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- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
administrative/political (laws, trading blocs, colonial ties, currency, etc.), geographic (physical distance, lack of land border, time zones, climates, etc.), and economic (income levels, cost of natural resources, financial resources,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Consequences of Colonial Institutions By: Iyer, Lakshmi Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138779723/ August 2013 Journal of International Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
corporate abuses or (2) less-developed nations roughly equal in power and with some control of corporate abuses. Unfortunately, much of today's international trade does not meet these conditions. Under the colonial system, powerful...
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by Paul R. Lawrence
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
despite having institutions that limited political participation for the masses (Lindert, 2004; Engerman, Mariscal, and Sokoloff, 2009) and having one of the worst colonial View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
generalizations are misleading. The two countries are neighbors who share a common Spanish colonial legacy. However their institutions differ in important ways and this affects the process of...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
institutional theory, and economic theory. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Broadening Focus: Spillovers and the Benefits of Specialization in the Hospital Industry Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S....
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
Katherine M. Gehl, founder of Institute for Political Innovation, and Harvard Business School strategy expert Michael E. Porter. Among the reforms put forward by Gehl and Porter is a nonpartisan congressional legislative system that rises...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
as Tom Nicholas suggests in a recent survey of the literature, while many scholars have documented the link between innovation and economic growth, a less well understood question is, "What drives innovation in the first place?" Historical work on View Details
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
Jihwon Park, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—Using a set of proprietary records, we examine who consumes quarterly earnings conference calls and under which circumstances the calls are consumed. While there is significant interest in calls by View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
II, Tata was able to navigate his family-owned companies through the tumultuous political climate of India. He worked with British colonial officers, and later closely with several Indian leaders under both pro- and anti-business...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
are also shown to be actors in periodic deglobalization waves. This was because their function was to reinforce the gaps in wealth and income rather than disrupt them. Business enterprises proved disappointing institutions for knowledge...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
outline other factors such as local ethnic and religious heterogeneity, the institutional legacies of colonialism and serfdom, and, especially, the characteristics of the political and economic elite that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
factories, a retail franchise, a cattle ranch, a 5,000-acre plantation, a sawmill, and an exporting business before the end of British colonial rule in 1960. Seizing business opportunities as he saw demand, Odutola moved between markets...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
British merchant houses established business groups with diversified portfolio and pyramidal structures overseas, especially in developing economies, including both British colonies and the independent nations of Latin America. While...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
challenge the idea that it was colonial institutions that sent Brazil, a civil law country, down a particular path of corporate governance and finance. Detailed archival research reveals significantly...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
the World Bank gave committed officials the political opportunity to experiment with new programs in underperforming regions, which they progressively extended across the country. These incremental reforms supplied the institutional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50192 Business Groups Exist in Developed Markets Also: Britain Since 1850 By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—Diversified business groups are well-known phenomena in emerging markets, both today and historically. This is often...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
economic―and from a variety of related perspectives, including debt and state finance, tariffs and tax policy, the encouragement and discouragement of trade, merchant communities and companies, smuggling and illicit trades, mercantile and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
specifically, the volume focuses on the economic institution of the business group and aims at understanding the factors behind its rise, growth, resilience, and/or fall; its behavioral and organizational characteristics; and its...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
work, we look at the gold standard era (1880-1914) as a "natural experiment" to test whether adoption of a rule-based monetary framework such as the gold standard increased policy credibility. On the basis of the largest possible dataset covering almost sixty...
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Martha Lagace