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HBS Working Knowledge May 3, 2004 Cynthia D. Churchwell |
Business History around the World One way to understand management trends and ideas today is to look at yesterday. Geoffrey G. Jones and Franco Amatori have done just that with their new book, Business History around the World.  |
HBS Working Knowledge December 16, 2011 |
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History The editors of Harvard Business School's Business History Review, Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones, are challenging historians to tackle big subjects with major importance to the future of business.  |
HBS Working Knowledge March 12, 2014 Sean Silverthorne |
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization Why is the firm overlooked as a contributor when we identify the drivers of globalization? Geoffrey Jones discusses his new book, Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World.  |
HBS Working Knowledge June 15, 2007 Sean Silverthorne |
Remembering Alfred Chandler The Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, who died in May, defined the field of business history and shaped the way we think about the modern corporation. Harvard Business School colleagues share their thoughts on his legacy as well as their personal reminiscences.  |
HBS Working Knowledge November 7, 2011 Sean Silverthorne |
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy In his new book, Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy, Harvard Business School historian Sophus A. Reinert unearths John Cary's An Essay on the State of England.  |
HBS Working Knowledge April 19, 2010 Sean Silverthorne |
The History of Beauty The author, Geoffrey Jones, discusses his book, "Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry"  |
Parameters Summer 2005 Antulio J. Echevarria |
The Trouble with History Professional military education must equip students to understand the difference between historical reality and attempts to describe it. It must refrain from reinforcing the tendency among military students to regard history as a sentimental treasure.  |
HBS Working Knowledge October 25, 2004 Cynthia D. Churchwell |
Trends in Latin American Business Harvard's Latin America Research Center, in Buenos Aires, has been charting the region's volatile business conditions for four years--and sees opportunities. This Q&A with Executive Director Gustavo A. Herrero explains why 2004 should be Latin America's strongest since 1997  |
HBS Working Knowledge December 7, 2009 Sean Silverthorne |
Government's Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship Professor Josh Lerner, author Boulevard of Broken Dreams, wonders if its time for Uncle Sam to invest in new entrepreneurial firms.  |
HBS Working Knowledge June 8, 2009 Sean Silverthorne |
The Return of the Salesman Salesmen have received a bad rap over the years, but increasingly the profession is drawing scholarly interest.  |
HBS Working Knowledge February 4, 2008 Sean Silverthorne |
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector A new model for the social sector based on entrepreneurship would allow organizations to create more value with their limited resources and tap additional resources not directly under their control.  |
HBS Working Knowledge August 25, 2003 Cynthia D. Churchwell |
Studying Japan from the Inside What comes next for Japan's economy? Masako Egawa, executive director of Harvard Business School's Japan Research Office, sees a period of fundamental change ahead.  |
HBS Working Knowledge May 28, 2014 Julia Hanna |
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time The unheard stories of emerging markets in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are being told on a new website by the Business History Initiative.  |
Searcher December 2000 |
The Future of the Past: History Sources on the Internet Historians and historical-fiction writers bring history to life through the skillful selection of details from daily life. For researchers of history, the number of Internet resources is increasing rapidly...  |
HBS Working Knowledge October 15, 2007 Martha Lagace |
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat Some indicators of globalization aren't increasing as many experts have claimed.  |
HBS Working Knowledge January 22, 2007 Michael Roberts |
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China Professor William Kerr discusses the phenomena of technology transfer and implications for U.S.-based businesses and policymakers.  |
HBS Working Knowledge July 28, 2006 Sean Silverthorne |
Meeting China's Need for Management Education On a recent trip to China, Steven C. Wheelwright noted an increasing interest in entrepreneurship, globalization, and competitiveness. Most of all, the Chinese have an increasing thirst for management education.  |
Finance & Development March 1, 2007 Kose et al. |
Financial Globalization: Beyond the Blame Game A new way of looking at financial globalization -- the phenomenon of rising cross-border financial flows -- reexamines its costs and benefits.  |
HBS Working Knowledge January 28, 2008 Martha Lagace |
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India In China and India, much of entrepreneurship is in response to constraints - societal, political, or other.  |
HBS Working Knowledge July 28, 2003 Martha Lagace |
India vs. China: Who Will Win? Can India overtake China? That's the title of an influential new article in Foreign Policy magazine. A Q&A with authors Yasheng Huang of M.I.T. and Tarun Khanna of HBS.  |
Finance & Development March 1, 2003 |
Book reviews The Ills of Aid: An Analysis of Third-World Development Policies, by Eberhard Reusse... Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium... Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East... etc.  |
HBS Working Knowledge July 11, 2005 Garry Emmons |
The New International Style of Management As the best international companies exhibit similarities in certain standards and practices, managers within these firms, despite national and cultural differences, are finding common ground where they can work together.  |
Information Today March 2001 Paula J. Hane |
bepress.com Introduces Innovative Scholarly Publishing Model A new electronic publishing venture has launched that is taking on the scholarly publishing establishment. bepress.com (The Berkeley Electronic Press) was started by three University of California-Berkeley professors and a programmer from the Inktomi team...  |
HBS Working Knowledge May 23, 2005 Cynthia Churchwell |
What Could Bring Globalization Down? Do you think the forces of globalization are here to stay? Harvard professor Niall Ferguson says nothing is for certain. Consider what happened to the "first age of globalization" in 1914---and then look around at the world today.  |
BusinessWeek March 22, 2004 Peter Coy |
The Convictions Of A Convert In defending globalization, Bhagwati isn't standing up for the status quo. He's making the case for a humane form of globalization guided by enlightened government policies. It made sense in 1963, and it makes sense in 2004.  |
HBS Working Knowledge January 3, 2011 |
Most Popular Articles of 2010 Judging by the most-read articles and faculty working papers over the last year, our readers continue to be fascinated by the emergence of social networks and their potential impacts on business and management.  |
HBS Working Knowledge August 21, 2006 Ann Cullen |
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance A discussion about the implications and the historical roles of Europe and the United States in promoting the flow of capital across national borders.  |
Finance & Development December 1, 2001 S. Ibi Ajayi |
What Africa Needs to Do to Benefit from Globalization  |
HBS Working Knowledge August 30, 2004 Sarah Jane Johnston |
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset Real estate is the largest asset class in the world--and also the most imperfect, says Harvard Business School professor Arthur Segel. In this Q&A, he discusses trends toward institutionalization, environmentalism, and globalization.  |
Entrepreneur May 2004 Mark Henricks |
Extra Credit Find out which schools make the grade in our 2nd Annual Top 100 Entrepreneurial Colleges and Universities.  |
HBS Working Knowledge October 16, 2006 Sean Silverthorne |
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs When a delegation of Harvard Business School faculty visited Chinese entrepreneurs, they came away with something unexpected: the start of what could be a fundamental rethinking of how entrepreneurship works.  |
Fast Company May 2000 Keith H. Hammonds |
Good News - It's a Small World Who cares where our cars, computers, or clothes are made? If December's "Battle of Seattle" is any indication, lots of people do. A book by two savvy journalists makes the case for globalization: A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization  |
Finance & Development December 1, 2001 Seyni N'Diaye |
The Role of Institutional Reforms ...It is precisely from this restrictive regulatory framework that African countries must extricate themselves if they are to realize their true potential in the global economy...  |
Finance & Development March 2008 David T. Coe |
Jobs on Another Shore Outsourcing of service jobs to other countries could affect industrial countries' economies and attitudes toward globalization.  |
BusinessWeek July 11, 2005 Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
Behind The EU Backlash The recent votes against the EU Constitution by the citizens of France and the Netherlands were a stunning rebuke to globalization. But governments must address justifiable fears with an agenda to create jobs of the future.  |
Reason November 2000 Brink Lindsey |
Trade Winds International economic integration is a phenomenon drowned in hype: Cheerleaders talk breathlessly of a world without borders, while doomsayers rage against the supposed tyranny of uncontrolled market forces. John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge cut through both sides' bombast...  |