World War II - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Nov 2018
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Is Democracy Today As Vulnerable As It Was During World War I?

01 Mar 2024
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The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

Unsurprisingly, then, Jakarta underwhelms in comparison to other world centers. Last year, in its annual liveability index, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked Jakarta 116—below Almaty, Kazakhstan, and New Delhi—out of 140 cities.... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

05 Jan 2013
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On Google, F.T.C. Set Rules of War Over Patents

01 Jun 2012
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Around the World

Issue Focus: The Global Manager GETTING ORIENTED: On his first evening in Cape Town, South Africa, Jan Dolezal (HBS 2013) and his FIELD 2 team explored the city's bustling waterfront. Photo courtesy Jan Dolezal Learn about hosting FIELD2 teams View Executive Education... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 Dec 2016
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Russia, China, and the Third World

01 Sep 2008
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Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War

Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84), are the lost opportunities that the United States could have pursued: expanding services for its own citizens, offering crucially needed leadership on the world stage, and improving domestic security. The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Oct 1998
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Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

candidate for a World Bank Scholarship to attend business school at Harvard. "That is not an easy opportunity to refuse," Hoa notes. With her background in communist theory and difficulty with English, Hoa found her first year at HBS a... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

12 Feb 2021
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How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

and the brightest our country had to offer, they really weren’t going into the hamlets and towns where the war was being waged and were losing the hearts and minds. Halberstam claimed that the problem lay in what he called hubris, which... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

21 Sep 2020
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Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

01 Apr 2002
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"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues

events provided a teachable moment regarding our role as global citizens and the importance of ending poverty." "We know that all the might in the world won't end the war on terrorism," added Neal... View Details

Keywords: War on Terror; Ronald Levy; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2000
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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 View Details