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Laying Down the Principles: Management - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School/title>
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
graduating from HBS. A few may be in a government role. More will be in the private sector as investors or entrepreneurs or managers in big companies, and they will be working all over the world in new cities. Q: Besides you, faculty... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
in 1969. Ginny’s eyes teared up. “He was our father,” she said, and explained that he had developed Alzheimer’s disease in his 50s and died in 1996. Dick Vancil played an enormous role in my life. He was a master of the case method, as were many others on the View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
rich, poor. I put a book on hold and when it arrives, it’s kind of magical.” The big L: “For me, leadership means making decisions even when they’re hard and nobody else wants to, and doing it with integrity. I can compromise on issues,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
Kim B. Clark was quick to see the merits of the idea and throw his support behind it. Juan Enriquez was hired as the LSP’s chief administrator, and other faculty became involved as well. HBS professor Gary P. Pisano, an expert on the... View Details
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
instance, eight HBS faculty and doctoral students, from two of the School's 10 academic units, used CLER to conduct experiments, notes John Galvin, assistant director of research computing services. In 2010, that number had increased to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Past Issues - Alumni
lifelong power of community Complete Table of Contents March 2023 Clearing the Air Faculty and alumni on the opportunity—and necessity—of carbon capture technology Free Spirits With celebrity backers, splashy investments, and a bevy of... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
interests of the United States,” and “opposes undue burden on members of our community.” As of this writing, the signatories include some 50 Nobel Laureates and more than 14,800 faculty members at US colleges and universities. Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
to brainstorm solutions to problems that still plague the community. One of the Cleveland visitors this January was Richard Shatten (MBA '80), a faculty member at Cleveland's Weatherhead School of Management. Just after graduating from... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
HBS alumni have been actively engaged in responding to the racial and social injustice in their communities and around the world. Read their various efforts below: OCTOBER 20 In their new book A Blessing: Women of Color Teaming Up to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
Dávila, now on the faculty of Stanford Business School. Some thirty case studies are also available in a version of the book geared toward students as well as managers who want to tap more extensively into... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
Donald K. Clifford Jr. wrote the book on how high-performance, midsize companies beat their competition, but growth in the world of nature has always been closest to his heart. “The natural world was always my great interest,” says... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
carbon dioxide sequestering for power generation fits all objectives, except it is not doable on the scale needed. Stobaugh’s book supports the inclusion of “externalities” in energy pricing, the implication being that, if included, this... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
advertising a $2.46 charbroiled special. Most of the class and even some of the faculty sported long hair, and noting the large percentage of single men in the class, the paper's lead article announced that we would provide "a rich vein... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
leadership and managerial skills at the district level is critical to improving public education," explains Senior Lecturer and William Henry Bloomberg Fellow John Kim, who will take over as PELP's cochair when HBS professor Allen Grossman retires from the View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
that nobody seems to remember. It is one of the most inspiring and influential books that I’ve ever read.” Excerpt “Language can affect every aspect of global organizational life. A lingua franca is the closest we have to the ‘tongues of... View Details
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
theoretical conclusion based on the historical experiences of business groups built up by the British-based trading companies with their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century origins comes close to mainstream assessments reached by the research on business groups in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
on the faculty at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business," Stuart says. "I was part of a committee examining why there wasn't a more vibrant life sciences industry in the Chicago area when all of the requisite... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
at Harvard, a pioneering hub dedicated to the study of transformative technologies, numerous HBS faculty members have turned their attention to researching the impact of these tools. In just the first year of the technology’s widespread... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
former professors if they’d heard of a new technology that could be the basis of a start-up. Faculty member Jeff Rayport threw out a few ideas before Wilcox got specific: He was looking for something that would change the world. So in... View Details