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- 24 Oct 2016
- News
Meet the Billionaires of Thailand's Red Bull Fortune
- 25 Aug 2016
- News
What's Old is New Again
- 26 Dec 2018
- News
With Sluggish Economy, Chinese Auto Industry Eyes U.S. Market
- 2017
- Chapter
Gapponshugi in Global Perspective: Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism
By: Geoffrey Jones
This chapter places the concepts of ethical capitalism developed by the 19th century Japanese venture capitalist Shibusawa Eiichi in a global historical perspective. The chapter reviews the similarities and differences over time and between countries of proponents of... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Responsibility; Business Ethics; Ethics; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business History; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Jones, Geoffrey. "Gapponshugi in Global Perspective: Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism." Chap. 7 in Ethical Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi and Business Leadership in Global Perspective, edited by Patrick Fridenson and Takeo Kikkawa, 144–169. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.
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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877
Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details
- November 2006 (Revised March 2007)
- Case
Liz Claiborne and the New Working Woman
By: Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson
At age 47, with two decades of experience as a lead designer for a Fortune 500 fashion company, Liz Claiborne put her life savings on the line to form Liz Claiborne, Inc., a partnership that included her husband. A decade later, in 1986, Claiborne was CEO of her own... 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
Uncovering the roots of innovation
As the Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School in 2023, I had the unique opportunity to delve into the history of the life sciences industry in the Cambridge-Boston area. My research focused on how... View Details
Fair Competition
during unprecedented economic changes such as rapid industrialization or economic depression. His use of political and economic logic to justify antitrust rules that appeared antithetical to the conventional interpretation of American law and economics sparked my... View Details
- March 2005 (Revised May 2007)
- Compilation
Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Analyzes Abraham Lincoln's leadership during America's greatest crisis, the 1861-1865 Civil War. Using Lincoln's own words, the case traces the development of the 16th president's leadership philosophy, ethics, and skills in the years leading up to war. View Details
Koehn, Nancy F. "Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War." Harvard Business School Compilation 805-115, March 2005. (Revised May 2007.)
- April 2002
- Comment
Comment to James Bessen's 'Technology Adoption Costs and Productivity Growth: The 70s as a Technological Revolution'
By: Diego Comin
Comin, Diego. "Comment to James Bessen's 'Technology Adoption Costs and Productivity Growth: The 70s as a Technological Revolution'." Review of Economic Dynamics 5, no. 2 (April 2002): 470–476.
- December 2003 (Revised April 2005)
- Case
Birth of Modern Macroeconomic Policy, The: Sweden and the Great Depression
By: Julio J. Rotemberg and Lisa Lewis
By early 1937, a debate over the proper conduct of monetary policy raged in Sweden. Sweden's response to the Great Depression was unique. It had, in particular, embraced a revolutionary goal for monetary policy when it abandoned the gold standard in 1931. View Details
Rotemberg, Julio J., and Lisa Lewis. "Birth of Modern Macroeconomic Policy, The: Sweden and the Great Depression." Harvard Business School Case 704-029, December 2003. (Revised April 2005.)
- 2019
- Book
Disciples of the State?: Religion and State-Building in the Former Ottoman World
By: Kristin Fabbe
As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the traditional forces of religion and the emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for... View Details
Keywords: Ottoman Empire; Secularism; State-building; Religion; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; History; Turkey; Greece; Middle East
Fabbe, Kristin. Disciples of the State?: Religion and State-Building in the Former Ottoman World. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- 2019
- Working Paper
Voting Trusts and Antitrust: Rethinking the Role of Shareholder Rights and Private Litigation in Public Regulation, 1880s to 1930s
By: Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Laura Phillips Sawyer
Scholars have long recognized that the states’ authority to charter corporations bolstered their antitrust powers in ways that were not available to the federal government. But they have also argued that the growth of large-scale enterprises operating in national and... View Details
Keywords: Voting Trusts; Antitrust; Business and Shareholder Relations; Lawsuits and Litigation; History; United States
Lamoreaux, Naomi R., and Laura Phillips Sawyer. "Voting Trusts and Antitrust: Rethinking the Role of Shareholder Rights and Private Litigation in Public Regulation, 1880s to 1930s." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-109, May 2019.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Automation and the Plight of Young Workers: Evidence from the Automation of Telephone Operation in the Early 20th Century
By: Daniel P. Gross and James J. Feigenbaum
Telephone operation was one of the most common jobs for young American women in the early 1900s. Between 1920 and 1940, AT&T adopted dial service in over half of U.S. telephone exchanges, automating away a legion of operators. We show that upon a city's adoption of... View Details
Keywords: Employment; Labor; Gender; Technology Adoption; History; Telecommunications Industry; United States
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
Illustration by David Plunkert Illustration by David Plunkert Edited by Dan Morrell You wrote recently that the story of British explorer Ernest Shackleton, who led an expedition to Antarctica in 1914, is highly relevant for leaders during this pandemic era. What makes... View Details
- 10 Nov 2017
- News
Girl’s Pendant Found at Nazi Camp Site Reunites a Family
Chaim Motzen (MBA 2006) More than 70 years ago, the record of a Nazi death camp in Sobibor, Poland, was nearly lost to history. But archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have been excavating the site, uncovering mass graves, gas chambers, and, last year,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Lessons in Leadership
HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn found the leadership lessons in the ill-fated voyage of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance so valuable that she wrote a case study on it. HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace recently asked Koehn what prompted her to author... View Details
Keywords: Antarctica
Chandler’s Legacies
as I looked at the role of airplanes in the transformation of problem of drug trafficking. The fellowship offered me the opportunity to experience stimulating discussions of my work with scholars at HBS, affiliates of the Business History... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Doriot Papers Arrive at HBS
MAN OF LETTERS: Doriot’s papers come home. Photo courtesy Baker Library Historical Collections Baker Library Historical Collections recently announced the permanent loan from Boston’s French Cultural Center of papers that once belonged to one of the School’s most... View Details