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  • 2021
  • Book

Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective

By: Jaqueline Bhabha, Margareta Matache and Caroline M. Elkins
In this sweeping international perspective on reparations, Time for Reparations makes the case that past state injustice—be it slavery or colonization, forced sterilization or widespread atrocities—has enduring consequences that generate ongoing harm, which... View Details
Keywords: Reparations; Slavery; Colonization; Structural Racism; State Injustice
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Small States in an Age of Empires: The Duchy of Parma's Colonial Moment, 1750–1770

By: Arnaud Orain and Sophus A. Reinert
Often thought of as the "Athens of Italy" during the Enlightenment, and as a microcosm of the Italian peninsula and of the eighteenth century alike, the Duchy of Parma played a unique role in the culture and politics of the age. This essay focuses on its "colonial... View Details
Keywords: Duchy Of Parma; French Empire; Internal Colonization; Enlightenment; Political Economy; Small States In World Markets; Guillaume Dutillot; Étienne-François De Choiseul
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  • 02 Nov 2018
  • News

Hunting Big Game in Commercial Space

  • 09 Jan 2014
  • News

Attack of the Colons: Coming Soon to a Cinema Near You

  • Article

Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development

By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
We investigate the role of deeply rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. We combine information on the spatial distribution of ethnicities before colonization with regional variation in contemporary... View Details
Keywords: Ethnicity; Development Economics; Local Range; Government and Politics; Africa
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    Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development

    We investigate the role of deeply-rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. We combine information on the spatial distribution of ethnicities before colonization with regional variation in... View Details

    • November 2016 (Revised September 2018)
    • Case

    Elon Musk's Big Bets

    By: David B. Yoffie, Eric Baldwin and Brandon Kaufmann
    Between late 2014 and late 2016, Tesla CEO Elon Musk undertook several major, and risky, initiatives that would dramatically expand the scale and scope of Tesla’s business. In late 2014, Tesla began construction on a $5 billion “gigafactory” that would manufacture... View Details
    Keywords: Electric Vehicles; Batteries; Solar Power; Strategy; Execution; Technology; Space Flight; Tesla; SolarCity; SpaceX; Elon Musk; Information Technology; Risk and Uncertainty; Expansion; Renewable Energy; Investment; Manufacturing Industry; Green Technology Industry; Auto Industry; Aerospace Industry; Battery Industry
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    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa

    By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
    We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial distribution of African... View Details
    Keywords: Ethnicity; Development Economics; Geography; Government and Politics; Africa
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    • 22 Dec 2013
    • News

    Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet

    • 20 Nov 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?

    Keywords: by Diego A. Comin, William Easterly & Erick Gong; Technology
    • 14 Feb 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950

    Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio
    • 12 Apr 2022
    • Book

    Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

    Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 22 Feb 2018
    • Book

    The New History of American Capitalism

    global history as a thriving research field, one in which economic issues play a central role. Flows of capital, labor, and science linked developments across oceans; trade bound national economies to one another; and financial institutions grounded in particular... View Details
    Keywords: Manufacturing
    • Portrait Project

    Jay Katatumba

    deliver the news and I even bought a “Harvard Dad” t-shirt which I knew he would proudly wear. Things took an unexpected turn that February when shortly before Papa’s planned travel, he suffered some sharp stomach pains, which turned out to be late stage View Details
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    The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

    The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2024
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books

    into the physical landscape. Challenging the mainstream historical consensus, Keen presents an Indigenous revisionist history regarding Thomas Jefferson, expansionist doctrine, and Manifest Destiny. He reveals how, despite being displaced as the United States View Details
    • 01 Aug 2002
    • News

    Dan Geffken (MBA '87)

    get-together. “I truly enjoy spending time with former classmates,” he said. “They're just very fun, interesting, bright people.” Geffken's HBS ties have offered personal support, too. When Brenda was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2000,... View Details
    • Profile

    Frank Mycroft

    and the Goddard Space Flight Center. "Early on at Princeton," Frank says, "I got really interested in astrobiology, the study of life on other worlds. If it existed, where would it be and how would it evolve? Are there opportunities for View Details
    • 01 Jun 2002
    • News

    Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage

    volleyball. But soon, I couldn't even ride my bike to class.” It took over three months and emergency abdominal surgery for doctors to diagnose colon cancer. “Ironically, we were told the results of my biopsy the same day we found out... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg; courage; sports; illness; cancer; international students; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
    • 07 Jun 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

    ourselves that we’re relevant because we’re important, or we can show people that we’re relevant.” It was the first time the British Government would be sued by any former colonized population, and the lawyers were eager to move forward.... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel