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1999
Chapter

Courting Disaster: The Transformation of Federal Disaster Policy since 1803

By: David A. Moss

Keywords: History; Natural Disasters; Policy; United States

14 Aug 2017
News

Leaders Born in Darkness

26 Sep 2016
News

Letters from Prison

2019
Working Paper

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 17 The Wintel Standards-based Platform

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

The purpose of this chapter is to use the theory of bottlenecks laid out in previous chapters to better understand the dynamics of an open standards-based platform. I describe how the Wintel platform evolved from 1990 through 2000 under joint sponsorship of Intel and... View Details

Keywords: Open Platforms; Bottlenecks; Wintel Platform; Disintermediation; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Business History; Digital Platforms; Computer Industry

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December 2005 (Revised May 2014)
Case

Walt Disney and the 1941 Animators' Strike

By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Bridget Gurtler

Focuses on the leadership lessons drawn from the events precipitating the Animator's Strike of 1941, depicting the growing pains of a company that was as much formed and changed by American culture as American culture was formed and changed by it. The tale of Walt... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Leadership; Creativity; Culture; Business Strategy; Technology Adoption

June 1991 (Revised November 2004)
Case

John Jacob Astor, 1763-1848

Astor, the wealthiest American of his time, engages in fur trading, shipping, real estate investment, and general merchandise trading. Astor's career illustrates the immediate pre-modern management era: types of decisions, time horizons, and number of transactions. View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Business History; Personal Development and Career; United States

June 1991 (Revised June 1993)
Case

Railroads and the Beginnings of Modern Management (Abridged)

By: Thomas K. McCraw

Consists of three selections by the most innovative of the early American railroad managers describing the organizational structures and control systems they created. Questions to be asked are: why and how such managerial techniques were created, how well they worked,... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Rail Transportation; Organizational Structure; Management Systems; Rail Industry; United States

01 Dec 2006
News

Baker Library Photo Exhibit

PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS A special exhibit, “The Human Factor: Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at Baker Library,” opened at Baker in October and will run through March 7, 2007. The often highly stylized images,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

Harvard Business School Professor J. Gunnar Trumbull balks at the ubiquitous idea that the concentrated power of a few billionaires controls public policy and government regulation. Exaggeration of the impact of big business on public policy, he says, comes at a high... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

24 Jan 2012
Working Paper Summaries

What Do Development Banks Do? Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2009

Keywords: by Sergio G. Lazzarini, Aldo Musacchio, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello & Rosilene Marcon; Banking

2022
Article

Before Plagiarism: Lawyers and Copynorms in Europe, 1300-1600

By: Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert

This essay uses the concept of 'copynorms', social norms about copying expressive works that can be distinct from legal norms about the same, in order to understand the meaning of intellectual property among Roman law and canon law jurists from the fourteenth through... View Details

Keywords: Copyright; History; Europe

2011
Chapter

Another Grand Tour: Cameralism and Antiphysiocracy in Tuscany, Baden, and Denmark-Norway

By: Sophus A. Reinert

Keywords: History; Economic Systems; Italy; Germany; Norway; Denmark

2000
Chapter

The Nationalist Regime and the Chinese Party-State

By: William C. Kirby

Keywords: History; Government and Politics; China

July 1991 (Revised June 1993)
Case

Great Depression: Causes and Impact (Abridged)

Provides a vehicle for discussing the problems caused by the Great Depression. View Details

Keywords: History; Financial Crisis; United States