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  • 28 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

Entrepreneurship in the world's two most populous nations, China and India, has through modern times been somewhat asleep. But now, says HBS professor Tarun Khanna in a new book, both societies "have woken up," and the results... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2011
  • What Do You Think?

So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?

that evidence "implies that effective planning is rare in the modern economy," that "whether we like it or not, trial and error is a tremendously powerful process for solving problems in a complex world, while expert... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

“Posting” Brand Name Management A Marketing Revolution “Advertising is a distinct art, as much so as the art of coal mining or of engine building,” noted copywriter and author Nathaniel C. Fowler wrote in 1889. 1 Fowler was referring to View Details
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Group, another private equity fund investment-management business. The Commodities Futures Modernization Act, passed in December 2000, exempted derivatives (including mortgage-backed securities) from regulation by the Commodities Futures... View Details
  • 04 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

the form of the First World War. In a strange, sad twist of fate, two of the Endurance crew would be killed in the war. Imagine the extraordinary irony of having survived all that, only to be slaughtered by machine gun fire in the first View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases

By: Richard L. Nolan

This working paper reports on a major Harvard Business School project designed to enhance MBA and practicing executives in case learning. The work is built on the foundation of HBS field cases employing the monomyth "hero's journey" classic story structure along... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; CIO; CEO; Hero's Journey; Monomyth; Management; Practice; Cases; Theory; Innovation and Invention
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  • 14 Mar 2014
  • HBS Seminar

Jeremy M. Levin, former President and CEO, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries

  • Research Summary

Overview

Dr. Burch’s research focuses on capitalism, work, and gender in the twentieth-century United States. Her work reinterprets the history of direct selling by placing it at the center, rather than on the margins, of narratives about advanced capitalism. Examining the... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Political Economy; Labor History; Gender; Marketing; Sales Force Management; Direct Sales; United States
  • 17 Jan 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Price Coherence and Adverse Intermediation

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman & Julian Wright; Consumer Products
  • 2018
  • Book

New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy

By: Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert
This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Government and Politics; History
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  • June 2008 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

COFCO Xinjiang Tunhe Co., Ltd.

By: David E. Bell and Aldo Sesia
In 2005, COFCO Ltd., one of China's largest and most successful companies, acquired Xinjiang Tunhe, a tomato processing firm, which had been, in recent years, poorly managed. COFCO changed Tunhe's management team and set out to create a culture of professionalism and... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Customer Relationship Management; Rural Scope; Supply Chain Management; Performance Consistency; Safety; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China
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  • 2008
  • Other Unpublished Work

From Public Purpose 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; Business Education; Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Chicago
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Info Global Cycles: Capital Flows, Commodities, and Sovereign Defaults, 1815-2015 By: Carmen Reinhart, Vincent Reinhart & Christoph Trebesch FEB 2016 Empirical works exploring the relationship between capital flows and economic crisises have been limited by data to... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

possible case of that solution, at least in a modern context. It did not work particularly well. The United States could intervene to promote democracy and the rule of law, but those interventions failed until the Panamanians developed... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
  • Blog

Recent Insights from HBS Podcasts

cons of approaches companies can take to decarbonize electricity. Reimagining Financial Advice for the Modern World In this episode of The Disruptive Voice, Anders Jones, co-founder of Facet, offers a great example of disruption in... View Details
  • 30 Apr 2020
  • Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy
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Globalization - Faculty & Research

had once given the family global prominence during the Holy Roman Empire —perhaps this same outward-looking spirit could now help Gloria safeguard the Thurn und Taxis name in the modern era. Could she re-establish her legacy beyond one... View Details
  • 31 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

far, suppliers and manufacturers have done fairly well. "It's the luck of the draw when it comes to natural disasters. We have very highly concentrated pockets of expertise in small areas around the world. It's how we've designed View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Auto; Technology; Computer; Electronics
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National Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Development in Inner Cities Economic Development in Rural Areas Cluster Studies International Cluster Competitiveness Profiles National Competitiveness National Competitiveness Creating and sustaining national prosperity has become more complex in recent years, with... View Details
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Morgan Hall | About

extensive reconstruction from 1990 to 1992. The complicated undertaking modernized and significantly expanded the building’s capacity and created a physical environment that fosters intellectual collaboration among faculty from different... View Details