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The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

In 1883 railroad executives met to establish a system of Standard Time in four time zones in the United States. Charles Perrow, Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002, p. 215. Copyright ©... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

From Manufacturing to Design: An Essay on the Work of Kim B. Clark

Keywords: by Sylvain Lenfle & Carliss Y. Baldwin; Manufacturing
  • 5 Feb 2013
  • Conference Presentation

Financing Entrepreneurial Growth

By: Tom Alberg, Andrew A. Bogan, Harold Bradley, Robert D. Cooter, Monika Gruter Cheney, Oliver R. Goodenough, William R. Hambrecht, Frank Hatheway, Thomas F. Hellmann, Marianne Hudson, Jared Konczal, Josh Lerner, Robert E. Litan, Diane Mulcahy, Ramana Nanda, Frank Partnoy, Joe Ratterman, Nava Ravikant, Jay R. Ritter, Alicia Robb, David T. Robinson, Allison Schrager, Barry Silbert, E. R. Sirri, Daniel Stangler and Sharon Vosmek

Despite recent innovations in entrepreneurial finance, particularly at the early stage of business creation, many new and young companies continue to face hurdles to acquire capital.

The Kauffman Foundation addressed current challenges and opportunities in... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Entrepreneurial Finance; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; United States
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  • April 2001 (Revised July 2002)
  • Case

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (A)

By: Susan M. Fournier, Kerry Herman, Laura Winig and Andrea Carol Wojnicki
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO), a branded and integrated content and media company dedicated to "elevating the role of the homemaker," went public on October 19, 1999, creating a company with a market value of $1.73 billion, and a stake for Stewart worth $1.2... View Details
Keywords: Management; Media; Identity; Personal Characteristics; Brands and Branding; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • 24 Feb 2021
  • Lessons from the Classroom

What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace

& Peace” course stands out as a favorite. It even inspired him to write his fourth book and his first novel, The Peacemaker’s Code, released this month. The book is a science fiction thriller in which a young Cambridge historian is called to Washington to advise... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

become a life sciences cluster and their understanding of the need for lab space to support Boston as a hub for biotechnology ventures,” said Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria. Harvard President Drew Faust added, “The Life Lab is... View Details
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Aldrich Hall | About

Jr. was a noted philanthropist who believed that wealth should be “an instrumentality of constructive social living.” In that spirit, he was president of the Rockefeller Foundation, funded the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg,... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

Sophia Pan May 2025 | Case | Faculty Research Elizabeth McGeveran, Vice President of Investments at the McKnight Foundation, reflected on how to effectively advance the organization’s net-zero strategy. The foundation had committed 10% of... View Details
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) , President & CEO, World Wildlife Fund Debora L. Spar (PMD 62, 1991) , Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society; Board Director,... View Details
  • 08 May 2024
  • News

Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) Awarded Medal of Freedom

Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) was one of 19 people awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House on May 2. “From finance to media to philanthropy, Michael Bloomberg has revolutionized our economy,” President Biden said as he... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

money to Senator Mark Hanna [R-OH] and the leaders of a Panamanian independence movement. Hanna, in turn, convinced President Roosevelt to support the independentistas. American warships prevented Colombia from responding to Panama's... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
  • 04 Jan 2024
  • News

Great Heights

In 2019, after more than a decade scaling the heights of product management in Silicon Valley, Lisa Kostova (MBA 2009) decided to take on a different kind of climb. Over a sabbatical year, Kostova trained for and summited Denali, which, at 20,310 feet, is the tallest... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
  • 05 Mar 2009
  • What Do You Think?

How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?

we might ask whether, when President Franklin Roosevelt said at a particularly dark point during the Great Depression that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself," did he really believe that or was he trying to exercise... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Regional Winners - Alumni

Kathryn Webster, MBA 2023, Co-founder & President Region: Northeastern U.S./New York 2024 Alumni Regional Winners International Track: Regional Winner: Rosalino Molina– Elisa (Global Winner) Asia Pacific Region: Regional Winner: Yichen... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in a Consumer Society

able to exploit their customers in their times of need. Better regulation of small consumer lenders in the 1920s both opened access to credit and reduced borrowers’ vulnerability. Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College... View Details
  • 23 Dec 2019
  • Blog Post

Taking the Risk to Start a Company at Business School

After attending Wharton for her undergraduate studies, she worked at Lehman Brothers & Barclays. She had been promoted to vice president at PIMCO only six years out of college. But one day, Julie woke up and felt she was failing to... View Details
  • 04 Jun 2020
  • Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

for teams to thrive, even in the leader’s absence. Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School, served as senior vice president for leadership and strategy at Uber and has consulted with WeWork and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • July 2018 (Revised September 2018)
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Donald Trump and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

By: Matthew Weinzierl and Robert Scherf
In January 2018, President Donald Trump was full of optimism. He had just signed the most substantial legislation of his young presidency, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), making major changes to the tax code. Echoing his campaign slogan—Make America Great Again—Trump... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Jobs and Positions; Government and Politics; Public Opinion; United States
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Polaroid Timeline - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

University Privacy Policy Trademarks Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College Harvard Business School Alumni Executive Education More HBS Facebook: Alumni Executive Education Harvard Business Review Harvard Business School HBS... View Details
  • 02 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 2

different approaches adopted by Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin and concludes with a vision outlined by Russia's third post-Soviet president, Dmitry Medvedev. The case focuses on problems of state authority, fiscal capacity,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace