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Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads" Personal Papers, 1885, in The Railroads: Pioneers in Modern Management Alfred Chandler, ed. New York: Arno Press, 1979. Perrow, Charles. Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism . Princeton,... View Details

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Launching Global Ventures - Course Catalog

aim to be unconstrained by geographic boundaries in their pursuit of opportunity. It is designed for those who aim to: Build globally minded ventures from day one Lead innovation within multinational organizations Identify cross-border... View Details

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act

For want of a better idea, many companies often rely on a tried-and-true success formula. And why not? What worked before to pull their organization into profitability will surely work again, right? Not so, according to Donald Sull,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Apr 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

leads to a 14% increase in the likelihood of exit for a 3.5-star restaurant (which is the median rating on Yelp) but has no discernible impact for a 5-star restaurant (on a 1 to 5 star scale). Our analysis also highlights how digital data... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Oct 2019
News

Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa

has been presented in South Africa, Rwanda, Ghana, and Mauritius. To organize the immersion, Datar and Casadesus-Masanell worked closely with HBS’s Division of Research and Faculty Development and Pippa Tubman Armerding (GMP 23, 2017),... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

The Prophet of Start-Ups

entrepreneurs in an organized way,” says Arnold Kroll, an investment banker at Lehman Brothers who worked with ARD. Doriot was not a physically imposing fellow, but he exuded a magnetic aura. “It was almost like knowing someone like... View Details

Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

Profile

Luc Sirois

way: a project leader pinpoints problem areas and organizes a hackathon that is attended by an audience of 200 to 300 participants. Doctors and nurses on the front line engage with software developers who are eager to break through the... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology; Nonprofit / Government

30 May 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Sound Society

people to go to shows if your friends don’t share the exact same music tastes. Sound Society, however, can help students organize trips to shows whether it’s a local gig at The Sinclair all the way to the Coachella music festival in... View Details

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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Q3Q4 3.0 Kevin Mohan Negotiation Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 War & Peace: The Lessons of History for Leadership, Strategy, Negotiation & Humanity Negotiation, Organizations &... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies

to the product, as well as the identity of the organizations and community that produce and sell them. For example, the Swiss redefined mechanical watches as luxury goods infused with craftsmanship and beauty. Something I’ve studied... View Details

Keywords: April White; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Printing and Related Support Activities; Manufacturing

November 2015
Case

Upwork: Reimagining the Future of Work

By: Feng Zhu, Rory McDonald, Marco Iansiti and Aaron Smith

Upwork, the world's largest freelance talent platform, was the result of a merger between the two leading online freelancing companies in 2014, Elance and oDesk. After the merger, the company operated as Elance-oDesk and continued to manage two online... View Details

Keywords: Platforms; Employment; Digital Platforms; Market Transactions; Business Processes; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Job Search

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01 Dec 1999
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African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line

The second annual HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAAA) conference was held in Chicago, October 8-10. Titled "Creating and Preserving Wealth: Leading the Next Great Migration," the two-day conference attracted close to two hundred attendees. View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

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Inside the Learning: How Faculty Prepare for Class

instructors who specialize in digital communication, meeting management, crisis communication, or levity (a particularly context-specific skill) to address the participants' context-specific needs. HOW DO YOU View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer pragmatic advice. The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class by Edward Conard (MBA 1982) (Portfolio) Conard... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

experience. He shows how this is already happening. Eleven Days by Lea Carpenter (MBA 2003) (Knopf) Klout Matters: How to Engage Customers, Boost Your Digital Influence—and Raise Your Klout Score for Success by Gina Carr (MBA 1990) and... View Details

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Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog

evaluate and use digital tools and technologies (like AI and personal productivity trackers) to enhance personal productivity and employee motivation Course Content and Organization The course takes an... View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

On The Case

Professor Linda Hill first met Tom Mihaljevic (GMP 15, 2013) when he came to campus to participate in a fireside chat that Hill unexpectedly wound up facilitating. At that time, he was the CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and the pair found they had a lot to talk... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2020
News

Post-Office

to replicate office culture in the digital world, and the movement’s wider implications for how and where we organize ourselves. Prashanth, you said in a March announcement about Stack Overflow going... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

December 1999
Case

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A5): Solaris 7: Rich Green on Product Strategy and Culture Change

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner

Solaris, Sun Microsystems' version of the UNIX operating system, was an amorphous collection of capabilities that had accumulated over the years, a product the company vaguely wished it could market and sell better. Developing and marketing Solaris 7 would help... View Details

Keywords: Digital Platforms; Applications and Software; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Product Positioning; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Success; Change; Diversification; Technology Industry; Computer Industry