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- 20 Dec 2022
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MBA Students Explore Capitalism in Italy
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The Economy of Fear: H.P. Lovecraft on Eugenics, Economics and the Great Depression
The early twentieth-century weird writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft is today best remembered for his genre defining style of academic noir pulp fiction. Yet in focusing on certain tropes of his work, such as the many memorable monsters he created to populate his...
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Reinert, Sophus A. "The Economy of Fear: H.P. Lovecraft on Eugenics, Economics and the Great Depression." Horror Studies 6, no. 2 (October 2015): 255–282.
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Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950 (BOOK)
In my first book manuscript, Experiments in Financial Democracy, I 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... View Details
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The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System - A Chronicle of the China Trade
of the China Trade Introduction Doing Business with China Augustine Heard & Co. The Canton Trade Commodities & Currencies Treaty Ports & Compradors Clippers & Steamships Exploring Trade Links Chinese Competition Expatriate Traders Influence of the China Trade...
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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Hall, Henry. America's Successful Men of Affairs. An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography . New York: New York Tribune, 1895. Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Mayer Lehman, 1867. Herbert H. Lehman Papers, Rare Book and View Details
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Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)
When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details
When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details
- 28 Feb 2022
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How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels
terms of business outcomes, they're not developing the best customer relationships they could.” Companies that fix disparities in their service delivery are likely to boost customer satisfaction and loyalty, say Feldberg and Kim in the View Details
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by Pamela Reynolds
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Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade
of the China Trade Introduction Doing Business with China Augustine Heard & Co. The Canton Trade Commodities & Currencies Treaty Ports & Compradors Clippers & Steamships Exploring Trade Links Chinese Competition Expatriate Traders Influence of the China Trade...
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Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade
of the China Trade Introduction Doing Business with China Augustine Heard & Co. The Canton Trade Commodities & Currencies Treaty Ports & Compradors Clippers & Steamships Exploring Trade Links Chinese Competition Expatriate Traders Influence of the China Trade...
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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade
of the China Trade Introduction Doing Business with China Augustine Heard & Co. The Canton Trade Commodities & Currencies Treaty Ports & Compradors Clippers & Steamships Exploring Trade Links Chinese Competition Expatriate Traders Influence of the China Trade...
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Events - Business History
provided an opportunity to recognize the Italian manuscript collections in Baker Library, including more than 150 ledgers and other manuscript volumes belonging to the Medici family dating from late 14th and...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy
HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and...
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April White
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Chicago. Tatiana Sandino : Won the 2011 Emerging Scholar Competitive Manuscript Award from the Institute of Management Accountants for “Introducing the First Management Control Systems: Evidence from the Retail Sector” ( Accounting Review...
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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877
China Trade Bibliography Manuscript Collections Related Collections Site Credits “Business is too important and interesting not to be chronicled somehow,” Albert Heard wrote. 1 He was referring to his family’s firm, Augustine Heard & Co.,...
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Projects - Business History
Library. The Library’s Special Collections houses one of the largest collections outside of Italy of business papers produced by the Medici family. The collection includes nearly 150 manuscript books containing business records dating...
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Site Credits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Photography John D. Gordan, III Kheel Center, Cornell University Library of Congress Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr. Mike Luckovich and Creators Syndicate The Metropolitan Museum of Art The New York Public Library New York Stock Exchange Archives Rare Book and View Details
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Building Collections | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Archives' collecting program, featuring donations and acquisitions in each of our major collecting areas ---the Baker Old Class and Kress Collections, Historical Manuscript Collections, HBS Administrative Records, HBS Faculty Papers, and...
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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade
of the China Trade Introduction Doing Business with China Augustine Heard & Co. The Canton Trade Commodities & Currencies Treaty Ports & Compradors Clippers & Steamships Exploring Trade Links Chinese Competition Expatriate Traders Influence of the China Trade...
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Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920
Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details
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Commodities;
Coffee;
Mexico;
Foreign Investment;
Institutions;
Immigration;
Developing Agriculture;
Development;
Export Crop;
Emerging Market;
Property Rights;
Labor History;
History;
Capital Markets;
Business History;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Latin America;
Mexico;
Central America
- 26 Jun 2017
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How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
Advertisement for DuPont Cellophane from The Saturday Evening Post, 1950. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Advertising Department records (Accession 1803), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington,...
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