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- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
paper we draw on the recent literature to highlight areas in which history has played a particularly prominent role in improving our understanding of growth dynamics. Research at the intersection of historical data, theory, and empirics...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Mar 2020
- News
Real Leaders: Abraham Lincoln and the Power of Emotional Discipline
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Resources - Creating Emerging Markets
upcoming editions. Additional Archives Links to eleven additional history archives that feature interviews with prominent business leaders and entrepreneurs around the world. In both English and local...
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
graduating class. Marlous van Waijenburg: 2023: Invited as Guest Editor, Special Issue on Business, Capitalism, and Slavery, Business History Review 97, no. 2 (Summer 2023), with Anne Ruderman. 2022 Caroline...
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- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Bankers, Industrialists, and Their Cliques: Elite Networks in Mexico and Brazil During Early Industrialization
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for General Motors? Or are those just headlights from an oncoming train? Among Harvard Business School faculty, it depends on whom you ask. The carmaker—home to such storied brands as Cadillac,...
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- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
more just, and greener society, and this entails reforming our economic system and the way businesses operate. Even though these changes that diverge from deeply rooted norms are challenging to implement, now is the time to push for them....
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
institutional theorists from around the world gathered at Harvard Business School to address head-on how institutional theory research and tools can help practitioners address work-related and societal issues—and how academics in the...
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by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
need their help on the way down. Ruthlessness in pursuit of success might work for a while. But when there is the merest hint of a problem, a history of callous, cold-blooded, critical behavior means that there is no one left to lend...
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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community in 2022. Hubert Joly: Recipient of 2022 Stanley Hoffman Award from Sciences Po American Foundation. Geoffrey G. Jones: Winner of the Inaugural European Business View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
that I walked through, thinking I would do this one thing, drop off my luggage, then go back to business as usual.” “The fleeting miracle of the movement is that it created a portal that I walked through, thinking I would do this one...
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- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time is to be published today. Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In addition to her many years of...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- July 1991 (Revised May 1995)
- Case
Samuel Slater, Francis Cabot Lowell, and the Beginnings of the Factory System in the United States
Deals with the coming of the mechanized textile industry to the United States, and with it, the nation's first factories. Considers the introduction of small spinning mills in Rhode Island, and the appearance of large integrated spinning and weaving mills in...
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Industry Growth;
Manufacturing Industry;
Rhode Island;
Massachusetts
McCraw, Thomas K. "Samuel Slater, Francis Cabot Lowell, and the Beginnings of the Factory System in the United States." Harvard Business School Case 792-008, July 1991. (Revised May 1995.)
- 14 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization
Management, today Manso-Brown is a speaker, educator, and activist artist. Her art and educational workshops challenge and encourage people to have meaningful conversations about social justice. She has partnered with many offices throughout Harvard View Details
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- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
Harvard Business School faculty members, looking at the U.S. financial crisis from a variety of disciplines, urged caution and prudent analysis in a recent panel discussion. The discussion titled "Turmoil on the Street: Fathoming the...
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Shira Asa-El
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? After over seven years of military service, going to business school was a step toward my ultimate transition to the private sector as well as an opportunity to live in a foreign country...
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- 01 May 2020
- Blog Post
5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS
Aaron Hancock is a member of the HBS Class of 2021. He serves as Senator for Section H and is the Chair of the Senate Clubs Committee. He is also one of the incoming Co-Presidents for the African American Student Union (AASU). Aaron is originally from Charlotte, NC and...
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- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
What should business leaders know about the ambitions of Russia, China, and the European Union? They should know how geopolitical conditions exert enormous pressure on companies, according to Harvard View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
challenging conditions, such as the following, are present: When cultures clash. Negotiators from diverse organizational, professional, or national cultures often bring clashing assumptions to the table. As Ming-Jer Chen, the former director of Wharton's Global Chinese...
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