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- 17 Nov 2015
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November 17, 2015
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416018-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-024 Evolving Trends in Global Trade The note, while not intended to be historically comprehensive, explores the regulation of international trade from the period after View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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The Gift of Global Talent
Talent is in High Gear 5 Oct 2018 William R. Kerr, Bloomberg TV “ This is a clear-eyed exposition of how talent moves around the world and why so much lands in the United States. Chock-full of compelling data, this book shows that the... 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
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Lose the Marbles! Better Aging Through Neuroscience By James Lyon (MBA 1975) Independently Published According to the World Health Organization, the proportion of the world’s population over 60 years old will almost double from... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
Globalization Globalization December 2014 Article Market Competition, Earnings Management, and Persistence in Accounting Profitability Around the World By: Paul M. Healy , George Serafeim , Suraj Srinivasan and Gwen Yu We examine how... View Details
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
isolationism Influence: High 40 1940 s 19 War Production Board readies nation for WWII U.S. becomes a global power Creation of IMF and World Bank Marshall Plan Cold war begins... View Details
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
actually makes you better.” An idea taking root Despite the success of his firm, Brown had not been immune to brushes with bias. Growing up in a small segregated town in Florida after World War II, Brown... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
war zones around the world. Brandon Tseng calls it “self-driving technology for defense.” The long-distance, 2.8-pound quadcopter drones, running on Shield AI’s Hivemind software, can navigate through buildings without a pilot, streaming... View Details
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
will give the world something new.” Edwin Land, "Annual Christmas Message to Employees of the Polaroid Corporation," December 23, 1942 4 Edwin Land defined greatness as bringing "to the world a wonderful and... View Details
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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
could develop only to a point.” 11 When color began to be added to the products themselves, advances in color printing and reproduction followed. Starting in the 1920s American consumers went from a commercial world of white towels and... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
power over state laws. You may have learned about the federal negative in an 11th-grade American history survey course that careened from the American Revolution to the Vietnam War in just 180 days. But it’s unlikely you learned about it... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
of power. In 1938, as the Great Depression was beginning to lift, but war was imminent, many families were struggling, and only 10 percent of engagement rings sold in the United States included diamonds. De Beers hired an ad agency that... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 13 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion
exams wrapped up in May my classmates and I flew to 12 different cities around the world for our FGI capstone projects. My destination city was Seoul and my Global Partner (GP) was a 25-person start-up on its way to a billion-dollar... View Details
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
a company? A: The OSM is analogous to a military general's chief of staff. The general is responsible and accountable for developing the strategy to win wars and battles. But a general almost always has a chief-of-staff, often several... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
diagnoses. Others advocated tax and non-tax solutions. The case against hasty change was made by Dave: "Market based capitalism is the greatest driving force of prosperity in the world today, but if we forget this and marginalize it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
Chandler observed. Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. was born in Guyencourt, Delaware, on September 15, 1918. A 1940 graduate of Harvard College, Chandler returned to Harvard after service as a Navy officer in World View Details
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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
The westward expansion of the railroad blazed the trail for transcontinental commerce in the second half of the 19th century. Entrepreneurs and capitalists like F. L. Ames, Jay Gould, J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Henry Villard increasingly invested in the... View Details
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
the case details, by 1916, she turned her horror of the barbaric practice of lynching into a powerful campaign against it. Her efforts toward African American participation in international peace discussions after World View Details
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U.S. Steel | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
photographers around the country to document the inner workings of the company and its subsidiaries as part of a national public relations campaign. These efforts occurred at a time when the steel industry, like today’s technology behemoths, reigned central in the... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
private equity in Asia, Kim was born 60 years ago into a very different Korea. In 1970, when Kim was seven years old, Korea’s annual GDP per capita was just under $280. Still recovering from war and finding its financial footing, it’s a... View Details