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Events - Business History
Administration at Harvard Business School, spoke about his new book, Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China (Harvard University Press, 2022). Empires of Ideas chronicles "two revolutions in... View Details
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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910
“Posting” Brand Name Management A Marketing Revolution “Advertising is a distinct art, as much so as the art of coal mining or of engine building,” noted copywriter and author Nathaniel C. Fowler wrote in 1889. 1 Fowler was referring to... View Details
- 2009
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Creating Superior Customer Value in a Connected World
By: Ranjay Gulati
"In the early twenty-first century, customers are more demanding than ever, and difficult economic times make them all the more so. As customers tighten their wallets and increase their demands, firms face greater pressure to provide superior customer value. Reducing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details
Keywords: April White
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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Bridge Between East and West . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970, p. 207. See Hao, The Comprador in Nineteenth Century China: Bridge Between East and West . Hao, The Commercial Revolution in Nineteenth-Century China , p. 75.... View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
revolution had turned perfume into a branded product, sold at different price points in different distribution channels, and increasingly gendered. While historically men and women had used the same scents, they now began to like to smell... View Details
- 20 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs
By significantly expanding our understanding of the dynamics of competition, Michael E. Porter's Harvard Business Review article "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy" launched a business management revolution among academics... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
to the revolution in life sciences that had been triggered by the decoding of the genome in the 1990s. That involved doing business with many hundreds of startups with deep science backgrounds, an anathema to IBM’s traditional focus on... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
new recruits. They often even instructed salesmen how to stand while talking with a customer, or how to hand over the pen at "closing." The revolution in selling had consequences beyond individual firms. The growth of systematic... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 15 Aug 2022
- Book
University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed
‘self-reliance’ during Mao’s Cultural Revolution was a near-death experience for Chinese universities. There is little question that Chinese universities will continue their international engagement, but in which direction?” How does... View Details
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News - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Michael E. Porter Jan 12, 2016 Media Mention General Electric: Post-industrial revolution General Electric: Post-industrial revolution by Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) Dec 09, 2015 Media Mention The US advantage at... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
monetary policy targets, or sharper restrictions on the financial system, may be needed. Think of this as revolution. Do we need the evolution or revolution of our stabilization policy? Time will tell. See Olivier’s other research here... View Details
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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
481. Thomas K. McCraw, "American Capitalism" in Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions , ed. Thomas K. McCraw, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997, p. 320.... View Details
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Tsedal Neeley | About
been featured in many media outlets, including television and online platforms. Her teaching and speaking have garnered millions of views online. Her popular online courses Remote Work Revolution for Everyone and Leading in a Remote... View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
- Book
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
- 24 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet
was the “death of distance,” a concept popularized in 1997 by Frances Cairncross’s book of the same title. A recent essay in the The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography challenges that notion, or at least deepens the argument. While the digital View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
- 29 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Robots in the Boardroom
Steamships, electricity, the railroad, airplanes, the internet—technology and business have always been intertwined. Now a new tech revolution is pushing forward as organizations figure out how to use artificial intelligence to help them... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
Moss begins this class, but for the next 90 minutes, we are in the critical period of the mid-1780s, between the end of the American Revolution and the election of the country’s first president, when the nation was governed by the... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
recent scholarship underlines the impact the state had on the development of the industry. In England, where the industrial revolution was already well under way, the British made early contributions to railroad technology, introducing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
age of 88. Chandler was perhaps best known for his book The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1978. In it, Chandler argued that management, a visible hand, had in some... View Details