Empire - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Cahokia, the Mississippian Mound Builder Empire of 1050–1300 CE. And he examines ancient earthen works and ceremonial sites of Turtle Island, revealing the Indigenous cosmology, sacred mathematics, and archeoastronomy encoded in these... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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Faculty Research Online

business case on the icon of daytime television and chairman of a major media empire was challenge enough for Professor Nancy Koehn and colleagues. Oprah Winfrey’s visit to the HBS campus in spring 2005 to talk with graduating students... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Feb 1999
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Social Enterprse Forum Discusses Strategy

empirical studies and was facilitated by an HBS faculty member. The first session, for instance, facilitated by Social Enterprise faculty chair Professor James E. Austin, focused on what drives strategy in nonprofit and nongovernmental... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions

"Tobin tax" on financial transactions? Claire Martin (AMP 175, 2008), VP, Renault, France I'm skeptical for three reasons. First, empirical evidence indicates such taxes have raised little revenue and have simply relocated trading rather... View Details

Keywords: ask the expert; Finance

01 Oct 1998
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Supplying Demand

company's leader is justifiably proud: twelve years ago, he was minding one store - located just down Soldiers Field Road from HBS. Today, he oversees an empire of almost one thousand stores - not bad for someone who was unemployed only... View Details

Keywords: Paul Michelman

01 Dec 2009
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No Sweat

When he’s not researching empirical asset pricing, behavioral finance, and portfolio choice, Assistant Professor Lauren Cohen’s fondness for heavy lifting moves into the physical realm. Here he works out with an 800-pound tire while... View Details

Keywords: weightlifting

16 Oct 2014
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Reducing special-interest influence over government regulation

He and his collaborators focus on the importance of empirical analysis to assess degrees of influence. “The more we understand the nature of special-interest influence over regulation, the more we should be able to devise a spectrum of... View Details

19 Jun 2013
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Ann Moore, MBA 1978

presiding over an empire of more than 145 magazines, websites, and brand extensions. Now retired, Moore reflects on the significance of her MBA. "I owe my career to HBS," she says. "It opened doors in the 1970s that would not have been... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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Alumni Books

Michael Gilbert (MBA ’67) (Hunter Press) Family Wars: Classic Conflicts in Family Business and How to Deal with Them by Grant Gordon (OPM 30, 01) and Nigel Nicholson (Kogan Page) The American Military after 9/11: Society, State, and View Details

Keywords: Management

01 Sep 2006
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Exploring Vietnam and Cambodia

two-day visit to Angkor. One of the most important archaeological sites in Southeast Asia, the immense Angkor Archaeological Park houses the ruins from the Khmer Empire that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries. The crown jewel,... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Hall; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Hospitality

23 May 2019
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Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

that department stores organized cosmetics by brand, making comparisons difficult, she was determined to offer consumers a better option. “I wanted to build an empire in the beauty industry,” says Beck, who oversees Bluemercury’s 195... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Feb 1998
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Short Takes

was to provide empirical data answering these questions." In the course of his research, Austin surveyed nearly ten thousand of the School's MBA and Executive Education graduates, held eleven focus groups with managers, interviewed more... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

27 Mar 2014
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From Marx to Marketing

VLACHOUTSICOS Photo courtesy of Charalambos Vlachoutsicos The year 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the seismic event that symbolized the collapse of the Soviet empire and the end of communist rule in Russia... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Room to Write

Risk-Takers & Rule-Breakers “When I’m in New York City, I write at my old mahogany dining table, facing the Empire State Building.” —Alicia Whitaker (MBA 1979), Sidewalk Gardens of New York Return to The Year in Books 2016 View Details

09 Oct 2015
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Balancing Progress and Preservation

but when a developer is clearly trying to do the right thing, you need to be willing to say ‘yes, okay.’” While acknowledging that change is inevitable, and even appropriate, in a dynamic international city such as New York, Zuckerberg qualifies that statement when he... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Sep 2007
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Getting Security Right

those challenges? There is plenty of current evidence that the Russians intend to reassemble their empire in some form in order to have enough population, resources, and geographic positioning to reclaim their past influence in the world.... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Oct 1996
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New Releases

feedback on progress toward those goals. Creativity in Context by Teresa M. Amabile (Westview Press) This update of HBS professor Teresa Amabile's classic 1983 book, The Social Psychology of Creativity, includes extensive new theoretical and View Details

01 Dec 2006
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HBS Honors Four Alumni

woman who, fresh out of HBS, had taken the lowest-paying of thirteen job offers to become a Time financial analyst simply because she loved magazines. Rising through the ranks, Moore today presides over an empire of more than 145... View Details