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- 01 Feb 2021
- News
Why is it so hard for workers to find new jobs?
- December 1996 (Revised October 1999)
- Case
Kidder, Peabody & Co.: Creating Elusive Profits
By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
On April 17, 1994, Kidder, Peabody & Co. announced a $350 million charge against earnings resulting from the discovery of false trading profits. That same day, the termination of Joseph Jett's employment with the company was made public. By illustrating the mechanics... View Details
Keywords: Bonds; Governance Controls; Crime and Corruption; Financial Reporting; Profit; Financial Strategy
Simons, Robert L., and Antonio Davila. "Kidder, Peabody & Co.: Creating Elusive Profits." Harvard Business School Case 197-038, December 1996. (Revised October 1999.)
- 08 May 2008
- News
Professor Thomas McCraw Wins the Hagley Prize in Business History
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- April 2022 (Revised July 2022)
- Case
Stalin’s Capitalists: American Business and Soviet Industrialization
By: Jeremy Friedman, Jingyu Liu and Christine Riggle
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
Friedman, Jeremy, Jingyu Liu, and Christine Riggle. "Stalin’s Capitalists: American Business and Soviet Industrialization." Harvard Business School Case 722-058, April 2022. (Revised July 2022.)
- 20 Jun 2021
- News
After the Pandemic, Expect More Work for Freelancers
- 13 Nov 2014
- News
Network Admins Wanted: New Ideas for Filling 'Middle-Skill' Jobs
- 15 Feb 2012
- News
Social Innovation Challenge
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
AI Use in Hiring Means Women with Employment Gaps Get Overlooked
- 23 May 2018
- News
The Bad First Job's Lingering Impact
- 19 Jan 2018
- News
Jana’s Jab at Apple May Be a Route to Reverse Its Shrinking Assets
- 10 Nov 2010
- News
Choose tomorrow's leader today
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Is this the era of the 'quiet leader?'
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
Great promise but potential for peril
- 06 May 2019
- News
Forget Socialism. The U.S. Needs Responsible Capitalism
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Strategy + Business Magazine's Best Management Book
- 08 Jul 2020
- News
We Have an Unemployment Crisis. Now What?
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
Estée Lauder in 1930. Photograph courtesy of Estée Lauder Companies. The daughter of immigrant merchants in Queens, New York, Estée Lauder, born Josephine Esther Mentzer, began selling skin cream to women in New York City beauty parlors in the late 1920s. In 1946, she... View Details