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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
strategy," and he describes how companies such as Yelp and Zynga have done it. The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World edited by Sophus A Reinert and Pernille Røge (Palgrave Macmillan)... View Details
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
and Japan? Fortunately, early indications with their innovation-led strategy were showing positive signs and demonstrable results—such as their biogenetic insulin and monoclonal antibody launch in India. Their lead oral insulin project,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
tastefully mounted and displayed on the first floor's north and south corridor walls. "We chose images from the 1850s to the early 1930s -- the so-called Second Industrial Revolution -- that characterized industries important to the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
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Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business . Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1977. Full text available as a networked resource. Chandler, Alfred D., ed., The Railroads: Pioneers in Modern Management . New York: Arno Press,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
In the early 1970s, as Ali Allawi (MBA ’71) graduated from HBS, Islam was flexing both religious and political muscles that had long been dormant. It came to a head with Iran’s 1979 revolution, an uprising against the ruling political... View Details
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
hospital and nursing home provider. He leads M&A and quality management for the group. Earning his MD at Imperial College London, Dr. Guth began his career as a Junior Doctor at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in London. Subsequently,... View Details
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Ai Weiwei Strength 2019 | About
create conceptual works addressing issues he believes are important. Among such works are early iconoclastic acts, as in his photographic series Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1995); a later installation about the lives lost in the 2008... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
2015 Modern China Studies Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—This article seeks to understand the motivations behind the People's Republic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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The Coming of Managerial Capitalism - Course Catalog
of the development of entrepreneurship, modern management, business, technology and finance; to examine other institutions that have affected these areas such as governments, unions, and intellectual property rights; and to analyze the... View Details
- 07 Dec 2022
- News
Dubai-Based Proptech Builds Up
Aahan Bhojani (Linkedin) Aahan Bhojani (Linkedin) In early 2020, Aahan Bhojani (MBA 2019) was working for a travel fintech startup in Boston when the coronavirus pandemic resulted in lockdowns around the world. But Bhojani wasn't in... View Details
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
Lalocracio In thinking about the current contested state of global capitalism, and what to do about it, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Seeking the Unconventional in Forging Histories of Capitalism, which... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
Dan Sprinkles (MBA 1977) was 50 years old when a vision quest inspired him to leave the corporate world and embark on a role as a spiritual healer. “I’d always been hungry or starved for something that would create passion,” he says. After an View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
under the bridge — ancient history, like the history of imperial China. Markets have short memories. Many young traders today did not even experience the Asian crisis of 1997–1998. Those who went into finance after 2000 lived through... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
When you think about which countries have produced the greatest management innovations, the United States and Japan are likely to top your list. But it was Germany in the late 1800s and early 1900s that was a cauldron of innovative and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Related Collections Site Credits You were expected to be ready night or day, whenever you were wanted, and it was rare that I left my desk before 11 o’clock at night. Mr. Coolidge had a way of working in the evening, and my uncle of getting up View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
opium to their country in the early 1800s, ultimately triggering the end to Imperial China. They are intensely proud of their civilization and determined to preserve it, even as they have become leading... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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Stock Exchanges - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
engraving by unknown artist. [Netherlands? early 17th century]. 19.2 x 29.8 cm AE n1 x The Amsterdam exchange, situated on the Amstel River, was designed by Hendrick de Keijser and opened in 1611. Trading was carried on in the open inner... View Details
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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade
40 In addition to adopting modern managerial and financial systems, the Chinese compradors played a significant role in the early industrialization of the country by investing their wealth in View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Information Technology
merged to form Dun & Bradstreet in 1933, both were early adopters—even drivers—of technological innovations in an emerging information industry. Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) donated its historical corporate records to Baker Library, and this... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
sought, in the words of historian Jackson Lears, to "stabilize the sorcery of the market." The relationship between the forecasting industry and modernity was an ambivalent one, though. On the one hand, the View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman