Filter Results
:
(146)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (146)
- Faculty Publications (43)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (146)
- Faculty Publications (43)
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
development of the U.S. railroad industry in the latter half of the 19th century. Al went straight to the sources and expanded upon them in a series of important articles in the Business History Review. That work developed into his...
View Details
Keywords:
by Jim Aisner
- Web
Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
automobile built in the U.S. 1894 Boycott of Pullman sleeping cars leads to general strike on railroads Pullman Porters 1900 U.S. Industrial Commission declares trade unions good for democracy 1902 Willis H. Carrier designs the first air...
View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
filled with educational endeavors, most of which involve getting kids of all ages excited about STEM subjects and entrepreneurship. Earls has led an unlikely, if inspiring, life considering his roots. He grew up in the Virginia Tidewater area, the ninth of 11 children...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
skill,” wrote Levitt, citing the railroads as one example of a business that lost its way. “They let others take customers away from them because they assumed themselves to be in the railroad business rather...
View Details
- Web
Burden Park | About
Vanderbilt Twombly—the great-granddaughter of railroad entrepreneur Cornelius Vanderbilt—she married William A.M. Burden, heir and president of Burden Iron Works, in 1904. After William’s death in 1909, she devoted her life to her sons,...
View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
later: "What business are you really in?" "An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill," wrote Levitt, citing the railroads as one example of a...
View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
create a market." But those looking for these activities on a much grander scale must fast forward about a hundred years to the coming of the railroad and the advent of the Second Industrial Revolution. Between 1870 and 1920 alone,...
View Details
Keywords:
by James E. Aisner
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
feeling pressure from green investors to take steps that can cost them billions of dollars. But if you go to a coal company or most utilities or big railroads that carry coal, they will do what the government requires and leave it at...
View Details
Keywords:
by Staff
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
contracts was one to build all the custom-designed consoles and workstations for the Army’s Command and Control Center in the basement of the Pentagon. In addition to the military work, the company was chosen to build custom-designed fixtures for dispatch centers for...
View Details
Keywords:
Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
spartan, vinyl-floored office in a former communist-run railroad repair yard, and Jeanne Hilsinger insists that is precisely where she wants to be. Now CFO of Mavel a.s., a Czech manufacturer of turbines and turnkey hydroelectric power...
View Details
Keywords:
Eileen K. McCluskey
- 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
- Web
America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
benefit, but not a vision. The Transcontinental Railroad, the Interstate Highway System, and the post-Sputnik space race were not about jobs. (Indeed, students of history will recall that the railroads had to import foreign labor from...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
fell during that winter, destroying railroad ties and washing away crops. We had to carry our water for six months because the hydropower machines were overwhelmed and had to stop producing. After the rain, there were droughts and fires....
View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is...
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
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
clearer in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the United States, the building of the railroads after 1850 led to the development of mass markets for the first time. Along with improved access to capital and credit, mass markets...
View Details
Keywords:
by Pankaj Ghemawat
- Web
Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
when you look at the railroads in the U.S., many of them were funded by or built by entrepreneurs who were trying to move things from one place to another. And so we found this really interesting and delicate relationship between...
View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
tomorrows. Appropriately, therefore, some nine hundred participants - most of them HBS alumni - convened in San Francisco last March to assess the outlook for business as it stands poised at the edge of unknown territory. At the elegant Fairmont Hotel, which dates from...
View Details
Keywords:
Daniel Penrice
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
his musket factory. And I also look at Oliver Ames who was making shovels just down the road from the Business School in Easton, Massachusetts, mechanizing that process. Now we start to get things like the telegraph and the railroad and...
View Details
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
railroad workers. So it’s all pretty archaic. How do you see AI actually addressing some of the blind spots for market in the service of both, not just advancing company’s interests, but job seekers’, learners’, and governments’?Zweig:...
View Details