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This book presents new research on the historical impact of globalization on Argentina and Chile. The authors focus on the role of entrepreneurs and firms. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Globalized Firms and Management; Business History; Research; Argentina; Chile

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August 2008 (Revised November 2015)
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Yataro Iwasaki: Founding Mitsubishi (B)

By: Geoffrey G. Jones, Masako Egawa and Mayuka Yamazaki

This brief (B) case documents the fate of Mitsubishi and the shipping company NYK after the death of Yataro Iwasaki in 1885. The case supplements case 808-158, “Yataro Iwaski: Founding Mitsubishi (A).” View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Globalized Firms and Management; Business History; Leadership; Japan

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01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call

Illustration by PJ Loughran Everyone talks about how quickly business changes. yet some HBS cases remain reliably relevant decades after they are written. In the pages that follow, we take a behind-the-scenes look at five cases that are at least twenty years old, are... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

August 2012 (Revised October 2022)
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Elia Nuqul and the Making of a Middle Eastern Business Group (A)

By: Geoffrey Jones and Lana Ghanem

The case is concerned with Elia Nuqul, the founder of Jordanian-based Nuqul Brothers, a large diversified business group. It shows how Nuqul, a Christian Palestinian whose family was forced to flee to Jordan after the creation of Israel in 1948, built a business in his... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; History; Government and Politics; Global Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Middle East

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02 Mar 2016
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from libel charges. In this way, the reports of the Dun collection made history as much as they now serve as a means of studying it. “You can see that what happened then is all part of an ongoing, dynamic cycle,” says Laura Linard. Given... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2008
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…and by Comparison

Last June, the MBA Class of 1958 celebrated its 50th Reunion. HBS professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser, one of five class members who became professors at the School (likely a record for any class), notes that because the class graduated at the midpoint of HBS’s life,... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Mar 2009
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Faculty Books

economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not produced the rule of law? The answers to these questions lie in the ways in which Mexico’s long history with authoritarian... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2005
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The Nature of Change

each year to include data from the current graduating class as well as current business and world events. “This case teaches them that history is alive, that they are part of a long, rich tradition of people with similar concerns who have... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; The Class the Dollars Fell On; case; capstone course; John Shad (MBA 1949); class of 49; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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The Rise of the American Business Corporation

By: R. S. Tedlow

Keywords: Business History; Business Ventures; United States

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April 1, 2012
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The Driver in Ford's Amazing Race

By: Nancy F. Koehn

In "American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company" (Crown Business: $26), Bryce G. Hoffman recounts the turnaround in careful, often gripping detail. Make no mistake, this is a story, not a structured analysis of Ford's transformation. Those... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Transformation; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; United States

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