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30 Nov 2019
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Elon Musk and the Dying Art of the Big Bet

Re: Max Bazerman & Michael Luca

                          In a forthcoming book, “The Power of Experiments: Decision-Making in a Data-Driven World,” Harvard professors Michael Luca and Max Bazerman show how such experiments have helped organizations from eBay to the U.K. tax authority make better decisions. By testing...

27 Nov 2019
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Remembering Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation

Re: Nancy Koehn

                          David Gergen, a professor of public service at the Harvard Kennedy School where he founded the Center for Public Leadership, and Nancy Koehn, a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of business administration, joined Boston...

27 Nov 2019
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They Saw the Dark Side of Globalization 20 Years Ago

Re: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

                          Rosabeth Moss Kanter joins the Business 20/20 podcast. The podcast is a series that explores the changing relationship between business and society from 1999 to today. Each episode unpacks a key event—from the Seattle WTO protests to the global financial crisis and...

25 Nov 2019
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The Battle of Seattle, 20 Years Later

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

                          Twenty years ago, the Seattle WTO protests brought attention to the fact that all was not necessarily smooth sailing for global capitalism, despite what appeared to be unstoppable momentum over previous decades.

19 Nov 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Lessons from IBM in Nazi Germany

Re: Geoffrey G. Jones

                          Geoffrey Jones discusses his case study, "Thomas J. Watson, IBM and Nazi Germany," exploring the options and responsibilities of multinationals with investments in politically reprehensible regimes.

19 Nov 2019
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Lessons from IBM in Nazi Germany

Re: Geoffrey Jones

                          Harvard Business School professor Geoff Jones discusses his case, “Thomas J. Watson, IBM and Nazi Germany,” which explores the options and responsibilities of multinationals with investments in politically reprehensible regimes. The case considers the strategy of...

16 Nov 2019
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Octogenarians are shaking up Italian business

Re: Raffaella Sadun

                          Carlo de benedetti is fond of high drama. When he resigned after only three months as chief executive of Fiat in 1976, rumours swirled that he was cobbling together a bid for the then-ailing carmaker with the help of Swiss financiers. Mr De Benedetti denied ever having...

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

by Sean Silverthorne

                          The business history of modern Turkey has been largely hidden from view, but a new book edited by Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan pulls back the covers.

06 Nov 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Why Does Business Invest in Education in Emerging Markets? Why Does It Matter?

by Valeria Giacomin, Geoffrey Jones, and Erica Salvaj

                          Drawing on 110 interviews with business leaders as part of the Creating Emerging Markets project at Harvard Business School, this paper represents the first systematic attempt to identify and compare investment in education across emerging economies, specifically in...

2019
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Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 17 The Wintel Standards-based Platform

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

The purpose of this chapter is to use the theory of bottlenecks laid out in previous chapters to better understand the dynamics of an open standards-based platform. I describe how the Wintel platform evolved from 1990 through 2000 under joint sponsorship of Intel and...

06 Nov 2019
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Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives

By: by Asli M. Colpan & Geoffrey G. Jones

                          This book is the first systematic scholarly study on the business history of Turkey and its predecessor the Ottoman Empire from the nineteenth century until the present.

05 Nov 2019
News

Learning from a Different Past

By: Geoffrey Jones

                          If current debates about the societal and environmental challenges faced by our society suffer from too little learning from history, they arguably suffer even more by not learning from the history of the majority of the world’s population who live beyond the developed...