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- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
Standard of Butte. While entrepreneurs and academics developed the industry, the American government also became deeply involved. Herbert Hoover, in particular, proved to be a big advocate of forecasting. He pushed the Department of... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
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Digital Content for Identity and Heritage Months
Month (February 2024) Women's History Month (March 2024) Arab American Heritage Month (April 2024) Jewish American and Asian View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not produced the rule of law? The answers to these questions lie in the ways in which Mexico’s long history with authoritarian... View Details
- 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 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
This has led reinsurers to take increasingly public stances on the risk of human-induced climate change and the need to take urgent action to contain it. Democracy: A Case Study by David Moss (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) Professor Moss invites readers to... View Details
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
The Entrepreneurs Of The Soconusco A protégée of historian John Womack, Lurtz took an interest in Latin American economics while an undergrad at Harvard College. As a doctoral student at the University of Chicago, she spent more than a... View Details
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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - 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
- 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
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
of the American B-17 Flying Fortresses as they passed over Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, on the morning of September 17, 1944. The sound had become familiar since the United States had entered the Second World War almost three years earlier;... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - 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 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
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Baker Library Photo Exhibit
Hudson Motor Cars plant. At top left, a photo (circa 1934) by Fred C. Seely, titled “Combination slicing and wrapping machine,” taken at the Continental Baking Company, features an American icon, Wonder Bread. To view the Baker exhibit,... 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
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Melvin Edwards Searching for the Word 1989/2019 | About
Melvin Edwards moved to New York in 1967. In 1970, he became the first African American sculptor to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and in 1978 he had a retrospective at The... 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
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
be dynamic, and do everything that markets do so well." This targeted approach, Moss believes, helped ensure both stability and innovation in the American financial system over much of the 20th century. In fact, for the next fifty years,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit
the United States and examines how the state influenced railroads’ development on both continents. (Indeed, some researchers suggest that American railroads were sometimes inefficient, lumbering organizations whose scale was achieved... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
He Loves New York
banking whiz, Wasserstein was purchasing or founding other below-the-radar media properties, including the American Lawyer and the Deal. Asked about New York’s storied history and its role in helping bring... View Details
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Art Nature Business
the case, "The Ice King," Professor Tom Nicholas illustrates how Tudor pioneered anew industry, creating a global market for a natural resource once considered worthless, and became a key figure in the history of View Details