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Harold S. Geneen
Geneen diversified International Telephone and Telegraph through acquiring shares of companies ranging from the Sheraton Hotel Chain to the Hartford Insurance Company. Geneen grew his firm from $765 million to $8.5 billion in revenues to... View Details
Keywords: Communications
Ernest E. Norris
Norris began his career in the telegraph industry, but always intended to lead the Southern Railway System. When he finally assumed the position, Norris expanded Southern Railway through solid, traditional business principles, but also... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
New Orleans Resonance
annual improvements of between 11 and 39 percent, earning the school widespread acclaim. London’s Sunday Telegraph (September 12, 2010) declared NOCP “part of the boldest experiment in education reform seen in the United States, and one... View Details
Keywords: charter schools
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A bold experiment in education
city after the first year, on track to move the school from an “F” to a “C” in two years. London’s Sunday Telegraph declared NOCP “part of the boldest experiment in education reform seen in the United States.” Says Kleban: “We are part of... View Details
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
telegraphs. Telegraphs are usually analyzed in the context of railway expansion, and the literature has somewhat neglected the role of telegraphic communication for the development of steamship navigation.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
of peak industrial or business upheavals, notably the mid-nineteenth century explosion within the textile industry and growing industrialization; the development of the national railroad system and the telegraph from 1880-1920; and the... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade
lived together so many years, and I had seen so much of his noble traits, that I had the highest admiration for him.” 39 During this time the brothers experienced transformations in the firm and the China trade itself. By the 1870s the View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Thought Leader
logical and linguistic analysis to the study of human nature and consciousness,” the Telegraph reported. Among his central achievements was to shed light on the nature of reality. By persuasively advancing “Wittgenstein’s notion that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Braving an Insecure New World
Are limits or balance possible? Clemens Aichholzer (MBA 2003), London, England Additional Reading Scott Howe (MBA 1994) is making Big Data–driven marketing more transparent We've been trading privacy for convenience for a long time—from dictating a message to a View Details
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Trade Publications - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
online with Google Ice and Refrigeration (H.S. Rich & Co., 1892-1853). Note: issues from July – December, 1913 online with Google Telegraph and Telephone Age (later Wire & Radio Communications ) (New York, 1883-1965). Note: issues from... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
that breaks with history? A: There are many ways in which the Internet differs from past innovations. The Net is much more international, for one thing, and it crosses borders even more easily than did the telegraph or the radio. It is a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
she needs to decide whether to franchise or own the next expansion. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311035-PDF-ENG Werner von Siemens and the Electric Telegraph Geoffrey G. Jones and Bjoern von SiemensHarvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
or harassment,” says Toffel. “Speaking out can reinforce those values inside the organization and telegraph them to prospective employees as well.” A new type of advocacy It’s a different form of business advocacy than when companies such... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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The Art of "Posting" - The Art of American Advertising
study of advertising in the United States. 34 The Associated Billposters of the United States and Canada began to regulate the industry, including setting prices and length of time a poster would be displayed. Advertisers sent out local representatives, traveling... View Details
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
Slave importation from outside the U.S. prohibited 1834 First turnout of "mill girls" in Lowell, Massachusetts protesting wage cuts 1844 Samuel F.B. Morse demonstrates the telegraph 1846 Richard M. Hoe creates the cylinder printing press... View Details
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
whether Japan should take on competition-oriented policies, or the more traditional policies that protect the strong social traditions of Japanese big business. He recommended watching the reformation of the Japanese telecom monopoly, Nippon Telephone and View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
Woodward Family Collection. back to text The name Meroë comes from an ancient city located on the Nile. Morse was a distant relative of Samuel Morse (1791–1872), the inventor of the telegraph and Morse code. Samuel Morse met Louis... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
west to Dakota Territory. She remembered trying to count the telegraph poles outside her window. But the poles and farmhouses and fields “went so fast that she could not really look at them before they were gone. In one hour that train... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
stuck in leader B mode. And then finally for our teams and our loved ones, when we ripple out leader B, we're telegraphing our stress and our worst self onto others and so suddenly our worst days have made bad days for other people.... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
nineteenth century. From a bobbin boy in a steam-driven textile mill, where he was paid $1.20 a week, he moved on to a telegraph office, then to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and eventually to the gigantic complex of mills on the Allegheny... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow