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Historical Data Visualization - Business History

Commodities Coffee Movement, Pre-War (1938-39) Historical Maps Commodities Coffee Production and Consumption (1907) Historical Maps Managing Distance Commercial Highways of the World (1907) Historical Maps Commodities Crude Oil Flow... View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

Pure Food and Drug Act; breakup of beef trust Excise Tax imposed on corporations Tariff Act forces corporations to open their books for government inspection Influence: High 10 1910 s 19 Breakup of Standard Oil and American Tobacco Clayton Antitrust Act Federal Reserve... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Rishi Chandna

I will live in the present. I will push myself as hard as I can every day. I will pack a bit less and endure a bit more. I will sometimes do things that don't make sense. I will drive from Alaska to Argentina on the Pan-American Highway... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Edo Bedzra

A year ago, I was involved in a car accident on I-95 to New York. The car did not survive. Staring death in the face on a three-lane highway brought new perspectives to me—time is the most powerful currency life offers—and—I must apply my... View Details
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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

Coffee Movement, Pre-War Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, Coffee (New York: Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, 1947), pp. 16-17, map. Coffee Production and Consumption J. G. Bartholomew, ed., Atlas of the World's Commerce (London: George Newnes, 1907), p.... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

changes greatly reduced the canal's economic value to the United States: the dieselization of the railroads, the Interstate Highway System, and the rise of California as a market for its own natural resources. The first two meant that by... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
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Philippe Rival

What is your favorite childhood memory? While driving back home from a family holiday in Italy, I convinced my parents to take the over two-hour highway detour to cross the Millau Viaduct in southern France, soon after its opening. The... View Details
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Breakup of Standard Oil and American Tobacco Clayton Antitrust Act Federal Reserve Act First Federal-Aid Highway Act Federal Trade Commission established Personal income tax reinstituted Influence: Low 20 1920 s 19 U.S. Steel and Alcoa... View Details
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

New Urban Order

Highway As cities reshape themselves and populations increase, demand for goods will rise. And if the pandemic taught us anything about supply and demand, it’s that the trucking system—once largely unnoticed—can become a real bottleneck.... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
  • 28 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

should," says Harvard Business School professor Ananth Raman. Their influence is akin to the danger of drivers rubbernecking at the scene of a highway accident. In the days after 9/11, says Raman, the retailing executives with whom... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 27 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

rest of the tire.18 Although other companies also experienced quality problems with their radials, Firestones' were the most severe, and the company came under heavy pressure from consumer groups and the National Highway Safety... View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

One Man Crime Wave

everybody because nobody will sleep with anybody when they have a new book of yours.” (Marlene Dietrich, 1975) The World According to Travis McGee “Far off on the north-south highways there was the insect sound of the fast moving trucks,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 07 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

This is partly because the relationship between infrastructure spending and economic growth, if focused only on the United States, has been hard to update. The US Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, after all, was signed into law... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

    Archie A. Alexander

    Alexander was one of the first and most successful black engineers to enter the large-scale industrial construction business. Through his leadership, his firm built over 300 major construction projects in the United States including several bridges, dams, and roadways... View Details
    Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

      Henry J. Kaiser

      Kaiser successfully built a highly diversified construction business consisting of 82 companies. His company handled millions of dollars of highway and bridge construction as well as several dams (e.g. Hoover Dam), levees and pipelines in... View Details
      Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
      • 06 Jun 2017
      • News

      Many Rivers to Cross

      legacy by promoting economic development. Past experience in the construction and coffee industries and former postings as Colombia’s ambassador to West Germany, and CEO of the Agricultural Bank of Colombia, convinced Ospina that South America’s inadequate View Details
      • 13 Mar 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

      When Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria first moved from India to the United States more than 30 years ago, he was impressed with how well the highways and airports hummed along in this country. Yet Nohria said in recent years he... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto
      • 11 May 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

      Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation
      • Profile

      Clarissa Quintanilla

      with outstretched arms lined the highway beckoning passing cars to stop and buy wildlife they had captured. The hopelessness of their situation helped Clarissa develop a conviction "to be involved in the process of furthering social... View Details
      • Portrait Project

      Gordon C. Liao

      seeing black, white, red and brown as just colors but culture and re-route the traditional hbs highway that makes success for some of us most likely i want to love with a purpose and fall into it every day of my existence but also make... View Details
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