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- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
VLACHOUTSICOS Photo courtesy of Charalambos Vlachoutsicos The year 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the seismic event that symbolized the collapse of the Soviet empire and the end of communist rule in Russia... 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
- 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 Oct 1996
- News
Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
What New York City attraction brings in more tourists each year than the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty? Why, it's FAO Schwarz, the famous toy store, of course. It's not hard to understand the draw. The flagship emporium... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 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
- 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 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 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
MacArthur's tremendous success in rebuilding Japan after World War II. As the supreme commander for the Allied Powers, he was charged with transforming a defeated, militarist empire into a beacon of peace and democracy. A career military... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
“American” business when talking about companies like Microsoft, IBM, and Starbucks. Yes, America rose to astounding power beginning in the late nineteenth-century and now this influence is declining. As it did for the British Empire in... 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
- 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 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
the years my research has been increasingly focused on consumer finance, combining case studies, empirical projects, and experiments — the latter often in conjunction with Commonwealth, a nonprofit I cofounded that is an R&D lab for new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
be invited to more parties or other cool events. What got you interested in this research? I've always been fascinated by the entertainment industry. I was trained as an empirical modeler—I develop econometric models to analyze data.... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
research shows strong empirical evidence that diverse boards can lead to increased corporate performance. A diversity of thought, perspective, and experience makes better boards, and it’s the right thing to do.” To help build the Board... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
work is informed by and then, in turn, stimulates our empirical research in the case of each of these three components," he notes. "Ultimately, we want to influence management practice," Stevenson concludes. "We'll do so first by giving... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
The rise of e-commerce. Big data. AI. Given these trends (and many others), there’s no doubt that sales is changing. Yet much of the current conventional wisdom is misleading and not supported by empirical data. In this no-nonsense book,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
advantage of lax monitoring to build corporate empires with little strategic coherence, producing commensurately lackadaisical results. I do believe, however, that with the abandonment of the professionalization project and the idea that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
sustainability to abandoning for-profit business entirely and re-wilding and conserving millions of acres of lands in Latin America. The book’s distinctiveness lies in the use of original empirical data and the willingness to engage with... View Details