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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
spending Savings and Loan bailout Chrysler bailout Breakup of AT&T Influence: Medium-Low 90 1990 s Family and Medical Leave Act Americans with Disabilities Act Welfare reform Antitrust action initiated against Microsoft Influence: Medium-Low 1900 s 19 Fewer than...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi
already survived a serious auto accident, became convinced he should run for office after Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and a number of executives died in a plane crash in Croatia in 1996, a flight Checchi missed only because of a...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Center facilitated the case “Roblox: Virtual Commerce in the Metaverse” about the free platform where users come together in immersive 3-D experiences. EUROPE RESEARCH CENTER (Paris) Leadership approaches for a sustainable future The...
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Jennifer Gillespie
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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
The westward expansion of the railroad blazed the trail for transcontinental commerce in the second half of the 19th century. Entrepreneurs and capitalists like F. L. Ames, Jay Gould, J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Henry Villard...
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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020
we can make this work. ” Yasu Sasago MBA 2020 Alleviating Debt Concerns Sasago studied commerce at Waseda University in Tokyo and the University of Sydney in Australia prior to attending HBS. His ability to pursue a graduate school...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
business world. What is your outlook for the stock market over the next five years? I am optimistic. That doesn't mean there won't be bumps in the road, but you've got low inflation, enhanced productivity, a broadening market in that View Details
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
L.E. Simmons
The corporate offices of Houston-based L.E. Simmons & Associates, Inc. (the general partner to SCF Partners, L.P.), are located on the 66th floor of the Texas Commerce Tower, the tallest building in the United States outside New York and...
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Deborah E. Blagg
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Industry Information - Alumni
news as well as original coverage of the industry. Topics covered include retail technology, marketing, ecommerce, logistics and more. Digital Commerce 360 Formerly Internet Retailer , Digital Commerce 360...
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- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
and consumed within its boundaries, regardless of supply, demand, or efficiency considerations. Cannabis cultivated in California, which has five to six outdoor growing seasons, can’t be sold in Massachusetts, which has only two outdoor growing seasons. Interstate...
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by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 16 Aug 2018
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Working with a Giver’s Spirit
Philippine tech incubator behind a number of remarkable companies, including Ayannah, which uses social media and mobile platforms to provide digital commerce and payment services to the world’s unbanked; PawnHero, an online pawnshop that...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 21 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Harvard Square's Hidden History
served Newtowne (Cambridge’s name at founding). It was the primary center of commerce for the towns surrounding present-day Harvard Square, including much of the agricultural activity that took place on and near what is now HBS’s campus. ...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
annual SXSW Pitch Event in the Enterprise and Smart Data category. “Inventory in commerce is a really big problem from both an environmental and a financial perspective,” Theuerkauf notes. The problem is especially acute in the fashion...
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April White
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance
Great Depression, when foreclosures on residential properties soared alongside farm foreclosures. Scholars still know relatively little about the American real estate industry before World War II. The U.S. Commerce Department did not...
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- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
files restored. (Just as with commerce around pornography in the early days of the internet, digital currencies seem to attract some people operating on or beyond the edge of legality.) Bitcoin is mined in “farms” that, according to one...
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- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
sight of professional obligations beyond serving the interests of particular clients does not invalidate this more general truth. Once a professional loses sight of the larger social benefit that his or her work is intended to provide, the line between professional...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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The Internet's Next Frontier
Web3—encompassing a wide range of technologies, including blockchain networks, cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and smart contracts—to give users more ownership of their data and content, reshape commerce and the internet,...
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Jennifer Gillespie
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U.S. Business Immigration Overview - Alumni
to invest a substantial amount of capital in a U.S. enterprise. Eligibility Open to citizens of countries with which the United States maintains a treaty of commerce Must carry on substantial trade, principally between the United States...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
takes the seamless integration of marketing, product, commerce and service into a cohesive, friction-free customer experience. That’s something today’s siloed companies are still not set up to do, resulting in a bevy of new C-Suite...
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- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in...
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
initiated against Microsoft Influence: Medium-Low 1900 s 19 Fewer than 500,000 union members Department of Commerce and Labor created Influence: Medium 10 1910 s 19 Ford doubles factory wages and shortens workday Labor Secretary position...
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