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- 15 May 2016
- News
Stop picking on the GDP
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
CHANDLER: His great books “light up a landscape that had been only dimly perceived, if at all.” Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the renowned Harvard Business School historian who established business history as an indepen-dent and important area... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Déjà Vu All Over Again
common cyclical nature, whether the crash in question was fueled by land speculation, railroad expansion, the booming life insurance industry, or lax regulation of regional stock exchanges. So, will a deeper understanding of these moments... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit
Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism, an exhibit in the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, confirms there is still much to learn about railroads, whose scale and complexity spawned modern business’s management model. Recent... View Details
- 29 Oct 2024
- News
A Fearless Fighter Honored
Executive forces—Green continued to fight, blocking German troop access to a vital railroad hub by blowing up a nearby tunnel. After several weeks on the run, though, Green was captured and ultimately killed. “The unity and resolve they... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
When Business History Was Business News UTAH, 1859: East meets West and America opens for business. Henry Guttmann/Getty Images Newspapers, so the saying goes, write the first draft of history. In her new book, The Story of American... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
some of the big inflection points and in particular, some of the events that did so much to define the story of American business: the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, the crash of the stock market in 1929, the rise of... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
their rare level of detail, geographic scope, and depth of narrative information about individual businesses and the people who ran them—the high-flying bankers and railroad men as well as women, recent immigrants, and African Americans.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
flight. Some had also joined the group as it traveled, including the British SOE team and Maria Gulovich, a Slovak partisan who served as a translator. One night, Green and several others ventured out to evaluate the situation. On their sortie, they blew up a View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
long history in the European market, gaining iconic status in England in the 1970s and '80s. But now, on the verge of bankruptcy, the company was having a hard time making payroll. Seeing an opportunity, Cohen's firm bought it and... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
about the history of innovation in America. But sitting around a makeshift bar with some of the other executives who had just laid out rosy scenarios and hockey-stick returns to potential investors, the truth came out. One of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
administrative challenge. The railroad at the heart of the legal proceedings had been pieced together through more than 7,000 separate acquisitions. The bankruptcy judge told McArthur that the average View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Greatest Prime Minister: Lord Liverpool By Martin Hutchinson (MBA 1973) The Lutterworth Press Britain's Greatest Prime Minister: Lord Liverpool unpacks two centuries of Whig history to redeem Lord Liverpool (1770 to 1828) from... View Details