Railroad History - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

of its wheels. Free to be lifted unencumbered. And not just one trailer, or two of them, or five, or a dozen, but hundreds, on one ship." In many ways, McLean's vision was nothing new. As far back as 1929, Seatrain had carried View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

if some of the biggest names in tech might now be vulnerable. It is the latest episode in a long history of government actions to curb the effects of excess market power, however that is defined, that began in earnest with passage of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

06 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

The Art of American Advertising

in the years following the Civil War—when the railroad industry created a new, national network for manufacturing and distributing consumer goods. (These were the days when "posting" referred to hanging posters on the sides of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

development of the U.S. railroad industry in the latter half of the 19th century. Al went straight to the sources and expanded upon them in a series of important articles in the Business History Review. That... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

28 Jun 2016
First Look

June 28, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51195 Spring 2016 Business History Review California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition Policy By: Sawyer, Laura Phillips Abstract—In the decades before... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms. Forty years ago, before I went to graduate school, I was teaching high school history on Long Island. I considered myself an environmentalist even then, and so on that very first Earth... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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