Modernization - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jun 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome

contemporary readings to surface insights into the age-old issue of leadership. Q: Why is ancient Rome a good lens for exploring modern leadership themes? Dench: It’s a remote, dead society, yet larger than life, which makes it a very... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

this interview he discusses the development of the German corporation and what modern managers can learn from that history. The book was edited by Thomas K. McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, and was... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality

prioritizing customer satisfaction, and using technology to gather classroom data to create continuous improvement and personalization. In short, Ventilla is combining the mission of delivering high-quality, modernized education with an... View Details

Keywords: Re: John Jong-Hyun Kim; Education

05 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges Between Education and Business

cases written in Spanish, Portuguese or English. Translations themselves should not take up undue effort, added Matko Koljatic, dean of the business school at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. "In the modern world, you have to use... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?

results in the May 2019 working paper, The Consequences of Invention Secrecy: Evidence from the USPTO Patent Secrecy Program in World War II. Although less common in the modern era, the US government still issues patent secrecy orders... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

20 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts

Madam C.J. Walker helped invent what have become staples of our modern country and economy: national sales forces, corporate social responsibility, and, yes, even basic haircare. Orphaned at age 8, married at 14, and widowed at 20 with a... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

03 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks

Williams, who wrote the Academy-award-winning score for Jaws. It’s one of the most recognizable and influential scores in the world. In modern pop culture, great white sharks are inexorably tied to the terrifying two-note pattern of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Media & Broadcasting

07 Jun 2016
First Look

June 7, 2016

lines from these things to quantitative and evidence-based evaluation of enterprise performance and to financial valuation. The approach is generalizable to any modern industry. The materials, wholly consistent with what is known from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Aug 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery

to megacorporations. One of these programs, called the Immersion Experience Program (IXP), each year sends 30 or so potential MBAs to Japan, where they receive a unique education made possible by one of the most lethal disasters in modern... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities; Retail

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?

more modern participative organizational climate." Japan, with fewer entrepreneurial and more consensual organizations, can anticipate more difficulty. View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

own aggressive marketing campaigns, the modern mutual fund (earlier versions were attempted in 19th-century Europe) has enjoyed truly phenomenal growth. Almost from the outset, HBS has played a pivotal role in the success of this thriving... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

14 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

detailed in Cohen’s new working paper, The Impact of Forced Migration on Modern Cities: Evidence from 1930s Crop Failures, co-written by HBS finance professor Christopher J. Malloy and Quoc Nguyen, an assistant finance professor at the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 May 2002
Book

Bringing the Master Passions to Work

unknown that lurks in other minds and to harness these minds for our ends. Impeccable justification is the hallmark of successful persuasion. Much of modern science bears the mark of the ambitious who needs to conquer other minds through... View Details

Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria

16 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

illustrate the complexity of modern weapon systems. The Air Force F-22 is an advanced fighter aircraft that replaces the F-15 as America's front-line, air superiority fighter. Thirty-nine percent of the F-22 aircraft is fabricated with... View Details

Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

accounts. But, by the early twentieth century a large industry had emerged that provided basic financial services to the public. In the 1930s the modern regulatory framework for this industry was created. In broad terms, my research... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

17 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Why Global Brands Work

Harvard professor Theodore Levitt praised Japanese manufacturers for their focus on "what every consumer in the world is seeking: world-class modernity at affordable prices." Either because they didn't understand regional... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Auto

01 May 2006
What Do You Think?

Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?

of two economists, Galbraith and Milton Friedman, described by Time magazine in 1975 as the modern world's most important economists along with John Maynard Keynes and Adam Smith. There were remarkable similarities between them. Both... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

information technology until something breaks. This crisis required rapid and large reallocation of modern information technology, with particular links to communications. Some of it broke. The best organizations have had the ability to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

04 Nov 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

to share their "intellectual capital" in some cultures more than others? What are the characteristics of such cultures? How can they be nurtured? What do you think? Original Article Two of the most important questions concerning the long-run health of the... View Details