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- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
May is Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. In a year characterized by growing levels of anti-AAPI hate across the country, we wanted to stand in solidarity and celebrate the diversity, character, and strength of the... View Details
American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition,' 1890-1940
American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal meanings of the term fair trade from the late nineteenth century through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with... View Details
- January 2000 (Revised April 2000)
- Case
StarMedia: Launching a Latin American Revolution
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust
By the fall of 1999, StarMedia had sprinted to a sizable lead in the race to acquire Latin American Internet users. Its pan-regional, horizontal portal was the first to target Spanish- and Portuguese-language speakers on the Internet, registering 1.2 billion page views... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; History; Risk Management; Business Cycles; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; Media; Emerging Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Web; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Jon K Rust. "StarMedia: Launching a Latin American Revolution." Harvard Business School Case 800-166, January 2000. (Revised April 2000.)
- 02 Nov 2019
- News
American Business Schools Are Reinventing the MBA
- 07 Feb 2017
- News
How Immigrants Have Contributed to American Inventiveness
- Fall 1997
- Article
Little Machines in Their Gardens: A History of School Gardens in America, 1891 to 1920
By: Brian Trelstad
“Little Machines in their Gardens: A History of School Gardens in America, 1891 to 1920” explores the rise and decline of the school garden movement in the United States. The paper first documents the early history of the gardens and establishes them as a national... View Details
Trelstad, Brian. "Little Machines in Their Gardens: A History of School Gardens in America, 1891 to 1920." Landscape Journal 16, no. 2 (Fall 1997): 161–173.
- 26 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More
Cavallo suggests that American companies—and more recently, consumers—are bearing the brunt of the trade war with China, whose government has been retaliating with its own import tax increases. US exporters, particularly farmers selling... View Details
- Research Summary
Re-Producing Exclusivity: A History of the Transatlantic Fashion Industry, 1929-1960
The history of fashion has been increasingly explored over the last decade, but two important and intertwined features of the topic are still underdeveloped: business and its international aspect. These dimensions are crucial. Fashion is first and foremost an industry... View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
Decision-Making by Precedent and the Founding of American Honda (1948 – 1974)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and John Heilbron
American Honda was founded in 1959 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Honda Motor Company to facilitate sales and distribution in the United States. The details of American Honda’s early history have long served as evidence in debates among scholars and practitioners... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Decision Making; Auto Industry; Retail Industry; United States
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and John Heilbron. "Decision-Making by Precedent and the Founding of American Honda (1948 – 1974)." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-016, August 2016.
- Web
African American Student Union | MBA
are AASU alumni. Annual Events H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Black Tech Masters Series Black New Venture Competition Fall/Spring Retreat Black History Month Celebration Club Email Address hbsaasuclub@gmail.com Club Co-Presidents Ayinde... View Details
- December 2011 (Revised February 2019)
- Case
The Indian Removal Act and the 'Trail of Tears'
By: Tom Nicholas, Ari Medoff, Raven Smith and Sam Subramanian
Native Americans were subjected to a protracted and painful process of forced removal from their land. The case provides "first hand" evidence on the debate over Indian removal as it took place during the early nineteenth century. The first document is excerpted from... View Details
Nicholas, Tom, Ari Medoff, Raven Smith, and Sam Subramanian. "The Indian Removal Act and the 'Trail of Tears'." Harvard Business School Case 812-079, December 2011. (Revised February 2019.)
- January 2012 (Revised August 2015)
- Case
Georges Doriot and American Venture Capital
By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
Nicholas, Tom, and David Chen. "Georges Doriot and American Venture Capital." Harvard Business School Case 812-110, January 2012. (Revised August 2015.)
- Web
History | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Network (SEKN) forms as a partnership among HBS, several leading Latin American business schools, and the AVINA Foundation to carry out joint research, develop teaching materials, and strengthen social enterprise educational programs in... View Details
- January 2007 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Henry Luce and the American Century
By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Logan Wilcox
Henry Luce, founder of the publishing company which produced Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, created the largest media company in the world by the mid-20th century. Luce's flagship magazine, Time, was able to gross over $20 million in sales during its... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Leadership Style; Emerging Markets; Publishing Industry; United States
Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Logan Wilcox. "Henry Luce and the American Century." Harvard Business School Case 407-076, January 2007. (Revised May 2008.)
- 2000
- Book
American Business 1920-2000: How It Worked
McCraw, T. K. American Business 1920-2000: How It Worked. Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2000.
- Web
The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
- 19 Nov 2013
- News
Harvard Business School Exhibit Looks at Art of American Advertising
- 09 May 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)
not were completely inaccurate. And yet I clung to these preconceptions; at least they were better than taunts of bad driving, accusations of cat eating, and endless emasculation. Paired with the fact that there was virtually no Asian View Details