History Of The Book - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Nov 2018
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The History Of The First Thanksgiving — No, Not That One

18 Aug 2011
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Best Leadership Books of All Time

June 2019
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture and Lonnie Bunch

By: Steven Rogers and Derrick Jackson

Lonnie Bunch creates the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) with only half the federal support given to the first 17 Smithsonian historical or zoological institutions. Bunch, to borrow from the African American experience of creating “a... View Details

Keywords: Museums; Fundraising; Arts; Buildings and Facilities; Ethnicity; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Strategy; Marketing; Success; Leadership; Entrepreneurship

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01 Jun 2002
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History Matters

History shows us that when economic times are tough, customer relations are more important than ever, according to HBS professor Nancy Koehn. In “Chasing Dreams during Troubled Times: Lessons from the Past”... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Alumni Books

market capitalization. The book examines how misguided investment and acquisition strategies have created the paradox that, in media, the faster... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2006
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Corporate Information Strategy and Management by Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin, and F. Warren McFarlan (Irwin/McGraw-Hill) This extensive collection of HBS cases devoted to IT gives an overview of... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

2023
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Deeply Responsible Business.: A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership

By: Geoffrey Jones

Corporate social responsibility has entered the mainstream, but what does it take to run a successful purpose-driven business? This book examines leaders who put values alongside profits to showcase the challenges and upside of deeply responsible business. Should... View Details

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01 Jun 2008
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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 View Details

Keywords: Management

July 2018
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Does Copyright Affect Reuse? Evidence from Google Books and Wikipedia

By: Abhishek Nagaraj

While digitization has greatly increased the reuse of knowledge, this study shows how these benefits might be mitigated by copyright restrictions. I use the digitization of in-copyright and out-of-copyright issues of Baseball Digest magazine by Google Books to... View Details

Keywords: Digitization; Economics Of Innovation; Wikipedia; Intellectual Property; Copyright

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01 Dec 2007
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communication and collaboration between the FDA and the private sector. The editors place the perspectives of... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

27 Mar 2019
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Caitlin Rosenthal, UC Berkeley, Department of History

01 Sep 2009
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Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss (Cambridge University Press) After years of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

08 Aug 2016
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Writing the Book on Balance

her signature in the 500 books we had printed.” As for managing the demands of a busy working parent (she oversees a large senior housing... View Details

Keywords: Kickstarter; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women—a History

professional schools, and as the women's movement matured and grew, there has been increasing interest among women's historians to study women's contribution and role in the development View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

01 Sep 2008
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Faculty Books

implementing successful transformations. In this book he examines the crucial first step in his framework: creating a sense of urgency by getting people to actually see and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Real Estate

August 1998
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Selling Books Online in Mid-1998

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis

Provides an overview of the trends and predictions for the online book retail industry as of August 1998 and the current status of Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and other main players' online ventures. View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Books; Retail Industry

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01 Dec 2009
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Leadership by Anthony J. Mayo, Nitin Nohria, and Mark Rennella (Palgrave Macmillan) This book examines the evolution of leadership through the... View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Mar 2010
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Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture by Laura Alfaro (World Scientific) This casebook has three main topics: the determinants and effects... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Dec 2005
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International Finance A Casebook by Mihir A. Desai (John Wiley & Sons) These case studies, by Associate Professor Desai, consider how major financial and investment decisions must adapt to the opportunities and obstacles in a rapidly... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information