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The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

Conquer the most essential adaptation to the knowledge economy

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who... View Details

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The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

engineering to scheduling and accounting—required organization on a massive scale. The systems to support the new industry—in management, finance, business analysis, and distribution—shaped the infrastructure from which the modern... View Details

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

significant changes will be required. A set of six tests for physicians... June 2020 Are cost advantages from a modern Indian hospital transferable to the United States? by F. Erhun, PhD, a,b R. S. Kaplan, PhD, c V. G. Narayanan, PhD, c... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in a Consumer Society

The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits “Beautiful credit, the foundation of modern society!” — Mark Twain, The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day (1873)... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

that modern society was having on the environment, Ashley Telkes had always tried to be cognizant of her own impact on the environment and to take reasonable steps to mitigate her own effects. Having already implemented a number of... View Details

10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

PublicationsHow Will You Measure Your Life? Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon Publication:HarperBusiness, forthcoming Abstract In 2010 world-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen gave a powerful speech to the Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details

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

01 Jun 2023
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Elevator Pitch: Block by Block

integration, embedded sound systems and projectors, and modern interior layouts. Status: Wong, a former SpaceX engineer, founded Cloud Apartments in early 2021 and has closed more than $3 million from lead investor Tim Connors (MBA 1999)... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; construction; housing; design; Construction of Buildings; Construction

29 Jan 2024
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Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.

Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

07 Jul 2011
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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

04 Aug 2003
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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

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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

01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy

were one of the first banking houses to use double-entry bookkeeping—the foundation of modern accounting—and, equally important, one of the first to create letters of credit and multiple branch banking, which enabled globalization and... View Details

Keywords: April White

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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

in the modern financial system, and on the unprecedented growth of the financial sector prior to the crisis. Harvard researchers have also been among the first to develop comprehensive historical data on the incidence and length of... View Details

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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

Book of Living and Dying. In my Catholic tradition, I am finally reading Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross, a 16th-century Spanish mystic. It is a poem that comments on how our spirits are purified, but it also has modern... View Details

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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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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

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My research is principally focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century subjects, with an emphasis on economic and especially financial history. I am interested in the role of banks and capital markets in the process of economic development as well as in the political... View Details

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