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

retail stores, textile manufacturers, clothing or cigarette makers—to say nothing of the indignity of mail-order houses and five-and-ten operations—Philip Lehman led his cousins directly into such businesses with quickly profitable results,” Stephen Birmingham View Details

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Events - Business History

Duke University May 9 09 May 2019 Conference Seeking the Unconventional in Forging Histories of Capitalism This two-day workshop brought together scholars in the fields of history, economics, and management to explore the unconventional as it relates to researching and... View Details

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Principal Research Interests

My research is principally focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century subjects, with an emphasis on economic and especially financial history. I am interested in the role of banks and capital markets in the process of economic development as well as in the political... View Details

04 Apr 2011
HBS Case

Reinventing the National Geographic Society

culture and legacy," Garvin continues. "History has power. Faulkner writes in Requiem for a Nun, 'The past is never dead. It's not even past.' Old ways of thinking and acting are deeply embedded and slow to change. So... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

14 Dec 2007
Op-Ed

When Your Product Becomes a Commodity

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. How often have you heard a manager blame... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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Public Education Leadership Project

the program. Invoices are due within 30 days of receipt, or upon receipt if the program start date is less than 30 days from the invoice date. If you need to cancel or defer your participation, you must submit your request in writing more... View Details

08 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

However, there was substantial variation among academic departments. That finding suggests that there was not yet a systematic effort to diversify case protagonists. With that insight in mind, we delved into faculty characteristics. Were some faculty more likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

17 Apr 2022
Book

How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

be conscious. You have to put the work in. You have to live it Cultivating positive ethics within our companies is among the most important things we can do.” Surveys show plenty of work still needs to be done. Nelson and Stout write that... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Dec 2023
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Venturing Forth

Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

leaders who create arcane and tedious processes can kill employee morale and cripple company performance just as quickly as an adversary who pours sand into the gas tank of a company vehicle, Thomke writes in the MIT Sloan Management... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Lehman Brothers Family Partners | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

writings of the social reformer Jacob Riis, Herbert focused on public housing, child labor laws, minimum wages, unemployment relief, and aid for disabled children, the blind, and mothers with young children. He was also an early advocate... View Details

07 Jul 2011
What Do You Think?

So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?

following only those willing to adapt? Should someone write yet another book, perhaps with a title like Commit: Why Success Always Requires Continued Commitment to Good Ideas? What's the downside of "adapt"? What do you think?... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 16

PublicationsEnterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions Through Big Data Author:Thomas H. Davenport Publication:FT Press, 2012 Abstract This book, an edited collection of research papers from the International Institute of Analytics, addresses... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance

residency, including on metrics such as patients’ likelihood of recommending their specialist, write Maximilian J. Pany, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School and MD candidate at Harvard Medical School, and J. Michael... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

11 May 2023
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How FOMO Became a Fixture

days before my HBS reunion in 2014, a reporter from Boston Magazine hunted me down. He was writing an article on the history of FOMO and traced it back to me. We met for an interview while I was in Boston, and the rest is history. His... View Details

21 Sep 2021
Office Hours

Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?

most widespread is that power is dirty. But power isn’t intrinsically good or bad; the dirtiness is not in power itself, but in us. It is up to every one of us how to acquire power and for what purposes we want to use it. What was your favorite part of the View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

19 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

Criticism. The immediacy of today's consumer complaints represents a power shift between companies and consumers. The former are more pressured than ever to address the concerns of the latter. In the past, customers with an individual beef could View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

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Your Alumni Community - Alumni

Magazine Latest Issue of HBS Magazine Volunteer Alumni support the School and the global alumni community by volunteering in a wide range of important roles, from reunion planning to fundraising to writing Class Notes. Volunteer View Details

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About - Business History

He specializes in business, labor, and economic history. He is author of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters (2013) and Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America(2004). He is currently View Details

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