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- 03 May 2017
- Book
The Clear Connection Between Slavery and American Capitalism
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Assets: Memory Full
When Dante Roscini (MBA 1988) arrived on campus in 1986, he and members of his class each became the de-facto owner of an IBM PC Convertible (purchase was mandatory for all incoming students). As conceived by German industrial designer Richard Sapper, the laptop-style... View Details
- autumn 1992
- Book Review
Review of John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic, by John Denis Haeger
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Koehn, Nancy F. "Review of John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic, by John Denis Haeger." Business History Review 66 (autumn 1992): 576–578.
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
on how the economic system works and what history teaches us, business readers might turn to A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know, by Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
leading journal in the field, the Business History Review, and regularly attend conferences of the flourishing business history societies in the United States and Europe. Yet as we reviewed the literature... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- March 2013
- Article
Why 'Fair Value' Is the Rule: How a Controversial Accounting Approach Gained Support
By: Karthik Ramanna
For the past two decades, fair-value accounting—the practice of measuring assets and liabilities at estimates of their current values—has been on the ascent. This marks a major departure from the centuries-old tradition of keeping books at historical cost. It also has... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value; FASB; Finance; Politics; Financial History; Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Reporting; Accounting Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
Ramanna, Karthik. "Why 'Fair Value' Is the Rule: How a Controversial Accounting Approach Gained Support." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 3 (March 2013).
- 2023
- Working Paper
Efficient Discovery of Heterogeneous Quantile Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments via Anomalous Pattern Detection
By: Edward McFowland III, Sriram Somanchi and Daniel B. Neill
In the recent literature on estimating heterogeneous treatment effects, each proposed method makes its own set of restrictive assumptions about the intervention’s effects and which subpopulations to explicitly estimate. Moreover, the majority of the literature provides... View Details
Keywords: Causal Inference; Program Evaluation; Algorithms; Distributional Average Treatment Effect; Treatment Effect Subset Scan; Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
McFowland III, Edward, Sriram Somanchi, and Daniel B. Neill. "Efficient Discovery of Heterogeneous Quantile Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments via Anomalous Pattern Detection." Working Paper, 2023.
- 2021
- Working Paper
Bollywood, Skin Color and Sexism: The Role of the Film Industry in Emboldening and Contesting Stereotypes in India after Independence
By: Sudev Sheth, Geoffrey Jones and Morgan Spencer
This working paper examines the social impact of the film industry in India during the first four decades after Indian Independence in 1947. It shows that Bollywood, the mainstream cinema in India and the counterpart in scale to Hollywood in the United States, shared... View Details
Keywords: Film Industry; Bollywood; Tamil Cinema; Male Gaze; Social Impact; Stereotypes; Oral History; Film Entertainment; Gender; Race; Personal Characteristics; Prejudice and Bias; Business History; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; India
Sheth, Sudev, Geoffrey Jones, and Morgan Spencer. "Bollywood, Skin Color and Sexism: The Role of the Film Industry in Emboldening and Contesting Stereotypes in India after Independence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-077, January 2021.
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
rigorous analysis in the study of American business history. More broadly, Al taught us the power of analytic history (if I may call it that) and showed us by example how it should be done. Part of his... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 2013
- Working Paper
Entrepreneurs, Firms and Global Wealth since 1850
By: G. Jones
This working paper integrates the role of entrepreneurship and firms into debates on why Asia, Latin America and Africa were slow to catch up with the West following the Industrial Revolution and the advent of modern economic growth. It argues that the currently... View Details
Keywords: Institutional Change; Political Economy; Emerging Economies; Developing Countries; Industrial Development; Culture; Human Capital; Economic History; History; Wealth and Poverty; Business History; Emerging Markets; Globalization; Developing Countries and Economies; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; Service Industry; Latin America; Asia; North and Central America; Africa; South America; Europe
Jones, G. "Entrepreneurs, Firms and Global Wealth since 1850." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-076, March 2013.
- 15 Aug 2022
- Book
University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed
superb scholars and among the world’s most talented students. China’s university leaders have been among the best in the world. But in recent ideological campaigns, its students are forced to sit through required courses in Party ideology, and they learn a comic book... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome
What can MBAs learn from the Roman emperors Tiberius and Claudius? All Roads Lead to Rome, a one-off elective course team-taught by HBS professor Frances Frei and Harvard history and classics professor Emma... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- August 2002
- Book Review
Review of Authority Relations and Economic Decision-making in Vietnam: An Historical Perspective by Dang Phong and Melanie Beresford
Abrami, Regina M. "Review of Authority Relations and Economic Decision-making in Vietnam: An Historical Perspective by Dang Phong and Melanie Beresford." Journal of Asian Studies 61, no. 3 (August 2002): 1104–1106.
- Research Summary
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
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922
cash. You change a coin or bill. Am I right? Now, sir, this register* makes the entries. The indication* of the transaction shows through this glass.* The amount* of the last recorded transaction is always visible, and the records are made View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
By the end of the second spin-off regime, Xerox's position in the copier market had begun to improve. While its share of the market would never return to 80 percent levels, Xerox was able to regain more than ten market share points,... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- April 2022
- Book Review
Review of "Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia's Early Independence Period: The Foundation of the New Order State (1950-1965)" by Farabi Fakih
By: Mattias Fibiger
Fibiger, Mattias. Review of "Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia's Early Independence Period: The Foundation of the New Order State (1950-1965)" by Farabi Fakih. Indonesia, no. 113 (April 2022): 125–127.
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
learning. Clearly, the history of the consumer electronics industry verifies his theory. Compare the performance of Sony and Matsushita to that of RCA. Sony's unsurpassed record of commercializing new products was based on learning... View Details