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Near the Guatemalan border in Mexico's Chiapas region, sandwiched between the Sierra Madres and the Pacific Ocean, there's a fertile pocket of land called the Soconusco. While once a hotbed of cacao production for the Aztecs and then the Spanish, the area was decimated... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness

September 1982 (Revised December 1987)
Case

Herbert Hoover

Keywords: Business History; Business and Government Relations; Economy; Policy

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Find at Harvard

2005
Chapter

Multinationals from the 1930s to the 1980s

By: G. Jones

Keywords: Business History; Multinational Firms and Management

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01 Feb 2005
Conference Presentation

What the Titans Can Teach Us: Lessons from the Giants of Enterprise

By: R. S. Tedlow

Keywords: Teaching; Learning; Business History

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05 Jun 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Cellophane, the New Visuality, and the Creation of Self-Service Food Retailing

Keywords: by Ai Hisano; Food & Beverage

04 Feb 2016
Cold Call Podcast

The Space Shuttle Columbia’s Final Mission

Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson

08 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Leading Amidst Competing Technical and Institutional Demands: Revisiting Selznick’s Conception of Leadership

Keywords: by Marya L. Besharov & Rakesh Khurana

21 Feb 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Do Legal Origins Have Persistent Effects Over Time? A Look at Law and Finance around the World c. 1900

Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio; Legal Services

11 Jul 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Globalizing the Beauty Business Before 1980

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

A New Ecosystem for Business and Society

In their opening comments at the IS2K conference, Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine and Harvard Business School Dean Kim B. Clark called forth, respectively, the spirits of the industrial past and the high-tech future to remind the audience that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace