Civil Rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jan 2021
Book

In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

civilization By Walter Friedman The thought of the United States becoming the world’s richest and most powerful nation would have been unimaginable at the time of the country’s founding. In 1783, at the end of the American Revolution, the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

authority over the entire canal project, including the right to fire commission members. Secretary of War William Howard Taft had doubts about the legality of granting the chief engineer control over the commission, which was technically... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

15 Aug 2022
Book

University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

civil war, and multiple periods of domestic unrest. But can this systemically decentralized Harvard continue to be the ‘Harvard’ of the 21st century?” Which universities will step into the void as American universities decline? “As... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

microcosm for the future of media and information. Muhammad Ali: A Case Study in Purpose-Driven Decision Making Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., rose from a poor family in segregated Louisville, Kentucky, to international fame, winning three heavyweight... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

04 Jun 2020
Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

diagnose whether or not you're optimizing on it. And then, more important, how you can fix it immediately. It’s not, “Oh, my gosh. We have to rebuild trust. Let's come up with a five-year plan.” You will have wasted four years and 11 months. Senz: What are some... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

24 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518077 Harvard Business School Case 718-018 Piracy in Somalia (A) A Somali fisherman stands on a beach in early 2011, considering his options: should he embark in his tiny fishing vessel or join a nearby pirate crew? His... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?

on topics such as government (9 percent), education (4 percent), immigration (4 percent), and civil rights (3 percent). Other categories did not have enough data to significantly identify bias. Of course,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Publishing

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

12 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 12

ESG dimensions should be mandated by regulation, and if yes, what form such regulation should take. The underlying debate, of course, relates to the broader issue of the role of the business organization within civil society and whether... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

focuses on those issues and tools of greatest relevance to the managers being trained. For example, managers of a firm like Microsoft need to know how to preserve the patentability of inventions, how to avoid infringing on the intellectual property View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

scholars studying racialization as an enduring American strategy for the coercion and control of labor, particularly African American labor. Race and capitalism is an expanding area, reaching subjects as varied Jim Crow, migration, urban studies, the carceral state,... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

January 2025
Case

A Tiger in the Tank: Exxon Sues Investors

By: Clayton S. Rose, Sarah Sasso and James Weber

In June 2024, investors were trying to make sense of ExxonMobil’s (Exxon) lawsuit against two impact investors, Arjuna Capital (Arjuna) and Follow This, that had just been dismissed by the U.S. District Court of Northern Texas. Exxon’s suit challenged the rights of two... View Details

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17 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

higher education His stand on workplace deregulation raises concerns about continued protection of women’s (and men’s) human and civil rights A reshaped Supreme Court could roll back protections to the View Details

Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

organizations? Khanna: Leaders interviewed for the Emerging Markets project are generally considered to be iconic stewards of their society. They may be great business people, they may be prominent regulators, they may be people who built important nonprofits or... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

March 2020 (Revised August 2020)
Case

Culture at Google

By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Amy Klopfenstein and Sarah Mehta

Beginning in 2017, technology (tech) company Google faced a series of employee-relations issues that threatened its unique culture of innovation and open communication. Issues included protests surrounding Google’s contracts with the U.S. government, restrictions of... View Details

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15 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax

that the taxes they endorsed started out small in scope and size but have multiplied by a factor of eight as a share of our economy, have we gone off course? After all, when an income tax was introduced in 1862 to fund the Civil War, it... View Details

Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

For its representative in these critical talks, the board should have hired an outside specialist, with properly aligned interests and incentives. More generally, you should look hard at a potential agent's other interests and relationships to determine whether he or... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

pools. At one point, America was the world’s capital when it came to beautiful, free-to-the-public pools. But during the civil rights era, local governments decided to fill the pools in with concrete instead... View Details