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- 2024
- Working Paper
Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting—Impossible to Routine: Case Histories of Transformational Advances
By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Fabio Villa
We describe how Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG, or more popularly, “bypass”) operations
revolutionized the treatment of coronary disease (that can produce fatal heart attacks and debilitating
angina). Specifically, we chronicle the: 1) development of the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Fabio Villa. "Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting—Impossible to Routine: Case Histories of Transformational Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-010, July 2019. (Revised May 2024.)
- 1998
- Working Paper
Limited Liability and the Birth of American Industry: Theory Meets History
By: David A. Moss
- 12 Jun 2023
- News
India’s diaspora is bigger and more influential than any in history
- Web
Capturing Contemporary Latin American Business History - Creating Emerging Markets
Conferences Capturing Contemporary Latin American Business History – Oral History & Digital Resources The Capturing Contemporary Latin American Business History: Oral History... View Details
- 1998
- Book
The Multinational Traders
By: Geoffrey Jones
This book examines the history and theory of multinational trading companies. The essays in this volume demonstrate the importance of trading companies in trade and investment flows in the world economy from the nineteenth century to the present day. The empirical... View Details
Keywords: Company History; Trade; Globalization; Books; Organizational Structure; Perspective; Diversification; Theory; Asia; Europe; United States
Jones, Geoffrey, ed. The Multinational Traders. Routledge International Studies in Business History. London: Routledge, 1998.
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
Spar, adding dryly, "Ayn Rand is alive and well and living in Silicon Valley." These prognosticators, from Spar's perspective, ignore the fact that there are precedents — technological breakthroughs in the course of history that were, for... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Commodity Chains: What Can We Learn from a Business History of the Rubber Chain? (1870-1910)
By: Felipe Tamega Fernandes
The literature on the rubber boom applied a Dependendist view of rubber production in the Brazilian Amazon. Even though a sizable surplus was generated in the rubber chain, it was mostly appropriated by foreigners. This view is in tune with the Global Commodity Chain... View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Business History; Supply Chain; Manufacturing Industry; Rubber Industry; Brazil
Fernandes, Felipe Tamega. "Commodity Chains: What Can We Learn from a Business History of the Rubber Chain? (1870-1910)." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-089, April 2010.
- 2001
- Other Unpublished Work
Revisiting Coase's Federal Communications Commission: The Costs of Problematic History
By: David Moss and Michael Fein
- Web
Using Oral History in Business and Management Studies - Creating Emerging Markets
Conferences Using Oral History in Business and Management Studies February 6th, 2023 from 8:30AM-12PM EST on ZOOM . The Creating Emerging Markets (CEM) project based at Harvard Business School’s Business View Details
- 2007
- Book
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
By: Rakesh Khurana
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform.... View Details
Keywords: Social History; Business Education; Moral Sensibility; Profit; Leadership; Managerial Roles; United States
Khurana, Rakesh. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. (Winner of Association of American Publishers Best Professional/Scholarly Publishing Book in Business, Finance and Management. Winner of Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship for the book which makes an outstanding contribution to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and/or work presented by American Sociological Association.)
- May 28, 2014
- Article
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
By: Dante Roscini
- 26 Sep 2017
- News
Understanding finance in the context of art, history and humanity
- 2024
- Chapter
Visionaries and Transformative Product Launches in Computing and Information Business History
By: Shane Greenstein
Greenstein, Shane. "Visionaries and Transformative Product Launches in Computing and Information Business History." In Writing Computer and Information History: Approaches, Connections, and Reflections, by William Aspray. Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming.
- January 2022
- Teaching Note
TXU (A) and (B): Powering the Largest Leveraged Buyout in History
By: Trevor Fetter
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 320-064 and 320-065. View Details
- Winter 2020
- Article
Training Leaders to Win Wars and Forge Peace: Lessons from History
By: P. Tufano
Tufano, P. "Training Leaders to Win Wars and Forge Peace: Lessons from History." Business History Review 94, no. 4 (Winter 2020): 807–833.