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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
competition is so intense.” Detroit, by contrast, has hobbled itself, experts say, in two notable ways: Labor agreements, financially generous but tightly circumscribed regarding worker activity, have hindered innovative uses of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
Illustration by David Plunkert Illustration by David Plunkert Edited by Dan Morrell What examples from history can we reflect on as we begin to address the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and prescribe solutions for policy and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
When Business History Was Business News UTAH, 1859: East meets West and America opens for business. Henry Guttmann/Getty Images Newspapers, so the saying goes, write the first draft of history. In her new book, The Story of American... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
Beijing is America’s largest foreign creditor. But how long will the Chinese continue to finance U.S. deficit spending? Illustration by Stuart Bradford In his new book, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, HBS professor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
In April 2008, the School will mark its Centennial birthday — 100 years of history and achievement. To be sure, that’s an impressive figure, but consider also the combined years at HBS — nearly 160 — of emeriti professors Charlie... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71) (Knopf) This is a history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last 40 years, and of the men most responsible... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Media: Courting the Cord-Cutters
channels at a lower cost—but the skinny bundle never seems to satisfy anyone because it doesn’t include customers’ “passion” channels. There’s no skinny bundle with the History Channel, for instance, or the Discovery Channel. Meanwhile,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
You’ve amassed 182 interviews with leaders all over the world. Where did this project come from? Geoff Jones: Actually, a Chilean shipping entrepreneur sat right here in my office and after hearing me go on about how history matters for... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future
memory of war on one's home soil. We know how tragic history can be, and we understand the fragility of society." A native of France who relocated to New York last summer, Hannezo recalled John F. Kennedy's famous declaration, "Ich bin... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
cooking and washing for 14 people," he recalls. "She had tremendous energy. There was no money, but lots of love and happiness." As a boy, Harf shared a room with a great uncle, born in 1886, who instilled in him an avid interest in View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
by the number of personal papers — mostly diaries and family letters — contained in these business records. “These personal writings reveal the depth of the Historical Collections and underscore the variety of ways that the business manuscripts can be used to study the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Comeback Trail
Koehn, and Debora Spar—to weigh in on what advice history can offer as we navigate the current economic crisis. The Devil You Don’t Know Professor David Moss on the danger of treating this economic crisis like its predecessors Righting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Shaky Ground Senior Lecturer John Macomber Because of a housing shortage in Williston, oil worker Glenn Robinson, from Missouri, sleeps in his car, staying warm by idling the engine and using a fan heater connected to the car battery. “It’s very hard in global View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
shipping routes to avoid sanctions—traveling from the United States to Panama to Jamaica before arriving in Havana four to six weeks later. The history of Cuba’s private sector is relatively new, short, and complicated. After the fall of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
think is right.” How did you prepare for this assignment? I took a two-week ambassadorial training seminar and several weeks of refresher instruction in French. I read up on the history of Morocco and attended a number of State Department... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
a long workweek it was and how extraordinarily controlling companies were in the early days before the labor movement." In subtle contrast, a striking 1933 portrait of a woman cotton warper at the Shelton Looms in Shelton, Connecticut, by... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 12 Sep 2018
- News
Celebrating A Landmark Book on Gender in the Workplace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
customer-facing staff, make acquisitions, get rid of underperformers, and build their brand. American History Revised: 200 Startling Facts That Never Made It into the Textbooks by Seymour Morris Jr. (MBA ’72) (Broadway Books) Filled with... View Details
- 10 Apr 2008
- News
The Sum of Our Own Greatness
Group: Tom Ryder, David Habeeb, and Ruth Page. Inspiration for the title came from a Theodore Roosevelt quote: “We cannot do great deeds as a nation unless we are willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.” For Ryder, who confesses that the film... View Details