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- 05 Aug 2015
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Pentagon Sends an Engineer and a Navy SEAL to Woo Silicon Valley
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- 30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The Western Front
faster than Washington can keep up, which puts the Pentagon in the dangerous position of falling behind. “The way we have been doing business for the past several decades will not be sufficient going forward,” says Rear Admiral Brian...
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Jason Feifer
- 16 Oct 2018
- News
To Lead and Serve
as a human being, and if I got out, I'd have an opportunity in the economy to do well. So in reality, it really set me up well within the Navy. It gave you credibility when you came in a room in the Pentagon and you're talking finance...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Robert McNamara Dies at 93
Motor Company as a“whiz kid,” eventually becoming its president briefly before the Kennedy administration tapped him to be Secretary of Defense. He became known as the architect of the Vietnam War, a conflict that marked him forever. “After leaving the View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
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J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
missile and submarine. Fox went to the Pentagon in 1963 as deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for management systems. After two years, he returned to Harvard to pursue a doctorate in psychology and to teach a course in project...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
No Nukes
Washington’s point man in all this is James Kelly (MBA ’68), assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. Kelly, who previously served in the White House and the Pentagon during the Reagan administration, was tapped...
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- 28 Sep 2017
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Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion
two years ago, and will make Northrop the fourth-largest Pentagon contractor. In a statement about the deal, Thompson said: “The unique alignment in culture and mission offered by this transaction will allow us to maintain strong...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
leadership, the paper provided readers with courageous and award-winning editorial coverage of controversial issues such as the Watergate scandal and the Pentagon Papers. To succeed, not only did Graham have to acquire managerial...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Karen Tumulty Reports on America
made certain that her husband, Paul Richter, the Los Angeles Times Pentagon correspondent, was not at the Pentagon, and that her two sons, Nicholas, nine, and Jack, five, also were safe. In the aftermath of the attacks, stepped-up...
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- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
business world and academia had a distinct advantage. He went back to the Pentagon to try to change the way the military engaged with civilians, then to serve at the White House. In 2007, he retired as an Air Force Deputy Assistant...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
to recognize responsibility.” A Conflicted Warrior Only weeks after being named Ford president, McNamara was tapped by the newly elected Kennedy administration to be Secretary of Defense. The early years at the Pentagon were among the...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
two-person long-distance ocean sailing. A former Pentagon analyst, energy consultant, and high-school teacher with a master’s degree in interdisciplinary science from MIT, he has turned this and other extended ocean voyages into classroom...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
of concerned citizens who objected to the noise associated with increased air traffic, the situation was less about confrontation than education. “The director of environmental PR at the Pentagon and his wife came out on a vacation and...
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- 01 Jan 2003
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Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
defense at age 29. In 1970, Rossotti and several Pentagon colleagues started American Management Systems (AMS). "We decided that big companies and government agencies could do a lot more with computers than just sort punched cards...
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- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
Hannah and directed by Steven Spielberg, is a riveting case analysis of business leadership in action through the lens of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham’s decision to publish the then classified Pentagon Papers—a decision that...
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