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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

questions or just stop by! Dignity, the Populist Backlash, and the War in Ukraine: How to Imagine the Next Global Economy Professor Rawi Abdelal + More Info – Less Info The greatest challenge to the sustainability of our current era of... View Details
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

often a trait of the most effective leaders, as it was in the best-respected of all American political leaders, Abraham Lincoln. Once, when the Civil War was not going well for the Union side, a high-ranking general suggested that the... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 23 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

What Could Bring Globalization Down?

cables to Germany, after war broke out in 1914. The Lusitania (which was sunk on May 7, 1915) is simply a good symbol for the end of this first age because so much had previously depended on safe navigation between New York and Europe. Q:... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 08 Jul 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie Chen
  • Research Summary

Making Markets Work: An Executive Education Program for Africa

By: Debora L. Spar
In the last decades of the 20th century economic growth was distributed unevenly across the world. While some countries experienced sustained and unprecedented prosperity, others fell further and further behind. This widening gap was particularly evident in Africa,... View Details
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Why A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations Remains a Triumph at Fifty but the Labels 'Distributive' and 'Integrative' Should Be Retired

By: James K. Sebenius
Richard Walton and Robert McKersie's closeness to practice, disciplinary rigor, and successful search for powerful generalizations help explain the lasting impact of the Behavioral Theory of Labor Relations. Ironically, the names they chose for the fundamental... View Details
Keywords: Bargaining; Integrative Bargaining; Distributive Bargaining; Negotiation; Labor Unions
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  • 23 Jan 2024
  • Book

More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World

a form and scale that has never existed before. You’re not just along for the ride—you’re part of the action. Imagine if you could have a true stake in Star Wars and own a character in that universe. Or play a role in designing the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology; Financial Services
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The Burden Legacy

16, landed his first job as a reporter and camera assistant with a New York newsreel company. He joined RKO Pictures in California in 1929, rising from production assistant to associate producer. At the dawn of World War II Shirley... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
  • 16 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

carrier in 1929. The company changed its name and moved to Atlanta in 1941, just in time to get lucrative World War II contracts that fueled its first expansion. Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, where Delta is headquartered, has been the... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation
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The Forgotten Real Estate Boom - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

during World War I, in expectation of continued high prices, many farms were overwhelmed by the postwar collapse of the agricultural commodities market. Yet foreclosures of residential properties also increased in 1926, rising steadily... View Details
  • 14 Feb 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950

Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Peter Tufano
Tufano’s research has focused on financial innovation and financial engineering—and for more than two decades, household finance. While he continues to study these topics, his current primary research is on the role of business in addressing climate change. With... View Details
  • July 2020 (Revised September 2021)
  • Case

Mr. Five Percent: Calouste Gulbenkian and the Origins of Global Oil

By: Geoffrey Jones and Yazeed Al-Rashed
This case describes the business career of Calouste Gulbenkian, a skilled intermediary who was able to secure 5 percent of a vast oil concession covering much of the Middle East that was signed in 1928. Gulbenkian was an ethnic Armenian born in the Ottoman Empire,... View Details
Keywords: Oil; Globalization; Energy Sources; History; Biography; Energy Industry; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East
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  • 02 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

What Makes a Good Leader?

Gallipoli, which resulted in over 100,000 Allied casualties during World War I. "The campaign was a total fiasco for British military leadership," he notes. "When it was over, Churchill took complete responsibility. A... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young
  • May 2008
  • Article

When Winning Is Everything

By: Deepak Malhotra, Gillian Ku and J. Keith Murnighan
In the heat of competition, executives can easily become obsessed with beating their rivals. This adrenaline-fueled emotional state, which the authors call competitive arousal, often leads to bad decisions. Managers can minimize the potential for competitive arousal... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Behavior; Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage
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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

Ioannou 13 Feb 2019 | CNBC Trump's war on immigration is sacrificing his best weapon against China William R. Kerr 09 Feb 2019 | Business Insider Modest praise for US reform of visa program for skilled workers Rob Lever 09 Feb 2019 | AFP... View Details
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Skydeck - Alumni

author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) shares the stories behind her two New York Times best-selling books, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana and Ashley’s War MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bill Tai (MBA... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor

In the half-century since his graduation, Theodore Roosevelt IV (MBA 1972) has earned widespread respect as both a forward-thinking investment banker and an influential activist through his efforts to address climate change and preserve public lands. For much of that... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; climate change; investment banking; leadership; carbon tax
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Practice; Business Education; Labor and Management Relations; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance; Knowledge; Production; Business Conglomerates; Education Industry; United States
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  • 27 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

during World War II. From 1943 until the end of the war, HBS completely suspended the MBA program in order to devote itself to the training of Army and Navy personnel. “So you had all these faculty members who were used to teaching MBA... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel