Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

centers on a citywide effort to improve public education, led in part by an alliance of 50 business and community leaders. This focus on education is a new one for the partnership, which has historically... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

02 Mar 2021
HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

the conversation so we might be able to talk slightly more thoughtfully about things that we have so much trouble talking about today.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: Unsplash/Clay Banks] What can business View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Noting that many urban youth lacked tech skills, she and her husband Derek Pearson launched Code Fever, a company offering training camps and hackathons for young people, and... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

in the development of new technologies and industries during the war, the US government had assumed significant risk," HBS Professor Tom Nicholas asserts. "The fact that several of these risks paid off–in ways that Doriot had seen... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

A Plastic Fantastic Friendship

A. Reynolds Morse (MBA 1939), founder of Ohio-based Injection Molders Supply Company and a longtime friend of artist Salvador Dalí, died last August in Florida. He was, the St. Petersburg Times (August 22, 2000) reported, "a political... View Details

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10 Jan 2013
News

From Wall Street to Visual Art

Bussel: Using her business savvy to manage large-scale art installations. View Bussel's online gallery Three heads—simple, generic profiles—stand 30 feet high and span 100 feet across the outer wall of the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, the... View Details

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01 Sep 2011
News

Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit

Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism, an exhibit in the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, confirms there is still much to learn about railroads, whose scale and complexity spawned modern business’s... View Details

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12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

associates; and building deeper roots in our communities. Audrey Choi (MBA 2004) Chief Sustainability Officer and CEO, Institute for Sustainable Investing, Morgan Stanley Now... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

that sent interest rates into negative values. This recent increase in rates towards their average historical values has been welcoming news for savers. While it is tempting to attribute this behavior of interest rates to inflation, which... View Details

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

Liquidity vanished. Similar to mortgage-backed securities, highly leveraged loans and other transactions were characterized by a lack of transparency. "When one looked at an institution, it was very... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

16 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 16

recognized as providing an important dimension in international business studies. Much of this historical work has focused on mapping historical growth patterns of multinationals View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Apr 2011
News

Capitalism Meets Conservation

compensate for carbon emitted elsewhere. Patagonia Sur partners with corporations, families, and academic institutions to offset all or a portion of their carbon footprint. HBS grads attending the 2011... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

09 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 9

the Panama Canal to make use of both conventional historical methods and the tools of quantitative analysis, The Big Ditch examines the impact of the Panama Canal on the Republic of Panama, the United... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2009
News

Too Big To Fail

look no further than five factors historically associated with financial crises: inflated prices of real estate, institutions with high levels of leverage, new products falling into regulatory gaps, rapid... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

paper, The Impact of Technology and Trade on Migration: Evidence from the US, was co-authored by Marco E. Tabellini, Harvard Business School; Marius Faber, Basel University; and Andres Sarto, Princeton... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

individuals displaced by natural disasters could surge to 1.2 billion by 2050, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace. Beyond the United States and France, the... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

02 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

Market categories—SUVs, smartphones, hip replacement surgeons—help facilitate commerce and other "market exchanges" by providing a basis for comparison and valuation. If I am hunting for a new SUV,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

challenge widely accepted generalizations made about entrepreneurship. The selected articles cover the best historical research on the role of entrepreneurship in creating global capitalism; the cultural and... View Details