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- 23 Feb 2021
- Cold Call Podcast
Examining Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States
Keywords: Re: Reshmaan N. Hussam
- 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
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
and 1950s capital controls were perfectly orthodox tools of macroeconomic management. And forty years before that, prior to the outbreak of World War I in 1914, capital... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
As chair of the investment committee for a college, Sam Hayes was faced with a challenging dilemma: Should the committee invest only in socially responsible funds even though the outcome might mean fewer scholarships and teaching... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- June 2022 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
Larry Miller
By: Francesca Gino, Frances X. Frei, Hise Gibson and Alicia Dadlani
Under the leadership of Larry Miller, chairman and former president of Nike’s Air Jordan brand, annual revenues for the Jordan brand soared from $150 million to over $4 billion. But for over 40 years, Miller guarded a secret. When he was younger, he spent nearly a... View Details
Keywords: Race; Ethnicity; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Job Offer; Employment; Social Issues; Perspective; Personal Development and Career; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Portland; Oregon
Gino, Francesca, Frances X. Frei, Hise Gibson, and Alicia Dadlani. "Larry Miller." Harvard Business School Case 922-041, June 2022. (Revised November 2022.)
- November 2017
- Technical Note
21st Century Populism
By: George Serafeim and David Freiberg
While the first decade of the 21st century saw a massive financial crisis that led to significant economic downturn, the second decade saw the rise of political leaders, who built their support upon a political message that championed the common person against the... View Details
Keywords: Populism; Market Efficiency; Market Liberalization; Political Influence; Political Instability; Capital Controls; Partnerships; Coalition; Inequality; Role Of Business In Society; Government Intervention In The Markets; Labor Market; Equality and Inequality; Financial Markets; Social Issues; Immigration; Financial Crisis; Capital Markets; Business and Government Relations
Serafeim, George, and David Freiberg. "21st Century Populism." Harvard Business School Technical Note 118-029, November 2017.
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
The 1950s onwards saw the beginning of the reconstruction of a new global economy. Between 1950 and 1973 the annual real GDP growth of developed market economies averaged... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 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
- 21 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?
During World War II, the predecessor to the US Central Intelligence Agency produced a secret field manual detailing how “citizen-saboteurs” could disrupt the operations of enemy organizations. In addition to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
Richards, the former global head of Computer Associates, while Richards was doing time in prison for securities fraud. (The correspondence led to the case study A Letter From Prison.) Listening To The Field... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 2008
- Working Paper
From Social Control 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
- March 2022
- Supplement
Ukraine: On the Border of Europe and Eurasia (B)
By: Rawi Abdelal, Jonathan Schlefer and Cressida Arkwright
Supplements the (A) case. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 raised questions about democratization and a possible reshaping of the global order. It arose from deep roots in the history of both nations but also turned on contingent decisions by their... View Details
Abdelal, Rawi, Jonathan Schlefer, and Cressida Arkwright. "Ukraine: On the Border of Europe and Eurasia (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 722-066, March 2022.
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
war years; and innovator Herb Kelleher at Southwest near the end of the century. In this e-mail interview, Mayo, director of the HBS Leadership Initiative and the Thomas S.... View Details
- 02 Aug 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Discrimination, Disenfranchisement and African American WWII Military Enlistment
Keywords: by Nancy Qian and Marco Tabellini
- 2011
- Working Paper
From Social Control 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; Practice; Business Education; Labor and Management Relations; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance; Knowledge; Production; Business Conglomerates; Education Industry; United States
Fourcade, Marion, and Rakesh Khurana. "From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-071, January 2011.
- March 2022 (Revised June 2022)
- Case
The United States National Security Apparatus, Multipolarity, and the Rise of Commercial Space
By: Matthew C. Weinzierl and Brendan L. Rosseau
In 2019, the U.S. national security community crossed a Rubicon by declaring that space was “a war-fighting domain” and undergoing a major reorganization, including the creation of the U.S. Space Force, the first new military branch in over 70 years. Military and... View Details
Weinzierl, Matthew C., and Brendan L. Rosseau. "The United States National Security Apparatus, Multipolarity, and the Rise of Commercial Space ." Harvard Business School Case 722-063, March 2022. (Revised June 2022.)
- June 1991 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Organized Labor and the Worker
A vehicle for the discussion of labor unions and working people from the Civil War to the end of World War I. View Details
McCraw, Thomas K. "Organized Labor and the Worker." Harvard Business School Case 391-256, June 1991. (Revised March 1995.)
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
like A. Lange & Söhne., founded in 1845 in the village of Glashütte, Germany. It began making precision pocket watches that eventually became world famous. After World War II, the East German country... View Details
- 04 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
modern consumer society: agriculture, retail, pharmaceuticals, and the credit industry in post-World War II Germany, France, Britain, and the United States. In postwar Europe and the United States, the consumer protection idea "emerged... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard