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  • 2013
  • Book

Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters

By: Walter A. Friedman
The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting And Prediction; Economic History; Economics; History; Risk and Uncertainty; United States
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  • April 1999
  • Article

Diversification Strategies of British Trading Companies: Harrisons & Crosfield c1900-c1980

By: G. Jones and Judith Wale
This article examines the diversification strategies and organisational competencies of Harrisons & Crosfield, a British-based multinational, between 1900 and 1980. There is an accumulating body of case study evidence on the historical evolution of British... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Diversification; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competency and Skills; Great Britain
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    Fortune Tellers

    The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who... View Details
    • Article

    (Mis)perceptions of Inequality

    By: Oliver P. Hauser and Michael I. Norton
    Inequality is arguably the defining societal issue of the 21st century. The debate over “who gets what’ underlies policy debates ranging from taxation to health care to wages and permeates society at all levels, attracting increasing interest from policymakers,... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Wealth and Poverty; Perception; Society; Policy
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    • 07 May 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

    years at Harvard. As for my title, here's the quotation that inspired it: "Without innovations, no entrepreneurs; without entrepreneurial achievement, no capitalist returns and no capitalist propulsion." Schumpeter wrote this sentence during the View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education
    • 19 Jul 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

    excess inventory was a perennial problem for the company. The inventory could be sold off only via heavy discounting, which tended to depress margins for all sales. Since the warehouse was close to a major Canadian city, a group of... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader
    • July – August 2009
    • Article

    The Descent of Finance

    What if the current recession turns out to be like the Great Depression of 1929-1933? Four years from now, the United States might find itself with a still-shrinking economy, half as many banks as in 2009, a third as many hedge funds, and retail banking resembling a... View Details
    Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry
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    • 06 Oct 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Edward Fertik, Yale University

    • 23 Jul 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

    company he built. He was also a gifted entrepreneur. Revson founded a nail polish company, Revlon, on March 1, 1932, in the depths of the depression with paid in capital of $300. When he died in 1975, the market capitalization of Revlon... View Details
    Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
    • 23 Mar 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

    Yangzi region and Manchuria. Growth was slowed significantly in the 1930s by the global depression and by the financial policies of the Nationalist government, and it would be stopped altogether by the onset of the Sino-Japanese and then... View Details
    Keywords: by William C. Kirby
    • 11 Dec 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: December 11, 2007

    agency in the period and published a great range of economic statistics in his weekly newsletters. As a forecaster, he was best known for advising investors in the month prior to October 1929 that a "crash" was coming that... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Research Summary

    Dissertation Summary

    From a contractual viewpoint, the employment relations observed in the early 1960s in large unionized manufacturing firms in the U.S. and Japan represented two contrasting cases. Employment relations in the U.S. were based largely on explicit, elaborate, and... View Details
    • 12 Feb 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55599 forthcoming International Journal of Human Resource Management Improving Resilience Among Employees High in Depression, Anxiety, and Workplace Distress By: Williams, Allison L., Acacia C. Parks, Grace Cormier, Julia... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Lehman Brothers Timeline | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    established in response to the financial panic of 1907. 1925–1969 Robert Lehman takes over leadership of Lehman Brothers. 1929 Lehman Brothers forms the Lehman Corporation, a closed-end investment company. 1929–1933 The stock market crashes in late October 1929... View Details
    • 21 Jul 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: July 21

    declared bankruptcy, leaving the building 38% occupied and significantly overleveraged. In a depressed suburban Chicago office market, Marisa Sanchez, the leasing agent, has to negotiate lease proposals with three prospective tenants to... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Cold Calling - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

    time to think about acquiring [Company B]? Diagnosis: How would the acquisition affect [Company A’s] competiveness in the industry? Description: How is [Company A] thinking about financing the proposed acquisition? A case presents different viewpoints on the causes of... View Details
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    Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    States severely affected the flow of goods, manufacturing, and job growth in Europe and Asia. Stock markets plunged, resulting in the worst economic downturn in global markets since the Great Depression of... View Details
    • 03 Oct 2023
    • Research Event

    Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

    learned from her depression after a movie she worked on “bombed;” and how to be not necessarily happy all the time, but happier. Here's a transcript of the full conversation. Jeffrey Goldberg: Please join me in welcoming to the stage... View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Staff
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    A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    Company’s Hawthorne Works in Cicero, Illinois. Ultimately, though, many managers and scholars regarded this comprehensive study, the results of which were published in 1939 in the midst of the Great View Details
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    The Forgotten Real Estate Boom - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

    of our current subprime mortgage collapse, economists and historians interested in the role of real estate markets in past financial crises are reexamining the relationship of the first asset-price bubble of the 1920s with the later stock market bubble and the View Details