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Lehman Brothers Records | Baker Library

Lehman Brothers Records The Lehman Brothers Records document the history of the investment banking firm from 1868 until 2007. The records of the investment firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co., prior to its 1977 merger with Lehman Brothers, are also... View Details

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

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 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

02 Sep 2002
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Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

What can companies today take away from the experience of myriad multinationals in the United States? A lot, says HBS professor Geoffrey G. Jones, a specialist in business history and international business. In the following e-mail... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace

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Research Links | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

documents, corporate histories and publications, and business directories. The collection holds a wide range of public relations literature produced by U.S. Steel such as souvenir booklets, corporate... View Details

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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)... View Details

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Georges F. Doriot: Educating Leaders, Building Companies

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

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Sonali Duggal

On the last day of class, a professor left our section with the following words: "Unpack your bags." My grandmother moved from a village to New Delhi, sixty miles away. My mother traded a small circle in India for a small circle in the View Details

13 Aug 2008
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The Inner Life of Leaders

mantra was measurement. As secretary of defense, McNamara developed, along with key subordinates, including Robert Anthony of the HBS control faculty, long-range procurement cycles. He even tried to get the U.S. Navy to subscribe to a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Site Credits - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details

09 Jan 2014
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Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

effort they enjoyed wide institutional backing. Courts of law routinely supported those who made predictions based on dispassionate scientific rules rather than those who, say, enlisted the help of the stars. Many U.S. jurisdictions... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

demonstrates the first television 1929 Forced deportation and family separations of 2,000,000 Mexican-Americans. Estimates indicate 60% were American citizens The New Deal in Three Minutes Anti-Latino Discrimination in America America’s Forgotten View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!

When Business History Was Business News UTAH, 1859: East meets West and America opens for business. Henry Guttmann/Getty Images Newspapers, so the saying goes, write the first draft of history. In her new book, The Story of American... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

02 Oct 2008
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Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?

us to the question of whether the U.S. automobile industry should qualify for help. Where should we draw the line? Is it now time for ideology to take over? What do you think? Original Article In view of world financial events, which take... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8

determinant of their severity. The Empire Struck Back: Sanctions and Compensation in the Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938 Author:Noel Maurer Publication:Journal of Economic History (forthcoming) Abstract The Mexican expropriation of 1938... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2008
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The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

position to do something about it. Money for new enterprises had been restricted, they believed, by the New Deal's onerous tax system, and by the increasing prominence of ultraconservative investment trusts. Investment trusts and life insurance companies accounted for... View Details

Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante

01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future

$4 a gallon, stunning American motorists. The results were predictable: Prices for everything skyrocketed, and an already recessionary U.S. economy, soon to be slammed by the mortgage and credit crises, began slouching toward the 1930s.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

12 Feb 2001
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Creating Value Across Borders

and differences in entrepreneurship as practiced in the U.S. and abroad? What are the reasons for these differences? A: I'll start with a key similarity. The basic notion that people act in their perceived self-interest is a given. In... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Domestic Students | MBA

Stafford Loans and Graduate PLUS Loans: Unsubsidized Stafford Loans Available to qualified students who are U.S. Citizens or U.S. Permanent Residents. They carry a fixed interest rate and a maximum loan... View Details

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