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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
Richard Branson, the British entrepreneur, corporate titan, and death-defying balloonist, touched down at HBS last fall to share his wit and wisdom with a large Burden Hall audience. Branson, founder and chairman of the Virgin Group, a London-based global View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
but when a developer is clearly trying to do the right thing, you need to be willing to say ‘yes, okay.’” While acknowledging that change is inevitable, and even appropriate, in a dynamic international city such as New York, Zuckerberg qualifies that statement when he... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
The Simplest Taste
parlaying that one emporium into an empire of stores nationwide. Neiman Marcus introduced a number of innovations such as weekly department store fashion shows, personalized gift wrapping, a national advertising campaign (unheard of for a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
growth—choosing instead to align with passive CEOs looking for short-term gains. What's more, the East is succeeding by using the very model the West forfeited, looking to men and women who seek to build empires with bold—and yes,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
those challenges? There is plenty of current evidence that the Russians intend to reassemble their empire in some form in order to have enough population, resources, and geographic positioning to reclaim their past influence in the world.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
factors matter for the Fed’s outlook on spending, employment, and inflation, I would imagine that they could influence the timing and pace of the Fed’s interest rate policies. Let me stress that within the Fed there is tremendous focus on View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
The Oxford Handbook of Business History edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (Oxford University Press) This handbook surveys research in business history, a broad area of study generating empirical data that have sometimes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
"Tobin tax" on financial transactions? Claire Martin (AMP 175, 2008), VP, Renault, France I'm skeptical for three reasons. First, empirical evidence indicates such taxes have raised little revenue and have simply relocated trading rather... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Research Brief: So Many Sites, So Little Time
Greenstein adds, such as television and radio. “Online advertising is still a work in progress, with considerable effort being invested in improving its cost-effectiveness,” he says. “Those efforts—and lessons learned—are relevant across many formats, not just PCs.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
people say and instead concentrate on what people feel—is profound. Of course data matters, but not exclusively, and especially not in a ‘me-tail’ world.” Empire of Things How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
combined with a rich empirical illustration, of the C-suite’s transformation to enhance our understanding of these elites’ new command posts, sources of expertise and identity, competition and collaboration, and ways of getting things... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
stack (next to my bed): The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuro-scientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human by V.S. Ramachandran; The World Without Us by Alan Weisman; and Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time by Peter Galison. Do you... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
creating resources, adapting to the unexpected, and managing creativity. Important empirical and clinical work in venture capital and private equity has shed new light on the structure, governance, and impact of the venture capital firm.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Empire By Caroline M. Elkins, Professor of Business Administration Alfred A. Knopf Sprawling across a quarter of the world’s landmass and claiming nearly 700 million people, Britain’s twentieth-century View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Exploring Vietnam and Cambodia
two-day visit to Angkor. One of the most important archaeological sites in Southeast Asia, the immense Angkor Archaeological Park houses the ruins from the Khmer Empire that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries. The crown jewel,... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
hopes in the near future to focus full time on the Renaissance empire he has built and is intent on expanding. "I get to apply my business skills to the building of the company, but my passion for it hasn't diminished at all," he says.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
are times when I’m hankering for nonfiction, either a biography or something topical, such as Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Radden Keefe’s page-turner history of the Sackler family that seems to have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
graduating from Harvard College in 1988, Audrey Choi went to West Germany on a Fulbright scholarship to study literature. But with the Soviet empire tottering, she found herself drawn to the sea changes taking place around her and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
created an industrial empire in Hamilton, Ohio, that employed thousands, including hundreds of poor whites who came from Kentucky to southeastern Ohio to find work. And it’s the story of three of his sons, who went on to run Fortune... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
He demonstrates capitalism's ability to create wealth for societies through innovation but cautions that global capitalism's history has been associated with enormous divergence in the wealth of the developed West compared to the rest of the world, a gap only now... View Details