Tag: Baker Library

  • Nation & World

    Melting pot of American cuisine

    A new exhibit at the Peabody Museum examines the various cultural origins of American cuisine.

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    Preserved fish in a golden color
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    How Lehman became Lehman

    Harvard Business School’s Baker Library holds one of the most extensive collections of business and economic history

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    Harvard Business School Baker Library Exhibit
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    Documents of freedom

    The exhibit featured the Emancipation Proclamation, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and a handwritten note from Frederick Douglass.

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    The story of Edwin Land

    The Baker Library has mounted a show chronicling the history of the Polaroid Corp. and the career of its avant-garde founder, Edwin H. Land.

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    The talented Georges Doriot

    Exhibition at Harvard Business School’s Baker Library celebrates the rich career of one of the School’s most influential faculty members, Georges Doriot.

    7 minutes
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    The rise, ruin of China trader

    An exhibit and companion website developed by Harvard Business School’s Baker Library shines light on the early days of trade between China and the United States.

    5 minutes
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    Treasure island

    Houghton Library illustrates how the stuff of great literature is conserved, from the first jumbled box to the final neat archive.

    11 minutes
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    When the economy crashes

    Harvard Business School exhibit examines “Bubbles, Panics, and Crashes: A Century of Financial Crises, 1830s-1930s.”

    6 minutes
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    New exhibit traces women in business at Harvard

    In its earliest years, the opening of business courses to women was dubbed a “daring experiment” by one Harvard faculty member. It turned out to be a successful experiment as well, one that slowly evolved into the mainstream at Harvard Business School (HBS).

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    Treating workers like people: A history

    “The Human Relations Movement: The Harvard Business School and the Hawthorne Experiments (1924-1933),” the first in a series of exhibits to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Harvard Business School (HBS), is on view through Jan. 17 at the School’s Baker Library.

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