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- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922
John H. Patterson created an intricate system of management to monitor and train company salesman. He gave them scripts to memorize and assigned them territory to cover. He held conventions and thematic sales contests, and pressured salesmen to rid their regions of... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
To succeed in today's fast-moving economy, traditional corporate structures are holding back companies, even great companies, from being creative enough and speedy enough to compete effectively. What's needed, argues Harvard Business School Professor John P. Kotter in... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
book excerpt Firms As Actors From Chapter 1 Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World By Geoffrey Jones Entrepreneurs and firms have been important actors in the making of our View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
Harvard Business School, where he teaches the (MBA) Foundations business history course, Creating Modern Capitalism. He also serves as co-editor of the Business History Review. Al Chandler is appropriately regarded as the founder of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America
classic economic "factors of production." The others are labor, capital, and entrepreneurship. As the earlier chapters of this book have shown, modern capitalism fuses these four factors into operational systems for the conduct... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- May 1990
- Book
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
In the modern competitive marketplace, nations have their own competitive advantages. These are investigated and discussed in-depth. View Details
- 1993
- Book
British Multinational Banking 1830-1990
By: Geoffrey Jones
This book provides the first modern history of British multinational banking. It analyses their emergence, growth and performance from their origins in the 1830s until the present day. It is based on a wide range of confidential banking records, which are placed in the... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Multinational Firms and Management; Growth and Development; Information Management; Performance; Great Britain; United Kingdom
Jones, Geoffrey. British Multinational Banking 1830-1990. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
- July 2007 (Revised February 2010)
- Case
Saffronart.com: Bidding for Success
By: Mukti Khaire and R. Daniel Wadhwani
Saffronart, a five-year-old online art auction company, leads the market for modern Indian art and now faces competitors in the market it created. Established in 2000 by the wife-and-husband team of Minal and Dinesh Vazirani, Saffronart.com is an innovative online... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Auctions; Industry Growth; Competition; Online Technology; Fine Arts Industry; India
Khaire, Mukti, and R. Daniel Wadhwani. "Saffronart.com: Bidding for Success." Harvard Business School Case 808-027, July 2007. (Revised February 2010.)
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
scanrail SUMMING UP: Is Modern Monetary Theory a Fancy Term for Today’s Reality? Modern monetary theory (MMT) is “silly thinking” (Andy), “a totally unproven theory” (Alex), a “free lunch” (John), and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- March 1994 (Revised February 2001)
- Background Note
Why Manage Risk?
By: Peter Tufano
Conventional finance theory demonstrates that, under simplistic assumptions, firms cannot add to shareholder value through the use of risk management activities. Modern finance theory has begun to carefully consider and examine those circumstances under which firms can... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management
Tufano, Peter, and Jon Headley. "Why Manage Risk?" Harvard Business School Background Note 294-107, March 1994. (Revised February 2001.)
- December 2008 (Revised June 2010)
- Background Note
Political and Economic History of the People's Republic of China: An Annotated Timeline
By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, Elisabeth Koll and F. Warren McFarlan
Brief political, economic, and social timeline of China from 1949 to present to give context on and provide overview of modern Chinese history. View Details
Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, Elisabeth Koll, and F. Warren McFarlan. "Political and Economic History of the People's Republic of China: An Annotated Timeline." Harvard Business School Background Note 309-073, December 2008. (Revised June 2010.)
- 1998
- Book
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
By: M. E. Porter
In the modern competitive marketplace, nations have their own competitive advantages. These are investigated and discussed in-depth. View Details
Porter, M. E. The Competitive Advantage of Nations. 2nd ed. New York: Free Press, 1998. (1st ed. New York: Free Press, 1990.)
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
- 01 May 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Revisiting the Classical View of Benefit-Based Taxation
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
- 15 Apr 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Big History, Global Corporations, Virtual Capitalism
Keywords: by Richard L. Nolan
- 19 Jun 2012
- News
A Brief History of Doing Well by Doing Good
- September 1953 (Revised December 2012)
- Case
Bramos Printing Company
A printing company, founded in 2000 as a one-man-job printing firm, is experiencing rapid growth together with a move and modernization of its facilities. Presents a problem in depreciation. View Details
Anthony, Robert N. "Bramos Printing Company." Harvard Business School Case 154-001, September 1953. (Revised December 2012.)
- 15 May 2020
- News