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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

including The American Railroad Journal (established in 1832); the New York Times (1851); The Stockholder: Monitor of Finance and Industry (1862); The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (1865); and the Wall View Details

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

you'll be. And I didn't understand that because of course I wanted to be popular with my peers, but now I can see when you're running a company like Merck and Wall Street is criticizing you because you don't... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

04 Feb 2021
News

Andy Jassy Named Amazon’s New CEO

Amazon announced this week that Andy Jassy (MBA 1997) will take over the role of CEO from founder Jeff Bezos later this year. Jassy has been with Amazon since 1997 and currently runs Amazon Web Services, which the Wall View Details

04 Oct 2022
What Do You Think?

Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?

think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. References: Ginia Bellefante, “Is the Era of Instant Groceries Already Over?” The New York Times, July 24, 2022. Chip Cutter, “The Back-to-Work Puzzle,” The Wall View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Ellen Desmarais | About

high-impact growth initiatives in global media and learning companies such as McGraw-Hill Education, The Wall Street Journal, and Getty Images. As Managing Director, Digital Strategy, she modernized HBP... View Details

02 Oct 2017
What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

labeled the leading digital currency, Bitcoin, a “fraud,” likening it to the 17th century tulip bulb mania and adding that he would fire any employee caught trading it. But on October 2, the Wall Street... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

10 Apr 2023
News

Leading the Way

"Within two years of meeting him, I had two internships on Wall Street and was accepted to the HBS 2+2 program. It was like a light switched on for me and everything changed." Trujillo grew up in a poor... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

13 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

diversity.” For some post-M&A executives, however, the main motivation for promoting women and people of color is to avoid discrimination lawsuits. As one executive told Zhang: “We do not want to be on the front page of the Wall View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

18 Jul 2019
News

Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc

the Wall Street Journal. Steve Jobs said that VisiCalc “propelled the Apple II to the success it achieved more than any other single event.” It also was the force behind the later success of Microsoft in... View Details

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

understanding of why Davies failed. Q: The crisis section we are excerpting at the end of this interview is about coping with a sudden denial of service attack. It's also about Barton navigating around conflicting advice while preparing for a meeting with View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Dec 2013
HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

choices with legal, moral, and reputational costs. The lessons from Armstrong's story go beyond the classroom to apply to a range of business situations—on both Wall Street and Main Street—where well-meaning... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

20 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

costs Bill Gates $300 a second. What is your time worth?" And an ad campaign for The Wall Street Journal features celebrities including Tory Burch and Will.i.am reading the paper with the tagline,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

bequeath themselves expensive office facilities and luxurious corporate jets make different business decisions than those who do not? In this age of Wall Street excesses, these are pertinent questions that... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Whitehead (MBA 1947) and got the nod for an interview. “The VP who interviewed me kept asking about topics that had appeared in the Wall Street Journal,” says Kim, who assumed “journal” referred to a more... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

01 Feb 1999
News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

pressures. It can be a brutal situation." Indeed, as the Wall Street Journal's front page proclaimed last fall in the wake of the downturn in Asia, overcapacity has become "a dire and obvious problem for... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

as a runner on Wall Street at Lehman Brothers, where I ended up spending much of my career. If you hadn't pursued a career in management, what might you have done instead? I would have liked to play... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

AI has fundamentally shifted the nature of Wall Street trading. It determines credit scores for existing and potential customers, screens applicants, assists in hiring, responds in real-time to queries, and... View Details

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Economist much more effectively than they could before. Those publications integrate macroeconomics with what we know about business and markets, often in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Aug 2021
Blog Post

The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise

open doors and set me up for success. Networks are critical in providing exposure and access to opportunities — and without them, I would never have broken into or thrived in Wall Street or Silicon Valley as... View Details

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

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