Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (446) Arrow Down

Show Results For

← Page 5 of 446 Results →
  • Web

Ways to Give Today - Alumni

Giving Ways to Give Today Giving Ways to Give Today Show Your Support There are many ways to make your gift to Harvard Business School Your Gift Matters $250 $500 $1,000 $5,000 Other Give View my giving history Hide my giving View Details
  • 11 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

Publication:Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, Inc., 2007 Abstract This set of insightful papers demonstrates the importance of historical perspectives in the study of entrepreneurship. By exploring the role of entrepreneurship in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Lehman Brothers Collection Resources Baker Library Collections Corporate Reports Collection R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports HBS Cases Baker Old Class Collection Related Archival Collections Bibliography Site View Details
  • 2017
  • Chapter

Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy

By: Geoffrey Jones
This study examines the geography of the global wind energy industry before 2000. Between 1980 and 2000, the global generating capacity of wind power grew from 13 megawatts to 17,400 megawatts, but two-thirds of that capacity was in Denmark, Germany, Spain, and the... View Details
Keywords: Wind Power; Business And Government; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Geography; Business and Government Relations; Policy; Business History; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Asia; Europe; United States
Related
  • Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

capital management, innovation initiatives, and operating companies like Circular Services. She shares how their private equity, venture capital, and catalytic credit strategies are helping scale recycling, reuse, and circular supply... View Details
  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

in West Africa, 1950-1970 Author:Stephanie Decker Periodical:Business History Review 81 (spring 2007): 59-86 Abstract Development, modernity, and industrialization became dominant themes in corporate advertising in Africa in the 1950s and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?

any kind of change. "Are Nadella and Microsoft the exception to the rule?" Exhibit A is CEO Satya Nadella, who is credited with leading the reshaping of Microsoft’s culture. In 2014, he found an organization that, among other things, had... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

The Hawthorne Plant – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

History Center From the time of its founding in 1876, AT&T’s rapid and pervasive expansion gave it a virtual monopoly over the telephone industry until the time of its break-up in 1984. Like other conglomerates of its day, the Bell... View Details
  • 16 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

Caitlin C. Rosenthal didn't intend to write a book about slavery. She set out to tackle something much more mundane: the history of business practices. But when she started researching account books from the mid-1800s, a period of major... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
  • Web

Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

In 1928, George Pennock, a superintendent at Western Electric, turned to Elton Mayo at Harvard Business School for guidance. “We’re going to have a man come out from one of the colleges and see what he can tell us about what we’ve found out,” Pennock wrote. 1 1 Daily... View Details
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

a self-reported measure. Overall, we find that debt literacy is low: only about one-third of the population seems to comprehend interest compounding or the workings of credit cards. Even after controlling for demographics, we find a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

The Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

mica splitting department. In the study of fourteen men in the bank wiring test room, where conditions were unaltered, no change in productivity occurred—attributed in part to an implicit understanding among the workers not to exceed what they considered a fair quota.... View Details
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

August 2013 Edward Elgar Publishing Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This book examines the history of entrepreneurship and multinationals in the making... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap

that pioneered conversational commerce. At Hilma, Hilary leverages her personal passion for consumer products and integrative health with her Harvard MBA, and impressive professional history of launching new consumer brands, to build and... View Details
  • March 2021 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (A)

By: Shawn A. Cole, John Masko and T. Robert Zochowski
In 2017, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) faced the first big investment decision in its new Scaling Solar project. Founded in 1956, IFC was an international investment body with national governments as shareholders, whose mission was to promote economic... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Equity; Bonds; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development; Emerging Markets; Non-Governmental Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Investment; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; Energy Industry; Zambia
Related
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

or fail to analyze the utter breakdown in board governance and Enron's internal controls, and the failure of credit rating agencies to blow the whistle," he says. "They also overlook the collusion of investment banks in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 06 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

contracted their credit to all small firms throughout the United States. However, healthy banks expanded their operations and entered new banking markets. The market share gain of these banks was a standard deviation above the long-run... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

Industry Location and International Regulatory Variation Author:Arthur A. Daemmrich Publication:Chap. 16 in Ways of Regulating: Therapeutic Agents between Plants, Shops, and Consulting Rooms. Vol. 363, 271-290. Berlin, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details
  • Web

The Forgotten Real Estate Boom - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

the 1920s Research Links Site Credits The Forgotten Real Estate Boom of the 1920s The famous stock market bubble of 1925–1929 has been closely analyzed. Less well known, and far less well documented, is the nationwide real estate bubble... View Details