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- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
vision, guts, and a can-do spirit can transform weak institutions, invent wildly creative contraptions, build fantastic new markets, and conquer distant infidels. American men love the populist guy who stands against dominating institutions, fights for View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
We are in a unique moment in time, where the United States’ chance to make a difference on climate is greater – and more necessary – than ever. With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August, business leaders have a nearly $370 billion opportunity to... View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Steve Jobs Legacy
News of the death this week of Steve Jobs reverberated around the world. And the Harvard Business School campus was no exception. Everyone felt a keen sense of loss for a man who was an iconic figure in the worlds of technology,... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- What Do You Think?
Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?
should be devalued. On the one hand, one might argue that such discussions are an overreaction to current events, that nations have become so interdependent and multinational business organizations so vital to the world's View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
explanations about the development of the United States’ Federal Reserve System, which was created in 1913 in direct response to the Panic of 1907; and an engaging and entertaining account of a fascinating period in financial and economic... View Details
- 21 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
East Asia MBA Market Update
be able to position oneself to move to private equity when there is an opening. Most funds also seek locals because they need deal originators with local knowledge and contacts, so people from outside ASEAN will generally need a few years... View Details
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Bibliography - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Jacksonian Economy . New York: Norton, 1969. Vickers, Raymond B. Panic in Paradise: Florida’s Banking Crash of 1926 . Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994. Walden, Charles M. Timing a Century: A History of the Waltham Watch... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
industry’s growth from a small base in the U.S. North-east in the 1960s to today’s highly visible role in economies all over the world. Brooke lays out his vision for the industry as an essential element of... View Details
- 30 Apr 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
because their clients' professional careers are often short lived. How Should I Think About Brand Dilution? Porsche's Risky Roll on an SUV Why would any company in the world want to locate in a high-cost, high-wage View Details
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
perspectives, and it's aimed at the general manager. Participants acquire a set of principles and perspectives for looking at the pieces of the supply chain and understanding how to develop an approach or system that enables their supply... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
managing partner with Accel Partners in Palo Alto, California, and chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, representing some 450 venture-capital and private-equity firms. An improving economy... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
corporations. Yet the course attracted one hundred students in its first year and became a fixture in the elective MBA curriculum for two decades. The popularity of The Management of New Enterprises and of related courses developed in the ensuing years underscores... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
The World's Banker
One day in July 1995, shortly after his appointment to head the World Bank, Jim Wolfensohn took time out from a project visit in the African bush for an impromptu chat with a village official. For those present, it was a memorable sight:... View Details
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015
revenues from these sources in any given year are sensitive to trends in the economy and the capital markets. These trends remained favorable for a fifth consecutive year in fiscal 2015. As a result, the School’s total revenues* grew by... View Details
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
just a term—you can take it or leave it. But the phenomenon of across-the-table competition, as exists in a negotiation, and also same-side-of- the-table competition, as exists in an auction, is pretty ubiquitous in our increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
A Michigan native and graduate of the University of Southern California, Richard Stillman served full-time in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1965. His military career, during which he rose to the rank of colonel and command of the Third Army’s 20th Infantry Regiment,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
today, Levitt’s article caused a minor sensation when it first appeared. Apart from its insightful specifics, its language (“globalization” was a novel term) and expansive vision offered a hopeful alternative to the grim reality of a world View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
is kryptonite to the real estate market, and I don't see an oversupply situation," he notes. Nor do other market insiders, whose consensus assessment is that new construction has not run ahead of market demand. With national vacancy... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
business but also as a determinant of wealth and poverty, they will find a way back to becoming leading participants in the debates over the fundamental question of what makes an economy grow. 2. Innovation.... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman