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  • 19 Sep 2017
  • News

New Census Report Shows Highest Median Income Since Great Recession

  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

The Birth Of Chocolate In America

  • 30 Jul 2008
  • Op-Ed

Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI

Last year, foreign investors set new records for their acquisition activity in the United States. And 2008 began with nearly daily stories of American financial executives courting foreign direct investors, particularly sovereign wealth... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
  • 01 Jul 2019
  • News

On Independence Day, People Will Recite Frederick Douglass' Speech: 'What Is The Slave To The Fourth Of July?'

  • 07 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

neglected classic, because the book is not a classic. Instead, Business Cycles is a noble failure that paid unexpected dividends both to the author and to scholarship. A link to the full version of this article from Business History... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
  • June 1991 (Revised July 1992)
  • Case

Standard Oil Co.: Combination, Consolidation, and Integration (Abridged) (A)

By: Thomas K. McCraw
The rise of Standard Oil and its relation to the development of the American oil industry and new form of business organization. View Details
Keywords: Business Organization; Business History; Industry Growth; Energy Sources; Mining Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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  • June 1991 (Revised June 1993)
  • Case

Standard Oil Co.: Combination, Consolidation, and Integration (Abridged) (B)

By: Thomas K. McCraw
The rise of Standard Oil and its relation to the development of the American oil industry and new form of business organization. View Details
Keywords: Business Organization; Business History; Industry Growth; Energy Sources; Mining Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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  • February 2016 (Revised March 2018)
  • Case

Labor, Capital, and Government: The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902

By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
In late October 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt felt relieved after months of anxiety and uncertainty. Workers in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal industry had been on strike for five months, threatening to leave eastern cities in the cold without enough heating fuel... View Details
Keywords: Governance; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Government Relations; Labor; Law; Policy; Mining; History; Mining Industry; Pennsylvania
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  • 2020
  • Article

Remaking the Imperial Presidency: The Mayaguez Incident of 1975 and the Contradictions of Credibility

By: Mattias Fibiger
This article argues that the Mayaguez incident of 1975 was a missed opportunity to establish a more democratic American foreign policy. President Gerald Ford managed the crisis with an eye toward domestic and international credibility. But his conception of credibility... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Policy; Presidency; Ford Administration; Government and Politics; History; Crisis Management; United States
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    Rakesh Khurana

    Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

    Professor... View Details

    Keywords: executive search
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Mattias E. Fibiger
    Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth-century international history, focusing primarily on political economy and international relations in Southeast Asia.

    Professor Fibiger's first book is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast... View Details
    • June 1991 (Revised November 2004)
    • Case

    John Jacob Astor, 1763-1848

    Astor, the wealthiest American of his time, engages in fur trading, shipping, real estate investment, and general merchandise trading. Astor's career illustrates the immediate pre-modern management era: types of decisions, time horizons, and number of transactions. View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Business History; Personal Development and Career; United States
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    • 27 Jan 2015
    • News

    The Dark Side of America's Brightest Inventor: Edison

    • 09 Apr 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

    Boston has always been fueled by an Enlightenment belief in scientific progress and human perfectibility. It is home to America's first public school, Boston Latin School (1635), and college, Harvard College (1636). After the American... View Details
    Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
    • July 2005 (Revised August 2011)
    • Case

    Jesse Holman Jones and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

    By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Bridget Gurtler
    Jesse Holman Jones is regarded as one of the most influential men in reviving the American economy from the Great Depression. With only an 8th grade education, he rose to the top of the banking, real estate, and lumber industries, as well as the upper echelons of... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Strategy; Business History; Leading Change; Managerial Roles; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence
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    • October 2012 (Revised February 2019)
    • Case

    Whaling Ventures

    By: Tom Nicholas and Jonas Peter Akins
    Whaling was a prominent global industry in the nineteenth century and the United States was dominant. By 1850 there were about 900 whaling ships in the world and 700 of these were American. Rates of return on capital were high compared to benchmark investments, at... View Details
    Keywords: Whaling; Organization Design; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Finance; Organizational Design; Industry Growth; History; United States
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    • June 2020
    • Teaching Note

    Brand Storytelling at Shinola

    By: Jill Avery, Giana M. Eckhardt and Michael Beverland
    Detroit, Michigan, aka “The Motor City,” is known as the birthplace of most of the American classic automotive brands. It is a city filled with the rich history of the industrial age, the pride of American manufacturing, and of the soulful sounds of Motown music. It is... View Details
    Keywords: Brand Storytelling; Brand Management; Brand Management Of Places; Luxury Brand; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Advertising; Luxury; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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    • 20 Nov 2013
    • News

    Gettysburg Address: A powerful lesson for business leaders

    • Research Summary

    Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration

    The Empire Trap:  America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details

    • 25 Jul 2017
    • News

    What If The South Had Won The Civil War?