vice President for Strategy, Technology, and Innovation at Major League Baseball (photo by Alex Trautwig/MLB Photos) If you haven’t picked up a pack of baseball cards lately, you might be surprised by what’s on the back. Listed... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
says he hopes it will “enable young, entrepreneurial managers from Poland to lead even more business growth in the years ahead.” Educated as an engineer in England, where his father led a Polish squadron of the Royal Air Force during World View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
LIFE VEST: A soldier displays a piece of shrapnel that lodged in his armored vest during frontline action in Korea on March 30, 1952. The impact knocked him to the ground, but the vest, reinforced with Doriot’s “Doron,” was credited with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
helped edit his dissertation, “World War II Manpower Mobilization and Utilization in a Local Labor Market.” “His sentences sometimes ran on and on in the Germanic way, so I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
she took last year helped her to identify ethical issues involved in the struggle to control the diamond industry in Sierra Leone, where diamonds have fueled a brutal civil war for the past decade. "The Diamond High Council placed a ban... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Where Innovation Rules
hundreds of cases, HBS students are trained to view every business situation as open to improvement, and therefore an opportunity to build a new or better product or service. HBS alumni even have gone on to create entire industries, such... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Sumner Feldberg (MBA 1949), who died on July 1, 2022, was remembered in an obituary in the Wall Street Journal as an innovator in the field of retail. He grew up in Newton,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Corey, Lombard Remembered
Corey taught in the School’s MBA, Doctoral, and Executive Education programs; in the latter, he also took on several administrative roles. An early advocate of adding cases with ethical dimensions to the Marketing syllabus, Corey authored... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
evident, once again, last summer. The country was mired in the fifth year of a costly, bloody war in the Middle East, a conflict many believed was driven in part by a desire to secure access to Iraq’s petroleum reserves. “Black gold”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
(MBA ’01), a 34-year-old, well-connected political neophyte and the only Iraqi war veteran running for Congress as a Republican. “Having a guy who was on the ground and had an extremely active role in Iraq,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
aftermath of World War I, the Great Depression, and the beginning of World War II. In this turbulent era, he developed a distinctive focus and pedagogy that helped define business as a profession and grew a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
War II broke out and the German army occupied Holland. He left his war-torn homeland in 1948 to attend Fordham University on a scholarship. "I arrived in America with $25 and was washing dishes View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Helping vets become resident landlords
thing called the VA Loan Guarantee. That’s a no-money-down home-buying power, which was a result of the GI Bill after World War II. And what they particularly don’t know is that you can use this up to a no-money-down $417,000 to $721,000... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
them featured in the Bulletin’s “Last Look” photos), and serenades of professors in the last class. The most common game played during class was Bingo, called Section Bingo or Turkey Bingo. It was begun by 1972A in their first year and was still being played in 1990H.... View Details
- 27 Apr 2022
- News
Following the Flow of Aid
and support for these third-country nationals, who might not otherwise connect with services. McKenna also extended her visit to include Iraq and Lebanon, where food prices are hitting record highs as a result of the war in Ukraine. About... View Details