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  • 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 decision-making. Historically Chile developed... View Details
Keywords: by 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54177 Countering Political Risk in Colonial India: German Multinationals and the Challenge of Internment (1914–1947) By: Lubinski, Christina, Valeria Giacomin, and Klara Schnitzer... View Details
Keywords: 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

provides another example. Mira Wilkins published a major study of the globalization of Ford in 1964, only four years after the word "multinational" was coined. Her study of the growth of American multinationals from the colonial... View Details
Keywords: by 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
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

merchant houses established business groups with diversified portfolio and pyramidal structures overseas, primarily in developing countries, both colonial and independent. In the domestic economy, large single product firms became the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

an event titled Greater China: Myth, Reality, and Opportunity. Of special note will be the opportunity to observe and consider what's in store for the former Crown Colony on the eve of its transformation into a "Special Administrative... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

The Producers

less. Among other projects, this year will see the U.S. release of Water, a film written and directed by Deepa Mehta and produced by David Hamilton (MBA 1969) that focuses on a group of widows in 1938 colonial India during Gandhi’s rise... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information
  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

had lower creativity ratings than men, but other ratings were not influenced by the gender of the judge or the difference in gender of the target-judge dyad. The implications of these findings are discussed. Colonial Land Tenure,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

During the colonial period, America was frequently represented by the figure of the “Indian Princess.” She appeared in prints, medals, coins, and paper currency. During the neoclassical period, particularly in the United States, she... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2018
  • News

Havana Rising

says economist Ricardo Torres, from the University of Havana’s Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy, over lunch at Río Mar, a waterfront spot overlooking the juncture of the sea and the Almendares River. Torres explains that when Cuba was a Spanish View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

integrating into the game aggregator role, which would capture more value but put Mochi into direct competition with platform partners. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811056-PDF-ENG William Jeffrey Departs from Bay View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 11

dramatic expropriation in the wake of the first change of head of government since the former Portuguese colony became a Special Administrative Region of China. The case allows students to explore what Foreign Direct Investors can do to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

enduring consequences that generate ongoing harm, which needs to be addressed as a matter of justice and equity. Time for Reparations provides a wealth of detailed and diverse examples of state injustice, from enslavement of African Americans in the United States and... View Details
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

understanding how corporations manage the symbolic use of information and how corporate behavior is influenced by civil society scrutiny embedded in institutional processes. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1836472 Colonial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Africa’s break with its colonial past; the 2012 Spanish labor reform; and Climate change: Paris, and the road ahead. Copyright © 2024 President & Fellows of Harvard College. All Rights Reserved. Investment Management and Capital Markets... View Details