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- January 2023
- Article
Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights
By: Alvaro Calderon, Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized... View Details
Keywords: Civil Rights; Great Migration; History; Race; Rights; Prejudice and Bias; Government Legislation
Calderon, Alvaro, Vasiliki Fouka, and Marco Tabellini. "Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights." Review of Economic Studies 90, no. 1 (January 2023): 165–200. (Available also from VOX, Broadstreet, and VOX EU.)
- 01 Mar 2023
- Video
Lessons in Leadership: Whitney Young’s Fight for Civil Rights
- 01 May 2018
- News
Civil Rights Tourism Is Picking Up Around The U.S.
- 02 Sep 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Legislators' Response to Changes in the Electorate: The Great Migration and Civil Rights
- July 2011
- Background Note
Torts 101: Civil Wrongs & Ways to Right Them
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Mary Beth Findlay
This note summarizes basic principles of tort law and is intended as background information for business students studying legal aspects of management. View Details
Goldberg, Lena G., and Mary Beth Findlay. "Torts 101: Civil Wrongs & Ways to Right Them." Harvard Business School Background Note 312-033, July 2011.
- 2022
- Working Paper
World War II and the Roots of the Civil Rights Movement
By: Marco Tabellini, Silvia Farina and Andy Ferrara
- October 2021
- Article
Nancy Koehn on Leadership Lessons from Rep. John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement
By: Nancy F. Koehn and Devjani Roy
"Nancy Koehn on Leadership Lessons from Rep. John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement." GrowthPolicy (October 2021).
- 2006
- Working Paper
Can Civil Law Countries Get Good Institutions? Creditor Rights and Bond Markets in Brazil, 1850-2003
By: Aldo Musacchio
Musacchio, Aldo. "Can Civil Law Countries Get Good Institutions? Creditor Rights and Bond Markets in Brazil, 1850-2003." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-040, March 2006.
- March 2008
- Article
Can Civil Law Countries Get Good Institutions? Lessons from the History of Creditor Rights and Bond Markets in Brazil
By: Aldo Musacchio
Does a legal tradition adopted in the distant past constrain a country's ability to provide the protection that investors need for financial markets to develop? This paper contributes to the literature that studies the connection between law and finance by looking at... View Details
Musacchio, Aldo. "Can Civil Law Countries Get Good Institutions? Lessons from the History of Creditor Rights and Bond Markets in Brazil." Journal of Economic History 68, no. 1 (March 2008): 80–108. (***Winner of the Arthur H. Cole Prize for best paper in the Journal of Economic History, 2007-2008***.)
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
does it matter for policy? Q: What can our readers—business people—keep in mind about civil conflict? A: Investing in poverty reduction strategies can lead to political benefits in addition to direct economic benefits. Therefore, the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- January 2025
- Supplement
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Young Minister Confronts the Challenges of Montgomery (B)
By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Derek C. M. van Bever
Recounts a pivotal moment in Martin Luther King Jr.'s life during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, where a profound prayer amidst threats to his life renewed his faith and resolve to lead the movement. This transformative experience marked the beginning of his lifelong... View Details
Keywords: Spirituality; Civil Rights; Manging Uncertainty; Leadership; Decision Making; Values and Beliefs; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Power and Influence; Alabama
Hsieh, Nien-hê, and Derek C. M. van Bever. "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Young Minister Confronts the Challenges of Montgomery (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 425-074, January 2025.
- February 2016 (Revised August 2021)
- Case
Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Black Voting Rights
By: David Moss and Dean Grodzins
In January 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the most prominent leader of the civil rights movement in the United States, launched a campaign of civil disobedience in Selma, Alabama, to bring national attention to disenfranchisement of black voters in the South. On... View Details
Keywords: Rights; Voting; Race; Government and Politics; Conflict and Resolution; Leadership; History; Alabama
Moss, David, and Dean Grodzins. "Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Black Voting Rights." Harvard Business School Case 716-042, February 2016. (Revised August 2021.)
- December 2017
- Case
Piracy in Somalia (A)
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Alissa Davies
A Somali fisherman stands on a beach in early 2011, considering his options: should he embark in his tiny fishing vessel or join a nearby pirate crew? His war-ravaged country, entering its 20th year of civil war, was in the midst of a famine that had claimed hundreds... View Details
Keywords: Pirates; Foreign Aid; Civil War; Private Property; Human Rights; Economic Development; Globalization; War; Property; Crime and Corruption; Rights; Development Economics; Moral Sensibility; Shipping Industry; Somalia
Reinert, Sophus A., and Alissa Davies. "Piracy in Somalia (A)." Harvard Business School Case 718-018, December 2017.
- Article
Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization
By: Shoshana Zuboff
This article describes an emergent logic of accumulation in the networked sphere, 'surveillance capitalism,' and considers its implications for 'information civilization.' The institutionalizing practices and operational assumptions of Google Inc. are the... View Details
Keywords: Surveillance Capitalism; Big Data; Google; Information Society; Privacy; Internet Of Everything; Rights; Economic Systems; Analytics and Data Science; Internet and the Web; Ethics
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization." Journal of Information Technology 30, no. 1 (March 2015): 75–89.