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  • 02 Mar 2018
  • HBS Seminar

William F. Maloney, World Bank, Chief Economist, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions

  • 09 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

Company, which began by importing and exporting into West Africa but, beginning in the 1950s, turned to investing heavily in local manufacturing, especially brewing and textiles. The United Africa Company employed around 70,000 people in... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
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The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System - A Chronicle of the China Trade

issued by the Chinese government, the hong merchants enjoyed considerable power. All foreign trade was required to be channeled through them. They purchased most of the imports, arranged for exports back to America, and made sure... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

industries, we construct an input-output table that includes disaggregated REE inputs. Using REE-related patents categorized by a large language model, sectoral TFP data, trade data, and physical and chemical substitution properties of REEs, we show that the... View Details
  • Fast Answer

Index constituents

constituents for a particular point in time. Capital IQ (S&P 500 only) Search for S&P 500 Choose constituents from left-hand menu Export to Excel   Historical Lists (not comprehensive, but includes the S&P indices and... View Details
  • September 2023 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

Kaspi.kz: Building Trust through Innovation

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Fares Khrais and Marilyn Morgan Westner
This case is written to help students explore how companies can maintain and develop trust while innovating, how to identify and respond effectively to warning signs that they may not be as trusted as they believe, and how being trusted can aid in expanding and growing... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Trust; Technology Adoption; Innovation and Invention; Banking Industry
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run Perspective

By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper explores long-run patterns in the strategies of international business in developing countries. There was a massive wave of Western multinational investment in the developing world during the first wave of globalization before the 1920s. The... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Developing Countries and Economies; History; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges
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  • 2012
  • Other Unpublished Work

Towards Efficiencies in Canadian Internet Traffic Exchange

By: Benjamin Edelman and Bill Woodcock
Canadian Internet access is heavily and unnecessarily dependent upon foreign infrastructure, especially U.S. infrastructure. This dependence imposes significant burdens upon Canadian Internet users:

* Service prices are higher than would be the case if... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Canada; Privacy; Technology Networks; Rights; Communication Technology; Internet; Ethics; Telecommunications Industry; Canada
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Target List: screen for companies by industry, location, and size

exported to Excel.  Screening Tip: If companies you are expecting to see aren't included in the results, click "Where's My Company?" to see which criteria don't match.  Video of Using Capital IQ: View Details
  • 21 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

is evidence that increased competition from Chinese imports contributed to the rise of far right parties in Western Europe. Some of my research explores similar dynamics in Brazil. I have found that decreased international demand for Brazilian View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

from general merchandisers to cotton commodity brokers, they opened an office in New York in 1858, the center of the commodities trading business. The firm served as brokers between farmers selling cotton and industrialists and exporters... View Details
  • 27 Sep 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Catherine Tinsley, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business

  • Web

Data - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

performance of more than 150 nations across 46 clusters of goods and services export activity. This powerful approach reveals emerging patterns and strengths in a nation's competitive trade position. The analysis can be tailored to focus... View Details
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PE & VC investors by investment criteria (industry, stage and geography)

and download to Excel. FactSet Click the magnifying glass and type Idea Screening. Select Idea Screening from the list. Under Mergers & Acquisitions select Private Equity. Create reports using criteria on left hand side. Double-click... View Details
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Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade

of pounds of Chinese tea were exported annually. The Portuguese, the first European traders to enter China, leased and controlled Macao; by the 1700s the center of Western trade shifted to Canton (now Guangzhou). The Chinese government... View Details
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Historical Data Visualization - Business History

Politics & Economics Adult Literacy Rates Trends Over Time Corporations Apollo Hospitals Historical Maps Commodities Apples, Bananas, Oranges, and Dates (1907) Trends Over Time Corporations Arçelik Corporation (Koç Group) Trends Over Time Commodities Banana View Details
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

extreme case was the Common Agricultural Policy, adopted in 1966, which severely restricted U.S. agricultural exports to Europe. However, within Europe, free trade was established between the member countries, even though nontariff... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 05 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

data last year, the researchers were surprised to find that Chinese exporters were not dropping prices of goods they sold to US importers. Nor, however, were US retailers passing the prices on to consumers. “Typically, most economists... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds

"nanotechnology" under Sector > Verticals. You can apply additional filters, including location, amount raised, company stage, and employee count. Click Manage Columns to add/remote columns to the display. Export to Excel.... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

transporting Asia-bound exports down to the Gulf and through the canal and shipping them out to Seattle by land. Conversely, eastern-bound cargoes no longer consisted of strategic raw materials from California but inexpensive manufactured... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation