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HBS Working Knowledge
March 17, 2008
Sean Silverthorne |
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook A Q&A with Geoffrey Jones, coeditor of the Oxford Handbook of Business History, which provides a state-of-the-art overview of business history research worldwide.   |
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
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
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
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
November 13, 2007
Sean Silverthorne |
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America In her new book, America the Principled, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter details 6 opportunities for America to boost its economic vitality and democratic ideals. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 12, 2011
Sean Silverthorne |
The Untold Story of 'Green' Entrepreneurs The history of entrepreneurs in green industries is largely unwritten, a fact that Harvard Business School business historian Geoffrey Jones is trying to remedy. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 22, 2011
Sean Silverthorne |
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century Harvard faculty look backward and forward at the most important business trends of the young twenty-first century. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 22, 2011
Michael Blanding |
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity As global competition intensifies, it's more important than ever that companies figure out how to innovate if they are going to maintain their edge, or maintain their existence at all. |
Reason
July 2001
Mario Vargas Llosa |
Global Village or Global Pillage? Why we must create a universal culture of liberty... |
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. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002 |
Book Reviews The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression by Harold James... Paradoxes of Prosperity: Why the New Capitalism Benefits All by Diane Coyle... Out of the Red: Building Capitalism and Democracy in Postcommunist Europe by Mitchell A. Orenstein... etc. |
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
April 26, 2011 |
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day Companies are caught in an economic dilemma when it comes to being responsible stewards of the environment. Society wants them to be efficient in their use of natural resources and to do as little damage as possible to the environment. |
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... |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 23, 2010
Paul R. Lawrence |
The Drive to Acquire's Impact on Globalization Humans have evolved four priorities or "drives": the drive to acquire, to defend, to bond, and to comprehend. Most U.S. corporations are built to fulfill the drive to acquire. |
Entrepreneur
May 2004
Mark Henricks |
Extra Credit Find out which schools make the grade in our 2nd Annual Top 100 Entrepreneurial Colleges and Universities. |
Entrepreneur
January 2004
Nichole L. Torres |
It's History How the spirit of innovation has shaped the nation |
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... |
Reason
December 2003
Nick Gillespie |
Poor Man's Hero Controversial writer Johan Norberg champions globalization as the best hope for the developing world. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
Mohamed Daouas |
Africa Faces Challenges of Globalization |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 20, 2006
Huston & Sakkab |
P&G's New Innovation Model Procter & Gamble's assessment of its aging innovation process and the development of connect and develop. |
Inc.
August 1, 2002
Leigh Buchanan |
The Innovation Factor: Built to Invent Part 1 of a three-installment series on hypercreative organizations and the strategies behind them. |
IndustryWeek
January 31, 2012
Josh Cable |
GE Barometer: Executives Believe Innovation and Growth Go Hand-in-Hand However, uncertainty in the global economy is curbing their companies' appetites for risk and making it harder for them to find capital. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
Eduardo Aninat |
Surmounting the Challenges of Globalization In recent years, concerns have grown about the negative aspects of globalization and especially about whether the world's poorest will share in its benefits. There is an urgent need for a broad global debate on how these challenges can best be met and on who should play what role... |
CIO
August 15, 2001
Sandy kendall |
How Things Change Five top gurus' views on innovation principles and practices... |
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. |
Chemistry World
January 9, 2013
Philip Ball |
Righting history Every chemistry student can benefit from some understanding of their subject's evolution, and they deserve more than comforting myths. |
BusinessWeek
November 7, 2005
Michael Mandel |
What's So Good About Growth Read "The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth" to understand the links between technological, economic, and moral progress. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 20, 2008
Nancy Koehn |
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism Business is the most powerful force for change in the world right now and gives the idea of creative capitalism real power. |
Reason
March 2007
Brian Doherty |
The Life and Times of Milton Friedman Remembering the 20th century's most influential libertarian. Reviewing Milton Friedman's life and career as an economist and polemicist, one can find a story of unexpected, unprecedented success promoting ideas that pushed against the Zeitgeist and in many ways managed to change it. |
IDB America
October 2004
Carlo Binetti |
A Political Agenda Against Inequality In the last two decades, Latin America has been weighed down by the bitter paradox of trying to advance democracy even as poverty grows more extreme. Meanwhile, in the political arena, globalization has imposed new demands on the State. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2006
Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Addressing 'Globalization 3.0' As a trenchant best-seller explains, the US is losing its edge in innovation. So how do we ensure that our students have the technology tools and training to compete in tomorrow's global workforce? |
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. |
Searcher
December 2002
Barbie E. Keiser |
Our Environment: Part 2, Governments, Laws, and Organizations International organizations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and governmental agencies provide vast resources of environmental information, documentation, publications, research, statistics, and databases. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 4, 2007
Lynda M. Applegate |
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage Jumpstarting innovation is a critical business imperative. Executives realize that radical change is needed but do not feel equipped to make such change. |
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. |
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. |
CRM
June 24, 2011
Elisa O'Donnell |
Kill the Office of Innovation What it really takes to create a thriving innovation capacity within an organization. |
Reason
July 2006
Megan McArdle |
The Virtue of Riches Book Review: The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, by Benjamin M. Friedman, provides powerful empirical evidence against any program aimed not at increasing the country's wealth but at cutting wealth down to size. |
BusinessWeek
November 17, 2003
Samuel J. Palmisano |
How The U.S. Can Keep Its Innovation Edge Where, how, and why innovation happens is changing. If we're not careful, the U.S. will fall out of step with these new realities, and innovators and risk-takers will go elsewhere -- because they can. |
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... |
BusinessWeek
May 3, 2004
Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
Good Works -- With A Business Plan Just a decade ago, there were virtually no business school courses or student projects on social entrepreneurship. Today most top business schools have both. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
S. Ibi Ajayi |
What Africa Needs to Do to Benefit from Globalization |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 9, 2010
Julia Hanna |
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation In her book, Accelerating Innovation in Energy: Insights from Multiple Sectors, Rebecca Henderson explores the histories of innovation in four sectors of the U.S. economy |
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. |
CIO
August 15, 2001
Sandy Kendall |
Innovation Generation This year's CIO-100 honorees stay ahead of the pack by creating breakthroughs in Products, Relationships and Processes... |
Inc.
April 2009
Bo Burlingham |
Jim Collins: How to Thrive in 2009 Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and Built to Last, predicts what we might expect in the next 30 years. His answer: uncertainty, chaos, turbulence, and risk. In other words, it's not a bad time to be an entrepreneur. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 20, 2003
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. |
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry There is plenty of history to be written about the birth of consumer electronics and the computer, says the author, a Harvard professor emeritus. |
