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Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity

Resources Recommended Reading Racial Justice Reading List Disparities in Higher Education Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities By: Craig Steven Wilder In Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder, a... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2013
  • News

Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960

Ocean Hall opens at National Museum of Natural History As a Mormon missionary in Wisconsin, Roger Sant enjoyed working with Native Americans. Innately curious, he liked spending time with the people, getting to know them, and helping them... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

A Continuum of Innovation

reflect a continuum of innovation: incremental changes that ensure a transformative HBS experience. Read more about How is the MBA curriculum preparing students to manage, and even anticipate, the challenges and opportunities of the digital age? The HBS MBA Program has... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 04 Feb 2019
  • Book

Green Businesses Are Incredibly Difficult to Make Profitable. Try It Anyway

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology; Energy
  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 9, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50562 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Entrepreneurial Beacons: The Yale Endowment, Run-ups, and the Growth of Venture Capital By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, Benjamin J. Hallen, Rory McDonald, and Emily Cox Pahnke... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2006 (Revised January 2007)
  • Case

Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola and Nigeria's Manufacturing Sector

By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo, Foluke Otudeko and Mark Benson
Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola was an important contributor to Nigeria's manufacturing sector, creating a multimillion-dollar conglomerate including three factories, a retail franchise, a cattle ranch, a 5,000-acre plantation, a sawmill, and an exporting business before... View Details
Keywords: History; Business Conglomerates; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Success; Leadership Style; Business History; Market Entry and Exit; Personal Development and Career; Business Startups; Manufacturing Industry; Nigeria
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  • 10 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

they operate. Political science, government, and history paid attention; and even the economist Joseph Schumpeter, with his notion of individuals who operate outside the social structure and who can then... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

American Civil War, Maggie Lena Walker did her best to actively effect change by finding solutions to the social and economic problems facing blacks and especially black women. Taking charge of the flailing Independent Order of St. Luke... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2021
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
  • 02 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

The restaurant industry is one of those most devastated by COVID-19, and social distancing will continue to make many small restaurants unviable. Reduced revenue flows will never cover the rent. But not all is lost. In our research, one... View Details
Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage
  • November 2021 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

The Global Great Depression, 1929-1939

By: Alberto Cavallo, Sophus A. Reinert and Federica Gabrieli
The Great Depression was, by far, the worst economic contraction of the twentieth century, and some of the most important ideas about both fiscal and monetary policy in the second half of the century were developed in response to it. The economic collapse, which... View Details
Keywords: Great Depression; Economic Conditions; Unemployment; Homelessness; Financial Crisis; History; Economy; Policy; Poverty; Social Issues; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation
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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details
  • 01 May 2020
  • Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

‘celebrities’ performed the 47th annual HBS Show live over Zoom for the first time in the show’s history to thousands of students and alumni around the world. In short, our clubs are unstoppable. 1. Community When students arrive on... View Details
  • April 2022
  • Case

The First Opium War and Global Free Trade

By: Jeremy Friedman and Allison Lazarus
The First Opium War (1839-1842) symbolized the peak of the era of European imperialism, with a political and cultural legacy that remains potent to this day. The British Empire, “acquired in a fit of absent-mindedness” as one observer famously claimed, seemed to be... View Details
Keywords: Imperialism; Narcotics; Importing; History; Globalized Markets and Industries; Trade; Social Issues
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

best article published in The Journal of Economic History in 2012 for "Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880–1965" with Ewout Frankema. Marlous van Waijenburg : 2013: Winner of the... View Details
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Bibliography – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

York: Macmillan, 1933. Mayo, Elton. The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization . Boston: Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, 1945. Roethlisberger, Fritz Jules and W.J. Dickson with the assistance of... View Details
  • 28 Jan 2020
  • Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

University, where senior and retired executives learn to develop leadership skills in the service of solving large social problems. Many of the examples in the book come from her experience leading that program. Sean Silverthorne: We’re... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

below, Frazier provides insights into this turbulent period of American history with Tsedal Neeley (@tsedal), the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Topics ranged from corporate America’s role... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical
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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

In the News 18 Feb 2023 New Books Network Geoffrey Jones, "Deeply Responsible Business A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership" (Harvard University Press, 2023) In this episode of New Books Network, Professor Geoffrey Jones discusses... View Details
  • 20 Aug 2008
  • Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

small number of rivals—for market power. (Indeed, at the Harvard Business School where I have taught business history to thousands of MBAs, students often compare the early growth of Standard Oil to that of Microsoft 100 years later. They... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn