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Oral History and the Business History of Emerging Markets

By: Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale
This article highlights the benefits that rigorous use of oral history can offer to research on the contemporary business history of emerging markets. Oral history can help fill some of the major information voids arising from the absence of a strong tradition of... View Details
Keywords: Oral History; Corruption; Business History; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; Asia; Africa; Latin America
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  • 14 May 2009
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How does a team leader win the confidence of the group? What's the best... View Details
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    Yiwei Li

    Yiwei Li is a Doctoral student of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He concentrates on managerial accounting research, with interest in topics like incentive scheme and management control system. He pursues the goal  of applying research output into... View Details

      Edward H. Chang

      Edward Chang (he/him/his) is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Inclusion in the MBA required curriculum and Negotiations in the MBA elective curriculum.
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      • July 2023 (Revised April 2025)
      • Case

      'Bugs' Burger Bug Killers

      By: Ryan W. Buell and William Fulmer
      In the height of its success, Bugs Burger Bug Killers (BBBK; Burger has a soft 'g' - it rhymes with merger) was the largest independent extermination company in America, growing at more than 20% per year. BBBK built its business on the promise of pest eradication,... View Details
      Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Service Industry
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        Charlotte L. Robertson

        Charlotte Robertson is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches BGIE in the MBA required curriculum.

        Professor Robertson conducts research on the history of financial... View Details

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        Institutions and Human Capital Development in the Indian IT Services Industry

        Una's dissertation research examines how institutional contexts shape human resource practices and human capital development in knowledge intensive industries and their implications for long-term industry development and competitiveness.

        Una uses field,... View Details

        • 22 Apr 2025
        • HBS Seminar

        Kaitlin Woolley, Cornell University

        • 2012
        • Book

        The Rise of the Modern Firm

        By: Geoffrey Jones and Walter A. Friedman
        This authoritative volume focuses on the rise of modern firms, from their early history to the present day. It considers the role of laws and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives and the firms they... View Details
        Keywords: Business Ventures; Economy; Business History; Archives; Contracts; Theory
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        Overview

        By: Mattias E. Fibiger
        Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth-century international history, focusing primarily on political economy and international relations in Southeast Asia.

        Professor Fibiger's first book is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast... View Details
        • 22 Nov 2016
        • Video

        Black Friday 1948: The first Polaroid “instant” camera sells out

        • 2023
        • Book

        Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World

        By: Mattias Fibiger
        After the murder of senior generals in the Indonesian army by elements of the country's communist party in 1965, General Suharto orchestrated the mass killing of some half a million leftists and fellow travelers. But his ambitions spanned far beyond perpetrating a... View Details
        Keywords: Indonesia; Cold War; Political Economy; Foreign Aid; International Investment; International Relations; International Finance; History; War; Economic Systems; Government and Politics; Indonesia; Southeast Asia
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        • 2012
        • Working Paper

        An Outside-Inside Evolution in Gender and Professional Work

        By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Kathleen McGinn and Deborah Kolb
        We study the process by which a professional service firm reshaped its activities and beliefs over nearly two decades as it adapted to shifts in the social discourse regarding gender and work. Analyzing archival data from the firm over eighteen years and... View Details
        Keywords: Professional Service Firms; Social Institutions; Organizational Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employment; Gender; Society; Service Industry
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        Overview

        Professor McDonald studies how firms successfully navigate new markets. He examines how widely accepted strategic prescriptions can actually undermine managers’ attempts to develop a viable business model or stake out a defining new market position, and considers the... View Details
        • 20 Sep 2024
        • Video

        Meroë Morse at Polaroid: Fostering a Culture of Business, Science, Art, and Innovation

        • April 1990
        • Case

        Philip Morris Companies' ""Bill of Rights"" Sponsorship Program

        By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein
        Describes the new policy of the National Archives of inviting corporate cosponsorship of historic exhibits and commemorations. In November 1989, Philip Morris Companies (PM) became the first cosponsor of the bicentennial commemoration of the Bill of Rights, and used... View Details
        Keywords: Policy; Brands and Branding; Decisions; Advertising; Marketing Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Financing and Loans; Reputation; Nonprofit Organizations
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          Silvan Baier

          Silvan Baier is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior at HBS and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. He studies how social structures shape and are shaped by the organization, spread, and evaluation of ideas and people. In his research, he... View Details

          • 2019
          • Book

          Problem Solving: HBS Alumni Making a Difference in the World

          By: Howard H. Stevenson, Russ Banham and Shirley Spence
          Problem Solving is the culmination of four years of research conducted by a small project team from 2015 through 2018 in collaboration with HBS alumni, students, faculty, and staff. Its broad and deep knowledge base is derived from a survey of 13 MBA classes... View Details
          Keywords: Harvard Business School; Alumni; Influence; Social Responsibility; Humanitarianism
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          • August 26, 2014
          • Comment

          Female Hurricanes Are Not Deadlier than Male Hurricanes

          By: Daniel Malter
          In a highly contentious study, Jung, Shavitt, Viswanathan and Hilbe (2014) claimed that hurricanes had higher death tolls when they had female rather than male names due to implicit gender bias. Their article includes a study of the death toll of hurricanes that made... View Details
          Keywords: United States
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          Current Projects

          To further study team coaching and creativity, I have undertaken two field-based studies. In collaboration with Teresa Amabile, I am exploring helping and collaborative behaviors though the analysis of daily diary entries from creative work teams at a design firm.... View Details