Filter Results
:
(1,511)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,511)
- News (508)
- Research (758)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (14)
- Faculty Publications (404)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,511)
- News (508)
- Research (758)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (14)
- Faculty Publications (404)
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
In the classic game of Chicken, two drivers on a crash course speed toward each other. The rules are simple: Whoever swerves first and avoids collision loses, and whoever is brave enough to stay the course wins. View Details
Keywords:
by Deepak Malhotra
- Web
Dillon House | About
in government. During World War I, Dillon served on the War Industries Board, which coordinated the purchase of war supplies. Dillon’s gift to...
View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
Moss thinks; his own opinions are hidden behind a scholarly calm and the quiet joy he takes at playing devil’s advocate. This is a question of what the historical record—here, the case, filled with exhibits on View Details
Keywords:
April White
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
If Google is forced to exit China, will it be a blow financially? A: I don't think so, although they were looking to make progress in China with other lines of business, such as the Android mobile phone platform. Q: Do you think Google...
View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
Class of 2022 In 1942, my grandfather, a California-born Japanese American, left his home with two bags in hand. The U.S. was at war with Japan, and wartime fear had led to xenophobic, racist, and baseless...
View Details
- Web
Teele Hall | About
to receive MBAs (1960). Teele, who received the second doctoral degree awarded by HBS in 1933, spent two years in business before joining the HBS faculty in 1935 as an assistant professor of marketing. He became a full professor in 1944....
View Details
- Web
McCulloch Hall | About
Civil War and provide a stable, national currency. When the measure passed over his objections, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase asked McCulloch to help implement the new system. McCulloch reluctantly agreed, and in 1863, he was...
View Details
- Web
Hamilton Hall | About
dispersing of public revenue, as well as for the promotion of economic development. One of his first accomplishments was the creation of a...
View Details
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
considering cellophane. It’s deliberately transparent, after all. You’re meant to consider whatever it’s wrapping instead. Yet, it turns out that cellophane has a story worth telling. A new research paper exposes the historical significance View Details
- Web
Morgan Hall | About
later, Morgan was able to underwrite federal bonds to help finance Civil War debt. The firm was reorganized after Drexel’s death and renamed J.P. Morgan & Company in 1895. By 1900, Morgan’s firm was one of...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when...
View Details
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
For more than a century, the long, stately rows of Encyclopædia Britannica have been a fixture on the shelves of many an educated person's home—the smooshed-together diphthong in the first word a symbol...
View Details
- Web
Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
slave labor; and (2) analysis on the ways in which the legacies of slavery in institutions of higher education continued in the post-Civil War era to the present day. The...
View Details
- Web
Morris Hall | About
two senators to represent the state of Pennsylvania. Morris served as superintendent of finance from 1781 to 1784, before the office of Secretary View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
should, intervene to control economic fluctuations when economies got stuck in a suboptimal rut. In decades after World War II, econometric and policy-oriented forecasting came to dominate the field. Q: What are you working on next? A: I...
View Details
Keywords:
by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Historical Data & Sources - Business History
Correlates of War (1820-1990) Department of Peace and Conflict Research (2000) Download Data Set in Excel Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) KKR Firm History Map created by John...
View Details
- Web
Cotting House | About
Lee, Higginson & Company. After serving in the Army Air Service during World War I, he returned to the investment firm, where he became a partner. Cotting served as chairman of the board and director from...
View Details
- Web
Howard E. Cox | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
career in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the summer of 1968 and continued there through 1971. Part of a small team assigned to help...
View Details
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
This opinion piece, first published in the New York Times in August 2005, has been updated by Pankaj Ghemawat for HBS Working Knowledge.Mighty Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, must feel less like a hotbed of retailing and...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
crisis. Based on unprecedented access to Indonesian archives and a wealth of international sources, Suharto’s Cold War narrates the first decades of the Suharto regime at the...
View Details