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You've Got Mail! The Late 19th-Century U.S. Postal Service Expansion, Firm Creation, and Firm Performance
By: Astrid Marinoni and Maria P. Roche
This paper examines the impact of the expansion of the US Postal Service in the late 19th century
on firm creation and performance. Utilizing newly digitized archival data on historic business establishments,
post office locations, and road networks in California,... View Details
Keywords: Institutional Innovation; Knowledge Exchange; US Postal Service; Firm Performance; Infrastructure; Expansion; Government Administration; Communication; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Public Administration Industry; California
Marinoni, Astrid, and Maria P. Roche. "You've Got Mail! The Late 19th-Century U.S. Postal Service Expansion, Firm Creation, and Firm Performance." Management Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online January 15, 2025.)
- March 2025
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Managing Religion in the Workplace: Abercrombie & Fitch and The United States Postal Service
By: Derek C. M. van Bever, Nien-he Hsieh and Matthew Souba
You've Got Mail! The Late 19th Century U.S. Postal Service Expansion, Entrepreneurship, and Firm Performance
- 19 Feb 2021
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Was a three-week trip to New Orleans for work or vacation? Both.
- October 2002 (Revised December 2003)
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eShip-4U
By: Roy D. Shapiro and Timothy M. Laseter
eShip is a small Israeli start-up with a potentially exciting new concept for the residential package-delivery value chain--the Automatic Delivery Machine (ADM). Much like today's ubiquitous ATMs, ADMs would allow consumers to have parcels delivered to a nearby ADM... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Business Model; Service Operations; Logistics; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation; Saving; Innovation and Invention; Service Industry; Service Industry; Service Industry; Israel; United States
Shapiro, Roy D., and Timothy M. Laseter. "eShip-4U." Harvard Business School Case 603-076, October 2002. (Revised December 2003.)
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Historical Data & Sources - Business History
1750-2005. New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2007 B.R. Mitchell, International Statistics: Africa, Asia, Oceania, 1750-2005. New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2007 Universal Postal Union Notes: Values for China from 1900-1935 include data from... View Details
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MBA/Executive education from the Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management. Maria P. Roche : Runner-up for the Best Paper in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the 2024 Industry Studies Association Annual Conference for “You've Got Mail! The Late 19th... View Details
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joined American Express as a marketing vice president in the travel-related services division. Before his retirement in 1993, he was promoted to senior vice president for worldwide communications. Wilkinson was a trustee and national... View Details
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Management in Business , and Credential of Readiness —or earn an advanced Certificate of Specialization will receive a free digital credential and free printed credential shipped via first-class United States Postal View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
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Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
Image by Edmon de Haro The US Postal Service prides itself on delivering through rain, sleet, and snow—but what about serious debt? After 11 straight years of losses and declining first-class mail volumes,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2011
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RoboCar, the Sequel
Alden Photo courtesy William Alden Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur. Consider the case of William Alden (MBA ’52), as reported in the Cape Cod Times (April 12, 2011). More than 50 years ago, Alden was working on an automated mail-flow system for the View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)
search, digital, print, radio, and television that I would have used for Guinness or Captain Morgan when I was at Diageo. The only real difference between the Postal Service and any of the other brands I’ve... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Jun 2011
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Back to the Future
on an automated mail-flow system for the postal service when he started thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive over roads but also attach to computer-controlled track networks.... View Details
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Thaddeus Mosley Illusory Progression 2020 | About
Mosley worked for the U.S. Postal Service for 40 years and wrote for the Pittsburgh Courier , one of the nation’s leading Black newspapers. In the 1950s Mosley began making sculptures, and in 1968 he had his... View Details
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FAQs | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
support. Another outside program to consider for repayment of loans is the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program for holders of US Federal Aid. I'm participating in the Public Service Cancellation program... View Details
- 27 Jun 2014
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A Case of Uncreative Destruction
- 18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit
engaged, which led him to exploring government contracts. First came several contracts with the US Postal Service to produce lobby desks, which were followed by several deals to build waterproof plywood... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 17 Nov 2020
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How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
retailers struggle to match supply with demand. Many e-retailers are urging consumers to “buy early” this holiday season, citing concerns about postal services and shipping. Given capacity constraints placed... View Details