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Laying Down the Principles: Management - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School/title>

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Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling

credit. Pianos and elegant furniture, though not new products, represented gentility and social aspiration: for many American families, going without a piano meant forfeiting membership in the middle class.... View Details

Kyle Schirmann

Kyle Schirmann is a doctoral student in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School. His primary interests are science-based innovation in the Global South and the creative and cultural industries. Before joining HBS, Kyle worked as a software engineer at Bloomberg... View Details

Keywords: arts; biotechnology; electronics; entertainment; high technology; music; internet

31 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

In 1997, a young entrepreneur visited a class at Harvard Business School taught by my colleague, Len Schlesinger. The class discussed a case based on View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

21 Nov 2017
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Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

exciting thing they’ve seen in recent years, where you have the entire grid changing and the demand curve changing with the electrification of transportation. It’s also... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power

15 Sep 2020
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One Month into the New MS/MBA Biotech

going so far. Now that you have enrolled your first students, can you tell us how the program is going? The program is going remarkably well! We were excited to welcome our inaugural View Details

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

and Middle Eastern states, including Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Israel, Romania, Saudi Arabia and Syria. The issue is that this literature has focused heavily on broad... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

the Netherlands within the broader regional structure. In April 2002, when Philips announced plans to set up a regional superstructure in Asia Pacific, it also folded the... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

16 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

customize classes so that students received the lessons they needed without reviewing material they already knew? That is the idea behind School of One, an approach to learning... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

No one was fooled by that. At a certain point he was at a loss. When he came to class as a guest lecturer, he described different models of leadership and the problems with each one. What worked 10 years in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

24 Jan 2018
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10 Reasons Why HBS Peek Weekend was worth the trip across the pond - a british perspective

reiterated: It didn’t matter how many times they ran the case, the class discussion was always different. They were also more than happy to get involved in some photo... View Details

10 Jul 2018
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Embracing Entrepreneurship & the Asian American Community

of course, classes such as The Entrepreneurial Manager, Founder’s Journey, and Venture Capital & Private Equity helped me understand not only business decisions, but also View Details

17 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

Business School. Eva Ascarza is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration. Laura Castrillo is the former head of analytics for Europe, the View Details

Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail

15 Jul 2020
Blog Post

From Teacher to Student: The Important Ways HBS Professors Showed Me How to Lead

Before coming to Harvard Business School, I spent four years working in the education sector, designing learning experiences that I hoped would be powerful and transformational for my students. It was strange finally being in View Details

21 Aug 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

hotel in Las Vegas, and challenges to distinguishing between correlation and causation in inferences drawn from large data sets. Ariel Dora Stern, of the Technology and Operations Management Unit, challenged View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

the collective expectations of market participants. We are already in a very different moment in history compared to the middle of the 1990s.... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

October 2012
Case

Romney vs. Obama and U.S. Energy Policy

By: Rawi Abdelal and Kaitlyn Tuthill

In 2012, the energy sector in the United States was demanding major reform. Prices of oil and gas had continued to cripple the middle and lower class as the U.S. economy slowly recovered. At the same time, the U.S. lagged behind developed economies in production of... View Details

Keywords: Mitt Romney; Barack Obama; Energy; Election Outcomes; Climate Change; Renewable Energy; Political Elections; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Public Administration Industry; United States

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04 May 2018
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How to Win the Kentucky Derby

only a single colt that is going to win the Derby, and a single filly that's going to win the Oaks, out of about 22,000 that were born in 2015 when this crop and class of... View Details

Keywords: horse racing

07 Sep 2016
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Appreciating the Big Role of Small Business

and Royce Yudkoff are leading the course Financial Management of Smaller Firms, in which students learn how to identify, acquire, and run small firms. This popular class has led to a shift in mindset,... View Details

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Courtney Fairbrother

Courtney (Washington and Lee ’11) is CPD’s industry lead for Energy, Cleantech, Sustainability, Manufacturing, and Transportation as well as Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. She was formerly View Details

Keywords: Energy; Clean Technology; Energy; Entrepreneurship; Government

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