Labor History - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. These elections are not conducted, as claimed by Silvers, like those in the Soviet Union where “it was not really possible for people to make a free choice.” If the NLRB believes... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call

they “enjoyed eating in exotic surroundings but were deeply mistrustful of exotic foods.” He also determined that labor cost and availability was the key problem in the U.S. restaurant business and that eliminating the conventional... View Details

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

March 2004 (Revised November 2004)
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Great Depression, Mass Unemployment, and Business Leadership, The

Explores the texture of mass unemployment during the Great Depression in the United States. Business leaders offer assessments of the Great Depression and the New Deal. View Details

Keywords: History; Employment; Financial Crisis; United States

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30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

this interview he discusses the development of the German corporation and what modern managers can learn from that history. The book was edited by Thomas K. McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, and was... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR... View Details

17 Nov 2022
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Blockchain for Good

to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Smith’s plan included developing an Explore Your Family History Center, which would help people explore their... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

27 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

“The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there's nothing.” "The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there's nothing: where there are no roads, where there's no reliable labor system,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Sep 2024
News

The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge

Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

10 Apr 2008
News

The Sum of Our Own Greatness

Group: Tom Ryder, David Habeeb, and Ruth Page. Inspiration for the title came from a Theodore Roosevelt quote: “We cannot do great deeds as a nation unless we are willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.” For Ryder, who confesses that the film... View Details

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

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Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR... View Details

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U.S. economic data

and level of Economic Account. See also, U.S. Economy at a Glance. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Economy at a Glance - Brief time series of select indicators. Link to state and city data. Bureau of View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Executive Pay: Onward & Upward

1984 To discourage “golden parachutes,” a controversial pay innovation at the time, Congress imposes a special tax on such payments valued at more than three times an executive’s average pay. Rather than curb golden parachutes, the tax cap becomes a target companies... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2010
News

Alumni Books

customer-facing staff, make acquisitions, get rid of underperformers, and build their brand. American History Revised: 200 Startling Facts That Never Made It into the Textbooks by Seymour Morris Jr. (MBA ’72) (Broadway Books) Filled with... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World

Building an Evidence Base for Emerging Markets It’s one thing to research the history of companies in Europe, the United States, or Japan, where libraries, archives, and public records are abundant. But what about emerging markets, where... View Details

Keywords: faculty research

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

more than 30 million European immigrants moved to the US. In fact, American history offers many immigration backlash examples: 1840s and 1850s: Almost 1 million Irish immigrants came to the US to flee the deadly Potato Famine of 1846,... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

01 Jun 2011
News

Where Conservation Means Business

carefully removes decades-old tape from the corners of photos from the United Fruit Company collection. Its 75 albums with 10,400 photos provide a vivid visual history of the company’s early 20th-century operations in the Caribbean,... View Details

Keywords: Roger thompson

01 Sep 2009
News

Read All About It!

When Business History Was Business News UTAH, 1859: East meets West and America opens for business. Henry Guttmann/Getty Images Newspapers, so the saying goes, write the first draft of history. In her new book, The Story of American... View Details

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

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Collection Highlights | Baker Library

Company Records Administrative material, financial records, correspondence, and labor and production records of the Waltham-based textile firm founded in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1813. Alfred D. Chandler Papers Professor Alfred Chandler... View Details

2002
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Factories in the Countryside: The Industrial Workforce and Social Division in Nantong County, 1895-1937

By: Elisabeth Koll

Keywords: History; Human Capital; Rural Scope; Society; China