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- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
focused on salespeople come about? Walter Friedman: [HBS professor and coeditor] Geoff Jones and I have been trying to have each issue of Business History Review focus on a theme. In the past four issues we've had one on the late View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies
technology. Much of the research to date on innovation has focused on factors in an organization—timing of adoption decisions, overall organizational support of innovation, and an organization's history of innovation—that are one step... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
question of drives, every job in our theoretical four-drive organization would offer an opportunity for the incumbent to employ some personal skills, skills for which they not only have an innate head start but also a personal history of... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
declared bankruptcy on June 1, 2009. “All stakeholders must work together to make GM's bankruptcy filing a comma rather than a period in the storied history of this American corporate icon." -Daniel Heller Its future appears... View Details
- February 2001 (Revised October 2002)
- Background Note
Entrepreneurial History: A Conceptual Overview
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Analyzes HBS cases on five entrepreneurs and the companies they built: Josiah Wedgwood, Henry Heinz, Marshall Field, Howard Schultz of Starbucks, and Michael Dell. These five cases and their accompanying teaching notes comprise a course module on entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Demand and Consumers; Competition; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Customer Focus and Relationships; Business Strategy; Society
Koehn, Nancy F. "Entrepreneurial History: A Conceptual Overview." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-368, February 2001. (Revised October 2002.)
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
TOP 10 MBA VOICES BLOGS OF 2022
History Month—a month focused on acknowledging and celebrating the history, political activism, and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender nonconforming, and queer communities. Here, current View Details
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
In the decades prior to the advent of radial tires," writes Donald Sull in Business History Review, "Firestone Tire & Rubber was viewed by some observers as the best managed U.S. tire company." But in the face of French... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
Mexico's long history with authoritarian government shaped its judicial, taxation, and property rights institutions. These institutions, the authors argue, cannot be reformed with the stroke of a pen. Moreover, they represent powerful... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
business model, one that positioned the company simultaneously in the PC industry and the consumer electronics industry. While Apple enjoyed a high market share in digital media players and in online music sales, it remained a niche player in the worldwide PC industry.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
answers to secure donations. Blonde and Blue-eyed? Globalizing Beauty, c.1945-c.1980 Author:Geoffrey Jones Periodical:Economic History Review 61, no. 1 (February 2008) Abstract This article examines the globalization of the beauty... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
How Can I Prepare to Apply for Financial Aid at HBS?
While the financial aid process begins after you’ve been accepted at HBS, there is a lot you can do in the months (and even years) beforehand to put yourself in the best position to access funding. HBS will help you meet your full... View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
dispersed around the globe. But the one theme that has attracted the most HBS Working Knowledge readers over our 11-year history is how to improve personal leadership skills. A third of the articles on this... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
disciplines from which such a model could be produced—foundered for many years on disagreements about the nature of business firms and the ultimate purpose of business. The decision (made very early in the history of university-based... View Details
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
"In the end, Enron was at the center of a truly delinquent society. Once Enron's ethical drift took hold, its collapse was only a matter of time," says HBS professor emeritus Malcolm S. Salter. As he explains in this Q&A and... View Details
William C. Kirby
William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
Management as a Profession Author:Rakesh Khurana Publication:Princeton: Princeton University Press, in press Abstract Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Blog
Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season
early spring mornings. Join in on Patriots' Day Events. If you happen to be at HBS in mid-April, don't miss two Massachusetts traditions. On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began with skirmishes in Lexington and Concord. Patriots'... View Details
- November 2019
- Teaching Note
Magnus Resch: Transforming the Art Market Through Transparency
By: Henry McGee and Sarah Mehta
Teaching Note for HBS No. 319-002. This teaching note pairs with a case on economist and entrepreneur Magnus Resch, who is on a mission to make the art market more transparent. He has built the Magnus app, which catalogues the price and transaction history of millions... View Details
Guhan Subramanian
Guhan Subramanian is the Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business at the Harvard Law School and the Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law at the Harvard Business School. He is the first person in the history of Harvard University to hold... View Details