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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
actions during and after World War II. As Allied soldiers fought the Nazis, Franklin Roosevelt and, later, Harry Truman fought in private with Churchill and Stalin over how to ensure that Germany could never threaten the world again....
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
to another continent, our alumni friends in Germany have been doing a wonderful job of organizing the upcoming 2000 HBS Global Alumni Conference, scheduled to take place in Berlin, June 13-16. This milestone three-day event, titled...
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- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
leaders. The ECLM was followed by the School’s Campaign Celebration, where attendees joined Dean Nohria and more than 250 alumni and guests at the Natural History Museum in London to celebrate the conclusion of a successful campaign. HBSA of View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 10 Nov 2017
- News
Girl’s Pendant Found at Nazi Camp Site Reunites a Family
Karoline Cohn, who would have been about 12 at the time of World War II, are gathering this week in Germany to dedicate a memorial in her honor. Many of these relatives, who are travelling from the US, Israel, Japan, the UK, Nicaragua,...
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- 04 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
What Should German Applicants Know about HBS?
I would only do it in the US – where it was ‘invented’ and where the big schools with the most experience and history are located. Do you plan to return to Germany after your graduation? Eventually yes most likely. In the short to medium...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
responsibilities of Christians who are serious about following Jesus. Capitalist West Germany and Socialist East Germany: A Country Divided By James Glenn (MBA 1965) Independently published In the years following the end of World War II,...
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Lillian M. Vernon (Katz)
Katz took some of her family savings to place a small ad in Seventeen magazine for small handbags and belts in 1951. Within a few weeks, she had received $16,000 worth of orders, and sales have skyrocketed ever since. She began expanding her product line to include...
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Retail
Oscar F. Mayer
Mayer, an immigrant from Germany, founded a meat packing business in Chicago. The company grew from 12 employees in 1919 to over 8,000 by 1955, and it had four additional packaging plants in various states. By the end of his tenure, the company’s annual sales amounted...
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Food & Tobacco
Peter F. Hurst
In 1940, Hurst, an engineer by training, invented two new products that were critical to the growing aviation industry – detachable, reusable hose fittings and self-sealing couplings. As aviation took hold during World War II, these safety products became crucial, but...
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Fabricated Goods
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
scale up globally, and the 1990s saw lasting social and policy shifts in Germany and Spain that encouraged their entry into the wind game. By 1996, the largest wind energy companies in the world included one US, two German, and five...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Analyze This
different ways to parse the numbers. Some examples: How many copies go to major Western European nations? Answer: France (1,029), Germany (785), Italy (336), Spain (334), and the United Kingdom (3,231). How many go to the fast-growing...
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- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809019 AMD Dresden: Copy Inexactly! Harvard Business School Case 609-004 The establishment and growth of AMD's Dresden, Germany...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
The Munich Oktoberfest: From Local Tradition to Global Capitalism
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
efforts in Germany and France), consumers favor products that evolved slowly and are well engineered, while the French prefer style and innovation. These preferences are not just a matter of national DNA, but also reflect decisions made...
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- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
to his MBA, Ospina has never underestimated the task's overall logistical, political, economic, and environmental complexities. “It’s taken us 20 years to get this far,” he observes, “and it will take at least another 20 to happen.” Ospina says that fact-finding trips...
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Aspa Lekka
delivery company, Delivery Hero, expanded both the geographic reach and skills depth of her career, taking her from Russia to Malaysia to Singapore then back to Germany again, but now with the experience of managing over 100 employees...
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Consulting
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation
2018) (photo by Susan Young) RECIPIENT: Norman C.T. Liu (MBA 1982) Fellowship Stefan Schmidt’s (MBA 2018) first airplane ride at 14 opened his eyes to the world and led to his passion for aviation. “I flew on a school trip from Germany to...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
impression, they marked a turning point in Bolick's education as a leader. Bolick was born in Germany and grew up in an Army family that moved every couple of years. In his five-year career as an Army officer, in two years as a consultant...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
Firms in the United States, Japan, and Germany tend to be managed especially well, while firms in Brazil, China, and India tend to be managed poorly. Those are among the initial findings of the World Management Survey (WMS), a huge...
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Otto Haas
Along with chemist Otto Rohm, Haas founded one of the world’s largest specialty chemical producers. Under his leadership, Rohm and Haas discovered two major products that have had a significant impact on business and society – Plexiglas and chemical paint binders (used...
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Chemicals & Industrial