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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting
Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006). Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Harvard Employment Digital Accessibility View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in Pre-Industrial Society
Nelson, The Idea of Usury, from Tribal Brotherhood to Universal Otherhood (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1949). Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Harvard Employment Digital... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
build market position quickly in response to shortening product life cycles. As John Chambers, Cisco's president and CEO, says, "If you don't have the resources to develop a component or product within six months, you must buy what... View Details
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Capturing & Disseminating Video/Photography During Course Activities | About
Capturing & Disseminating Video/Photography During Course Activities Please note: All classroom recordings are owned by HBS, with copyright to the recordings belong to the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The case and field... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
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Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
publisher in Lowell whose products included Gideon Bibles. Another—which came his way via an Executive Education participant who was president of the Boston Bruins—was from a small company with about a million dollars in sales that... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
to remove a cancerous tumor in his throat. Stripped of his voice box and vocal cords, he had to learn to speak using his esophagus. Batten, an entrepreneur who thrives on difficult challenges, says that coping with cancer was one of the biggest hurdles he has ever... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
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Thai Lee, MBA 1985
President and CEO, SHI International Download Lee profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1958 Born, Bangkok, Thailand 1980 Earns BA, Biology and Economics, Amherst College 1985 Earns MBA 1985 Joins Procter & Gamble... View Details
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Angela Q. Crispi
Angela is the Executive Dean for Administration at Harvard Business School, leading an organization of nearly 2,000 staff with an operating budget of $1 billion. She oversees the execution of the School’s strategy ranging from academic programs to research, and the... View Details
Chip Bergh
Chip Bergh is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining HBS, Chip served as president and chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) from September 2011 until January 2024. He also served on the Company’s Board of Directors... View Details
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Connell House | About
White as part of the original 1920s campus plan, but its construction was delayed until 1940. Unnamed for many years, the administrative office building was renovated in the late 1960s under Dean George P. Baker and named for Henry H. Fowler, who served as secretary of... View Details
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Wilder House | About
to HBS, where the legendary Professor Georges Doriot became a key career influence. Wilder quickly worked his way up through the ranks of institutional sales and corporate finance at Wood Gundy & Company Ltd. He was named executive vice View Details
- 20 Jan 2022
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3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic
rebuilt successfully, it can come back even stronger. Sandra J. Sucher is the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and served as vice president of corporate quality at Fidelity Investments, where... View Details
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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
France in the Railway Age . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994, p. 44. White, p. 517. Copyright © 2012 Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Employment Digital Accessibility View Details
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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
able to increase the speed and sharpness of the film. They tested the process in temperatures ranging from 20 degrees F. (which required longer development) to 100 degrees F. (which required shorter development). George Ehrenfried, a photographic physicist at Polaroid,... View Details
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Ludcke House | About
with Incorporated Investors, one of the first mutual funds in the country. In 1940, he joined the George Putnam Fund of Boston, where he became president and director of Putnam Fund Distributors, Inc., and vice View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
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Leading with Heart
my career. And in those moments I resolved that I will never again fail my family. I decided to reset my life. And when I lost Aisha, I had just moved to the US with this role as the global president for KFC based out of Dallas. And I was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal
“Discovering different cultures is a way of life for me,” says Monsignor Frederick M. Dolan (MBA 1978), the Vicar for Canada of the Prelature of Opus Dei. After several years working abroad, Dolan settled in Montreal in 1998 and recently became View Details
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Professor Sawyer’s research focuses on U.S. political economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, concentrating on the development of competition policy and the administrative state. While the conventional history of U.S. competition policy portrays the... View Details
- 17 Jun 2017
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Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
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Power Couple
Richard Sarnoff (MBA ’87), a group president at Random House, is one forward-looking media exec who has some impressive links to the industry’s past: His great-uncle, former RCA chairman David Sarnoff, was instrumental in developing the... View Details