Early Modern Britain - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Sep 2007
What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

like. The French term of 'cadre' may best accommodate the reality of business practitioners in a modern world." Respondents also provided some possible remedies. Osbert Lancaster suggested that what is needed is an injection of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

20 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: December 20

teams are exacerbated when teams are leaderless, undermining performance. A longitudinal study of multicultural MBA study teams found that in the early stage of team formation, teams with a low average level of, but moderate degree of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

necessary book, arriving not a moment too soon." Robert Reich writes "Anyone who wants to understand modern America should read this captivating book." Her 2012 The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times , explores the many ways... View Details

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

Business historians can profit from careful analyses of government and personal archives to reconstruct the early "start-up" phases of firms—and to uncover the role that other organizational forms, such as partnerships, played... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/519011-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-027 Fundraising at St. Camillus Hospital St. Camillus is a fictional non-profit hospital in rural Maine facing a serious budget deficit. As Director of Marketing, Victoria Stern is... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

originating catalyst for the Industrial Revolution and modern capitalism casts new light on American credit markets, practices of offshore investment, and understandings of human capital. Rather than seeing slavery as outside the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

market conditions and, indeed, to a company's own strategic decisions. By serving the U.S. market from Japan, Toyota in its early days implicitly considered that market to be on the periphery of its own region. The North American West... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

12 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

it's more about making these blades go a little bit faster and a little bit quieter," Jones says. "It's hard to imagine what a major technological breakthrough would look like. The breakthrough is more persuading people this is the right thing to do."... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

catalog that professors would employ "an analogous method [to the 'case method' used at the Law School], emphasizing classroom discussion, supplemented by lectures and frequent reports, which may be called the problem method." The reality, however, was quite... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

working with members of Congress to modernize the rules and processes on the internal side. It’s been about 20 years since we’ve had a commission in this country to look at restructuring the way Congress does its day-to-day business. One... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

22 Feb 2022
News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

offer convenience, decent prices, or an okay shopping experience. Even very good is no longer good enough. To win and keep customers today, retailers must be nothing short of remarkable. Packed with case studies from some of modern... View Details

07 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

government in making it a success. "Particularly during the early years, the government played a critical role in shaping Silicon Valley," especially spending and funding from the U.S. Department of Defense, writes HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

young British Muslims, frank interviews with intelligence and police officers, and frontline reports from across the Middle East to offer answers to one of the biggest challenges of our time. Dragons: 10 Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain by... View Details

30 Aug 2016
First Look

August 30, 2016

216-079 The Role of the Chief Financial Officer This note profiles the role of the modern chief financial officer (CFO). It presents insights based on a variety of surveys and descriptions of HBS graduates who hold or have held the CFO... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All

the socioeconomic strata as we are herded through the pampered world of first and business class to our humble place in coach. It’s difficult to look past the wide and plush seats filled with passengers given privileged access to board View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Air Transportation; Sports; Travel

13 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

countries. The Creating Emerging Markets project is sponsored by Harvard Business School’s Business History Initiative. We spoke with Oberholzer-Gee, who conducted both interviews in early 2015, to discuss the differences and similarities... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Feb 2020
News

Not Throwing Away My Shot

themes? Eric: The first theme is mechanization. If you were a young person in the early Republic in America and you could build a machine that did what had been traditionally done by hand, you were in the sweet spot of entrepreneurship.... View Details

26 Feb 2020
News

Phoenix Rising

reception room, and a fountain of Bubble Wrap trails behind her. She’s working with the National Gallery to introduce more modernity to the office aesthetic, selecting a few contemporary paintings for the walls of Maximos Mansion. The... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Nov 2016
First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

support not only itself, but also a growing majority of the 6 billion people now living on earth. This unparalleled abundance is allowing our species to develop, distribute, and profit from innovation in nearly every corner of civilization. Now key elements of the... View Details