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- 06 Mar 2017
- News
Harvard Reveals Blueprint for Avoiding Stock Crashes
- February 2021
- Case
Emma Dench: Leadership and Ancient Rome
By: Francesca Gino and Frances X. Frei
In this multimedia case, classics scholar Emma Dench guides us in understanding leadership insights that can be captured from historical figures and works dating back to Ancient Rome. We learn the language, ideas, and patterns of behavior that are relevant to... View Details
Gino, Francesca, and Frances X. Frei. "Emma Dench: Leadership and Ancient Rome." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 921-702, February 2021.
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit
Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism, an exhibit in the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, confirms there is still much to learn about railroads, whose scale and complexity spawned modern business’s management model. Recent scholarship compares the rise of... View Details
- December 2005 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
General Electric's 20th Century CEOs
By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson
General Electric thrived in every decade of the 20th century. Since its founding in 1892, GE has placed a high value on picking and training the best people. Staff members worked with other scientists in the company's research lab to design and manufacture new and... View Details
Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Mark Benson. "General Electric's 20th Century CEOs." Harvard Business School Case 406-048, December 2005. (Revised April 2011.)
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
CASH (WITH THEN-CELTIC RICKY DAVIS): After blazing a trail as a college hoops star and a long career at HBS, he still possesses a nose for the ball and a knack for being where the action is. James Cash has always been around the cutting edge. An Academic All-American... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
Editor's note: Many economic regulators, influenced by the work of Mancur Olson, maintain the notion that consumers hold little sway over big-industry concerns. They argue that diffuse interests of the "little guys" lack the strength and organization necessary to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- September/December 1994
- Article
Management Accounting (1984-1994): Development of New Practice and Theory
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan, Robert S. "Management Accounting (1984-1994): Development of New Practice and Theory." Management Accounting Research 5, nos. 3-4 (September/December 1994): 247–260.
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
How 1850s America Offers a Model for Escaping Poverty
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
…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
Expanding Horizons
BHI's Postdoctoral Fellowship in Business History offered me an incredible opportunity to learn and grow as a business historian. I arrived at HBS with research and teaching experience in the history of US... View Details
Responsibility of Business
sustainability, the Business History Initiative provided an open, encouraging, and interdisciplinary environment to explore different avenues of thought and test new theories. The McCraw Fellowship provided me with a unique opportunity to... View Details
- Fast Answer
Digital Content for Identity and Heritage Months
Where can I find past digital displays for identity and heritage months? Baker Library celebrates different identity and heritage months by featuring relevant content from our collections. More pages will be added as we transition into new months. Current pages... View Details
- Web
Fellowships | Baker Library
application process, please visit the NERFC website . Harvard Business School Fellowships The Business History Group, Harvard Business School awards four different fellowships and grants. To learn more about these specific programs and... View Details
- Summer 2023
- Article
(Un)principled Agents: Monitoring Loyalty after the End of the Royal African Company Monopoly
By: Anne Ruderman and Marlous van Waijenburg
The revocation of the Royal African Company's monopoly in 1698 inaugurated a transformation of the transatlantic slave trade. While the RAC’s exit from the slave trade has received scholarly attention, little is known about the company’s response to the loss of its... View Details
Keywords: Slavery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business History; Monopoly; History; Business and Government Relations
Ruderman, Anne, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "(Un)principled Agents: Monitoring Loyalty after the End of the Royal African Company Monopoly." Special Issue on Business, Capitalism, and Slavery edited by Marlous van Waijenburg and Anne Ruderman. Business History Review 97, no. 2 (Summer 2023): 247–281.
- 30 Jan 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
The Environmental Legacies of The North Face's Doug Tompkins and Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard
- Summer 2021
- Article
The Cost and Evolution of Quality at Cipla Ltd, 1935–2016
By: Muhammad H. Zaman and Tarun Khanna
This article examines the evolution of Indian pharmaceutical manufacturer Cipla towards producing drugs that met the quality standards of European and U.S. regulators. It employs new research in Cipla’s corporate archives, the Creating Emerging Markets database, and... View Details
Keywords: Cipla; Pharmaceuticals; Drug Quality; Generics; Quality; Standards; Information Technology; Cost; Organizational Culture; Business History; Pharmaceutical Industry; India
Zaman, Muhammad H., and Tarun Khanna. "The Cost and Evolution of Quality at Cipla Ltd, 1935–2016." Business History Review 95, no. 2 (Summer 2021): 249–274.