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- 25 Jan 2021
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In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates Productivity rose almost six-fold in the United States during the era of railroad expansion. View Details
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1929: The Great Crash - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
legislation,” wrote Harvard Business School Professor Thomas McCraw, Landis “recognized the importance of matching the sanctions to the problems.” 16 One of the strengths of the New Deal’s SEC was its... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund
million gift from the Frist family. The combined gift is the largest to support student aid in the School’s history. These gifts will establish the Frist Financial Aid Fund at HBS. Drs. Thomas F. Frist Sr.... View Details
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Frist Faculty Commons | About
Corporation of America (HCA) with his father, Dr. Thomas Frist Sr. (AMP, 1984), in 1968. The company went public a year later, and with the younger Frist providing leadership, first as president and... View Details
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Harvard Business School
Building on the Legacy Thought Leadership Andrew F. Brimmer James I. Cash Jr. Linda A. Hill David A. Thomas HBS Faculty Members HBS Doctoral Students Alumni Profiles Research Links Essay on HBS Thought Leadership Early AASU documents... View Details
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Partners - Case Method Project
(AR) Fort Smith, AR AR 4 of 4 Thomas Stephenson Rogers Heritage High School Rogers, AR California All States Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut District of Columbia Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
making a generous gift to the School to facilitate the construction of a new MBA campus center, scheduled for completion by the summer of 2000. The gift extends long-standing, close ties between the Spangler family and HBS. Both Dick Spangler and his late father, C.D.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2007
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
historians, HBS professor emeritus Thomas McCraw, in his 1988 collection of Chandler essays, The Essential Alfred Chandler, described a man who was universally regarded as both an academic giant and a true... View Details
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
MA Jenny Elliott Phillips Academy Andover, MA Subjects: College Prep/Honors U.S. History MA Meredith Elliott Boston Latin School Boston, MA Subjects: AP U.S. Government IL Michele Ellis Epic Academy Chicago, IL Subjects: Civics, Ethics Studies CA Johanna Elms View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
have enjoyed reading his reviews of works by Thomas Cochran, Mira Wilkins, Hugh G.J. Aitken, Samuel Haber, Ray Ginger, and many others. Al preferred books with a clear core argument and had little patience with authors who failed to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
neglected in organizational theory, this publication, the culmination of more than a decade of research by the authors, presents important new ideas for how to organize them effectively. Creating Modern Capitalism Thomas K. View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
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Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
'Fortune 500' U.S. Companies," The Business History Review , vol. 70, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 69-90. Full text available as a networked resource. (Harvard users only: Harvard ID and University PIN required) McCraw, View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
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Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
When HBS professor Leonard A. Schlesinger and the other architects of the new MBA introductory "Foundations" curriculum decided that a thorough understanding of capitalism's underpinnings was essential, they asked Professor Thomas K.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1996
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Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
sometimes vigorous debate about pivotal issues. The "tip of the iceberg" is how Professor Thomas K. McCraw, one of the principal organizers of the symposium, described the event's program. "A tremendous... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
An 1868 broadside, for example, showing a worker's timetable at the Lowell Mills in Massachusetts, speaks volumes about its time. "One thing you notice when you look at that," says Pulitzer Prizewinning business historian Professor Thomas... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2009
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Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
at HBS, 1988–2000), wades hip deep into business history (he cites HBS historians Richard Tedlow, Thomas McCraw, and Walter Friedman in a span of a few pages) and economic theory to argue that, in fact, the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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Porter Appointed to University Professorship
requirement in the School's MBA curriculum. "Mike Porter is probably the world's most influential business academic and one of a handful of the most influential who has ever lived," said HBS professor Thomas K. View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Room to Write
window that looks out into the woods.” —Keith D. Wright Sr. (PMD 67, 1994), Spiritual Oars for Dark Waters “During the cold months when I reside in San Francisco, I write at a favorite coffee shop. My first draft is always handwritten.”... View Details
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Bibliography - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Growth: Some of Its Offshoots: Also Some Mention of the Quantity and Quality of Its Fruit . Waltham, Mass.: Waltham Watch Company, 1909. McCraw, Thomas K. Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis... View Details