Filter Results:
(1,605)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,605)
- News (533)
- Research (794)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (13)
- Faculty Publications (429)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,605)
- News (533)
- Research (794)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (13)
- Faculty Publications (429)
- 06 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
From an early age, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had a passion for inventing. In The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, journalist Brad Stone wrote that even as a child, “Bezos had dreams of... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers
that US companies have disproportionately borne the brunt of the increased tariffs on China, as the ongoing trade war nears the two-year mark. “The situation may get more pressing for some View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
Moss thinks; his own opinions are hidden behind a scholarly calm and the quiet joy he takes at playing devil’s advocate. This is a question of what the historical record—here, the case, filled with exhibits on View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Gallatin Hall | About
Treasury’s accountability. Gallatin set aside revenues to reduce the federal debt and raised internal taxes to help defray the cost of the War of 1812. After his tenure as... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
Because they are out there, I feel safe. I wrote our war games, so I was forced to consider the possible results of the world’s worst prisoner’s dilemma—nuclear deterrence—way more often than I was... View Details
- Web
Hamilton Hall | About
dispersing of public revenue, as well as for the promotion of economic development. One of his first accomplishments was the creation of a... View Details
- Web
Aldrich Hall | About
eliminated from the 1920s campus construction for economic reasons, and growing enrollments in the wake of World War II stretched the limits of provisional facilities in Baker... View Details
- Web
Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
into World War II gave the steel industry a financial boost from the depths of the Great Depression as well as an opportunity for image burnishing. Large corporations and government worked together on the... View Details
- Web
Lehman Brothers Family Partners | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris exhibited 293 pieces from the collection. Robert Lehman’s bequest of over 2,600 works of art to the Metropolitan Museum resulted in the opening of... View Details
- Web
Greenhill House | About
(1890-1970), US treasury secretary under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1957. An attorney from Michigan, Humphrey became a leader in the American steel industry as the president of the M.A. Hanna Company and consulted with... View Details
- Web
Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
Alexandria, VA PA Kate Ambrose St. Joseph's Preparatory School Philadelphia, PA PA Chuck Amidon Shipley School Bryn Mawr, PA Subjects: Grade 11 U.S. History NC Leah Amos Durham School of the Arts Durham, NC IL Rose An ORR Academy Chicago,... View Details
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
For more than a century, the long, stately rows of Encyclopædia Britannica have been a fixture on the shelves of many an educated person's home—the smooshed-together diphthong in the first word a symbol... View Details
- Web
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 View Details
- Web
Dillon House | About
in government. During World War I, Dillon served on the War Industries Board, which coordinated the purchase of war supplies. Dillon’s gift to... View Details
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
This opinion piece, first published in the New York Times in August 2005, has been updated by Pankaj Ghemawat for HBS Working Knowledge.Mighty Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, must feel less like a hotbed of retailing and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley came to painting a little over a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
If Google is forced to exit China, will it be a blow financially? A: I don't think so, although they were looking to make progress in China with other lines of business, such as the Android mobile phone platform. Q: Do you think Google... View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
- Book
Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries
Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
McCulloch Hall | About
Civil War and provide a stable, national currency. When the measure passed over his objections, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase asked McCulloch to help implement the new system. McCulloch reluctantly agreed, and in 1863, he was... View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
Airbnb hosts of Asian descent had significantly fewer stays early in the COVID-19 pandemic—and the design of the travel site may have inadvertently enabled discrimination that shut Asians out, says new... View Details