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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
formed. American Business, 1920–2000: How It Worked by Thomas K McCraw (The American History Series/Harlan Davidson) The past decade has brought such enormous change to the business world that it can be easy to lose sight of the equally... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
There’s no problem the business world can’t solve. That’s the thinking of Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2008), who believes companies—and the great minds who run them—can find sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises. “For whatever reason,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Navy Destroyer Named After HBS Alumnus
secretary of defense for installations and logistics during the Johnson Administration, and a commissioned lieutenant in the Navy during World War II. Admiral John Richardson, chief of naval operations,... 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 View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
clerking for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. When, after World War II, Meyer left the Post to become the first president of the World Bank, he asked his daughter's... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
As the Nigeria-Biafra war raged around them, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994), her mother, and her brother made a dangerous dash for a better life. Huddled in the belly of a Portuguese cargo plane returning from delivering arms to the Biafran... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 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 View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
the world, both for the better and for the more challenging,” says Lemmon, who wrote The Dressmaker while working at global investment management firm PIMCO. “I want to tell stories that have implications for the broader community, and take people into View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
dots of these disparate actors. Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong by Neil Monnery (MBA 1987) London Publishing Partnership In the fifty years from the end of the Second World View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
where some of a rough sense of respect for the other parties that is individually-based and not based on the positions they're taking forward, that becomes key. Because at the end of the day, there is a peace that comes through war and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Reunion Snapshots
strength following World War II, I wanted to get in touch with the 'modern' business world, which at that time I associated with America," recalls Foulquies. "I enjoyed it immensely," he says, noting that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
threats to the global economic system. It survived two world wars and the Great Depression. It won the Cold War. Doesn’t capitalism reign supreme in the 21st century? Looking forward, we certainly can see... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
as a meteorologist for the Amy Air Forces during World War II before attending HBS. There he joined the class of 1949—which also included “James E. Burke, who later headed Johnson & Johnson; C. Peter... 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... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Corey, Lombard Remembered
marketing, distribution, and organizational strategy. He also headed the Division of Research for six years, overseeing an expansion of the School’s commitment to research and the launch of the HBS Press. Corey, a 1941 graduate of Amherst College, served in the Navy... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
decision after World War II to keep their sections in single classrooms. My graduate-school courses seem terribly pallid in comparison. I’m jealous. If you remember other examples of your class or section’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
blocky, mid-20th-century towers that represent the toughest cases. In the decades after World War II, as air-conditioning and fluorescent lighting became standard, floor plates grew to proportions that would... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Politics and Patriotism in Small-Town America: Confessions of a Plain-Talking, Independent Mayor by Richard Muti (MBA ’71) (WingSpan Press) While Bullets Fly: The Story of a Canadian Field Surgical Unit in the Second World View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
describes how Matsushita helped lead Japan's economic growth after World War II, inventing business practices that were adopted fifty years later by many of the world's great corporations. An exemplar of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone
Behavioral ecologist Toni Rapone knows that natural selection is the law of the planet. But for the vibrant and down-to-earth MBA-cum-scientist, that knowledge comes from more than textbooks. Rapone, whose given name, Antoinette, honors her father Antonio, who died in... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso