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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
executive, I had no reason to change my mind. His respect for people was at the core of his being, as was his belief that executives had a responsibility to bring out the best in people. William Geisler (MBA ’60) San Anselmo, CA Error of Omission I read with great... View Details
- 06 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Art of American Advertising
Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus; and Walter A. Friedman, Lecturer of Business Administration, and Director, Business History Initiative. "The exhibit is a wonderful demonstration of this innovation and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
encapsulates what I have learned about American business history during three decades of research and teaching the subject." Highlights from the conversation follow. How did you choose the seven men profiled in your book? First of all, I... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
community. Chile is in better shape, but has also undergone traumatic ups and down and is now challenged to grow as its major trading partner, China, slows its growth. What went wrong? A new edited volume by Geoffrey Jones and Andrea Lluch is the first to compare the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Check Is in the Mail
of credit has been around as long as commerce itself. “Credit is often portrayed as the new disease of the 20th century, yet people have been buying on credit for centuries,” says Caitlin Anderson, the exhibit’s curator and a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Center for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Thomas K. McCraw, 1940–2012
Thomas K. McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus, and winner of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in History for his book Prophets of Regulation, died in November. He was 72 years old. "Tom was an extraordinarily... View Details
Keywords: obituary
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Weaving Success in India
Photographs and advertisements from Nalli’s nearly nine decades in business. (Courtesy Lavanya Nalli) Photographs and advertisements from Nalli’s nearly nine decades in business. (Courtesy Lavanya Nalli) “Once upon a time,” Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti begins as he recounts... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Jan 2019
- News
Why New England Needs New Ideas
In a recent piece in the Boston Globe Magazine, Professor Clay Christensen, Karen Dillon, a senior researcher at Christensen’s Institute for Disruptive Innovation, and Efosa Ojomo (MBA 2015), a research fellow at the Institute, use New England’s View Details
Keywords: New England
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
establishing the struggling young country's financial system. In The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy, Thomas McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
concern with the role of firms in creating markets, shaping policies, and diffusing globalization," says Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. In this... View Details
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
provided me with a unique opportunity, because all the changes that were made to the text survived as archaeological layers for me to excavate. The ever-expanding Essay became my way of making sense of the larger question I was facing—namely, how a rigorous View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Centennial Goes YouTube
on the project’s new Web site: www.hbs.edu/centennial/im/. It’s participatory history in the making and available to anyone who has an HBS story to tell. The Web site also features a multimedia history of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Editor's Note
and Julia Hanna interviewed four emeriti professors to glean reminiscences and insights based on their many years of service. Not directly related to the Centennial, but timely nonetheless, is a new book on the history of American... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
but so too were people. Often ruthless, insatiably curious, amazingly driven, the fascinating men and women that helped create American business history are a very important thread in this book. History is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Assets: Matchup
firm perspective. These matchboxes, featuring actual Time magazine covers of Chinese leaders—from Chiang Kai-shek to Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaoping—offer a thumbnail sketch of the country’s history in the 20th century. A gift from a former... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
What is the history of the Great American Business Leaders database? A: The Leadership Initiative rests on three avenues of research—legacy leadership, emerging leadership, and global leadership. The Great American Business Leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
As Harvard Business School professor Laura Phillips Sawyer sifted through historical documents to trace the history of competition policy in the United States, an interesting figure emerged: Edna Gleason, who became known as the “mother... View Details
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
the collective expectations of market participants. We are already in a very different moment in history compared to the middle of the 1990s. What most fascinated me was how much the content of financial orthodoxy had shifted during the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
lost and regained. But in person and in his writing, Jenrette is most animated when he is focused on the history of his houses and the lives of their previous owners. In conducting some of the research that helped him to reconstruct the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
like to think of themselves as truly indispensable—impact makers, history movers, culture changers—few reach the bar set by Steve Jobs, Napoleon, or Martin Luther King Jr., Mukunda says. (Even some people you might think would be shoo-ins... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard