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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

Administration; Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community Alumni Speakers: Beverly Anderson (MBA 1997) , CEO and President, BECU ; Mary Erdoes (MBA 1993) , CEO, J.P. Morgan Asset & View Details
  • March 2018
  • Article

Global Business over Time

By: Geoffrey Jones
This article explores how business enterprises have been powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism between 1840 and the present day. It also shows how global firms, emerging out of industrialized Western economies, created and co-created markets and ecosystems... View Details
Keywords: Global; Multinational; Business History; Globalization; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Economic Systems
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    Geoffrey G. Jones

    Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration... View Details

    Keywords: banking; beauty products; construction; consumer products; energy; entertainment; fashion; financial services; food; food processing; green technology; petroleum; service industry
    • 2008
    • Book

    On Competition

    By: M. E. Porter
    Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation
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      Global Capitalism at Risk: What Are You Doing About It?

      Market capitalism, a system that has proven to be a remarkable engine of wealth creation, is poised for a breakdown. That sounds dire, and it is. Increasing income inequality, migration, weaknesses in the global financial system, environmental degradation, and... View Details
      • 23 Sep 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: September 23

      certain types of transactions. Bitcoin is of interest to economists in part for its potential to disrupt existing payment systems and perhaps monetary systems, and also for the View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 09 Jan 2024
      • In Practice

      Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year

      resource-intensive and time-consuming. Generative AI, capable of processing vast datasets with ease, promises a new approach. It can amalgamate insights from diverse perspectives more swiftly and... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology
      • 04 Jan 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid

      • 28 Aug 2009
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Portfolio Firms’ Corporate Tax Planning

      Keywords: by Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz & Sonja Olhoft Rego; Financial Services
      • Research Summary

      Overview

      By: Marlous van Waijenburg

      Professor van Waijenburg’s research focuses on the historical roots of relative African poverty and state fragility. Where sufficiently reliable and comparable records exist, she creates new datasets from a range of qualitative and quantitative archival sources. The... View Details

      • Program

      Families in Business

      excellence, and wealth management, but also robust scaffolding to interconnect these operations. When the pieces fit together, family enterprises can grow wealth, create jobs, View Details
      • 18 Apr 2023
      • HBS Seminar

      Daron Acemoglu, MIT

      • 30 Jul 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

      disparity in the wealth of nations, in spite of the fact that technology adoption lags have shortened dramatically in the past few decades. In their paper An Exploration of Technology Diffusion, Comin and... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

        Brian L. Trelstad

         

        Brian Trelstad is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the General Management Unit and the Faculty Chair of the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He teaches elective courses on Social Entrepreneurship and Systems... View Details

        Keywords: education industry; health care; service industry; emerging market private equity; private equity (other); venture capital industry
        • 31 Aug 2015
        • Research & Ideas

        How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World

        Wealth around the World: Benjamin Franklin and the Globalization of American Capitalism,” published in American Historical Review (February 2015). “I’m interested in how ideas reflect but also change... View Details
        Keywords: by Julia Hanna
        • 23 Aug 2006
        • Op-Ed

        The Real Wal-Mart Effect

        This opinion piece, first published in the New York Times in August 2005, has been updated by Pankaj Ghemawat for HBS Working Knowledge.Mighty Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, must feel less like a hotbed of retailing and... View Details
        Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail
        • 01 Jun 2023
        • HBS Case

        A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

        cannot be valuable within an organization.” As his community deteriorates, Miller’s behavior spirals How did Miller end up in prison in the first place? Research shows that poverty and imprisonment are... View Details
        Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories

          Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work

          Most managers today understand the value of building a learning organization. Their goal is to leverage knowledge and make it a key corporate asset, yet they remain uncertain about how best to get started. What they lack are guidelines and tools that transform abstract... View Details
          • March 2023 (Revised September 2023)
          • Case

          Patagonia: 'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder'

          By: Brian Trelstad, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris and Susan Pinckney
          In September 2022, Yvon Chouinard, the iconoclastic founder of outdoor apparel company Patagonia, announced a new ownership model for his company. Chouinard and his family had held complete control of the company's voting and non-voting stock since its founding 50... View Details
          Keywords: Trusts; Business Ventures; Business Organization; Family Business; Restructuring; Change; Disruption; Transition; Decision Making; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Financial Management; Governance; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Leadership; Labor; Law; Common Law; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Ownership; Ownership Type; Family Ownership; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Society; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Value; Value Creation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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          • 03 Oct 2023
          • What Do You Think?

          Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure?

          leaders most effectively to enter the real world. I can add a personal experience to those that Edmondson cites. In 1990, a colleague, HBS Professor John Kotter, and I began a study of the impact of an organization’s culture on its... View Details
          Keywords: by James Heskett