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- 01 Oct 1997
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Antitrust in Historical Perspective
turn, means putting the "mom-and-pop" operations cherished in American lore out of business. Indeed, the creation of the Standard Oil Trust in 1882, which put small companies out of business and bureaucratized economic relations, was a... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
on the screen. "The client was like a kid in a candy shop," Mueller recalls. "It was one of those moments when you know you're really on to something." For Mueller, that "something" has become a thriving company that currently has 700 View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
that Serafeim organized as part of the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard. Read more about Advancing the Mission Serafeim’s interest in Apple’s approach on circular economic models led to the case... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
from mistakes we learned a long time ago not to make. Why would we now repeat the mistake of banking on a nuclear option that simply makes no economic sense? Michael Hogan (MBA ’88) Sunapee, NH Priorities Trump Prescriptions Your December... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Faculty Books
financial globalization; and the challenges and policies of large economies. The cases, set in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States, approach these themes by exploring institutional detail in deep local context,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
developed it while at the University of Rochester with his former colleague and frequent collaborator William H. Meckling in response to a call from students for an economics course that was applicable to real-life work situations. The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
Corruption doesn't announce itself with a capital C. It is subtler and thornier than that—as one HBS student learned the hard way during a recent summer internship in Tanzania. In a new case detailing his experience, the student struggles to navigate the systemic... View Details
- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
provide Patagonia’s isolated inhabitants with English education, preventative medical care, conservation and conservation education, and sustainable economic development. The for-profit company also sells carbon offsets—reductions in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
fifty-year history, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were the big guys on the block. We had the money. We were helping to reform a world after World War II and gradually mutated into an institution to assist in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
Innovation and Its Discontents by Josh Lerner and Adam B. Jaffe (Princeton University Press) Innovation and Its Discontents tells the story of how recent changes in patenting — an institutional process that was created to nurture... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
You're senior associate dean of Harvard Business School Online and the former president of Barnard College. What lessons can educational institutions take from the economic impact of the pandemic? I suspect... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Quelch in Vietnam
HBS professor and senior associate dean John Quelch met with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at a reception in Hanoi in September. The prime minister briefed Quelch on his country’s economic situation, outlined its ongoing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
production and exports. As a member of the entrepreneurs union and chief of its economic commission, I am quite active in the ongoing work of labor and government relations to better our economic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
assistant professor in the Finance Unit. They detail their proposal in a paper titled “The Economics of Housing Finance Reform: Privatizing, Regulating, and Backstopping Mortgage Markets.” Scharfstein recently answered questions about the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
individual citizens are protected. Tracing governmental involvement in risk management to the early 19th century, Moss shows how government institutions have served to promote capitalism and economic growth... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Paulson (MBA ’70) announced a plan to inject $250 billion into the nation’s banks, a painfully ironic twist for a free-market Republican administration, signaling a turning point in postwar American economic history. Against this backdrop... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
for tomorrow. The BEI aims to leverage HBS’s unique platform to help move the needle on climate change and accelerate climate solutions. Critical issues such as these are also among the focal points for HBS’s new Institute for the Study... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Faculty Updates
Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard, he is a past member of the board of directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has also served on the executive committee of the Asia... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
company share prices. However, scholarly studies suggest these are not reliable indicators of companies' true economic value. In a similar vein, the late Paul Samuelson said financial markets are "micro-efficient and macro-inefficient."... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
eight years below the national average.) But with its manifold offerings and programs, all of which feed one another in ways both obvious and subtle, the school is a model for a radically diverse approach to economic development that... View Details