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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
1984 To discourage “golden parachutes,” a controversial pay innovation at the time, Congress imposes a special tax on such payments valued at more than three times an executive’s average pay. Rather than curb golden parachutes, the tax cap becomes a target companies...
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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR...
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Research Links | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR...
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- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
way: "We currently have 12 million undocumented Mexicans inside the US and we do not know what to do with them ." Other arguments included those of Tony Eckel that "economic benefits of any worker immigration is limited exclusively to the View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
“The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there's nothing.” "The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there's nothing: where there are no roads, where there's no reliable labor system,...
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Student Proposed Fellowship Program - Resources for selecting your organization
funding history for 140,000+ foundations, corporations, and federal agencies. Use the advanced search option to select the subject area, location, and population served. Foundation Directory will produce a results list that includes,...
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- 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...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
education are all important, but they still may not bring back the glory days. As I wrote at the conclusion of The End of Affluence, "Throughout our history we believed that we were a chosen people, a belief essentially sustained by our...
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- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
hospitals. It seems inevitable Bhargava would start an enterprise aimed at creating social change, having come from a family with a rich history of public service. His father founded the Commerce College in their home state of Rajasthan;...
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Jennifer Myers
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
proposal and negotiating strategy seemed to signal a possibly corrupt deal among elites. This inadvertently triggered the involvement of the Honduran Congress, labor unions, political parties, potential business competitors, indigenous...
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by James K. Sebenius
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
carefully removes decades-old tape from the corners of photos from the United Fruit Company collection. Its 75 albums with 10,400 photos provide a vivid visual history of the company’s early 20th-century operations in the Caribbean,...
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Roger thompson
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Managing Family Assets
generations to come and shares his personal history as an heir to the Carnation fortune. The message of his great-grandfather, E.A. Stuart, the founder of the Carnation Company in 1899, still holds true today, says Lucas: Be useful. How...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni Are Integral to HBS
to his connection with Elkins, who was founding director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies. She is also Harvard’s professor of History and of African and African American Studies, and a visiting professor at HBS. Elkins...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
customer-facing staff, make acquisitions, get rid of underperformers, and build their brand. American History Revised: 200 Startling Facts That Never Made It into the Textbooks by Seymour Morris Jr. (MBA ’72) (Broadway Books) Filled with...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
much air to breathe and nothing between a little girl and the innocence of life. The wind is inextricably part of my family tree. Like a crazy, unpredictable cousin, it’s always welcome, but, as my life reveals, it’s sometimes dreaded. Faculty Books American...
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- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
Working Papers Commodity Chains: What Can We Learn from a Business History of the Rubber Chain? (1870-1910) Author: Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract The literature on the rubber boom applied a dependendist view of rubber production in the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
In April 2008, the School will mark its Centennial birthday — 100 years of history and achievement. To be sure, that’s an impressive figure, but consider also the combined years at HBS — nearly 160 — of emeriti professors Charlie...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
Building an Evidence Base for Emerging Markets It’s one thing to research the history of companies in Europe, the United States, or Japan, where libraries, archives, and public records are abundant. But what about emerging markets, where...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
spite of difficult labor relations based on a history of division and confrontation, I love the entrepreneurial spirit and opportunity found on this small island. We need to make some improvements, however....
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- 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5
August 2013 Edward Elgar Publishing Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This book examines the history of entrepreneurship and multinationals in the making...
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Sean Silverthorne