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  • 03 Sep 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

factored in." Walter P. Blass noted that in academia the search is usually run by a search committee, but the nomination needs the approval of the next level to that position. "That way, you get... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage
  • 30 Jan 2006
  • HBS Case

The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand

take-charge author, the publishing industry, and the business of book clubs to analyze the success of various modes of marketing. Patterson, a former chairman of J. Walter Thompson, published his first mystery novel in 1976 and made... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 06 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Art of American Advertising

Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus; and Walter A. Friedman, Lecturer of Business Administration, and Director, Business History Initiative. "The exhibit is a wonderful demonstration of this innovation and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

New Paths to Success in Asia

Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region today are caught up in a dizzying swirl of economic, cultural, political, technological, and social change. Enormous opportunities await managers who can harness these power currents to drive their businesses forward, but their... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
  • 18 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tips to Reinvent the Department Store

works," he said, "[but] as department stores, we should be encouraging cross-shopping." Panel moderator Walter J. Salmon, the Stanley Roth, Sr., Professor of Retailing, Emeritus, at HBS, asked whether the continuing... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Retail
  • 05 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

for cadavers. Anteby's current research examines the morality of markets by focusing on the U.S. supply and demand of cadavers for medical research and education.) Anyone who has been trained as a physician—or is close to someone who has... View Details
Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

Strategy, published by Oxford University Press. Contributors to the book include Harvard Business School's Clayton M. Christensen, Walter Kuemmerle, and Thomas R. Eisenmann, as well as nine other scholars.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

ridiculed Babson's forecasting methods, which were informed by his belief, based on his reading of Isaac Newton, that economic "actions and reactions" (or depressions and expansions) would always be equal. But Babson was able to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

Sometimes executive education has little to do with what happens in a classroom. Mentoring and coaching are the time-tested ways for wisdom and knowledge to be passed through an organization. Harvard Business School professor Dorothy Leonard and Tufts University... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?

fall in love with Tony the Tiger and forget the product details. In 1984, Democrat candidate Walter Mondale famously questioned Gary Hart's "new ideas" by asking: "Where's the beef?" As... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

Business School Press), a new book by HBS professor Dorothy Leonard and Professor Walter Swap of Tufts University. The authors not only disprove the stereotypical perception of group creativity as an... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
  • 27 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

official responsibility for Continental Airlines' decision to keep flying during the power blackout in August 2003, but that decision was foreordained by the actions of all the other people who claimed leadership on the ground, and knew... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

  Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters By: Friedman, Walter A. Abstract—The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

  PublicationsThe Rise of the Modern Firm Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Walter A. Friedman, eds. Publication:Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2012 This authoritative volume focuses on the rise of modern firms, from their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

According to experts at the conference session titled "From Bubble to Recession: The Current State of the Venture Capital Industry," none of the answers are simple, but a sense of perspective remains one highly valuable commodity. According to View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms Authors:Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Little is known about the factors that influence regulatory-agency decision making. We posit that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 1993 (Revised June 1995)
  • Case

Wholesale Club Industry

By: Walter J. Salmon
The wholesale club industry experienced rapid growth in the 1980s. By 1993 there were signs that the industry was maturing and perhaps facing a shakeout. This case provides comprehensive data to permit an analysis of the viability and likely direction of the industry. View Details
Keywords: Industry Growth; Retail Industry
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Salmon, Walter J. "Wholesale Club Industry." Harvard Business School Case 594-035, September 1993. (Revised June 1995.)
  • 2012
  • Book

The Rise of the Modern Firm

By: Geoffrey Jones and Walter A. Friedman
This authoritative volume focuses on the rise of modern firms, from their early history to the present day. It considers the role of laws and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives and the firms they... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Economy; Business History; Archives; Contracts; Theory
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Jones, Geoffrey, and Walter A. Friedman, eds. The Rise of the Modern Firm. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012.
  • 2020
  • Book

American Business History: A Very Short Introduction

By: Walter Friedman
By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business civilization." President Coolidge in 1925 said, "The chief business of the American people is business." More recently, historian Sven Beckert characterized Henry Ford's... View Details
Keywords: American Economy; Democratic Capitalism; Business History; Economy; Entrepreneurship; United States
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Friedman, Walter. American Business History: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • 05 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’

coauthors are Walter Swap, professor of psychology emeritus and former chairman of the Psychology Department at Tufts University, and Gavin Barton, principal and founder of GB Performance Consulting. book excerpt Bank Of America's... View Details
Keywords: Re: Dorothy A. Leonard; Banking
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