Prosperity - Publications - Faculty & Research

Ray W. MacDonald

MacDonald presided over Burroughs during a dramatic growth period for the computer industry in the 1970s, and Burroughs’ products for electronic data processing and financial accounting systems were among those enjoying prosperity... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Louis B. Neumiller

Under Neumiller's "home-town-boy" leadership style, Caterpillar's revenues grew from over $100 million in 1941 to $827 million in 1963, prospering through World War II and the global post-war boom. Neumiller built the... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

01 Sep 2009
News

MBA Oath Maintains Momentum

Oath-takers vow to “safeguard the interests of my shareholders, coworkers, customers, and society” and to shun “my own narrow interests,” while striving to create “sustainable economic, social, and environmental prosperity worldwide.” HBS... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

24 Apr 2014
News

Breaking the cycle of poverty in urban areas

found compatriots with Wall Street backgrounds who wanted to change careers or make social enterprise an integral part of their career. A few years after graduation, Silbert founded the Center for Women & Enterprise, which empowers women to become economically... View Details

16 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

that our friends abroad cheer for America with foreboding and pessimism, the way sports fans nervously pull for a team whose lead is slimming and whose energy is fading. These outsiders recognize that the system of democratic capitalism that produced centuries of... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria

Portrait Project

Foluke Otudeko

of corruption, I see the bright light of hope, democracy and prosperity that fuels it all. I also see your doubt and skepticism such a lofty vision, you might think. But it is simple really, in my little corner of Africa-In my life-with... View Details

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Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems Course Number 1524 Associate Professor Ethan Rouen Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam Free market Capitalism is one of the great achievements of mankind, bringing View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

As the Future Catches You

wealth disparity between the richest and the poorest nations will soon be 1,000:1. In an age of super-technologies, knowledge will be key and will enable tiny, well-educated nations to prosper while the economies of much larger,... View Details

Keywords: life sciences; Scientific Research and Development Services

29 May 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Introduction to the Future of Market Capitalism

research project exploring the views of global business leaders and HBS faculty on what might threaten the world's economic progress. The spread of market capitalism around the world over the past 100 years has lifted the prosperity of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Joseph L. Bower

Portrait Project

Oded Eran

devastation that might occur when politicians are at an impasse. I believe it's the responsibility of business leaders to step up and promote prosperity for their communities, where governments struggle to do so. I will work to bridge... View Details

Career Coach

Aaron Mitchell

and companies make unexpected connections to address challenges, broaden perspectives and redefine what prosperity means. He was recently the Director of HR for Netflix Animation, where he led HR for one of the largest and fastest growing... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

Porter's Paradox

prosperity depends on innovation." On Competition, a collection of Porter's seminal Harvard Business Review articles about competitive advantage -- which also includes two new articles on clusters and competition and global competitive... View Details

Portrait Project

Maria Makhabane

that I am determined to actively grow into a powerhouse that can fully support our shared needs. Home – the land where I strive to create opportunities for better education, jobs, and prosperity for our children. Yes, I am going home –... View Details

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Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

upheaval. “A business so sensitive as ours to the touch of hard times,” wrote then-owner Royal E. Robbins, could not simply hunker down and wait for prosperity to return. 18 In 1837, 1857, and 1873, shrewd leaders turned crisis into... View Details

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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877

personal perspectives of the life and trajectory of a nineteenth—century firm—a firm that prospered at the height of the China trade and met its decline with the advent of new technologies and the emergence of the Chinese as mainstream... View Details

18 Mar 2015
News

9 Alumni Named Young Global Leaders

Nine HBS alumni have been selected as 2015 Young Global Leaders (YGL) by the World Economic Forum. The organization engages these “bold, brave, action-oriented, and entrepreneurial” individuals to help shape a more positive, peaceful and View Details

Keywords: World Economic Forum

Angle of Insight

economic development. While there is some value in studying business in prosperous countries today, the real value comes when we study it at a time when the demographics in the 'now rich' region resembled that of today's poor countries. I... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Lessons in Leadership

stable, prosperous times and also in very uncertain, dangerous times. Third, the Shackleton story is compelling. Case-method learning is partly about choosing stories that we can learn from, that we can make our own, that we don’t forget... View Details

Keywords: Antarctica

21 Sep 2016
Blog Post

How HBS Changed My Life

I made the decision to apply to Harvard Business School because I wanted to learn how to use business as a tool to create prosperity for the millions of people striving to eke out a living on my beloved continent of Africa. And so far,... View Details

Portrait Project

Jake Cusack

local dress and armed with a notebook instead of combat fatigues and an M4 rifle. I work with local entrepreneurs, who dream of creating a more prosperous and peaceful life. Their optimism can heal wounded spirits and fragile countries.... View Details

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