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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

M. Mazur and Myron Samuel. Principles of Organization Applied to Modern Retailing . New York: Harper & Bros., 1927. R. H. Macy & Co., Inc., Stock Certificate, October 1, 1926. Lehman Brothers Deal Books, Baker Library, Harvard Business... View Details

15 Aug 2022
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University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

“Will China threaten American supremacy?” asks Kirby in his new book Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China. "Public institutions in the United States educate three-quarters of all American... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

16 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Are You a Strategist?

advantage. It also made it very easy for leaders to think of strategy solely as an analytical exercise. "If we're being honest, I was part of the problem," Montgomery says. Montgomery and fellow HBS professor Michael Porter—who is considered to be the father of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

28 Nov 2023
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Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

Malaysia, and Indonesia from the early 1980s to the present. We asked Rithmire, the F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, to provide insights on how business leaders might think about doing business in these... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Our Curriculum - Business History

18th century to the present. Some cases highlight the introduction of new financial markets (such as the Dojima futures market in early modern Japan), or the creation of new instruments (such as... View Details

13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

world-class business. Following modern management practices, keeping sharp attention to cost control and capital operations, making aggressive entries into international markets, and maintaining a special corporate culture, Chairman Chen... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Partners - Case Method Project

Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming CO 1 of 13 Denny Bain Poudre High School Fort Collins, CO Subjects: American Government, US History, Economics CO 2 of 13 Matt Beeson Colorado View Details

18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

un‐cited or self-cited, suggesting that incumbents are more likely to engage in incremental innovation compared to VC-backed startups. Third, we document a rising share of patenting by startups that coincided with the surge in venture capital finance for renewable... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

that modern society was having on the environment, Ashley Telkes had always tried to be cognizant of her own impact on the environment and to take reasonable steps to mitigate her own effects. Having already implemented a number of... View Details

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

also an area of heavy growth. As the 1980s ushered in the rise of high-tech research and start-ups, Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. helped finance Cetus, an early biotech firm, as well as Intel, which created the first microprocessor.... View Details

28 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

Entrepreneurship in the world's two most populous nations, China and India, has through modern times been somewhat asleep. But now, says HBS professor Tarun Khanna in a new book, both societies "have woken up," and the results... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Projects - Business History

special issue of Business History Review, the creation of a new finding aid to the archival collection, and two academic conferences focused on the early modern origins of capitalism. Harvard Program on the... View Details

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Past Issues - Alumni

takes to reinvent the bookstore for the age of Amazon Making Sense of the Modern Startup How Bill Sahlman invented Entrepreneurial Finance The Founding of AASU Four alumni recall the forces and factors that drove them to found the African... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy

trip to Baker Library/Bloomberg Center, which holds the largest collection of Medici business records outside of Italy. The Medici family came to power in the early 15th century and shaped life in Florence for centuries, influencing... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

certain strategic assets that are important for building critical military equipment. One can be too cautious about reliance on foreigners. In the early 19th century, the British thought their grain supply was strategic, and they... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

A warning to CEOs and other top executives in high-pressure positions: Job stress could shave years off your life, causing you to die younger than lower-level workers, new research suggests. After all, modern CEOs face taxing work... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

investment success. “The initial funding was $7.5 million; one of our first investments was $250,000 in Intel.” Apple corps: “We invested early in Apple, purchasing 10 percent of the company in 1979 for $300,000. Serving on the board for... View Details

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Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

recent scholarship underlines the impact the state had on the development of the industry. In England, where the industrial revolution was already well under way, the British made early contributions to railroad technology, introducing... View Details

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

neglected. This trend was exacerbated as research inside the academy moved more toward large computerized databases. Leadership largely dropped off the agenda in mainstream academic institutions. It is ironic, though. If we go back to the origins of the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in a Consumer Society

The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits “Beautiful credit, the foundation of modern society!” — Mark Twain, The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day (1873)... View Details

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