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Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business . Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1977. Full text available as a networked resource. Chandler, Alfred D., ed., The Railroads: Pioneers in Modern Management . New York: Arno Press,... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
was founded by Henry B. Hyde in 1859 and under his leadership became the largest life insurance company in the world. The collection includes family correspondence between Hyde and his wife and his son James H. Hyde, who later became vice View Details
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
pocketbooks. Since then, as the stock market roller coaster has shown, the rhetoric has only ratcheted upwards. On April 5, the president threatened tariffs on an additional $100 billion in Chinese goods. China returned fire proposing new... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 01 Jun 1999
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Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
Patricia F. Russo (104th AMP) is executive vice president of New Jersey-based Lucent Technologies, a $30 billion communications powerhouse, where she oversees corporate strategy, business development, and corporate operations. A widely... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
policy. “You have to acknowledge that [Gleason] was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating” “I thought, who is this plucky woman amongst men?” Sawyer recalls after seeing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
president of its Americas division, a post he’s held since 2005. Believed by many to be on course to be Ford’s next CEO, Fields has had a rich apprenticeship. After graduating from Rutgers University, he joined IBM in sales and marketing... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
industry during the previous decade, the company posted its first losses ever, and for the last five years, American has strived to trim some of its excess growth. Donald Carty, American's president since... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 22 Mar 2022
- News
Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year
these virtual events included Moderna Therapeutics CEO Stefan Bancel (MBA 2000), JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982), and the president and CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy (MBA 1997). “We’ve all worked together to be able to provide... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
representing a large part of what remains of the American industrial economy. Should these companies file for Chapter 11 and fail to get financing, there could be a loss of several million jobs. But the threat is far worse than those... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
notorious criminals. Presiding over complex, multidefendant trials at the height of the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic, Snyder stared down members of the “Wild Cowboys” drug gang like Daniel (“Fat Danny”) Rincon and Stanley (“Trigger”)... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Touching All the Bases: Stephen A. Greyser
Classroom guests (and case study sources) have included sports executives such as Rick Welts, president of NBA Properties; Ed Horne, marketing VP for the NHL; Donald Dell, founder of ProServ; Larry Cancro and Stuart Layne, marketing heads... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
members, Epsilon engineered many of the ‘customer relationship' techniques that make today's customer loyalty programs so successful," says Brierley, who served as Epsilon's president and CEO for its first ten years. In 1980, serving... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
or government, influences people’s behavior,” Petersmeyer declares. “So the President would publicly and relentlessly assert that ‘Any definition of a successful life must include serving others.’ Each day we told a story — a symbolic... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
insurance contracts. An elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and a past president of the American Finance Association, Merton is a leading figure in the School's Global Financial Systems... View Details
Anthony Soohoo
he has helped enterprises embrace technology and thrive against both incumbents and new disruptive competitors. Anthony was most recently an Executive Vice President at Walmart where he was responsible for the multi-billion dollar home... View Details
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Introduction - The Production - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
both celebrated American capitalist might and combated negative publicity generated by labor unions and the realities of the Depression. Ayres and Davenport showed no interest in collecting photographs illustrating the darker side of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Power of National Identity
proud of this distinction,” noted Abdelal, a scholar of international political economy and author of National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective, which won the 2002 Marshall Shulman Book Prize from the View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
New Book Recounts Storied Class of ’49
of the factors that bound together this extraordinary class, most of whom attended HBS with help from the GI Bill. Author David Callahan has chronicled their achievements in his new book, Kindred Spirits: Harvard Business School’s Extraordinary Class of 1949 and How... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 06 Aug 2008
- News
Caution to the Winds
year after year. Sure, business can drive positive change, but it can also stunt it and slow it. One of the first things that supposedly business-friendly President Ronald Reagan did upon taking office in 1981 was to remove the solar... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
visiting scholar at HBS, and David A. Thomas, president of Morehouse College and a former professor at HBS. “These African American executives never reported feeling, even during the Obama years, that race... View Details
Keywords: All Industries