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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi
disparity, and the need for government to modernize itself and not impede the business process. "As a society, we recognize that the private sector is our most dynamic, innovative, and capable institution," Checchi asserts. "To continue... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
source. Poor “play[ed] a major role in the development of one of modern business’s most important ancillary services, the provision of reliable information,” Alfred Chandler notes in his biography Henry Varnum Poor, Business Editor,... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
be well suited for the study of history. In 2006 he began developing the elective Creating the Modern Financial System, to examine the intersection of the financial sector and government in shaping financial history through a series of... View Details
Keywords: April White
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
subsidiaries around the country that reported back to the New York office. 18 Personnel working in public relations could consult a wealth of literature by nationally known experts. They included Ivy Lee, considered the father of modern... View Details
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Philippe Rival
birthplace of Louis XIV. It is also a modern international hub in the suburbs of Paris, as illustrated by the school I attended there: the Lycée International. Located just outside the first-ever NATO command base, it was created to... View Details
- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
to function effectively in our day-to-day lives. "Our perceptual shortcuts are often out of place in modern capital markets," Baker says, "but we wouldn't be able to drive to work without them." View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Tethys | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content Tethys Search Baker Library Search Search Search Overview The Tethys Mos aic Morgan Hall, Harvard Business School Founded in 300 BCE, the Syrian city Antioch-on-the-Orontes (in modern Turkey) was a major center and... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
in other spheres that are vital to the interests of society (such as law and government, military affairs, health, and religion, to consider the classic examples), modern societies have responded by creating the institutions that we know... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Turkish Delight
transform Turkey into a successful, modern country — and I have a lot of faith in his ability to pull that off — the relationship between the West and the Muslim world will look very different.” Byford’s interest in politics dates back to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Redefining How Businesses Operate
In her LinkedIn profile, Rebecca Hu (MBA 2023) describes herself as a “biologist-turned-technologist obsessed with building great software products.” A product manager at the language learning app Duolingo, Hu immersed herself in electives and activities centered... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
33 In 1946, Doriot became president of American Research and Development Corporation (ARD), the first publicly funded venture capital firm and one of the first modern venture capital companies established after the war. Located in Boston,... View Details
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Bibliography – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Business School, 1908-1945. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1987. Full text available as a networked resource (valid Harvard ID required). Gabor, Andrea. The Capitalist Philosophers: the Geniuses of Modern Business: Their Lives,... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
Wal-Mart's and Microsoft's dominance in modern business has been attributed to any number of factors, ranging from the vision and drive of their founders to the companies' aggressive competitive practices. But the performance of these two... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
Matsushita. That volume was followed in 2005 by Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries. “Such science-based industries have had as much impact on this... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani
do already in modern portfolio theory." Modigliani doesn't attribute the market's rise entirely to technology stocks. "Technology is a big part of it -- technology-related stocks are now about 30 percent of the S&P 500 -- but there are... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
frequently also, there is less time for making important decisions—not infrequently, they have to act in real time. With modern IT (with real time, Internet search, and social networks), few decisions can be made in secret, and even fewer... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
what matters to companies in a modern company remains left out. This approach is fundamentally different from the old industrial policies that targeted industries by tilting the competitive environment on markets in their favor. Instead,... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 19 Jul 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic (In)Congruence in the Helping Process within Organizations
- 2008
- Chapter
Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model
By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis
Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, and Herbert Gintis. "Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model." In Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy, edited by Paul J. Zak. Princeton University Press, 2008.