Publications

24 Feb 2021
Lessons from the Classroom

What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace

leadership, strategy, and negotiations in several conflicts, ranging from the ancient Peloponnesian Wars between Athens and Sparta, to World War I and View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

June 2023 (Revised November 2024)
Case

Albert Einstein: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun

This case traces the rise of Albert Einstein from a small town in Germany to a towering intellectual leader who revolutionized the field of physics. The case describes his early education and his penchant for individual thinking and non-conformity. A committed... View Details

Keywords: Science; Research; Personal Characteristics; Mission and Purpose; Success; Work-Life Balance; Higher Education; Power and Influence

June 2013 (Revised June 2013)
Teaching Note

Brazil's Enigma: Sustaining Long-Term Growth & Currency Wars

By: Laura Alfaro and Hilary White

Over the past decade, Brazil's future as a leading world economic power appeared certain. An expanding middle class and commodity boom had fueled economic growth, with GDP growth hitting a peak of 7.5% in 2010. However, the high cost of conducting business in Brazil,... View Details

March 2021 (Revised June 2022)
Case

James Bryant Conant: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun

This case traces the rise of James Conant from a working-class neighborhood in Boston to president of Harvard University. The case describes how Conant, as a young man interested in chemistry and physics, embarks on studies to build his academic credentials and the... View Details

Keywords: Education; Science; Higher Education; Mission and Purpose; Research; Values and Beliefs; Personal Characteristics; Work-Life Balance; Personal Development and Career; Education Industry; Boston

March 2022 (Revised October 2022)
Case

John F. Kennedy: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Max Saffer

This case traces the rise of John F. Kennedy from a wealthy family in Boston to president of the United States. The case describes how Kennedy, as a young man, lived a privileged life in the shadow of his older brother, Joe. When Joe was killed in World War II, Jack... View Details

Keywords: Politics; Business And Government; Legacy; Leadership Development; Personal Characteristics; Business and Government Relations; Success; Power and Influence; Decision Making; Personal Development and Career; United States

05 Jan 2013
News

On Google, F.T.C. Set Rules of War Over Patents

05 Dec 2016
News

Russia, China, and the Third World

December 2023
Case

Robert McNamara: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun

This case traces the life of Robert McNamara from Harvard Business School to Ford Motor Company to the U.S. Department of Defense. McNamara excelled in every job along the way: becoming the youngest-ever professor at Harvard Business School, the first non-family... View Details

Keywords: Performance Measurement; Military; Leadership Development; Values and Beliefs; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Success; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence; Business Education; War

01 Jun 2012
News

Around the World

Issue Focus: The Global Manager GETTING ORIENTED: On his first evening in Cape Town, South Africa, Jan Dolezal (HBS 2013) and his FIELD 2 team explored the city's bustling waterfront. Photo courtesy Jan Dolezal Learn about hosting FIELD2 teams View Executive Education... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

2015
Book

Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World

By: Jeremy Friedman

The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman's Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the People's... View Details

Keywords: Competition; War; International Relations; China; United States; Soviet Union

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01 Oct 1998
News

Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

candidate for a World Bank Scholarship to attend business school at Harvard. "That is not an easy opportunity to refuse," Hoa notes. With her background in communist theory and difficulty with English, Hoa found her first year at HBS a... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

million annually as a result of pricing algorithms, out of a total of about $6 billion in e-commerce revenue for the category.” “If we’re in a world where that’s not happening, what are the implications? One of the implications is that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

01 Sep 2008
News

Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War

Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84), are the lost opportunities that the United States could have pursued: expanding services for its own citizens, offering crucially needed leadership on the world stage, and improving domestic security. The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; National Security and International Affairs; Government

Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World

The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman's Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet... View Details

09 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?

researching the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany. In an interconnected corporate world, he says, the pipeline project illustrates how inseparable politics and business are, especially at the edges of old Cold View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Energy

2015
Article

Aid and the Rise and Fall of Conflict in the Muslim World

By: Faisal Z Ahmed and Eric D. Werker

The conflict following the Arab Spring is not the first wave of civil war in the Muslim world in recent time. From the mid-1980s to the end of the century, an average of one in 10 predominantly Muslim countries experienced violent civil war in any given year. We... View Details

Keywords: War; International Relations; Religion; Energy Sources

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2022
Book

Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World

By: Jeremy Friedman

A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.

In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent... View Details

Keywords: Socialism; Economic Systems; Globalization; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies