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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
officer and an administrator in the office of the Quartermaster General, earning the rank of captain. World War II had a significant impact on Christensen’s career. The organizational challenges of warfare on a global scale encouraged the... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
G. GoldbergHarvard Business School Case 310-086 Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun was on a fast track until the EC's antitrust concerns about open-source MySQL ignited a transatlantic war of words delaying the deal. Sun's performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
market reaction to attempts to enforce sovereign debt contracts via U.S. "dollar diplomacy" in Latin America in the pre-World War II period and by legal action in the 1990s and early 2000s. We argue that dollar diplomacy created... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
and has transformed itself from a poverty-plagued backwater to an economic powerhouse now ranked second only to the United States in GDP. The Cold War abruptly ended when the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR fractured into 15 sovereign... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
practices, and bad actors can undermine even the most successful platforms. The book concludes with an exploration of platform battles of the future, including voice wars (Alexa vs. Hey Google vs. Siri), ridesharing and autonomous car... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
egalitarianism to be based on exogenous factors including social fractionalization, religion, and war experience. Controlling for a large set of competing explanations, we find a robust influence of egalitarianism distance on cross-border... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
negative growth for the full year in 2009, a phenomenon not seen since World War II. While the U.S. subprime mortgage disaster was blamed as the original instigator, it was noted that the "global imbalances" of the U.S. current... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
homestead that had been homesteaded earlier in Montana. So we moved to Montana until the war started. And then my dad got a job in Lincoln. So during the war, I was living in Lincoln, until he was drafted into the Navy. And we lived out... View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707465 Pitney Bowes: Employer Health Strategy Harvard Business School Case 709-458 Pitney Bowes, a Fortune 500 mail and document management firm, offered its first health plans in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
provided the king with a male heir, and England was only a generation away from the crippling War of the Roses; everyone worried about what would happen if there was not a clear path to succession. At the same time, the Catholic Church... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
the Panic of 1907, and advanced by professional economists, like Irving Fisher and Warren Persons, after World War I. By the late-1920s, about a dozen forecasters competed to sell businesspeople their predictions, usually in the form of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
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War & Peace: The Lessons of History for Leadership, Strategy, Negotiation & Humanity Deepak Malhotra Kevin Mohan Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Organizational Behavior Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Authentic Leader Development Robin... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
whether it's smoking or alcohol or drugs. Back in the '80s, we had the war on drugs, and anyone who's of a certain age can remember the slogan, "Just say no." And there was also this ad from 1987. "OK, last time. This is drugs. This is... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Strollers.com, and Luggage.com. Co-founders Niraj Shah and Steve Conine were considering making a major investment to build brand equity at the corporate level. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/812044-PDF-ENG Col. Joshua Chamberlain: Background to a Challenging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
the world are changing, and where they are likely to go in the future. Using the most up-to-date data and analysis, Ghemawat provides a clear view of the most critical issues facing policymakers in the years ahead. Cold War Navy SEAL: My... View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
In my research, I heard stories of Baxter colleagues providing useful advice regarding which job to take and when, so that they could navigate through that uncertainty. Second, it is evident that having "gone through wars... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the decades of research and teaching that began immediately after World War II. By the late 1960s, however, institutional interest in the subject (reflective of broader educational trends) had waned, and the School's "curriculum" in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
who have been orphaned, abandoned, and left destitute have been given a second chance to grow into well-adjusted, productive adults, thanks to the efforts of SOS-Kinderdorf International. Founded by Austrian-born Hermann Gmiener, who himself lost his mother at an early... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Curtis, an American journalist held for nearly two years by an al-Qaeda–linked group in Syria. Bradley’s involvement in the hostage issue began in 2011 as an ad hoc response to an overheard conversation between editors about Clare Morgana Gillis, a freelance reporter... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
revenue-based model. Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation, is faced with a crucial question in the impending hours of the Firefox 1.0 launch. Firefox, the reincarnation of the Netscape Mozilla browser, has had tremendous success despite Mozilla's loss of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace