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  • June 2017 (Revised August 2018)
  • Case

Goodbye IMF Conditions, Hello Chinese Capital: Zambia's Copper Industry and Africa's Break with Its Colonial Past

By: Rafael Di Tella, Vincent Pons, Sarah Mehta and David Lane
Over the past several decades, rapid growth in Chinese investment and trade has created for Africa a new development partner. China represents an alternative to U.S. and European nations whose past imperialism, resource avarice, and economic dictates—through the... View Details
Keywords: Copper; Imperialism; IMF; World Bank; ODA; Debt Relief; Growth and Development; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Labor and Management Relations; History; Development Economics; China; Zambia; Africa
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  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

of U.S. representatives and senators in the early part of the 20th century. We also show under what conditions profit-maximizing media will cater to general (less affluent) voters in their coverage, providing a counterbalance to special... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Historical Origins of Environmental Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s-1980s

By: Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski
This working paper examines the growth of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. German business has been regarded as pioneering corporate environmentalism after World War II. In contrast, this study reveals... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Green Business; Pollution; Environmental Sustainability; Business History; Chemical Industry; Germany; United States
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  • 25 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

the case details, by 1916, she turned her horror of the barbaric practice of lynching into a powerful campaign against it. Her efforts toward African American participation in international peace discussions after World War I attracted "wary attention" from... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 01 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

Choosing the Right Student Loan

loan options available. Private loans may be a good option for both international and domestic students. Typically, private loan rates are based on your credit history and are variable; however, there are now more fixed interest rates... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

Industry Location and International Regulatory Variation Author:Arthur A. Daemmrich Publication:Chap. 16 in Ways of Regulating: Therapeutic Agents between Plants, Shops, and Consulting Rooms. Vol. 363, 271-290. Berlin, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

cannot surface: Abjuring rigorous debate about its merits, a youthful president John F. Kennedy essentially rubber-stamped a 1961 plan to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, resulting in one of the biggest U.S. foreign policy fiascoes in... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

negotiation of safe paths through the complexities of official regulations and government. The easiest way to understand the Unilever organization, observed an article in the U.S. business magazine Fortune in 1947, was "to think of... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

mind in the face of the debate over immigration and outsourcing, essentially trade in labor. And it is prompted by a new book, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, by Gregory Clark that identifies what he calls... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
  • 16 Jan 2018
  • Blog Post

How Can I Prepare to Apply for Financial Aid at HBS?

annual credit report and resolve any problems right away. It can take a long time to get erroneous information corrected so it is smart to try to take care of this as soon as you can. For international applicants, check your credit score if you have a credit View Details
  • 06 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 6, 2016

2016 Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development By: Beckert, Sven, and Seth Rockman, eds. Abstract—During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

are difficult to assemble. We combine several restricted-access U.S. Census Bureau data sets to create a unique longitudinal data platform that covers 1992–2008 and many states. We describe differences in the types of businesses initially... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

reduction, there is a long way to go from lowering tax rates to introducing a flat tax in the U.S. or in Western Europe. This would require a change of attitude in countries marked by a substantial history... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • November 2003 (Revised September 2016)
  • Case

Creating Global Oil, 1900-1935

By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Daniel Wadhwani
Taught in the elective MBA course entitled The Evolution of Global Business. Examines the development of an international cartel in the oil industry in the 1920s and 1930s. Focuses on the decisions and actions of the leading multinational oil companies—particularly... View Details
Keywords: History; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Alliances; Cooperation; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business

needs of Black grocers. A close friend of Justice Thurgood Marshall, Dowling served in managerial roles for the U.S. Department of Internal Revenue, the American Cancer Society, and the New Jersey Urban League. Howard Naylor Fitzhugh, MBA... View Details
  • Blog

The Chao Center: The Heart of HBS Executive Education

(1930-2007) an immigrant from China who, with her husband James Si-Cheng Chao, built a life in the U.S. and raised six daughters. It is the first building on campus named for a Chinese family and its extraordinary matriarch. After working... View Details
  • Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

democracy being a substitute for economic IGOs, but a complement for social and cultural IGOs. July 2013 Article Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity By: C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr This paper studies the impact... View Details
  • 27 Jun 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Positive and Normative Judgments Implicit in US Tax Policy and the Costs of Unequal Growth and Recessions

Keywords: by Benjamin Lockwood & Matthew Weinzierl