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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
much air to breathe and nothing between a little girl and the innocence of life. The wind is inextricably part of my family tree. Like a crazy, unpredictable cousin, it’s always welcome, but, as my life reveals, it’s sometimes dreaded. Faculty Books American... View Details
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Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery | About
committee has painstakingly and methodically researched a painful truth: “During the 17th and 18th centuries, the sale and trafficking of human beings—in slavery—and the industries rooted in the labor of enslaved women, men, and children... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
in a new book whose title, Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present, sums up what I witnessed. The big lesson from the book is that history could have turned out differently. Now we have a... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
August 2013 Edward Elgar Publishing Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This book examines the history of entrepreneurship and multinationals in the making... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Forthcoming
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Human Capital and the Managerial Revolution in the United States: Evidence from General Electric
By: Tom Nicholas
This paper estimates the returns to human capital accumulation during the first era of mega-firms in the United States by linking employees at General Electric—a canonical enterprise associated with the “visible hand” of managerial hierarchies—to the 1940 census. I... View Details
Keywords: Returns To Education; Management Practices; Hierarchies; Management Practices and Processes; Rank and Position; Human Capital; Talent and Talent Management; Business History; United States
Nicholas, Tom. "Human Capital and the Managerial Revolution in the United States: Evidence from General Electric." Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming). (Pre-published online November 29, 2023.)
- 26 Aug 2010
- News
Income Inequality and Financial Crises
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis
Financial System, Professor David Moss’s course on the history of financial panics. It draws parallels to the current crisis. Consumer Finance, jointly taught by HBS professor Peter Tufano and HLS professor Howell Jackson, examines the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch (IA ’43) (University of Wisconsin Press) The producer of such film classics as West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven, Mirisch... View Details
- 14 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Building a Culture of Awareness and Accountability in your Organization
For Danika Manso-Brown (HGSE ’18), the life of an activist was one she was born into and one she has made her own. “My parents met organizing a labor union, so the work of creating justice and thinking about humanity was a central part of... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Research Resources | Baker Library
Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, Division of Research], 1952. Full text available. This report is based on a 1952 study by the Harvard Business School Division of Research surveying the demand for women executives in the United States... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Securities and Exchange Commission (1934-37), the U.S. Emergency Board, convened to resolve the wage controversy between railroad management and labor during the 1938 railway strike, and; and his work as a special trial examiner for the... View Details
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Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Dennison to mechanize the production of watches, a technique recently applied to firearms. Dennison, an artisan watchmaker underemployed throughout the crisis years, calculated that interchangeable parts could dramatically reduce the high View Details
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
from economics and sociology on intra-household bargaining elucidates how negotiations over the allocation of domestic labor at Level 2 influence labor force participation at Level 1. In conclusion, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
at HBS, 1988–2000), wades hip deep into business history (he cites HBS historians Richard Tedlow, Thomas McCraw, and Walter Friedman in a span of a few pages) and economic theory to argue that, in fact, the erosion of technological and... View Details
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HBS & the Case Method - Message From the Director | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Message From the Director From the Director The first Harvard Business School case, a one-page document written by Clinton P. Biddle in 1921, describes a labor issue at a hypothetical shoe company, “General Shoe.” After outlining the... View Details
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
way: "We currently have 12 million undocumented Mexicans inside the US and we do not know what to do with them ." Other arguments included those of Tony Eckel that "economic benefits of any worker immigration is limited exclusively to the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
What patterns emerge from history that can help us better understand where we are today? Sophus Reinert: To many people, globalization is teleological, something that necessarily becomes stronger over time and leads to an ever-more... View Details
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Building a Culture of Awareness and Accountability in your Organization - Recruiting
of an activist was one she was born into and one she has made her own. “My parents met organizing a labor union, so the work of creating justice and thinking about humanity was a central part of my upbringing and home education,” said... View Details
- 10 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization
born into and one she has made her own. “My parents met organizing a labor union, so the work of creating justice and thinking about humanity was a central part of my upbringing and home education,” said Manso-Brown. “I was taught that... View Details