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  • January 2017 (Revised December 2017)
  • Case

Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?

By: Steven Rogers and Kenneth J. Cooper
Carmichael Roberts, a rare African-American venture capitalist, considered leaving his general partnership in a private equity firm near Boston and setting up his own in 2015. He weighed whether the timing was right, with the economy still not fully recovered from the... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Equity; Innovation And Invention; Investment; Ownership; Science; Science Bassed Business; Markets; Relationships; Capital; Private Equity; Technological Innovation; Investment Return; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Science-Based Business; Market Timing; Marketplace Matching; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Boston; California; San Francisco; New York (city, NY)
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HBS & the Case Method - Message From the Director | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

members and colleagues at HBS. We are profoundly grateful to Jan W. Rivkin, C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean, Chair, MBA Program. His careful review of the exhibition text and insight... View Details
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Research Links - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Boston Sunday Post , June 15, 1921. Bunting, Bainbridge. Completed and edited by Margaret Henderson Floyd. Harvard: An Architectural History . Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985. Copeland, Melvin Thomas. And Mark... View Details
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Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies & Personal Papers - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Business School has vast holdings documenting many aspects of the history of the railroads and growth of big business nationally and internationally. Please contact us for more... View Details
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922

rules of salesmanship at N.C.R. was the ability to demonstrate "sympathy [toward] ... the business and interests of the P.P. [or "Probable Purchaser"] and sincerity in presenting [the] machines to the P.P " These were... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

    Marlous van Waijenburg

    Marlous van Waijenburg is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches in the MBA required curriculum.

    Professor van Waijenburg’s main... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Geoffrey G. Jones
    Professor Jones researches the history and impact of global firms. In recent years he has prublished extensively on the ecological and social responsibility of business leaders. He has a strong interest in the business history of emerging markets. He founded and... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Globalization; Government and Politics; History; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Energy Industry; Fashion Industry; Green Technology Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; Oceania
    • 08 Dec 2015
    • Research Event

    Research Trends Discussed at India and South Asia Conference

    Scholars from around the world discussed the history and current business trends in India and Southeast Asia at Harvard Business School. The View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
    • 01 Dec 2020
    • News

    New News

    they’re just curious because their business somehow sources from the region. Ten or twenty years ago, a whole slew of people became China watchers. Whether you were of Chinese descent or not, you suddenly had to care about what was going... View Details
    Keywords: entrepreneuship; digital media; startups; news; business models; young alumni; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

      Charlotte L. Robertson

      Charlotte Robertson is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches BGIE in the MBA required curriculum.

      Professor Robertson conducts research on the history of financial... View Details

      • 20 Dec 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

      the limits of attempts by outside governments to improve business and political conditions in other countries. Answering them, however, required a long and detailed romp through the history of US involvement... View Details
      Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
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      A Separate Campus - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

      Alumni Bulletin (1922): 4. 7 Wallace B. Donham, ibid., p. 8. 8 George Woodbridge, Harvard University, Early History of the Business School, History of the National Campaign ,... View Details

        Tom Nicholas

        Tom Nicholas is William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is British and holds a doctorate from Oxford University. His research focuses on the history of entrepreneurship, innovation and finance. His book (VC: An... View Details

        Keywords: financial services; high technology
        • 07 Apr 2003
        • Research & Ideas

        XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

        wagon, so what?" Fumbling the Future was published in 1988, and the impact of this book reverberated throughout Xerox, stimulating many responses. As the story was recounted in the business and financial press, PARC's technological... View Details
        Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

          Richard S. Tedlow

          Richard S. Tedlow is the Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he is a specialist in the history of business.

          Professor Tedlow received his B.A. from Yale in 1969 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from... View Details

          Keywords: advertising; computer; marketing industry; retailing; semiconductor; tire
          • 1986
          • Book

          Banking and Empire in Iran

          By: Geoffrey Jones
          This is the first of two volumes of a business history of a major British bank in the Middle East. Volume 1 traces the history of the bank from its foundation in 1889 as The Imperial Bank of Persia, through the years it was the state bank of Iran, and its development... View Details
          Keywords: Banks and Banking; International Relations; Business History; Economic History; Political History; War; Iran; Russia; Great Britain
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          • November 2004 (Revised November 2005)
          • Case

          Kodak and The Digital Revolution (A)

          By: Giovanni M. Gavetti, Rebecca Henderson and Simona Giorgi
          The introduction of digital imaging in the late 1980s had a disruptive effect on Kodak's traditional business model. Examines Kodak's strategic efforts and challenges as the photography industry evolves. After discussing Kodak's history and its past strategic moves in... View Details
          Keywords: History; Information Technology; Business Model; Leadership; Disruption; Industry Growth; Business Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
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            Jeremy S. Friedman

            Jeremy S. Friedman is an associate professor of business administration in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit and taught the course of the same name in the MBA required curriculum over the past six years. Currently, he is teaching Business and... View Details

              Nancy F. Koehn

              Nancy F. Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn's research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations. Her... View Details

              Keywords: beauty products; clothing; consumer products; entertainment; fashion; marketing industry; retailing; health care; advertising; media
              • 2015
              • Book

              MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead

              By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
              Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads; shipping delays on clogged railways; and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent flyer,... View Details
              Keywords: United States; Railroad History; Airlines; Airline Industry; Air Transportation; Passenger Transportation; Cities; Urban Planning; Freighting; Change; Leadership; Public Policy; Change Leadership; Public Finance; Infrastructure; Policy; Technological Innovation; Change Management; Leading Change; Urban Development; Project Finance; Entrepreneurship; City; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Shipping Industry; Rail Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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