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13 Dec 2022
News

The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

classmates, alumni, professors, and business leaders. It's the only place in the world where I could spend time with investors, former US senators, CEOs of global companies,... View Details

04 Aug 2015
News

Brazil Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

hosted “A Vision for the 21st Century” as part of the world tour of The Harvard Business School Campaign. Contemporaneo 8076 was View Details

Blog

Crossing the Bridge from Program Learning to Practical Application

learning." Barnes accepted the invitation and did an amazing job. She's since become part of four more sessions, two online and two in person. In delivering lectures, Barnes has tried to channel HBS professors. "Seeing some of View Details

18 Nov 2013
Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

Twitter soared high on its first day of trading on Nov. 7, with its shares closing the day at $45 for a value of $25 billion. Even though TWTR has yet to make money, investors flocked to the stock in droves,... View Details

Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology

04 Mar 2011
Working Paper Summaries

From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

Keywords: by Marion Fourcade & Rakesh Khurana; Education

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

business leaders could, through US-led innovation, bolster American manufacturing and create thousands of middle-class jobs. Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor and the founding chair of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

[This is the sixth installment in a monthly series on management issues in the time of COVID-19.] We recently asked 600 CEOs: What is keeping you awake at night during this global pandemic? A major and multifaceted concern that emerged is how to keep employees... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

Web

Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Emeritus, at Harvard Business School, explains that during this period, “the growth of big business was the central trend of the American economy.” 35 By the dawn of View Details

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

Kristen Senz is a social media editor and writer for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStock Photo] Related Reading Working Paper: Surfacing the Submerged State with Operational Transparency in Government Services What... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

they probably didn't do a good job." Learning By Doing For decades, Harvard's case-study method has been the gold standard in business-school education, emulated around the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

Web

Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

papers, and invoices, as well as personal letters, diaries, and journals that cast light on the world of doing business in nineteenth-century China. Heard Family business papers Mss:766 1754-1898 800... View Details

03 Apr 2015
News

Texas Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

Vision for the 21st Century” events in Dallas and Houston as part of the world tour of The Harvard Business School Campaign. View Details

28 Nov 2022
Blog Post

College Students, Take a Sneak Peek at the HBS MBA

include a career workshop, mock case sessions, and an alumni/current student panel! You’ll have the chance to interact with students from around the world to collectively... View Details

13 Oct 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Building a Business in the Context of a Life

thriving on variety and excitement. Kraus explains that the course is really about finding out who you are and how you define your success in this world and in this life. "We sit back, look ahead, and ask,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

14 Dec 2015
News

Building Platforms of Life for the World’s Poorest Children

Kevin Jenkins (MBA 1985) is president and CEO of the nonprofit World Vision International, a global Christian humanitarian relief, development, and advocacy organization. In this video, he talks about View Details

19 Dec 2014
News

Atlanta Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS

the world tour of The Harvard Business School Campaign. The Atlanta History Museum’s Grand Overlook Ballroom was transformed into an elegant... View Details

2008
Other Unpublished Work

From Public Purpose to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana

As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Business Education; Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Chicago

Citation

17 Sep 2024
HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

Professor of Business Administration; a new cohort begins every few months. First, a math lesson Many firms use the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol developed by the World... View Details