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      Making 'Green Giants': Environment Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s–1980s

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski
      This article examines the evolution of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. It focuses on two companies, Bayer and Henkel, that have been identified as "green giants," and traces the evolution of their... View Details
      Keywords: Business History; Green Business; Regional Strategy; Pollution; Henkel; Bayer; Globalization; History; Chemical Industry; Germany; United States
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      Jones, Geoffrey, and Christina Lubinski. "Making 'Green Giants': Environment Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s–1980s." Business History 56, no. 4 (July 2014): 623–649.
      • 2014
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      Firms and Global Capitalism

      By: Geoffrey Jones
      This chapter forms part of the two-volume Cambridge History of Capitalism, a definitive new reference work that traces the history of capitalism from its origins to the present day. The chapter focuses on the role of business enterprises as powerful actors in... View Details
      Keywords: Political Economy; American History; Economic History; Business History; Labor History; Slavery; Numeracy And Quantification; Science And Technology Studies; History Of The Book; International Investment; International Business; International Marketing; Globalization; History
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      Jones, Geoffrey. "Firms and Global Capitalism." Chap. 6 in The Cambridge History of Capitalism: Volume 2. The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Present, edited by Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson, 169–200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
      • 2014
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      Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth

      By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan
      At the time of the American Revolution, China was the strongest, richest, and most powerful civilization in the world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest.... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Systems; Leadership; Power and Influence; China
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      Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan. Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth. Harvard Business Review Press, 2014.
      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      Inequality and Decision Making: Imagining a New Line of Inquiry

      By: David Moss, Anant Thaker and Howard Rudnick
      The substantial increase in inequality in the United States over the past three decades has provoked considerable debate, with some analysts characterizing rising inequality as among the greatest threats facing the nation and others dismissing it as little more than a... View Details
      Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Income; Decision Making; Government and Politics; Economics; United States
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      Moss, David, Anant Thaker, and Howard Rudnick. "Inequality and Decision Making: Imagining a New Line of Inquiry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-099, June 2013.
      • June 2013 (Revised November 2016)
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      Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Elliot R. Benton
      This case considers the strategies of Charles W. Engelhard, an American mining magnate who made large investments in apartheid-era South Africa. Engelhard was widely believed to have been the model for the James Bond villan Auric Goldfinger. During the 1950s and 1960s... View Details
      Keywords: Political Economy; Business History; FDI; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; South Africa; Mining; Ethics; Globalization; Government and Politics; History; Mining Industry; Africa; South Africa
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      Jones, Geoffrey, and Elliot R. Benton. "Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa." Harvard Business School Case 313-148, June 2013. (Revised November 2016.)
      • 2012
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      Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

      By: Gary P. Pisano and Willy Shih
      For years—even decades—in response to intensifying global competition, American companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once... View Details
      Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Production; Competitive Advantage; Transformation; Innovation and Invention; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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      Pisano, Gary P., and Willy Shih. Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
      • March 2012
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      The Incentive Bubble

      By: Mihir Desai
      The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea—that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock instruments for managers, high-powered incentive contracts for... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Systems; Financial Markets; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Governance; Equality and Inequality; Human Capital; United States
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      Desai, Mihir. "The Incentive Bubble." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012).
      • March 2012
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      Why U.S. Competitiveness Matters to All of Us

      By: Nitin Nohria
      Americans may not realize this, but the world wants the United States to be competitive. For more than a century, global observers have considered the U.S. economy to be an exemplar and America a country to envy and imitate. Unfortunately, America's reign as the... View Details
      Keywords: Globalization; Competition; Economy; United States
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      Nohria, Nitin. "Why U.S. Competitiveness Matters to All of Us." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012).
      • February 2012
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      Management Practices across Firms and Countries

      By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
      For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing American, Japanese, and German firms are the best... View Details
      Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Competency and Skills; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Organizations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Sectors; Performance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Private Equity; Multinational Firms and Management; United States; Germany; Japan; China; India
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      Bloom, Nicholas, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Management Practices across Firms and Countries." Academy of Management Perspectives 26, no. 1 (February 2012): 12–33.
      • 2011
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      Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals

      By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
      We describe the evolution of selective aspects of punishment in the U.S. over the period 1980-2004. We note that imprisonment increased around 1980, a period that coincides with the "Reagan revolution" in economic matters. We build an economic model where beliefs about... View Details
      Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Economy; Moral Sensibility; Mathematical Methods; Opportunities; Behavior; United States
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      Di Tella, Rafael, and Juan Dubra. "Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17309, August 2011.
      • February 2011
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      Dividend Taxes and International Portfolio Choice

      By: Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
      This paper investigates how dividend taxes influence portfolio choices, using the response to the distinctive treatment of a subset of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA) of 2003. An open-economy after-tax capital asset... View Details
      Keywords: Dividends; Portfolio Choice; Taxes; Tax Treaties; Foreign Portfolio Investment; Taxation; Lawfulness; Economy; Price; Equity; Stocks; Investment Portfolio; Opportunities; Behavior; United States
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      Desai, Mihir, and Dhammika Dharmapala. "Dividend Taxes and International Portfolio Choice." Review of Economics and Statistics 93, no. 1 (February 2011): 266–284.
      • April 2010
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      Managed Globalization: Doctrine, Practice, and Promise

      By: Rawi Abdelal and Sophie Meunier
      Two alternate visions for shaping and explaining the governance of economic globalization have been in competition for the past 20 years: an ad hoc, laissez-faire vision promoted by the United States versus a managed vision relying on multilateral rules and... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Trade; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competition; European Union; United States
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      Abdelal, Rawi, and Sophie Meunier. "Managed Globalization: Doctrine, Practice, and Promise." Journal of European Public Policy 17, no. 3 (April 2010): 350–367.
      • 2010
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      Wealth and Justice: The Morality of Democratic Capitalism

      By: Peter Wehner and Arthur C. Brooks
      Popular opinion would have us believe that America's free market system is driven by greed and materialism, resulting in gross inequalities of wealth, destruction of the environment, and other social ills. Even proponents of capitalism often refer to the free market as... View Details
      Keywords: Capitalism; Economic Systems; Ethics; Moral Sensibility
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      Wehner, Peter, and Arthur C. Brooks. Wealth and Justice: The Morality of Democratic Capitalism. Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2010.
      • January 2010 (Revised October 2010)
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      Colombia: Strong Fundamentals, Global Risk

      By: Aldo Musacchio, Richard H. K. Vietor, Jonathan Schlefer and Carolina Camacho
      By mid-2009 Colombian President Alvaro Uribe had ended decades of virtual civil war and strengthened the business climate, but he faced tough economic challenges. Though he had instituted prominent market reforms and brought inflation down sharply, Colombia seemed... View Details
      Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Macroeconomics; Trade; Global Strategy; Infrastructure; Business and Government Relations; Colombia
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      Musacchio, Aldo, Richard H. K. Vietor, Jonathan Schlefer, and Carolina Camacho. "Colombia: Strong Fundamentals, Global Risk." Harvard Business School Case 710-012, January 2010. (Revised October 2010.)
      • 20 May 2009
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      American Competitiveness in a Global Economy

      By: Michael E. Porter
      This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report... View Details
      Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States
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      Porter, Michael E. "American Competitiveness in a Global Economy." Inner City 100 Luncheon, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, Boston, MA, May 20, 2009.
      • February 5, 2009
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      In Praise of Marketing

      By: John A. Quelch
      Many dismiss marketing as manipulative, deceptive, and intrusive. Marketing, they argue, focuses too much of our attention on material consumption. More recently, Benjamin Barber, in his 2007 book Consumed, claims that marketing is "sucking up the air from every other... View Details
      Keywords: Marketing; Consumer Loyalty; Local Vs. Global Branding; Multi-national Brands; Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Satisfaction; Globalized Economies and Regions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning
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      Quelch, John A. "In Praise of Marketing." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (February 5, 2009).
      • December 2007
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      China + India: The Power of Two

      By: Tarun Khanna
      China and India are burying the hatchet after four-plus decades of hostility. A few companies from both nations have been quick to gain competitive advantages by viewing the two as symbiotic. If Western corporations fail to do the same, they will lose their competitive... View Details
      Keywords: Competency and Skills; Economic Growth; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; China; India
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      Khanna, Tarun. "China + India: The Power of Two." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 12 (December 2007).
      • September 2006 (Revised August 2007)
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      The History of Credit Agencies in the United States

      By: F. Warren McFarlan and Tracy Manty
      Provides a brief background on the history of credit agencies in the United States. Focuses on the mature process of data collection on an American consumer and how credit agencies share the information to determine proper credit risk and worthiness of a consumer. The... View Details
      Keywords: Credit; United States
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      McFarlan, F. Warren, and Tracy Manty. "The History of Credit Agencies in the United States." Harvard Business School Background Note 307-057, September 2006. (Revised August 2007.)
      • March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
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      The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry

      By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio
      In Maseru, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, the stirrings of industrialization and modernization were promising, and more than 50,000 workers, mostly women, were employed in the textile sector; the figure reflected more than a threefold increase in just a few... View Details
      Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Trade; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Financial Crisis; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Lesotho
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      Abdelal, Rawi E., Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer, and Aldo Musacchio. "The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry." Harvard Business School Case 706-043, March 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
      • July 2005 (Revised August 2011)
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      Jesse Holman Jones and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

      By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Bridget Gurtler
      Jesse Holman Jones is regarded as one of the most influential men in reviving the American economy from the Great Depression. With only an 8th grade education, he rose to the top of the banking, real estate, and lumber industries, as well as the upper echelons of... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Strategy; Business History; Leading Change; Managerial Roles; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence
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      Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Bridget Gurtler. "Jesse Holman Jones and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 406-029, July 2005. (Revised August 2011.)
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