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From the Director | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
The U.S. Steel photograph collection is an illustrative “case” of the intersection between photography and corporate public relations. One can easily see the parallel between mid-twentieth-century corporate deployment of photographs and... View Details
Richard H. Jenrette
for the firm. Jenrette was instrumental in taking the company public in 1970 making it the first publicly traded investment firm in the United States. Taking the helm of DLJ in 1973, Jenrette shepherded it... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Sales
Journal of Marketing Research, and more. Also includes full-text of Harvard Business Review. ScienceDirect: Relevant View Details
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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
who “drummed” up business and sometimes used drums to attract attention. 15 Sidney A. Sherman, “Advertising in the United States,” Publications of the American Statistical Association , vol. 7, no. 52 (December 1900): 124. The rise of... View Details
- 12 May 2022
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Turning a Moment into a Movement
first seat on a public board at Altimeter Growth Corporation, a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Since launching in September 2020, the Board Challenge’s singular mission has been to increase the... View Details
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Walter D. Fuller
Fuller successfully stepped into Cyrus Curtis’ role and led the publishing company through 25 years of top level financial performance. He expanded the base of the company’s publications – most notably, the... View Details
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Resources for Harvard Economics Students
markets, and public and private companies. Used in the financial sector for financial data and modeling. Orbis This company database is unique in its breadth of geographies and extent of View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
private life. These honorees, like their predecessors, are often in the limelight by virtue of their notable accomplishments and high-level positions in the private and public sectors. Curious about the personalities behind the famous... View Details
Albert D. Lasker
Lasker was a pioneer of hard-hitting advertising. He directed campaigns for such products as Palmolive Soap, Quaker Oats, and Pepsodent Toothpaste (he helped to found the latter company and was one of its directors for many years). He was... View Details
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Companies: strategy
Where can I find information on a company's strategy? Analysts' reports in LSEG Workspace are often a great source for information about strategic initiatives within public firms. Research reports specific to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
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Tech for the People
about ways that tech companies can develop products and services that both benefit the public and align with their business model,” he observes. Tsai says courses such as View Details
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Leonard A. Lauder
Well before he officially assumed the CEO title, Lauder was the “man behind the scenes,” shunning publicity and acknowledgment to perpetuate his mother’s image. While his mother, Estee Lauder, tended to external relations, Leonard built... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 07 Sep 2021
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Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
alone do not account for these outcomes of the country’s public health system. There are also disparities in how effectively resources are allocated and managed, says Simon DeBere (MBA/MPA-ID 2022), a 2021 HBS Social Enterprise Summer... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride
“Some decent-looking pixels and a really excellent vision.” That’s all it took for Russ Wilcox to fall for the technology that would become E Ink, a company supplying the electronic ink for a new world of digital reading devices. Now, as... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
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Leading the Way
it’s a symbol of America around the world. “It’s a good time to leave. It’s the right time for the company that I leave. I will be doing things; some will be in the public sector—hospitals,... View Details
John C. Bogle
public by selling directly to them and eliminating load fees or sales charges. Over the course of two decades, Bogle built the second largest fund company in the world. View Details
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Walter A. Haas, Jr.
Walter A. Haas Jr. was responsible for Levi’s concentration on blue jeans production. He targeted the marketing strategy to teenagers and as blue jeans became the symbol of nonconformity, Levi’s rapidly multiplied its sales and net profit. In 1970, Haas took the View Details
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- 01 Dec 2018
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A Force for Good
forged his career at the nexus of business and social impact. With his latest project, Skillist, he is building a fairer, more effective hiring process. Skillist is a proprietary, skills-based application system that works with companies... View Details
- 24 Feb 2016
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Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
William Alden (MBA 1952) was sorting mail when he had the thought: The concept behind the automated conveyer system he was perfecting for routing letters could be used to move people. It was the 1950s, a time of great investment in automobiles and interstates and great... View Details