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- 28 Jul 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Technology Reemergence: Creating New Value for Old Technologies in Swiss Mechanical Watchmaking, 1970–2008
- 27 Jun 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Positive and Normative Judgments Implicit in US Tax Policy and the Costs of Unequal Growth and Recessions
Keywords: by Benjamin Lockwood & Matthew Weinzierl
- 11 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Spatial Diffusion of Technology
- April 1984
- Teaching Note
United Kingdom (A): The Decision to Join the Common Market, Teaching Note
By: Bruce R. Scott
- August 1983 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Nineteenth Century Retailing and the Rise of the Department Store
Discusses changes in retailing in the nineteenth century. View Details
Tedlow, Richard S. "Nineteenth Century Retailing and the Rise of the Department Store." Harvard Business School Case 384-022, August 1983. (Revised March 1995.)
- January 2011 (Revised March 2011)
- Teaching Note
The Wright Brothers and their Flying Machines (TN)
By: Tom Nicholas
Teaching Note for 811-034. View Details
- September 16, 2009
- Comment
Lehman in Context: A Historical Perspective
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Koehn, Nancy F. "Lehman in Context: A Historical Perspective." The Conversation Harvard Business Review Blogs (September 16, 2009).
- summer 1994
- Article
Kindling a Flame under Federalism: Progressive Reformers, Corporate Elites, and the Phosphorous Match Campaign of 1909-12
By: David A. Moss
Moss, David A. "Kindling a Flame under Federalism: Progressive Reformers, Corporate Elites, and the Phosphorous Match Campaign of 1909-12." Business History Review 68, no. 2 (summer 1994): 244–275.
- August 1996 (Revised January 1998)
- Teaching Note
British Capitalism and the Three Industrial Revolutions TN
Teaching Note for (1-796-182)--(For Book Only). View Details
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
"Humans have evolved a leadership brain," says HBS professor emeritus Paul R. Lawrence. "Good leaders are people with a conscience who respect and reward all the four drives of other stakeholders [the drive to acquire, to defend, to bond, and to... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
How Many Women Does It Take to Change a Congress?
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Homeward Bound
On a bright mid-August morning, a hard-hat crew aided by a massive crane replaced the centuries-old Russian bell atop Baker Library with a newly cast HBS Centennial Bell. The old bell, considered a Russian national treasure, was returned to Moscow’s Danilov Monastery,... View Details
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
Near the Guatemalan border in Mexico's Chiapas region, sandwiched between the Sierra Madres and the Pacific Ocean, there's a fertile pocket of land called the Soconusco. While once a hotbed of cacao production for the Aztecs and then the Spanish, the area was decimated... View Details
- September 1982 (Revised December 1987)
- Case
Herbert Hoover
McCraw, Thomas K. "Herbert Hoover." Harvard Business School Case 383-013, September 1982. (Revised December 1987.)
- 2025
- Chapter
Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America
By: Geoffrey Jones
This chapter argues that since the nineteenth century capitalism has created much wealth, but at the cost of massive ecological destruction, which has been particularly severe in Latin America. During the first global economy before 1929, considerable wealth was... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business History; Globalization; Economic Growth; Latin America
Jones, Geoffrey. "Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America." Chap. 8 in A Business History of Latin America, edited by Andrea Lluch, Martin Monsalve Zanatti, and Marcelo Bucheli, 159–174. New York, NY, United States: Routledge, 2025.
- Web
Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
- 07 Apr 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Explaining the Vertical-to-Horizontal Transition in the Computer Industry
- February 1993 (Revised March 1993)
- Case
Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (A) (Updated)
The setting is a food manufacturing company that has stumbled in terms of its historic growth and profit achievements. In trying to recapture momentum, the president has used information technology as one element in his program of transition. The case focuses on the... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Information Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Transition; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Food and Beverage Industry; Manufacturing Industry
Applegate, Lynda M. "Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (A) (Updated)." Harvard Business School Case 193-129, February 1993. (Revised March 1993.)