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Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies & Personal Papers - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
the transcontinental railroad in the United States and in promoting the development of the Pacific Northwest. In the 1860s, Villard acted as the liaison between German investors and American railroad companies. Materials in this extensive... View Details
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
Many people today are focused on the global economic crisis, but Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter sees also a global crisis of business. The model of American capitalism that worked so View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
idiosyncratic they are one by one by one. They serve, I have to say, different purposes. It's not by accident that the British universities tend to fair rather well in the Times of London polls, the American... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1967 Born, Mexico City 1990 Receives Gold and Silver Medals, Rowing, Central American Games 1991 Earns BS, Economics, Instituto Technológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) 1995 Earns MBA... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Related Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
connections between American and Chinese merchants. The Ipswich Museum on the North Shore of Massachusetts preserves Ipswich’s social, cultural, and architectural history, including the Federal-style Heard House, built in 1800. The... View Details
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Develop and disseminate research and course material on advancing racial equity in business. - Advancing Racial Equity
cases and generated a host of exciting leads for cases on Black, LatinX, and Asian American protagonists. A new case tracking system, prototyped this summer, will help match faculty with potential protagonists and track cases underway.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa
director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies. She is also Harvard’s professor of History and of African and African American Studies, and a visiting professor at HBS. Elkins subsequently traveled to Lagos, to visit... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
This "new plant, new team, new concept" approach has generally worked well elsewhere for GM, Hughes says, in part because "when substantial capital and resources are thus committed, you go out of your way to understand the requirements of... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
startups taking advantage of this new opportunity, with the traditional giants - American Express, IBM, and Microsoft, for instance - also getting into the act. Brodia, an e-commerce company dedicated to simplifying online shopping for... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
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Concrete Symbols - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
variety with white stucco as well as brick exteriors, incorporating gables and distinctive decorative elements, and providing fireplaces and individual dining halls. At George F. Baker’s suggestion, the residence halls were named after... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
make global specialized healthcare accessible to anyone, anywhere. Trustedoctor “focuses on the first half mile of the patient and provider journey, before customers become in-patients of a provider” explains Jarzabek, who remembers well... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
carrier-based jet fighter program. When introduced, the first jet aircraft were underpowered and in many ways inferior to propeller-driven aircraft of the time. This book examines the Navy’s internal struggle to adapt the jet engine to its style of warfare as View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
organizational values and business ethics, Paine has long focused on American companies engaged primarily in domestic U.S. business. But faced with an increasing number of questions from international students about whether U.S. corporate... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
time when 30 to 40 percent of Americans switch religions during their lifetimes. A graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School, McLennan is a Unitarian Universalist minister and chaplain at Tufts University who has spent... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
status-symbol luxuries, like expensive watches or designer jeans. Why do consumers pay so much for products whose ingredients are well known to represent only a small proportion of the retail price? Beauty is certainly, as one recent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
wrongdoers were just a disparate collection of lone bad actors on the corporate stage. End of story. Alternatively, the scandals reflected something systemic and pervasive in American business culture, with the trail winding its way back... View Details
- 10 Jul 2024
- News
Next Level
partnership with Microsoft. Photos by Smeeta Mahanti Accustomed to often being the only woman in the room, as well as the youngest, Joseph is passionate about bringing more diversity and inclusion to leadership. She serves on the boards... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
play’s director (and Harvard College alumna), Diane Paulus, the Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University. HBSWANY co-vice president of programming, Kathy Murray (AMP 112, 1993) moderated the talk... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
problems from (in)convenience to price to congestion, he says. “Robust computer control is at the core of a successful PRT.” The concept is well known—you have likely encountered automated, driverless people movers in cities such as... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
In the fall of 2009, baseball's Anaheim Angels knocked the Boston Red Sox out of the American League Division Series in a humiliating three straight games. Within a matter of weeks, Sox general manager Theo Epstein had launched one of the... View Details