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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society
and long-term objectives Learn More about our Mission & Objectives Related Initiatives & Projects Business & Environment Initiative This initiative brings together more than 40 affiliated faculty members who collectively represent the School's ten units. Business View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
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
- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
a Baker Scholar), he never envisioned a future in academia. It did not take long for his plans to change. "During spring semester of my first year, I reflected on what I had seen in the classroom," says Wasserman, who arrived at HBS with five years of experience at... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Curriculum Matthew Weinzierl & Professor Debora Spar (PMD 62) + More Info - Video Recording – Less Info - Video Recording How can we best prepare students to navigate an uncertain world? How do we make sense of the changes in American and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
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Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
economic miracle (1920s); cars in the second (post-World War II) Convenience Store Retailing in Two Countries: Southland and Seven-Eleven Japan How Japanese managers learned from their American counterparts, then taught the teachers The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2001
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A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
encapsulates what I have learned about American business history during three decades of research and teaching the subject." Highlights from the conversation follow. How did you choose the seven men profiled... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Déjà Vu All Over Again
Opinions vary as to where things stand with the current economic climate: Are we in recovery mode, stalled, or still bottoming out? The distance of history offers a clearer perspective, as evidenced by an exhibit at the Baker Library |... View Details
- 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. View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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The Check Is in the Mail
of credit has been around as long as commerce itself. “Credit is often portrayed as the new disease of the 20th century, yet people have been buying on credit for centuries,” says Caitlin Anderson, the exhibit’s curator and a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Center for... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating,” says Sawyer, an assistant professor in the Business, Government and the International Economy unit who previously held the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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Ink: Framing the Full Picture
have been part of the fabric of American history from the outset. And in this latest series, you’re also fitting in American history lessons. How... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2008
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Letters to the Editor
executive, I had no reason to change my mind. His respect for people was at the core of his being, as was his belief that executives had a responsibility to bring out the best in people. William Geisler (MBA ’60) San Anselmo, CA Error of Omission I read with great... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
consecutive terms—the only time in American history that's ever happened. Q: And Madison asked him to serve still again on two different occasions, although he declined both times. A: That's right. There... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
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Editor's Note
and Julia Hanna interviewed four emeriti professors to glean reminiscences and insights based on their many years of service. Not directly related to the Centennial, but timely nonetheless, is a new book on the history of View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
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Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
maximize the gains and minimize the risks, but all three have been in short supply in Argentina, especially, for decades. Q: What role did the Business History Initiative interviews done with Latin American... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
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 Sep 2012
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An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
Civilization (1933) and Roethlisberger’s Management and the Worker (1939) document. 1948 Research Center in Entrepreneurial History launched at HBS by Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole. 1953 More than 30... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2009
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Field Study
epic battle is the Murr Center, the brick edifice at the open end of the Stadium. A 1998 gift of Michael Murr (MBA ’75), the building houses squash and tennis courts; a Harvard athletics history hall; and administrative offices, including... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
Motor Company was founded in 1903. Ford was not a young man. At 40, he was the same age that Watson was when he took control of C-T-R. Ford exhibited the same future-mindedness, resilience, and flexibility during the remarkable first decade of his company's View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow