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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

Program (SELP) in India, the Middle East, and Africa and resumed its in-person SELP program in China. Sixty-three percent of participants in the group’s open enrollment programs represented businesses based outside the U.S. Total... View Details

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

lasting contributions to management theory and practice." Ryan L. Raffaelli : Awarded the 2018 Best Paper in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Industry Studies Association Annual Conference for “The Use of History as a Strategic... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

player named Carlos Gonzalez (MBA '98). They were married in Turkey in 1999. Finding Reason in the Irrational The year before she enrolled in the Ph.D. program in business economics, Ulrike Malmendier was immersed in the history of Roman... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
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Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details

Keywords: Facebook; Fake News; Mark Zuckerberg; Donald Trump; Algorithms; Social Networks; Partisanship; Social Media; App Development; Instagram; WhatsApp; Smartphone; Silicon Valley; Office Space; Digital Strategy; Democracy; Entry Barriers; Online Platforms; Controversy; Tencent; Agility; Social Networking; Gaming; Gaming Industry; Computer Games; Mobile Gaming; Messaging; Monetization Strategy; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Headquarters; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Trends; Communication; Communication Technology; Forms of Communication; Interactive Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Talent and Talent Management; Crime and Corruption; Voting; Demographics; Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Initial Public Offering; Profit; Revenue; Geography; Geographic Location; Global Range; Local Range; Country; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; International Relations; National Security; Political Elections; Business History; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Information Management; Information Publishing; News; Newspapers; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Dissemination; Human Capital; Law; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Management Systems; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Marketing Channels; Social Marketing; Network Effects; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Monopoly; Media; Product Development; Service Delivery; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Groups and Teams; Networks; Rank and Position; Opportunities; Behavior; Emotions; Identity; Power and Influence; Prejudice and Bias; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Status and Position; Trust; Society; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Societal Protocols; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Diversification; Expansion; Horizontal Integration; Segmentation; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Valuation; Advertising Industry; Communications Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; California; Sunnyvale; Russia

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Professor David Moss explores what’s happened, what it means, and what can be done, drawing especially on the history of democracy, democratic capitalism, and past democratic breakdowns to help make sense of this tectonic shift and how it... View Details

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

01 Mar 2009
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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 View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2004
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Books

University Press) Walter Friedman’s Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America documents the history of salesmanship, from the days of peddlers to the creation of modern sales forces at companies like National Cash... View Details

Keywords: book review; faculty books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2009
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Professor, Historian, and Storyteller

but so too were people. Often ruthless, insatiably curious, amazingly driven, the fascinating men and women that helped create American business history are a very important thread in this book. History is... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

02 Jul 2001
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George C. Lodge

School's required curriculum. Lodge's early career plans pointed him toward journalism. After serving in the U.S. Navy and graduating with honors from Harvard College in 1950, he signed on as a reporter with the old Boston Herald, then... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

30 May 2005
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Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

this interview he discusses the development of the German corporation and what modern managers can learn from that history. The book was edited by Thomas K. McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, and was... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2006
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Drive-In Nation

For decades, the U.S. auto industry ruled America’s economy, shaped the country’s development, and influenced American culture and social mores. Now, buffeted by globalization and other powerful forces, it faces a moment of truth. The... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

17 May 2010
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What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

The current debate in the United States about how to regulate Wall Street focuses on laws, regulations, and monitoring. But lawmakers may want to look to history for guidance, to Brazil 100 years ago, when transparent governance and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

13 Oct 2015
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Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

countries. The Creating Emerging Markets project is sponsored by Harvard Business School’s Business History Initiative. We spoke with Oberholzer-Gee, who conducted both interviews in early 2015, to discuss the differences and similarities... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2016
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The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

crusade in her working paper The U.S. Experiment with Fair Trade Laws: State Police Powers, Federal Antitrust, and the Politics of “Fairness,” 1890–1938, forthcoming in the Business History Review. Gleason,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo

George is the finance director for the Post Carbon Institute, a California think tank dedicated to promoting sustainable energy that recently examined the Bakken in its report Drilling Deeper: A Reality Check on U.S. Government Forecasts... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

19 Nov 2001
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Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

consumer electronics had conquered world markets. And the five leading Japanese computer companies were seriously challenging the U.S. computer industry worldwide. This epic story of the consumer electronics and computer industries has... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology

01 Sep 2010
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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

Fair Competition

competition policy, law and economics, and federalism. I recently published a paper in the Business History Review, titled “California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition... View Details

01 Jun 2004
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Luxe Redux

approves the hire of every sales associate at each of Thomas Pink’s ten U.S. stores. “It is the most critical position in the company,” she notes. “They mediate the interaction between the customer and the product. If that mediation is... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; luxury; Retail Trade

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