Business History - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2000
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A Message from Dean Clark

This is a remarkable time in the business world and in the history of Harvard Business School. With advances in technology, a thriving global marketplace, and the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

tribal leaders revoked the citizenship of Black Creeks, even those who could trace their history back generations—even to Cow Tom himself. Why did this happen? How was the US government involved? And what are Cow Tom’s descendants and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Apr 1998
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Plunging Into the Net

and more cases, of doing business. As millions of individuals and organizations stake out positions on the Information Highway with Web sites, the nature of business is changing. "The Internet provides new ways to do old things," says HBS... View Details

03 Jun 2016
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Again in a Great City

history. As the 68-year-old real estate developer navigates the central business district, he sketches an idiosyncratic map of the city—almost three decades of knowledge of what each piece of property used to be, what it could have been,... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

01 Dec 2015
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Ink

Book Review: Space to Grow by Maureen Harmon The only requirement to be featured in Aparna Piramal Raje’s (MBA 2002) Head Office column for the Mint, one of India’s largest business newspapers, was “a distinctive space, a unique way of... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Screen Grab

shows on topics that many advertisers would find too edgy. How we consume TV, it seems, is changing what we consume, opening up new opportunities on the business and creative sides of an industry that hasn’t seen a similar degree of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2011
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HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations

is the right time to act to take the Harvard Business School MBA Program to the next level,” Dean Nitin Nohria said of the curriculum changes. “HBS has always been a pioneer in the field of management education,” he continued, most... View Details

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

05 Mar 2025
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Uncertain Terms

After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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An Economy Undermined

became securities-trading companies more than money-raising companies. Meanwhile, an ideological war was developing in the country between those who believed government was largely the cause of the economic problems that bedeviled the nation and those who believed... View Details

Keywords: Jeff Madrick; Finance

01 Apr 1996
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Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?

come to an end. It has been replaced by a system of fragmented markets and relatively unstandardized products that has led to intensified competition, a more unstable economy, and greater business uncertainty. This rising uncertainty, I... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Growing Home

create what we call “M-Work,” which is a co-working space, closer to the Mito train station. We also started a history project called M-History, because—even though Mito has contributed greatly to the modernization of Japan—that part of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Dec 2002
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Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America

teaching about the management of social-purpose organizations and business involvement in the social sector. In June 2001, HBS globalized its efforts in this area by organizing the Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN) in Latin... View Details

01 Dec 2007
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Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

through an innovation-killing “peer review” process. The history of medicine is filled with shameful stories of “peers” who used their powers to suppress innovations: Judah Folkman, the brilliant scientist whose antiangiogenesis theory... View Details

Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Health, Social Assistance; Management

01 Jan 2008
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Meg Whitman, MBA 1979

service PayPal, launching a classifieds business, and acquiring Skype, a leading online communications firm. “We’ve had a chance to make business history and at the same time have an incredible social... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus

Frank Batten, a member of the MBA Class of 1952, has made an extraordinary $32 million gift to HBS. The gift — one of the largest in the School’s history — will support the renewal and enhancement of the Soldiers Field campus. “Frank... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank

22 Feb 2022
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Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path

third, we had the largest government response in the history of the United States, and that level of fiscal support was able to sustain both businesses and spending. We’re still in the midst of the pandemic,... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2011
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Reimagining the MBA

leaders has been at the core of HBS since its founding in 1908. It’s in the DNA of the School, says Rakesh Khurana, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development and author of a highly acclaimed history of American View Details

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

25 Aug 2022
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Action Plan: Fired Up

plans for revitalizing operations, strategy, technology, and marketing—a reality that became evident almost immediately. “Culture is so important to me, I don’t know how I missed it,” Andrus concedes. A 2019 Harvard Business Review... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; company culture; barbecue; entertaining; food; marketing; brand

01 Sep 2016
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New MBA Admissions Director Gets an Interview

Kitty Hawk. They were just two hard-working brothers, very unassuming, who helped change the world.” Harvard had been on Chad Losee’s (MBA 2013) radar since a middle school history trip that included a stop in Harvard Yard, but a... View Details