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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
relations in the organizational and industrial setting. And for the School, the two men helped set in place what was to become the cornerstone of HBS’s academic foundation: field-based empirical research.
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- 01 Dec 2012
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Faculty Books
logic of interest representation. Based on empirical case studies, Trumbull develops an alternative model of interest representation involving "legitimacy coalitions" forming around narratives that tie their agenda to a broader public...
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- 10 Feb 2014
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King of His Castle
hopes in the near future to focus full time on the Renaissance empire he has built and is intent on expanding. "I get to apply my business skills to the building of the company, but my passion for it hasn't diminished at all," he says....
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Case Study: Farming It Out
to tackle more complex tasks like pruning and picking. The Question: For now, AGR is focused on nailing the initial market fit, Andersen says, but at some point he’ll have to face the question of empire building. Other companies have...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Getting Security Right
those challenges? There is plenty of current evidence that the Russians intend to reassemble their empire in some form in order to have enough population, resources, and geographic positioning to reclaim their past influence in the world....
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- 01 Mar 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
created an industrial empire in Hamilton, Ohio, that employed thousands, including hundreds of poor whites who came from Kentucky to southeastern Ohio to find work. And it’s the story of three of his sons, who went on to run Fortune...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
He demonstrates capitalism's ability to create wealth for societies through innovation but cautions that global capitalism's history has been associated with enormous divergence in the wealth of the developed West compared to the rest of the world, a gap only now...
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- 01 Jan 2003
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James E. Burke, MBA 1949
Johnson to a position as the nation's dominant health-care brand-a $9 billion empire comprised of the main operating company and some 150 wholly owned subsidiaries. In addition, J&Jwas regularly rated as one of the most admired and...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
What New York City attraction brings in more tourists each year than the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty? Why, it's FAO Schwarz, the famous toy store, of course. It's not hard to understand the draw. The flagship emporium...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
MacArthur's tremendous success in rebuilding Japan after World War II. As the supreme commander for the Allied Powers, he was charged with transforming a defeated, militarist empire into a beacon of peace and democracy. A career military...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
“American” business when talking about companies like Microsoft, IBM, and Starbucks. Yes, America rose to astounding power beginning in the late nineteenth-century and now this influence is declining. As it did for the British Empire in...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Book Review: The Old West
growth—choosing instead to align with passive CEOs looking for short-term gains. What's more, the East is succeeding by using the very model the West forfeited, looking to men and women who seek to build empires with bold—and yes,...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 1997
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"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
empirical puzzles, where you work long hours evaluating data one step at a time, trying every permutation, and after years of this, you hope to find something. That can be really fascinating and rewarding. The research that I like best,...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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What We’re Reading
are times when I’m hankering for nonfiction, either a biography or something topical, such as Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Radden Keefe’s page-turner history of the Sackler family that seems to have...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons
graduating from Harvard College in 1988, Audrey Choi went to West Germany on a Fulbright scholarship to study literature. But with the Soviet empire tottering, she found herself drawn to the sea changes taking place around her and the...
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- 16 Oct 2014
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Reducing special-interest influence over government regulation
He and his collaborators focus on the importance of empirical analysis to assess degrees of influence. “The more we understand the nature of special-interest influence over regulation, the more we should be able to devise a spectrum of...
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- 19 Jun 2013
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Ann Moore, MBA 1978
presiding over an empire of more than 145 magazines, websites, and brand extensions. Now retired, Moore reflects on the significance of her MBA. "I owe my career to HBS," she says. "It opened doors in the 1970s that would not have been...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
the years my research has been increasingly focused on consumer finance, combining case studies, empirical projects, and experiments — the latter often in conjunction with Commonwealth, a nonprofit I cofounded that is an R&D lab for new...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
be invited to more parties or other cool events. What got you interested in this research? I've always been fascinated by the entertainment industry. I was trained as an empirical modeler—I develop econometric models to analyze data....
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates
produce national franchises, and attract international investment. Known for Chinggis Khaan (or Genghis Khan, as he is called in the Western world) and the Great Mongol Empire of the 13th century, we Mongols are proud of our long history;...
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