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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
"During the times of the Republic, the Romans had a very small government, which outsourced all kinds of economic activities. They even took bids for services such as tax collection and street construction. The companies that formed in the process had many elements... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
non-sustainability-related funds ($25.7bn), despite the asset base of the latter being 60x the size. In venture (my neck of the woods), $40bn has gone into climate tech from January 2020 to August 2021. This is versus the $25bn that went into clean tech between 2006... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
happened” across the city along racial and ethnic lines. In the early 20th century, Baltimore pioneered the use of racially discriminatory housing ordinances and deed covenants that prevented Blacks, Jews, and other minorities from buying... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Stephen Schwarzman on What It Takes
Schwarzman pushing his storekeeper father to expand his business and successfully convincing Little Anthony and the Imperials to play at his high school. An early chapter that details his younger years is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
leadership. Why is ancient Rome a good lens for exploring modern leadership themes? ED: It’s a remote, dead society, yet larger than life, which makes it a very good way to explore huge issues like power, mortality, standards, and mercy.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
portion of the book is devoted to the demand side, if you will, of history: to working and consuming and how Americans have spent their leisure. Toward the end of the book, I spend some time considering not only the exuberance and stimulation of View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
strategy," and he describes how companies such as Yelp and Zynga have done it. The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World edited by Sophus A Reinert and Pernille Røge (Palgrave Macmillan)... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
tastefully mounted and displayed on the first floor's north and south corridor walls. "We chose images from the 1850s to the early 1930s -- the so-called Second Industrial Revolution -- that characterized industries important to the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
Dan Sprinkles (MBA 1977) was 50 years old when a vision quest inspired him to leave the corporate world and embark on a role as a spiritual healer. “I’d always been hungry or starved for something that would create passion,” he says. After an View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Is the Auction House of the Future Online?
“Balloon Dog (Blue), 2005” by Jeff Koons sold for an undisclosed amount as part of a May Paddle8 auction. (Photo courtesy of Paddle8) When the hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan decided to produce just one copy of their album Once Upon A Time in Shaolin as a work of View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
In the early 1970s, as Ali Allawi (MBA ’71) graduated from HBS, Islam was flexing both religious and political muscles that had long been dormant. It came to a head with Iran’s 1979 revolution, an uprising against the ruling political... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
services. The first really magnificent building was 998 Fifth Avenue, built in the early 1900s. It was known as simply 998. Everybody knew what it was. The same was true of 740 Park Avenue and 834 Fifth Avenue—where Rockefellers did live.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
are much better leaders,” he explains. Stepping out of the CEO’s chair early gave George the opportunity to put his thoughts about leadership into a recently published book, Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets of Creating... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
calls for new, smarter regulation. This interdisciplinary volume points the way toward modernizing regulatory theory. Professor Moss and his coeditor have gathered essays by leading scholars that integrate the latest research about the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
single-family houses—the largest strictly single-family housing market in the country,” Rhea explains. Lafayette Park, the Detroit neighborhood where he grew up in the 1970s, is one of the few exceptions. Populated with high rises and townhouses designed by View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Dec 2022
- News
Dubai-Based Proptech Builds Up
Aahan Bhojani (Linkedin) Aahan Bhojani (Linkedin) In early 2020, Aahan Bhojani (MBA 2019) was working for a travel fintech startup in Boston when the coronavirus pandemic resulted in lockdowns around the world. But Bhojani wasn't in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
under the bridge — ancient history, like the history of imperial China. Markets have short memories. Many young traders today did not even experience the Asian crisis of 1997–1998. Those who went into finance after 2000 lived through... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
opium to their country in the early 1800s, ultimately triggering the end to Imperial China. They are intensely proud of their civilization and determined to preserve it, even as they have become leading... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
whaling industry. Morrell: In the early nineteenth century, it was the whaling ships of New England that offered the kinds of high-risk, high-reward stakes that attracted investors. Lazarow: At the time, 70% of the whaling industry was... View Details