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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Lehman Brothers (New York: Crown Publishing Company, 2009), 339. [ 23] T. A. Wise, “The Bustline House of Lehman,” Fortune , December 1957, 158. [ 24] Chapman, The Last of the Imperious Rich , 2. [ 25] The Economist , September 8–14,... View Details

22 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning

being, the more they wanted to work with them.” Key to these perceptions, the researchers found, was language. Using a language-processing algorithm designed by Imperial College Business School Assistant Professor Michael Yeomans (then a... View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette

26 Oct 2021
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What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

skills in executive searches reflects specific firm needs, in particular the need to coordinate more—and more complex—activities within firms,” the paper says. Managers at all levels need social skills Sadun and Fuller, along with co-authors Stephen Hansen of the View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Historical Data Visualization - Business History

Trends Over Time Politics & Economics Population Growth Rates Trends Over Time Managing Distance Railroad Length Density Trends Over Time Politics & Economics Rise and Fall of Communism Trends Over Time Politics & Economics Rise and Fall of View Details

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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

investment banking house in the country’s financial capital. General Merchants to Commodities Brokers Investing in Emerging Industries [7 ] Peter Chapman, The Last of the Imperious Rich: Lehman Brothers 1844–2008 (New York: Portfolio... View Details

11 Mar 2001
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Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

candidates to become major producers. They were consequently well positioned to diversify into production. A third determinant was the further expansion of imperial frontiers. In Asia, British political influence was extended over the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

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Events - Business History

Commercial Society" Nov 25 25 Nov 2019 Business History Seminar Capitalism and German Imperialism before World War I: A Reassessment Steven Press, Stanford University New time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm, followed by refreshments New location:... View Details

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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Imperial government forbade. The English, who had vacated Canton, relied on American firms to oversee their transactions. Heard & Co. served in this capacity for one of the largest British firms, Jardine, Matheson & Co., and John Heard... View Details

28 Sep 2020
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How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

resulting working paper, Conversational Receptiveness: Improving Engagement with Opposing Views, was written in collaboration with Michael Yeomans, assistant professor at Imperial College Business School in London; Julia Minson, associate... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

Amazon, the Himalayas, the Okavango Delta, the Arctic, the Eastern Tropical Pacific, and the coral reefs of the Pacific Ocean. Roberts serves on the boards of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy at Duke University, the Grantham Institute for Climate Change... View Details

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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Grandees: America’s Sephardic Elite . 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Chapman, Peter. The Last of the Imperious Rich: Lehman Brothers, 1844–2008 . New York: Portfolio, 2010. “Department Store of Investment.” Time Magazine 87, no. 8,... View Details

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

Palgrave-MacMillan, 2007 Download Data Set in Excel Rise and Fall of Communism Map of Communism Download Data Set in Excel Rise and Fall of Imperialism A.N. Porter, Atlas of British Overseas Expansion . Simon & Schuster, 1991 Geoffrey... View Details

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Received a Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates, Harvard University, Fall 2007. 2006 Caroline M. Elkins : Finalist for the 2006 Lionel Gelber Prize for Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of... 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

11 Jul 2019
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Meet the MBA Class of 2020

View Video Andrew Baxter “YOU BUILD UP PERSONAL CAPITAL BY SHARING COMMON EXPERIENCES.” HOME REGION St. Andrews, UK UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Imperial College London, Chemical Engineering, 2011 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Shell, Schlumberger HBS... View Details

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Heather McLetchie-Leader

unlivable, always imperial terms. I choose to study religion. I believe religious discourse has the potential to challenge and transform the terms by which life is constrained, and I believe its imaginative possibilities can help people... View Details

James B. Duke

1900 and the American Cigar Company in 1901. American Tobacco was reorganized in 1904, this time with a capitalization of $235 million. Expanding overseas, Duke orchestrated the partnership with Britain’s Imperial Tobacco Company. View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

13 Sep 2019
News

Stephen Schwarzman on What It Takes

Schwarzman pushing his storekeeper father to expand his business and successfully convincing Little Anthony and the Imperials to play at his high school. An early chapter that details his younger years is aptly titled “Go Big”, the... View Details

11 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

employers cost relief, consumers and physicians will be empowered to make the system work the way it should. Return to Imperial Trade? John Holt & Co (Liverpool) Ltd. as a Contemporary Free-standing Company, 1945-2006 Author:Stephanie... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Jun 2017
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How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

attempt to squelch their demands for independence. Cover photo for Imperial Reckoning, Central Province, Kenya, c. 1954 (Photo credit: Popperfoto/Retrofile.com) The research became the basis for her 2005 book View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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