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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
industrial output surpassing that of France, Germany, and Great Britain. The railroads not only set in motion the combined forces of mass production, distribution, and... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
local budgets when extreme circumstances all but eliminate a major revenue stream, Green says. The research also spotlights the speed with which the pandemic inflicted damage... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 08 Feb 2012
- News
Win on Service in a Tough Economy
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
involved with the policy response to the crisis in Spain. As hard-hit as the United States was by the Great... View Details
- 29 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)
members at Cape Cod Retreat The HBS Africa Business Club has a special place in my heart. I currently serve as the CFO of the club and it has been View Details
- 1993
- Article
British Multinational Enterprise and British Business History since the Nineteenth Century
By: G. Jones
Jones, G. "British Multinational Enterprise and British Business History since the Nineteenth Century." Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 38 (1993): 234–260.
- February 2002 (Revised April 2002)
- Background Note
Purposes and Functions of a Mission Statement and Guidelines
Reviews the many great managerial benefits of having an explicit, communicated, and understood company mission and guidelines. View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose
Tagiuri, Renato. "Purposes and Functions of a Mission Statement and Guidelines." Harvard Business School Background Note 902-425, February 2002. (Revised April 2002.)
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
about great leadership and his new book, What Great Service Leaders Know and Do. “Both the lecture portion and the case discussion were very... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
in their companies? A: Potentially, many things. First, the type of analysis we conduct can offer a great deal of insight into the soft wiring of View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg
rotate them, and the sophistication of the energy generation process were all palpable in this encounter. To see an operational wind turbine early in the trip was View Details
- 1999
- Chapter
Multinational Cross-Investment between Switzerland and Britain 1914-1945
By: G. Jones
This chapter examines multinational cross-investment between Switzerland and Great Britain between 1914 and 1945. While Great Britain and Switzerland were both major home economies for multinationals,few companies from either country were interested in investing in the... View Details
- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
firsthand how swiftly places such as Chicago, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh, were growing. In these and other cities, he could observe the effects of accelerating industrialization: the emergence of new... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
- 03 Apr 2015
- News
Texas Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Business School, but also the great opportunities we have to help create positive change throughout the world. “And the Campaign is about more... View Details
- 04 Jun 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Accountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China
- July 2025
- Case
Designed for Purpose: “Never a Failure. Always a Lesson”
By: James Riley and Andrea Dorbu
In 2017, Rihanna launched Fenty Beauty under LVMH, disrupting the cosmetics industry with an inclusive 'Beauty for All' strategy that emphasized accessibility across skin tones. The brand’s success was followed by the launch of Savage X Fenty, a lingerie line upholding... View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- News
Atlanta Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS
give our institution the resources it will require to meet the challenges this future will bring,” said Dean Nohria. “As we do so, we need to think not only of the challenges... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: The Role of Business Leaders in Sustaining Market Capitalism
environmental issues, inadequate governance, and lack of transparency. But these same leaders have very different perspectives on the most appropriate path forward. Some feel the sole focus of business... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 2012
- Article
Open Innovation and Organization Design
By: Michael Tushman, Karim Lakhani and Hila Lifshitz - Assaf
This paper calls the organization design community to reconcile the divergent scholarly perspectives on the relationship between firm boundaries and the locus of innovation by moving beyond debates between open vs. closed boundaries and instead embracing the notion of... View Details
Keywords: Organization Design; Open Innovation; Innovation; Locus Of Innovation; Organizational Boundaries; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Innovation and Invention; Alliances; Vertical Integration; Boundaries
Tushman, Michael, Karim Lakhani, and Hila Lifshitz - Assaf. "Open Innovation and Organization Design." Special Issue on The Future of Organization Design. Journal of Organization Design 1, no. 1 (2012): 24–27. (SSRN's top ten download list for: Organizational Structural Designs, Innovation & Product Development.)
- 24 May 2012
- News
It Takes a Village to Raise an Entrepreneur
- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast
these problems that we really need to solve? Whenever someone is trying to solve a societal problem, I find there's often several analogous ways to think about it. One great pleasure of mine is helping other people solve problems that... View Details