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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
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
- 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 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
tract. Seated at his camp desk day after day, the weeks turning into years, he recorded in his smooth, plain script a huge body of work. His surviving papers, almost by themselves, constitute a military history of the Revolutionary War.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
lost and regained. But in person and in his writing, Jenrette is most animated when he is focused on the history of his houses and the lives of their previous owners. In conducting some of the research that helped him to reconstruct the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
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
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
the collective expectations of market participants. We are already in a very different moment in history compared to the middle of the 1990s. What most fascinated me was how much the content of financial orthodoxy had shifted during the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
Moss: One of the things that a historical perspective helps make clear is that risk management has always been an essential function of government. From the very earliest days of the American Republic, government policymakers have... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
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
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Passion Projects
research its making with coauthor Stephen Archer. The resulting Aston Martin DB4GT—itself a collector’s item with only 402 published—is both history and ode to the storied car. Exploring Central Park When Edward Sibley Barnard (PMD 32,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
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... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
the new Dean, George P. Baker. He then turned his energies to teaching and launching the Central American Institute of Business Administration (INCAE), a project driven by the missionary idealism of the time. Lodge solicited support from... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
characters that sort of embodies one of those themes, Buddy Bolden. [MUSIC] Tell us a bit about who Buddy Bolden was and what entrepreneurs can learn from his story. Eric: So Buddy Bolden is born in New Orleans in 1877. That's an important date in View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
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
Fair Competition
during unprecedented economic changes such as rapid industrialization or economic depression. His use of political and economic logic to justify antitrust rules that appeared antithetical to the conventional interpretation of American law... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
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
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Related Links Ten Amazing Facts about Beauty Register for a Club presentation with Professor Jones on October 19 In his new book, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (Oxford University Press), HBS professor Geoffrey... View Details
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Heritage & Identity Months at Baker | Baker Library
March Women's History Month April Arab American Heritage Month May Jewish American Heritage Month May Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
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 View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Leviathans Multinational Corporations and the New Global History edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and Bruce Mazlish (Cambridge University Press) In this collection of articles gathered by HBS professor emeritus (and Pulitzer Prize-winner)... View Details
Discovery Process
Sometimes this diversity led to misunderstandings, but also to new ideas and opportunities. Spending a year immersed in this environment really broadened the audience I hope to reach with my research. My current book project explores the View Details