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- 27 Jan 2015
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The Dark Side of America's Brightest Inventor: Edison
- 16 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
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Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence A new book explains how managers can increase their understanding of how finance works. (7,014 visits) Most Comments from...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
nontraditional tech background. I was an art history major, originally thought I would be a dancer, of all things. Needless to say, since graduation, I’ve had to become a lifelong learner. In fact, my first...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
world. Hoa's route to the head of Galaxy has been a circuitous one. After high school, she lived in the former Soviet Union while attending the...
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Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
make sure that others understand and they communicate and share how this is benefiting the nation as a whole. Fuller: Bill, your book paints a very clear picture of View Details
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they develop a history there. Maybe they learn how to break the code on the specific requirements. And then they get a privileged place at the...
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career history online. At the Burning Glass Institute, we’ve developed a database that includes the career histories View Details
- 23 May 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
The Entrepreneurial Journey of China’s First Private Mental Health Hospital
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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take...
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history of work addressing racial and gender disparities, also disparities experienced by the LGBTQ+ community. So we’ve been focused on those for a long time and in a number...
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a history major and a buff—that all of the sort of pessimistic prognostications from the past about how automation...
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And we removed that. And that was incredibly significant, because we actually led the way. So we are not a reimbursement program; we actually pay 100 percent of the tuition and...
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- December 2014 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World
By: Tom Nicholas and Vasiliki Fouka
By the late nineteenth century scale and managerial hierarchies had extended to several major industrial sectors of the U.S. economy. Although the precise mechanisms often varied, this process mainly involved horizontal integration, some form of legal or administrative...
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Horizontal Integration;
Wealth;
Business History;
Vertical Integration;
Consolidation;
Personal Development and Career;
Energy Industry;
United States
Nicholas, Tom, and Vasiliki Fouka. "John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World." Harvard Business School Case 815-088, December 2014. (Revised March 2018.)
- 2010
- Other Unpublished Work
Top Executive Background and Corporate M&A: The Case of Former Investment Bankers
By: Francois Brochet and Kyle Welch
We study the M&A activity of firms with top executives whose employment history includes experience in a Wall Street firm, especially those with investment banking background ("IB executives"). In terms of strategy, controlling for firm-level effects, we document that...
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things like interpersonal engagement and collaboration. Those power skills often also associate with liberal education. It’s in how do you understand humanities and psychology, and also the history and...
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- 05 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
The Softer Side of Business at HBS
By now, I’m sure you’ve read a hundred times over that HBS’s mission is to “educate leaders who make a difference in the world.” For the school to actually do this, they focus on View Details
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always really interested in this piece, the kind of disconnect between education and employment. And so I left finance to do something very different. I joined an organization that was all about helping...
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- 2016
- Working Paper
Historical Change and the Competitive Advantage of Firms: Explicating the 'Dynamics' in the Dynamic Capabilities Framework
By: Geoffrey Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani
This working paper aims to deepen the scholarly dialogue between strategy and history. It does so by examining how historical models of change can contribute to theory and research on the competitive advantage of firms during periods of rapid innovation. Focusing on...
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Strategy;
Dynamic Capabilities;
Innovation;
Temporality;
Context;
Microfoundations;
Business History;
Competitive Advantage;
Change;
Innovation and Invention
Jones, Geoffrey, and R. Daniel Wadhwani. "Historical Change and the Competitive Advantage of Firms: Explicating the 'Dynamics' in the Dynamic Capabilities Framework." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-052, December 2016.
- 29 Apr 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Great Leap Forward: The Political Economy of Education in Brazil, 1889-1930
- 1993
- Book
The Rise and Fall of Mass Marketing
By: G. Jones and R. S. Tedlow
Jones, G. and R. S. Tedlow, eds. The Rise and Fall of Mass Marketing. London: Routledge, 1993.