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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Livia Alfonsi , Alex Chan , Jillian Jordan , Amit Goldenberg , Kadeem Noray Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Negotiation and Diplomacy James Sebenius Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life Alison Wood Brooks Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 War & Peace: The Lessons... View Details
  • Research Summary

Research Thrust

By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
  • December 2007
  • Case

Envisioning "Free Banking" in Antebellum New York (A)

By: David A. Moss and Cole Bolton
Banks throughout New York State suspended specie payments (i.e., payments in gold and silver) in May 1837 following the collapse of several state banks and the onset of a nationwide financial panic. Amid the chaos, the upstart Whigs were able to depose the longstanding... View Details
Keywords: History; Government Legislation; Capital; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; New York (state, US)
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  • 05 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?

Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto; Financial Services; Retail
  • 12 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

Publication:Harvard Business Review 87, no. 5 (May 2009) Abstract Few companies are thinking about hiring right now, but that's a mistake. If history is any guide, staffing will become a front-burner issue once the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2010
  • Chapter

Business Groups in Historical Perspectives

By: Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan
Business groups-collections of legally independent firms interconnected by multiple economic and social linkages that exhibit widely diversified product portfolios-are viewed as the prototypical large-enterprise form in contemporary emerging economies. By exploring the... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Management Skills; Emerging Markets; Alliances; Groups and Teams; Competitive Advantage; Great Britain
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  • 21 Nov 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Caste and Entrepreneurship in India

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Tarun Khanna & Ashutosh Varshney
  • 31 Jan 2023
  • Op-Ed

Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?

credit to purchase in bulk, which is the only option provided by traditional insurers. “The pay-as-you-go contract met a real consumer need and accelerated insurance coverage the most for drivers who had no history of traditional... View Details
Keywords: by Ray Kluender; Insurance
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Introduction

Credits “A river of red ink runs through American history.” — Lendol Calder, Financing the American Dream (2000) There is a myth of a lost golden age of economic virtue. Once upon a time, the story goes, people lived within their means... View Details
  • December 2001 (Revised February 2003)
  • Case

Netherlands:The, A "Third Way?"

By: Bruce R. Scott and Jamie Matthews
The economic success of The Netherlands in the 1960s can be attributed to Dutch wages that were kept substantially below those in neighboring countries. But increased pressures in the 1970s led to a wage explosion, which in turn pushed unemployment and disguised... View Details
Keywords: Wages; History; Policy; Problems and Challenges; Macroeconomics; Economic Systems; Employment; Performance Productivity; Jobs and Positions; Economic Growth; Netherlands
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  • April 2022 (Revised July 2022)
  • Case

Stalin’s Capitalists: American Business and Soviet Industrialization

By: Jeremy Friedman, Jingyu Liu and Christine Riggle
In the late 1920s and early 1930s when Joseph Stalin, leader of the world’s first Communist state, sought to industrialize his largely peasant country on an unprecedented scale, he turned for help to those who had the most experience constructing on such a scale:... View Details
Keywords: Communism; Industrialization; Socialism; History; Industry Growth; Economic Systems; Soviet Union
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  • 16 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, first published in 1776, helped create the discipline of economics with its conjuring of the invisible hand, self-interest, and other explanations of market forces that have influenced academics,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • Web

After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details
  • 24 Feb 2021
  • Lessons from the Classroom

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

“to help them find a way forward,” he says. Last spring, he took those lessons into the classroom with a new course, “War & Peace: The Lessons of History for Leadership, Strategy, Negotiation, Policy, and Humanity.” The course... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • May 2016 (Revised April 2019)
  • Case

Olivia Lum: Wanting to Save the World

By: Geoffrey Jones and Essie Alamsyah
This case considers the entrepreneurial career of Olivia Lum, who founded the Singaporean water company Hyflux in 1989. An orphan born in Malaysia, Lum provides a rare case of an entrepreneurial success in a country whose economic success has primarily rested on... View Details
Keywords: Industrial Organization; Chinitz; Agglomeration; Clusters; Cities; Mine; Environmental Management; Operations Management; Sustainable Operations; Environmental Regulation; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; History; Operations; Management; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; China; Singapore
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  • 20 Aug 2008
  • Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

In a much admired and debated speech given at the World Economic Forum in Davos last January, Bill Gates said that many of the world's biggest problems cannot be fixed by philanthropy, but instead require free-market... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
  • 29 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

going for it. First, it has been shown to be incredibly effective in leading to economic growth. "We don't know any better way to solve this problem," argues Ramanna. "If you look around the world, capitalism has lifted... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

They show that funding loans to these borrowers lead to better economic outcomes for the borrowers and higher returns for the fintech platform. See Marco’s other research here , Dimuthu’s other research here , and Don’s other research... View Details
  • 14 Aug 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors

Keywords: by William R. Kerr; Technology