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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance
urged prospective home-buyers to save the entire purchase price before acquiring a home. In practice, however, most home-buyers and home-builders after the Civil War got themselves a mortgage—or three or... View Details
- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
Committee, and serves on the Mayo Clinic and American Red Cross boards. Davis leads with unimpeachable integrity. When arch-rival Wells Fargo encountered its problems with three million unauthorized customer accounts, he told his leaders... View Details
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Lehman Brothers Family Partners | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris exhibited 293 pieces from the collection. Robert Lehman’s bequest of over 2,600 works of art to the Metropolitan Museum resulted in the opening of the Lehman Wing in 1975, often referred to as a museum within a museum. Herbert H. Lehman... View Details
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Historical Data & Sources - Business History
Ships and Sea Transport (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1931), opp. p. 8, map. Distances Between Ports U.S. Navy, Hydrographic Office, Table of Distances Between Ports (Washington: GPO, 1942), opp. p. 4, map. Ford: Countries of Operation M. Wilkins, & F.R.... View Details
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Morgan Hall | About
States. Two years later, Morgan was able to underwrite federal bonds to help finance Civil War debt. The firm was reorganized after Drexel’s death and renamed J.P. Morgan & Company in 1895. By 1900, Morgan’s... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
PublicationsEngineers and the State in Modern China Author:William C. Kirby Publication:In Prospects for the Professions in China, edited by William P. Alford, William C. Kirby, and Kenneth Winston, 283-314. Routledge Studies in Civil... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10
Abstract—This working paper examines the growth of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. German business has been regarded as pioneering corporate environmentalism after World War... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal
1890s, a commissioner and Civil War veteran named Col. George Waring introduced such modern practices as street-sweeping and a uniformed workforce organized along military lines. He even launched something... View Details
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Hamilton Hall | About
savings were installed. Hamilton Hall achieved LEED Gold certification in 2007, and the following year was named one of Boston’s greenest buildings by the American Institute of Architects and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. For more on the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
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Approach to Partner Choice in Mutualisms Authors:Marco Archetti, Francisco Ubeda, Drew Fudenberg, Jerry R. Green, Naomi E. Pierce, and Douglas W. Yu Publication:The American Naturalist 177, no. 1 (January 2011) Abstract One of the main... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
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A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
success in putting a man on the moon. “Slavery was mentioned, as was the Civil War, but mostly as an unfortunate chapter in American history,” Chandra says. When he later came to the US, however, he saw the... View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
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Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries
Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 19 Jan 2015
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Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
Democrats (e.g., tax breaks, minimum wage, fuel efficiency) and Republicans (e.g., death tax, border security, war on terror), rating each according to political slant. Zhu and Greenstein then identified some 4,000 articles that appeared... View Details
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Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade
of the American clipper ships (the word “clipper” signified speed) with their narrow hulls and large sails enabled sea travel at speeds of up to 30 kilometers an hour, far faster than the average merchant ships. Now Western traders could... View Details
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Greenhill House | About
(1890-1970), US treasury secretary under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1957. An attorney from Michigan, Humphrey became a leader in the American steel industry as the president of the M.A. Hanna Company and consulted with... View Details
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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 World War I, America’s journey from an... View Details
- 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5
present day. It covers early entrepreneurial attempts to develop solar energy, the use of passive solar in architecture before World War II, and the subsequent growth of the modern photovoltaic industry. It explores the role of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51195 Spring 2016 Business History Review California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition Policy By: Sawyer, Laura Phillips Abstract—In the decades before World View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne