by Joseph Fuller - Publications - Faculty & Research

In the late 1920s and early 1930s when Joseph Stalin, leader of the world’s first Communist state, sought to industrialize his largely peasant country on an unprecedented scale, he turned for help to those who had the most experience constructing on such a scale:... View Details

Keywords: Communism; Industrialization; Socialism; History; Industry Growth; Economic Systems; Soviet Union

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01 Mar 2019
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The Blue-Green Revolution

Much hope and plenty of money are riding on the idea that batterypowered electric cars will help slow global warming by reducing tailpipe emissions. But when it comes to reducing the greenhouse gases produced View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist

23 May 2018
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The Bad First Job's Lingering Impact

19 Jan 2018
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Jana’s Jab at Apple May Be a Route to Reverse Its Shrinking Assets

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AI Use in Hiring Means Women with Employment Gaps Get Overlooked

15 Feb 2012
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Social Innovation Challenge

08 Jul 2020
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We Have an Unemployment Crisis. Now What?

16 Dec 2011
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Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

The 85-year-old Business History Review, published quarterly by Harvard Business School, is the acknowledged leading peer-reviewed journal in the field. (BHR has recently been made available online through Cambridge University Press.) So... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

06 May 2019
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Forget Socialism. The U.S. Needs Responsible Capitalism

10 Nov 2010
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Choose tomorrow's leader today

20 Jul 2021
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Rewriting the Social Contract

20 Sep 2013
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