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Business History - Faculty & Research
insurance for foreign investments because such measures served the interests of the US government in the context of European balance of payments deficits and the Korean War. Intent on promoting international development as a Cold View Details
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Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration
The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details
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Skydeck - Alumni
freshman year Cold Call Horror Stories Alumni relive the School's most terrifying tradition Don’t Be Afraid of AI If tech pioneer and Numenta CEO Donna Dubinsky (MBA 1981) doesn’t fear the Terminator, neither should we Coming of Age as...
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
war reparations from Axis powers Influence: Medium-Low 301930s19 Increased tariff protection through Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act Continued isolationism Influence: High 401940s19 War Production Board readies...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am...
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Events - Business History
You can find more information on the conference website. Dec5 05 Dec 2016 Business History Seminar Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff Edward Balleisen, Duke University Nov28 28 Nov 2016 Business History Seminar World's Apart: The View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
the limits of attempts by outside governments to improve business and political conditions in other countries. Answering them, however, required a long and detailed romp through the history of US involvement with what Secretary of War...
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Collection Highlight | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Library, Harvard Business School. After service in the United States Navy during World War II that included stints as both a trainee and instructor at Harvard Business School, John Whitehead earned an MBA degree from HBS in 1947....
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AASU50 - Alumni
Business Leaders Series (HBS Cold Call podcasts) The Road to Zero Wealth (Prosperity Now report, pdf) Racial Progress is Real, But So Is Racist Progress (New York Times, January 21, 2017) Fighting Racism is Not Just a View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
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Jake Cusack
I once served alongside men better than I. I watched them give selflessly — in the small things, offering me the only bowl of hot soup after a cold winter patrol; and in the big things, paying the ultimate price after volunteering to be...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Raiffa Honored for Life’s Work in Decision Analysis
mathematician by training, Raiffa was an originator of the decision tree and did extensive research on negotiations and choice-making in complex and ambiguous situations. Raiffa was an adviser to the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and helped create an East-West...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Getting Security Right
the Cold War as “the end of history,” he was one of many who promoted what I consider to be a mistaken notion: that capitalism and democracy would triumph globally, and that it was only a matter of time...
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- 16 Sep 2008
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Last Look - September 2008
converting hot rolled steel into cold rolled steel.” Peter II of Yugoslavia (1923–1970) became king in 1934 after his father was assassinated. He went into exile in 1941, was deposed in 1945, and settled in the United States after World...
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Keith Larson
- 01 Jun 2005
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The Nature of Change
School are much different now, Kester observes, yet the Class of 1949 entered a period of uncertainty, characterized by the Cold War and nuclear proliferation, that is not unlike the current anxieties...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Interpreting the Gipper
wrote in Newsweek (June 14, 2004), will hinge more than anything else on one question: “How much credit does he deserve for the fact that the Cold War ended far earlier than almost anyone suspected — and on...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
and two other amazing, true stories NEW Hotel Scarface by Roben Farzad “There’s so much unresolved about Miami’s cocaine coming-of-age. I found the address where the Cold War crashed into the View Details
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?
upper Amazon, they brought people a taste of America, along with the promise of freedom and prosperity. The end of the Cold War signaled victory for Brand America. As closed economies opened up to foreign...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
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Letters to the Editor
Editor’s Note The December issue’s “Last Look” photo generated several richly detailed e-mails that appear below. Cold in the Wintertime I know the “Last Look” scene well, having lived at Harvard Way Extension from the summer of 1946...
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- 07 Apr 2003
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How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
Snook: Our world changed in 1989. The Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union collapsed. Almost fifty years of living in a bipolar world had shaped a very strong and static sense of professional identity built around a Cold View Details
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by Martha Lagace