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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
New Book Recounts Storied Class of ’49
made big contributions, too. Although the “49ers” chose a miner heading for the Gold Rush as their class emblem, growing up during the Depression gave them a different perspective on wealth. Their initial salaries averaged only $4,000,...
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Laura Singleton
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
South Asian Women at Work
interviews. She was starting to get depressed and couldn’t figure out what she was doing wrong. Then an interviewer told her, “I think you’d be a wonderful fit for this company but I do have one quick question to ask you: Do you plan to...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Katherine Switz (MBA 2000)
healthy. I live a regimented life, and despite that I still have periods of unwellness that are, frankly, beyond my control. People have asked me if I would give up my illness, and it’s a hard question. I would give up the suicidal View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
many others go on to distinguished careers in financial services. Williams retired in 1986. When the Class of 1939 graduated from HBS, business and employment were still in a slump, salaries were at Depression levels, and war clouds were...
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- 25 Mar 2008
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Whistling Past the Graveyard
cite when claiming that the economy is basically doing OK. It was those “fundamentals” that Herbert Hoover was extolling just before the Great Depression hit. Some of the fundamentals, macro and micro, anecdotal and otherwise, that matter...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Turning Point: In Good Company
Aparna Piramal Raje (MBA 2002) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Aparna Piramal Raje (MBA 2002) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) There have been many turning points in my journey of living with bipolar disorder over the last 20 years. HBS has been an integral part of the...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History
certainly anticipated something very large because the parallels are not just with the Great Depression but with the financial crisis of 1914, which in many ways was more spectacular. So, this was a case of history informing judgments...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Turning Point: Network Effects
positive impact of meaningful interaction. All too often, mental illness is an invisible enemy. Let’s be proactive in routinely addressing depression as an aspect of simple wellness—and of productivity, if you want to look at it from a...
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Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
leadership. Instead we find that CEO turnover is up, and that the number of outsiders brought in to do the job is increasing. How could this be? The answer appears to be as depressing as its consequences. Companies are not making the...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
nation like Nigeria provide affordable renewable energy in a depressed economy so dependent on fossil fuels? —Tonye Cole (AMP 186, 2014) KORTENHORST and KORMI: The world of fossil fuels is a volatile one, and exporters of fossil fuels...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
including Dollar Shave Club, Rent the Runway, and “pay as you fly” insurance for drone flights. Finally, the authors outline the challenges in adopting these new models and offer guidance to overcome them. Spirituality After Harvard: My Path Out of View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2004
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David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
but resistance becomes more deadly. Coalition military morale has collapsed. The outcome will be decided by approaching US elections. High economic and political costs force rethinks. Oil drives all. Production averaged about 2 million barrels daily - about two-thirds...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
dominant architect of the building boom in the early 20th century. But the Depression ended all that. Nothing like 740 or 834 was built for another 75 years. What newer additions to the New York skyline will future generations be...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
tractor-tanker into Marcia Rhodes’s stopped car: horrible medical traumas, an unending financial struggle, a daughter’s deep depression and alienation, and endless battles against insurance companies and an uncaring legal system. Spinoza...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
Kanter: Seeking to help shift the national mood from depression to optimism. An internationally respected authority on strategy, innovation, and leadership for change, HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter advocates solving many of the...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
Customer: New Rules for Winning in a Time-Starved, Always-Connected Economy by Adrian C. Ott (MBA ’87) (Harper Business) 101 Things I Learned in Business School by Michael W. Preis (MBA ’72) and Matthew Frederick (Grand Central Publishing) How to Protect Your Life...
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- 01 Aug 2001
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Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
genetic research revolution is changing our global economy and society more dramatically than any other single event in the history of humankind," Goldberg observes. "On the other hand, we have a worldwide agricultural economic depression...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
phenomenon in the United States. In the years leading up to the Great Depression and World War II, there was a very high percentage of recent immigrants in the United States, and home ownership was beyond the means of most. Before World...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Eric Schiffer
when the economy comes back? I think people’s mindsets have been changed by this recession. How long it will last, I don’t know. People who grew up during the Great Depression were frugal throughout their lives. We don’t know how that...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Letters to the Editor
capitalism “survived the Great Depression.” But did it get out of the Depression on its own or through the help of the state, in the form of the New Deal? If market capitalism gets through the present crisis, as it probably will, will it...
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