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- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
reflecting on my research and writing, I became absorbed in extensive reading in the social sciences, notably anthropology and above all psychoanalysis. I suppose I could be accused of hero worship when I read intensively and extensively... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
As Harvard Business School professor Laura Phillips Sawyer sifted through historical documents to trace the history of competition policy in the United States, an interesting figure emerged: Edna Gleason, who became known as the “mother... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
international business history story that hasn’t previously been told in great detail, but should be explored, says Giacomin, particularly since internment has long-lasting effects. During their incarceration, the Germans struggled with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
tract. Seated at his camp desk day after day, the weeks turning into years, he recorded in his smooth, plain script a huge body of work. His surviving papers, almost by themselves, constitute a military history of the Revolutionary War.... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
about the history of innovation in America. But sitting around a makeshift bar with some of the other executives who had just laid out rosy scenarios and hockey-stick returns to potential investors, the truth came out. One of the... View Details
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
are happier, more tolerant, and more willing to settle disputes peacefully and democratically. Stagnating or declining economic growth is associated with intolerance, ethnic strife, and dictatorship. But here Friedman adds an important conditional factor. The View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- September 16, 2009
- Comment
Lehman in Context: A Historical Perspective
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Koehn, Nancy F. "Lehman in Context: A Historical Perspective." The Conversation Harvard Business Review Blogs (September 16, 2009).
- April 2009 (Revised April 2009)
- Background Note
Note on the Nonprofit Sector
By: Allen S. Grossman and Naomi Greckol-Herlich
This note introduces students to the current state of the nonprofit sector around the world. It also provides insight into the sector's origin and purpose as well as the identifying important current trends. The note draws on numerous sources to provide a single... View Details
Grossman, Allen S., and Naomi Greckol-Herlich. "Note on the Nonprofit Sector." Harvard Business School Background Note 308-033, April 2009. (Revised from original May 2008 version.)
- 23 Jan 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival
- 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
- 19 Nov 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Lessons from IBM in Nazi Germany
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
Chouinard because the founder of Patagonia must have an interesting story to tell. Stop Me If You’ve Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes, Jim Holt because my son gave it to me. Do you have a “guilty pleasure” author? The... View Details
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
A closer look at the industry of beauty
The global beauty business is a $450 billion industry, yet it received little serious scholarly attention until Geoffrey G. Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, published Beauty Imagined: A View Details
- Web
Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
Conferences Lessons from History Lessons from History Video Clips & Discussion Questions Resources on Indian Business History Business & Government Relations Panel Dr. Prathap... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71) (Knopf) This is a history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last 40 years, and of the men most responsible... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
video clips our team has created start to be used in classrooms, at HBS and in a few other institutions. These clips are really cool. I taught a class on corporate social responsibility in an executive education course simply using four... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Archival Collections - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
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Schlesinger Library Archives Collections - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: Harvard Business School About Faculty & Research MBA Doctoral Executive Education Alumni Building the Foundation: Business Education for Women at Harvard University: 1937-1970 Baker Library Home The Exhibit Oral View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Leviathans Multinational Corporations and the New Global History edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and Bruce Mazlish (Cambridge University Press) In this collection of articles gathered by HBS professor emeritus (and Pulitzer Prize-winner)... View Details