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- 2015
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Howard Fischer, Eric Jacobsen, and Gratitude Railroad's Impact Investing
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Daniel Lennox-Choate
In 2013, Howard Fischer (hedge fund founder) and Eric Jacobsen (serial entrepreneur and private equity investor) established Gratitude Railroad as a community of impact investors in nine different "tracks." Each track represented a different concept for using... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Social Change; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Investment; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Daniel Lennox-Choate. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Howard Fischer, Eric Jacobsen, and Gratitude Railroad's Impact Investing." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-047, 2015.
- March 2024
- Case
Expanding the Bicester Collection to New York
By: Boris Vallee, Kirby Brand, Kristina Brown, Julie McCrimlisk, Chloe Sztabnik and Arthur Segel
Secretariat, if anyone remembers, won the triple crown at the Belmont Race Track on Long Island, located at the nexus of La Guardia, JFK Airports, the Long Island Railroad and multiple major highways. Belmont Race Track is now being rebuilt along with an adjacent UBS... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Urban Development; Brands and Branding; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Sports Industry; Retail Industry; New York (state, US)
Vallee, Boris, Kirby Brand, Kristina Brown, Julie McCrimlisk, Chloe Sztabnik, and Arthur Segel. "Expanding the Bicester Collection to New York." Harvard Business School Case 224-068, March 2024.
Jeffrey T. Polzer
Jeff Polzer is the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He studies how people collaborate in teams and across organizational networks to accomplish their individual and collective... View Details
- April 1998 (Revised May 2001)
- Supplement
Acquisition of Consolidated Rail Corporation (B), The
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Lori A. Flees and Mathew M Millett
Eight days after CSX announced it was going to buy Consolidated Rail (Conrail) for $88.65 per share, Norfolk Southern made a hostile $100 per share bid for Conrail. Over the next several months, the potential acquirers upped their bids while exchanging criticism in the... View Details
Keywords: Law; Valuation; Rail Transportation; Bids and Bidding; Governance Controls; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Corporate Finance; Rail Industry; United States
Esty, Benjamin C., Lori A. Flees, and Mathew M Millett. "Acquisition of Consolidated Rail Corporation (B), The." Harvard Business School Supplement 298-095, April 1998. (Revised May 2001.)
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
meals and lodging planned, and their daily productivity measured and monitored. These findings disrupt prevailing narratives in business history, challenging the primacy that Alfred Chandler awarded the railroad as the testing ground for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
United Fruit Company Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
United Fruit cleared and planted undeveloped tracts of land, created extensive railroad and port facilities, and operated a large steamship unit known as “The Great White Fleet.” The company came to own or lease properties in Honduras,... View Details
- Web
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
Company, 1960–1977 Catherine T. Clark Brownberry Ovens, 1946–1972 James H. Clark Silicon Graphics, 1981–1994 Richard W. Clark Dick Clark Productions, 1956–2007 William L. Clayton Anderson, Clayton and Company, 1904–1940 Martin W. Clement Pennsylvania View Details
- 16 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management
by salesmen and companies like Singer Sewing Company to encourage workers to police one another. Rosenthal says the rise of the railroad is often credited with creating new units of production, including the cost per ton mile, but... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
Richard H.K. Vietor
Professor Vietor is Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He teaches courses on the international political economy. Before coming to the Business School in 1978, Professor Vietor held faculty appointments at Virginia... View Details
- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
- 21 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Common Strategy Mistakes
define industries broadly, following the influential work of Theodore Levitt some decades ago. His famous example was railroads that failed to see that they were in the transportation business, and so they missed the threat posed by... View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
of its wheels. Free to be lifted unencumbered. And not just one trailer, or two of them, or five, or a dozen, but hundreds, on one ship." In many ways, McLean's vision was nothing new. As far back as 1929, Seatrain had carried View Details
Walter A. Friedman
Walter A. Friedman is Director of the Business History Initiative and Lecturer. He edits Business History Review with Geoff Jones. He specializes in business, labor, and economic history. He is author of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First... View Details
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Feb 2020
- In Practice
6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy
monetizing their offerings in very different ways. The fact that many of these digital firms are based on a ‘platform’ business model—a term that only applied to railroads a few decades ago—only goes to show how far the new technologies... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
cubic yards, but most of those excavations had been designed for a sea-level canal and proved useless for the American effort. (In fact, most of the French excavations sank below Lake Gatun when the Americans dammed the Chagres River.) The Panama View Details
- Web
Historical Data Visualization - Business History
Trends Over Time Politics & Economics Population Growth Rates Trends Over Time Managing Distance Railroad Length Density Trends Over Time Politics & Economics Rise and Fall of Communism Trends Over Time Politics & Economics Rise and Fall... View Details
- 05 Jul 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?
(iStockphoto/aydinmutlu) Logistics issues have taken on unexpected and possibly unwanted “glamour” among those who study business and economics, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and its global aftermath. It’s a throwback to the days when View Details
- Web
Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Morgan and other established banks that had a hold on heavy industries like steel and railroads were reluctant to invest in riskier emerging fields such as retail—leaving an opening for smaller family firms like Lehman Brothers. “In an... View Details
- Web
The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910
cultural landscape after the Civil War. By the 1860s, the railroad industry had created a national network for the manufacture and distribution of industrial and consumer goods and, with it, the need for eye-catching, widespread... View Details