depression - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 May 2014
What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

have, except for a time after the wars and depression of the twentieth century, outpaced economic growth. As a result, returns to labor have lagged far behind, accentuating the concentration of income and wealth in the hands of an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

“[requiring] the most exhaustive investigation, careful thought, and conservatively weighted appraisals.” [10] Lehman Brothers also created an investment advisory service for wealthy individuals and families. During the Great Depression... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

large banks. In the midst of the financial crisis of 2008, the 4 largest american banks sharply decreased their lending to small businesses. Their small business lending activity remained depressed into 2014. While smaller banks have... View Details

23 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

of health problems, including depression and social anxiety, which can impact wellbeing and productivity at work. In fact, in a 2017 Harvard Business Review article, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared that “a loneliness epidemic”... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2019
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Remix

honest woman thrown into my life, it was just amazing.” Once she’s out there, Wylde will have to navigate an industry with a host of depressing data points on the gender front: A recent USC Annenberg study found that 39 percent of female... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

and E. N. White, eds., The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998, pp. 265-96 J. Visser, European Trade Unions in Figures . Deventer and... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY

creativity. There’s even some psychological literature suggesting that the incidence of depression is higher in creative writers and artists — the depressed geniuses who are incredibly original in their... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Management

Portrait Project

Joe Coleman

embarked on a mental roller coaster. Debilitating depression flipped to supernatural elation and back. I had lost my mind. Doctors advised I forgo my pending consulting offer. Stress, travel, and long hours could trigger another episode.... View Details

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

consultants and eventually founding corporate publicity departments.” 14 The economic strife brought about by the Great Depression in the 1930s instilled a sense of public misgivings about large corporations, while interest in American... View Details

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

into World War II gave the steel industry a financial boost from the depths of the Great Depression as well as an opportunity for image burnishing. Large corporations and government worked together on the joint goal of supplying steel for... View Details

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U.S. Steel | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Depression to the war years to the post-war boom, photography served as a persuasive tool in PR campaigns focused on promoting goodwill and a favorable attitude about policies concerning the corporation’s size, labor practices, and profit... View Details

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

directly competitive product, if the rival introduces an inferior substitute, it may damage consumers' perceptions and depress sales in the entire product category. As a result, intellectual property protection must be seen as not a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

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Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

the Depression The studies monitoring the output of relay assembly workers, which began in 1927, continued until 1932, becoming the longest running Hawthorne experiments. The six operators studied in a separate test room were single women... View Details

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Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration

The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details

07 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

years at Harvard. As for my title, here's the quotation that inspired it: "Without innovations, no entrepreneurs; without entrepreneurial achievement, no capitalist returns and no capitalist propulsion." Schumpeter wrote this sentence during the Great View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

found the time to take an active role in the operations of several companies in diverse industries, including helping to run one of New England's largest local advertising agencies. Marshall grew up in Kansas City during the Depression... View Details

Walter A. Haas

Haas led Levi’s transformation from a family business to a worldwide corporation. Haas introduced a number of innovative employment policies and refused to lay off workers even during the time of the Great Depression – gaining a... View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

Lammot du Pont

Under duPont’s leadership, researchers at duPont invented nylon, which revolutionized the textile industry. Researchers also discovered neoprene (the first general purpose synthetic rubber), Orlon and Dacron under duPont’s direction. duPont kept the duPont Corporation... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

William C. Norris

An electrical engineer by trade, Norris pioneered Control Data Corporation (CDC) into a leading mainframe computer maker, giving IBM heavy competition during the 1970s and 1980s. Norris was also a great philanthropist, building CDC factories in View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

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