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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Déjà Vu All Over Again
Opinions vary as to where things stand with the current economic climate: Are we in recovery mode, stalled, or still bottoming out? The distance of history offers a clearer perspective, as evidenced by an... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
economic miracle (1920s); cars in the second (post-World War II) Convenience Store Retailing in Two Countries: Southland and Seven-Eleven Japan How Japanese managers learned from their American counterparts, then taught the teachers The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
Civilization (1933) and Roethlisberger’s Management and the Worker (1939) document. 1948 Research Center in Entrepreneurial History launched at HBS by Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole. 1953 More than 30... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
“Over the last decade, the library has fielded an increasing number of inquiries from scholars interested in topics beyond traditional economic or business history,” notes Laura Linard, Baker’s director of Historical Collections. “We’ve... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Watford City, and Belfield had completely overbuilt—dug basins for homes that were never occupied, added on to schools with bond issues that were painful. So part of the rub today is that a lot of the locals—presidents of the banks, the View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Assets: Matchup
Photo: Allison Sepanek Meg Rithmire first visited China in 2001, the summer after her first year of college. “I remember thinking it would be an interesting country to study because it was so hard for me to understand it,” she recalls. “I figured I would never get... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
encapsulates what I have learned about American business history during three decades of research and teaching the subject." Highlights from the conversation follow. How did you choose the seven men profiled in your book? First of all, I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
Beijing is America’s largest foreign creditor. But how long will the Chinese continue to finance U.S. deficit spending? Illustration by Stuart Bradford In his new book, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, HBS professor... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
but so too were people. Often ruthless, insatiably curious, amazingly driven, the fascinating men and women that helped create American business history are a very important thread in this book. History is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
people will stop investing if the capital gains tax rate is 30 to 40 percent, the same as upper-income tax rates. Check your economic history books, folks. Did anyone stop investing when tax rates reached 70... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Books
navigate your company’s complex political environment); and manage a team (forge a high-performing “we” out of all the “I”s who report to you). The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development by Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
exemplifies energetic government and vigorous federal programs for economic growth. Gallatin symbolizes low taxes and less intrusion by government." Not surprisingly, the two men (after whom two HBS buildings are named) were political... 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
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not produced the rule of law? The answers to these questions lie in the ways in which Mexico’s long View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
Illustration by David Plunkert Illustration by David Plunkert Edited by Dan Morrell What examples from history can we reflect on as we begin to address the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
are examined not only as economic entities but as businesses affecting almost all areas of our experience. The book explores the history and various aspects of the multinational, concluding with the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
Illustration by David Plunkert Illustration by David Plunkert Edited by Dan Morrell What can historical economic recoveries teach us about our current crisis? One of the things that makes the pandemic so tricky is that there is no... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
The MBA at a Crossroads
students straight from undergraduate programs and promoting internally without requiring an MBA. The global economic crisis only added to the chorus of concerns about the MBA degree. The Carnegie Corporation and Ford Foundation reports in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
of the most powerful political and economic jobs in the world, this book charts Al-Naimi’s extraordinary rise to power. Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today’s Business and Create the Future by Scott D. Anthony (MBA 2001), Clark... View Details