Railroads - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

feeling pressure from green investors to take steps that can cost them billions of dollars. But if you go to a coal company or most utilities or big railroads that carry coal, they will do what the government requires and leave it at... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

clearer in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the United States, the building of the railroads after 1850 led to the development of mass markets for the first time. Along with improved access to capital and credit, mass markets... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

tomorrows. Appropriately, therefore, some nine hundred participants - most of them HBS alumni - convened in San Francisco last March to assess the outlook for business as it stands poised at the edge of unknown territory. At the elegant Fairmont Hotel, which dates from... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

13 Feb 2020
News

Not Throwing Away My Shot

his musket factory. And I also look at Oliver Ames who was making shovels just down the road from the Business School in Easton, Massachusetts, mechanizing that process. Now we start to get things like the telegraph and the railroad and... View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

on for years. Life in a growing frontier town that starts with six people and no buildings either demands frontier justice or unfolds its apparent willingness to assist the murderer's effort to avoid his fate. Indian troubles, vigilantes’ murderous justice, and a View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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