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- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
support. The only sustainable economic policy path was legislative.” Preparing their pitch to Congress, the team released a white paper in late October of 2015 outlining a plan with four components: a holistic bankruptcy regime that would... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
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Events - Business History
Sep 25 25 Sep 2023 Business History Seminar: Business, Society, and the Environment Victor Seow (Harvard University), "Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia" Organized by Geoff Jones and Kwelina Thompson Seminar meets on... View Details
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Our Curriculum - Business History
challenging decisions and ethical dilemmas entrepreneurs have faced in countries with repressive regimes and failed states in different historical eras. By reviewing the historical evidence on global entrepreneurship, it provides... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
scholars find instead distinctive regimes of interaction and peculiar modes of relation. They study capitalism in action. This new focus lies at the intersection of two legacies from the historiography traced above—historians’ tendency to... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 09 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?
de-escalation. My personal assessment is that it is likely to get worse, and maybe much worse, in the coming days, weeks, and months. Forman: What would trigger that? Abdelal: The extraordinary intensity of the sanctions regime as a... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
sustain his regime and transform Panamanian society; Noriega continued it in order to destroy anyone who threatened his control over the profits from corruption and cocaine. Once the United States removed Noriega through the brute... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Sector More Info Exchange Arrangements Entering the 21st Century: Which Anchor Will Hold? By: Ethan Ilzetzki, Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff FEB 2017 Noted economists- Ilzetzki, Reinhart, and Rogoff- provide a comprehensive history of anchor currencies and capital... View Details
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Historical Data & Sources - Business History
Palgrave-MacMillan, 2007 B.R. Mitchell, International Statistics: Africa, Asia, Oceania, 1750-2005. New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2007 United Nations, International Trade Statistics, various years Download Data Set in Excel Political Governance Polity IV Project:... View Details
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
controversial policies or unpopular leaders, or make an oppressive regime seem tolerant. There’s also a fine line between influential outreach and propaganda that leaves audiences feeling manipulated, Ofek says. However, the right... View Details
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
than how businesses use it That same monitoring capability (used to fight terrorism) could be turned against American citizens if the regime ever lessened or abandoned its commitment to personal civil liberties.” Asher Rospigliosi... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
The stunning collapse of three high-profile banks in recent months—Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank—churned up a host of headlines and fears: Are these signs of major instability? The first dominos to fall? In the second edition of their... View Details
- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
a work-from-home regime to WFA. Beyond improved productivity (under some conditions), WFA might enable companies to hire beyond their local labor markets and reduce real estate and utilities costs. As companies grapple with workers... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
world invest in US listed companies because the US legal regime offers a high level of investor protection. High quality auditing is a big part of this protection. When our investor protections standards go up, our capital markets become... View Details
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
crisis. Based on unprecedented access to Indonesian archives and a wealth of international sources, Suharto’s Cold War narrates the first decades of the Suharto regime at the national, regional, and global levels. Suharto mobilized... View Details
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
the benefit of the Google brand. And eventually, the Chinese regime might change to a more democratic form of government, in which case Google's stand might go down in history as one of seminal moments on China's road to democracy. But... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
institution could not be much lower than it is in American society today. In light of that, the benefits of a true profession of management adopting a formal normative code would appear to be obvious—particularly in comparison with a regulatory View Details
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
Auschwitz, and other members of his (and his wife's) extended family lost their lives in the Holocaust and because of the fighting in World War II. In 1944 and especially early in 1945, young Andy was a hunted child. Life under the Communist View Details
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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
Keywords: 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
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Capitalism as a System of Governance
My research interest is in further exploration of the analytic utility of an original conception of capitalism as an indirect, three level system of governance for the economic relationships within political entities, and mostly within nation states. This three level... View Details