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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- October 2018 (Revised October 2019)
- Case
Rio Tinto vs. the Securities and Exchange Commission
By: Aiyesha Dey, Krishna G. Palepu and Sarah Gulick
Keywords: Coal Mining; SEC Enforcement; FCPA; Mining; Fraud; Acquisition; Financial Reporting; Mergers and Acquisitions; Non-Renewable Energy; Ethics; Financial Management; Investment; Corporate Governance; Laws and Statutes; Lawsuits and Litigation; Risk Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; Financial Services Industry; Mozambique; United States; Australia; England
Dey, Aiyesha, Krishna G. Palepu, and Sarah Gulick. "Rio Tinto vs. the Securities and Exchange Commission." Harvard Business School Case 119-046, October 2018. (Revised October 2019.)
- November 2024 (Revised April 2025)
- Case
Cheerful Music
By: Shunyuan Zhang, Feng Zhu and Nancy Hua Dai
Established by Snow Jiang in 2019 in Shenzhen, China, Cheerful Music was a record label company that had created many hit songs in China. “Yi Xiao Jiang Hu,” its most famous hit song, gained billions of views on social media platforms in China and overseas as the... View Details
Keywords: Generative Ai; Music Entertainment; Global Strategy; Business Model; AI and Machine Learning; Market Entry and Exit; Music Industry; China; United Kingdom; London
Zhang, Shunyuan, Feng Zhu, and Nancy Hua Dai. "Cheerful Music." Harvard Business School Case 525-031, November 2024. (Revised April 2025.)
- Article
Wealth-Making in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain: Industry v. Commerce and Finance
By: Tom Nicholas
This paper refutes the hypothesis put forward by W.D. Rubinstein that a disproportionately large share of Britain's wealth makers were active in commercial and financial trades in London. We use a data set of businessmen active in nineteenth- and early... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Finance; Commercialization; Mathematical Methods; Wealth and Poverty; Great Britain; London
Nicholas, Tom. "Wealth-Making in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain: Industry v. Commerce and Finance." Business History 41, no. 1 (January 1999).
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
Edited by April White A US military convoy was halted on a road north of Fallujah, among the most dangerous cities in Iraq. There was a possible IED in its path. They needed orders: Should they reroute? At the same moment, another Marine convoy discovered a possible... View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
For years, the United Kingdom sent out letters to delinquent taxpayers urging them to pay their overdue tax bills. The letters cost the government tens of millions of pounds per year, but, unfortunately, most citizens ignored these pleas for payment. In 2010, the UK... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
Spar In her new book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception, HBS professor Debora Spar takes an unflinching look at a taboo topic: the myriad kinds of interpersonal arrangements and financial transactions that increasingly... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
future “Case Study,” send an outline of your company’s challenge to bulletin@hbs.edu Case Study Update: Walden Local Meat In 2018, Walden Local Meat CEO Charley Cummings (MBA 2011) had just brought sectionmate Philip Giampietro on board as CFO of the meat-share... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
England and had studied for a year at St. Paul's, a prep school in New Hampshire, before graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College in 1954. In a system where career advancement could often be hindered by assignments outside Japan, he... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
opportunity that crossed my desk was a hotel in Telluride, Colorado. My local partners and I gutted, upgraded, and re-branded the property, and still own and operate Hotel Columbia today," she recalls. But the art world, too, seemed in need of drastic change—and VIA,... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
enviable connection with its avid New England Patriots fan base. Other sports and entertainment organizations took note, and, in 2016, KAGR was spun off to help outside clients such as Ticketmaster, the NBA’s Philadelphia ’76ers, and the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
Photo courtesy of HBSASNE Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Southeastern New England (HBSASNE) recently held its first-ever reunion of the local nonprofit leaders it has sent to the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
international consultancy and still travels extensively — for business and pleasure — with his wife of 62 years, Lee. Tell us about a high point of your Bloomingdale’s career. In 1976, the Queen of England visited our New York store. She... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
beyond me! Liesl Pike Moldow’s (MBA ’93) “My Real Career” deserves praise for honesty and love. In the future I will look to my copy of the Bulletin for more than class news. Mike Smedley (AMP 50, 1966) Leamington, England One-Sided... View Details
- August 2011
- Article
Independent Invention During the Rise of the Corporate Economy in Britain and Japan
By: Tom Nicholas
Independent inventors accounted for approximately half of all patents in Britain and Japan by 1930, despite the rise of the corporate economy and the spread of industrial R&D. A mixture of patent renewal and historical citations data reveals that the quality of... View Details
Keywords: Independent Innovation and Invention; Development Economics; Research and Development; Patents; System; Motivation and Incentives; Tokyo; London; United States
Nicholas, Tom. "Independent Invention During the Rise of the Corporate Economy in Britain and Japan." Economic History Review 64, no. 2 (August 2011).
- 26 Mar 2013
- News
Facebook's other first lady
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
stadium in Los Angeles, a lucrative media market long devoid of an NFL team. Meanwhile, games in England have drawn huge crowds, and three regular season contests are scheduled for London next year. Backed by coordinated media and... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
just one company but an entire community of firms latches onto the same success formula" as happened with Akron, Ohio with tires; Detroit, Michigan with automobiles; Sheffield, England with steel; and Jura, Switzerland with watches.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
household ledgers that detail the hearthside work of women in the agrarian age to photographs of the legions of women who ran the looms in New England mill towns after the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Although she anticipated... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
born in the first industrial revolution in England has survived for two hundred years. Another case, on Southland Corporation and Seven-Eleven Japan, examines retailing in the third industrial revolution in two very different... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young