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- 1994
- Article
Cross-Investments in Transnational Banking: Britain, Germany and the United States in the Twentieth Century
By: G. Jones
Keywords: Investment; Banks and Banking; Business History; Banking Industry; United Kingdom; Germany; United States
Jones, G. "Cross-Investments in Transnational Banking: Britain, Germany and the United States in the Twentieth Century." Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 39 (1994).
- 2019
- Working Paper
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 9 Organizing to Rationalize
The purpose of this chapter is to explain what the technologies of flow production with stochastic bottlenecks require and reward in organizations. I argue that organizations successfully implementing these technologies are likely to have unified governance and... View Details
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 9 Organizing to Rationalize." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-033, September 2019.
- 19 Nov 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Lessons from IBM in Nazi Germany
- 23 Jan 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival
- 02 Nov 2015
- Book
Dear Internet: You Are Extraordinary, But Not Exceptional
- September 2009
- Case
J.P. Morgan
By: Richard S. Tedlow and David Ruben
An account of J.P. Morgan's remarkable career in government, railroad, and industrial finance. View Details
Tedlow, Richard S., and David Ruben. "J.P. Morgan." Harvard Business School Case 810-052, September 2009.
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to... View Details
- 2006
- Article
Historical Environments, Coordination and Consolidation in the U.S. Banking Industry, 1896-2001
By: Christopher Marquis
Marquis, Christopher. "Historical Environments, Coordination and Consolidation in the U.S. Banking Industry, 1896-2001." Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2006). (full version.)
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS at 100: School to Celebrate Centennial
HBS was established by votes of the Corporation of Harvard University on March 30 and April 8, 1908, with the first 24 students enrolling in October. Nearly 100 years later, the School has begun the early planning for worldwide events to celebrate its centennial in... View Details
Keywords: Centennial
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
book excerpt Firms As Actors From Chapter 1 Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World By Geoffrey Jones Entrepreneurs and firms have been important actors in the making of our modern global world. Forty years ago this would... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 13 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories Before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions
- 10 Nov 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930
- 14 Aug 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors
- 17 Aug 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate Governance and Networks: Bankers in the Corporate Networks of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States circa 1910
Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio
- Research Summary
Work, Mate, Marry, Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
By: Debora L. Spar
What will happen to our notions of marriage and parenthood as reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of creating babies? What will happen to our understanding of gender as medical advances enable individuals to transition from one set of... View Details
- 1990
- Book
New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America
By: R. S. Tedlow
Tedlow, R. S. New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America. New York: Basic Books, 1990.
- 2019
- Chapter
From Coast to Hinterland: Fiscal State Formation in British and French West Africa, c. 1880–1960
By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
This chapter contrasts and compares the ways different colonial states in West Africa developed local fiscal capacity. We show that per capita revenues were higher in the more commercialised coastal export economies than in remote parts of the interior. We argue that... View Details
Keywords: Fiscal Capacity; Public Debt; French West Africa; British West Africa; Geography; History; Africa
Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "From Coast to Hinterland: Fiscal State Formation in British and French West Africa, c. 1880–1960." In Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Africa and Asia, c. 1850–1960, edited by Ewout Frankema and Anne Booth, 161–192. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- 23 Nov 2015
- News
The Historian Who Came in from the Cold
- 27 Jan 2015
- News
The Dark Side of America's Brightest Inventor: Edison
- 08 Sep 2014
- News