American Civil War - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

unprecedented to have a large cohort of people all over the world start working remotely at the same moment. The only parallel I can think of is from World War II, when waves of women entered heavy manufacturing for the first time. This... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

co-branding opportunities that they deserve. Two examples come to mind, the American Red Cross's use of 9/11 funds and the United Way executive scandals. Both of these events eroded consumer trust in these organizations and had a direct... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

23 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

This opinion piece, first published in the New York Times in August 2005, has been updated by Pankaj Ghemawat for HBS Working Knowledge.Mighty Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, must feel less like a hotbed of retailing and more like a View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

2000. As an exploitative plantation industry, the rubber and palm oil industries in Indonesia and Malaysia couldn’t be considered a civilizing force, at least initially, Giacomin says. Yet, after rubber clusters based on foreign-invested... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

12 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

pattern that commonly arises when nations are confronted with a crisis, say the researchers. After World War II, discrimination against Japanese-Americans drove many Japanese to Americanize their children’s... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Travel

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

biographer Richard S. Tedlow puts it, Grove was "one of the master managers in the history of American business." A new biography, Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American, will debut next week, written by Tedlow, the Class... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?

The business system that emerged in Japan after World War II, influenced by the American occupation forces’ breakup of the zaibatsu, featured extensive cross-shareholdings, heavy bank influence, lifetime... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto; Financial Services; Retail

13 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

political, and economic times. Americans throughout history have embraced the American Dream, which proclaims that through hard work and perseverance anyone can be successful, regardless of class, caste,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 16

(forthcoming) Abstract We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi-natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

change from two bloody civil wars between 1989 and 2003 that left the country torn apart by warlords notorious for using child soldiers and quarter of a million people dead. (UN peacekeepers plan to stay in... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

June 2011
Teaching Note

Paul Bremer at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq (TN)

By: Robert Steven Kaplan

Teaching Note for 411010. View Details

Keywords: Government and Politics; Power and Influence; Civil Society or Community; War; Decisions; Iraq; District of Columbia

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31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

50. Then the Civil War broke out and he became one of the best military leaders in history, and a better president than I had realized before reading the book. In second place is Walter Isaacson-Evan Thomas’... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

Then the Civil War broke out and he became one of the best military leaders in history, and a better president than I had realized before reading the book. In second place is Walter Isaacson-Evan Thomas’ The... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

26 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

directly impacts the success or failure of American companies abroad. For example, wars currently impede ordinary business in the Mideast and Africa. Anti-Americanism is curtailing the flow of students from... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Founder of Modern Venture Capital

students. He realized his dream of establishing the first Master of Business Administration program in Europe by helping establish the European Institute of Business Administration. Doriot learned the art of bringing science and industry together in World View Details

Keywords: Education; Financial Services

05 Oct 2016
What Do You Think?

Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

pessimist on the subject? Why? What’s your projection of US growth and prosperity? What do you think? Related Reading: Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (New York: W. W.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 22

Publication:Journal of Peace Research (forthcoming) Abstract This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic, and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

that triggered economic chaos in that nation. Along with Argentina's current struggles—the sharp devaluation of its currency, rampant inflation, and civil unrest—past financial problems remain unresolved and much on the minds of its... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro

21 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 21

customs and port authority data on the international shipments of all U.S. publicly-traded firms, we show that firms are significantly more likely to trade with countries that have a strong resident population near their firm headquarters. We use the formation of World... View Details