Isle of Man - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Dec 2012
News

The oil man who figured out fracking

17 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?

popular in the 1950s and ’60s as a way of sifting through bulging applicant pools. After researchers questioned its reliability, testing fell out of use in favor of personal... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

January 2019 (Revised February 2020)
Case

Jay Gould, 'The Most Hated Man in America'

By: Tom Nicholas, John Masko and Matthew G. Preble

Railroad magnate Jay Gould, a controversial figure in the history of U.S. capitalism, was a disruptive influence on an industry that had previously relied on formal and informal agreements to move traffic long distances across lines operated by different companies.... View Details

Keywords: Railroads; Gould; Vanderbilt; Rail Transportation; History; Consolidation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competition; Strategy; Rail Industry; United States

Citation

Educators

Purchase

16 Nov 2015
HBS Seminar

Vish Krishnan, Professor of Innovation, Technology & Operations, University of California San Diego Rady School of Man

27 Oct 2017
News

Lessons for 2017 from a Man Who ‘Called’ the Crash of 1929

28 Oct 2015
News

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

05 Jan 2016
News

Why China's richest man is building Hollywood of the East in Qingdao

28 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

One day in 1966 while Ranjan Kapur was walking in midtown Manhattan, a black limo pulled up alongside. A man he instantly recognized as advertising icon David Ogilvy, founder of the agency where Kapur had... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising