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16 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

their own group and demonize the others. Campers were randomly divided into groups of short duration. It didn’t take long for them to elevate their own group and vilify the others. But they dropped the divisiveness when put into new groups with an important task. “Us... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2004
News

Books

post–Civil War era to commission-based canvassers hired and trained by manufacturers to sell agricultural products and books by Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, for instance. “Drummers,” who acted as the middlemen between manufacturers... View Details

Keywords: book review; faculty books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

long careers, these legendary faculty members not only helped shape the School and personify it to generations of students and alumni, they were also eyewitnesses to its evolution. When they began their careers, after World War II and at... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2009
News

Read All About It!

many households, the most important symbol of their place and economic possibilities was where they lived. Before World War II, about 40 percent of families owned their own home. In 1970, a firm majority — 62 percent — did. By the late... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

In June, Professor Joe Bower (with fellow HBS professors Dutch Leonard, David Moss, and Lynn Paine) led an HBS faculty colloquium on "The Future of Market Capitalism." The HBS Alumni Bulletin spoke with Bower shortly after the event. It survived two world... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2003
News

Ruling from the Bench

position currently held by Robert Morgenthau, Snyder, who often pins a small American flag on her robes, is drawn to the ongoing war against terrorism. “I would love to find some way to help, but haven’t figured out how I would fit in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

01 Jun 2011
News

Where Conservation Means Business

influence the present.” Looking ahead, Baker Library Collections director Laura Linard says the library is concentrating on acquiring collections that document contemporary global business during the post–World War II era. With each... View Details

Keywords: Roger thompson

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

the door, so to speak. There is not a huge amount in the book about political history, which is an integral part of business. World Wars I and II were enormously influential on the American economy, but they were not comprehensively... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

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Research Links | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

United States Steel: A Corporation with a Soul ; Steel in the War ; Steel Serves the Nation ; and Steel Making in America . Researchers will also find valuable resources documenting the emergence of the public relations profession in the... View Details

July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
Case

The Honor Foundation: Accessing Special Operations Talent

By: Boris Groysberg and John Masko

In 2020, The Honor Foundation (THF), a nonprofit dedicated to helping U.S. military special operators to transition into civilian careers, was facing a series of strategic challenges. THF had been founded in 2013 by former Navy SEAL trainee Joe Musselman, who observed... View Details

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13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

I exploit exogenous variation in European immigration to U.S. cities between 1910 and 1930 induced by World War I and the Immigration Acts of the 1920s and instrument immigrants’ location decision relying on pre-existing settlement... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

underlies future lock-in. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-038.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAbraham Lincoln and the Civil War Harvard Business School Compilation 805-115 Analyzes Abraham Lincoln's leadership... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

and other economies after World War Two. Yet the historical and management literatures have been poorly integrated. This article seeks to address some of the issues raised in the management literature by contributing a longitudinal case... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

In a new book, Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts, Harvard Business School professor Michael Watkins dissects the art of give-and-take. This excerpt... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

26 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

Whillans co-wrote a recent article in Compensation & Benefits Review, “Winning the War for Talent: Modern Motivational Methods for Attracting and Retaining Employees,” with Anais Thibault-Landry of the Université du Québec à Montréal... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

this first wave of economic fortune tellers: Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C. J. Bullock, and Warren Persons. They thrived in the boom years after World War I, and yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating... View Details

17 Jun 2020
News

Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

schedule. Massive testing is considered to be a cornerstone of the national COVID-19 response strategy.” Jaime I. Ayala (MBA 1988) Founder and CEO, Hybrid Social Solutions, Inc. (HSSI): “In the war against COVID-19 in rural areas of the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

06 Dec 2011
Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

For the past 18 months, European policymakers have been trying to deal with a crisis that represents the biggest challenge to the European integration project since its creation after World War II. The very symbol of it, the euro, is... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

21 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Going Negative in Political Advertising

war of words would turn off consumers of both brands. And sales growth, not just market share, is what puts money in shareholders' pockets. As the market leader, Coke would never give the underdog Pepsi the benefit of a mention in its... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

War II to the post-war era, U.S. Steel public relations campaigns responded to the public’s evolving perceptions of large corporations in regard to anti-trust issues, labor activism, wartime duty, profit margins, and the free enterprise... View Details

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