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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
swept across vast swaths of the country, taking town after town and spreading terror as the civil war burned all around it. From that unlikely showdown in Kobani emerged a fighting force that would wage... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
frame the bay view from the piazza, and the sizable chunk of a Civil War cannon that came to rest in the sturdy house's attic after being blown apart by the Confederates as Union troops approached. "We get a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
encompassed other important inflection points. The end of the Civil War was one. The onset of the Great Depression was another. So, too, was the close of World War II. In each... View Details
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Bibliography - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Hammond, Bray. Banks and Politics in America, from the Revolution to the Civil War . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957. Full text available as a networked resource. (Harvard users only: Harvard ID... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
social change and very conscious that I was going to use my HBS training in different ways than most of my classmates,” America explains. “In class, I appreciated the pro-labor side in cases that had a union-management component. I was active in the View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
opening of access. The most significant contributor to an opening of access has been education. The impact of the GI Bill after World War II was important in providing education to a new generation of leaders. The GI Bill put education... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
exporters have been politically repressive, generous with foreign aid when oil prices are high, and free of civil war; in contrast, the recipients of petro aid were relatively repressive (and peaceful) during the period of high oil prices... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built (HarperBusiness), a new book by HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow, presents fascinating biographical essays of seven men whose products and practices have revolutionized the business world from... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic, and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal over the period 1996-2006. This within-country analysis complements existing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
war years; and innovator Herb Kelleher at Southwest near the end of the century. In this e-mail interview, Mayo, director of the HBS Leadership Initiative and the Thomas S. Murphy Distinguished Research Fellow, discusses how executives... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
Africa; its importance to the country is as great as the threat to its existence. Illegal logging fueled Liberia’s recent civil war: “Blood timber” financed the violence, just as blood diamonds have in other African conflicts. The View Details
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
MJ dates her interest in climate change to her college years. “I was in college in the 1960s. We were an activist generation, especially with regard to the environment. We protested against the Vietnam War and for View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
historic emergence of credit and debt was as important in the rise of civilization as technological invention. In the excerpt that follows, he explains the recently developed symbiotic financial relationship between the United States and... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
Then the Civil War broke out and he became one of the best military leaders in history, and a better president than I had realized before reading the book. In second place is Walter Isaacson-Evan Thomas’ The... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
year 1900 to fully grasp. Our sophisticated modern-day management processes did not exist in or prior to the nineteenth century because they simply weren't needed. After the Civil War in the United States,... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
the ground up really appealed to me.” Kennealey then began thinking about extending the Nativity model to the developing world—specifically Rwanda, where he had made contact with a group of indigenous nuns who were trying to open pathways to education for girls... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
General Services Administration. The ballroom was once the Postmaster General’s library, and a cupola lets in natural light. During the Civil War it was used as a hospital operating room where amputations... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
the scenes that really stuck with me was in 1942. Your father joins the Merchant Marines and then he's immediately called into service, because we're in the middle of World War II at that point. And then he left you with the Catholic... View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
the causes of anti-immigrant sentiments. I exploit exogenous variation in European immigration to U.S. cities between 1910 and 1930 induced by World War I and the Immigration Acts of the 1920s as well as instrument immigrants’ location... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
with the task of executing the merger of these two entities. First, all parties must agree to the economic terms of this merger; a process that is challenging due to the complex ownership structures of these banks. Second, Civil and his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne