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27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

It is hard to imagine a more difficult and tragic trial by fire for a new leader. On September 4, 2001, Robert Mueller started his new job as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A mere week later, View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion

populated. We hopped in a small elevator and quickly arrived on the 7th floor. The open office floor plan had six rows of computers with the company’s CEO and the newest hire sitting practically shoulder to shoulder. We soon realized we... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

implicated in recent acts of corporate malfeasance—could have become so depraved, this is probably the wrong question. Given that human nature does not change much from age to age, the real issue is the effectiveness of the constraints that society places View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Steel, American Steel Hoop, American Tin Plate, American Bridge, and the Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines. In the following decades other companies came into the corporation’s fold. Some of the nation’s most influential leaders of finance served View Details

07 Jul 2022
HBS Case

How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

frosting, and lemon-ginger ice cream. When the Brooklyn-based screenwriter first met his future wife and business partner, he wooed her by hosting ice cream socials with homemade concoctions that guests raved about. Flying high on these... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

01 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

power compliment, where you don't even think they are working in their national interest. That doesn't mean if push came to shove, they would win a military battle, but the best kind of war is one you don't... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 May 2024
In Practice

Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible

can be the best time to explore an unexpected path, professionally or geographically. Harvard Business School faculty share their viewpoints on the ever-changing job market, with a sharp eye on what it means... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

Research Summary

Great Negotiator Study Initiative

By: James K. Sebenius

What can be legitimately be learned from closely studying great negotiators at work? Since 2000, the Program on Negotiation (PON)—an active inter-university consortium mainly comprised of numerous faculty from across... View Details

14 Jun 2012
Working Paper Summaries

“Power from Sunshine”: A Business History of Solar Energy

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Loubna Bouamane; Energy; Utilities

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Enter Elton Mayo – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Archives Photograph Collection Elton Mayo was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1880. Affable, witty, and a brilliant lecturer, he taught mental and moral philosophy at the University of Queensland, where he conducted psycho-pathological tests View Details

July 2020 (Revised September 2021)
Case

Mr. Five Percent: Calouste Gulbenkian and the Origins of Global Oil

By: Geoffrey Jones and Yazeed Al-Rashed

This case describes the business career of Calouste Gulbenkian, a skilled intermediary who was able to secure 5 percent of a vast oil concession covering much of the Middle East that was signed in 1928. Gulbenkian was an ethnic Armenian born in the Ottoman Empire,... View Details

Keywords: Oil; Globalization; Energy Sources; History; Biography; Energy Industry; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East

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31 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

John Osher is one of those casually and spectacularly successful people who make serial entrepreneurship look like a cakewalk. He began racking up wins at an early age—starting and selling both a vintage clothing store and an earring... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

Auschwitz, and other members of his (and his wife's) extended family lost their lives in the Holocaust and because of the fighting in World War II. In 1944 and especially early in 1945, young Andy was a hunted child. Life under the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

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Private Capital Project

the strategic use of private capital is inextricably tied to Harvard Business School. The first modern PE fund, American Research and Development, was designed and led by Professor Georges Doriot in the years after World War II at HBS.... View Details

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?

Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto; Financial Services; Retail

08 Feb 2010
HBS Case

Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China

Google, the "do no evil" company, gained entry into the Chinese search engine market last decade by agreeing to ban search results on topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese government. To Google's way of thinking, it could do... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

04 Jan 2017
What Do You Think?

How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?

procedures impedes effective action.” Wars on bureaucracy are waged and often thought to be won in non-governmental organizations. But there's a perception that the war is... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

08 Nov 2016
First Look

November 8, 2016

commercial success and certain disputed business practices, Android has come under substantial attention from competition authorities. We present key aspects of Google’s strategy in mobile, focusing on Android-related practices that may... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

strategy and operations (or tactics) are both important but they are different. The normal course of events is for companies to focus on day-to-day operations and short-term problem solving. Management meetings focus View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Feb 2023
HBS Case

Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

same time, she says the current problems aren’t likely to dim the high regard other nations place on the Swedish model, in part because none of them have managed to replicate it. While she sees strong echoes of the model in Taiwan, and... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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