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Making Markets Work: An Executive Education Program for Africa
By: Debora L. Spar
In the last decades of the 20th century economic growth was distributed unevenly across the world. While some countries experienced sustained and unprecedented prosperity, others fell further and further behind. This widening gap was particularly evident in Africa,... View Details
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Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950 (BOOK)
In my first book manuscript, Experiments in Financial Democracy, I challenge the idea that it was colonial institutions that sent Brazil, a civil law country, down a particular path of corporate governance and finance. Detailed archival research reveals... View Details
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Team - Case Method Project
as the creation of the Case Method Project at Harvard Business School in 2015 and, subsequently, the Case Method Institute for Education and Democracy in 2020. Joanna Beinhorn Joanna Beinhorn is the program coordinator for the Case Method... View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
changing tastes of consumers. Participants will explore how the declining interest in, and sales of, jazz music can be reversed; the role of Marsalis and JALC in this context; and the lessons for arts and cultural institutions worldwide... View Details
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Events - Business History
Origins of the Hilton Hotel Chain" Megan Elias (Boston University), 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Apr 9 09 Apr 2025 Virtual Seminar Gareth Austin (University of Cambridge), "Determinants of African Business Performance in Colonial and Post-Colonial... View Details
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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - 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
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Partners - Case Method Project
Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming MD 1 of 21 Ross Adelson Seneca Valley High School Germantown, MD MD 2 of 21 James Baker Baltimore... View Details
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
U.S. Government and Politics, College Prep/Honors U.S. History WA Alexandra Baker Inglemoor High School Kenmore, WA Subjects: Civics MD James Baker Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Baltimore, MD CA Randy Baker Terra Linda High School San... View Details
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Faculty Research Award for “Financing the African Colonial State: Fiscal Capacity Building and Forced Labor.” Marlous van Waijenburg : 2018: Winner of the International Economic History Association's triennial Dissertation Prize in the... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
understanding how corporations manage the symbolic use of information and how corporate behavior is influenced by civil society scrutiny embedded in institutional processes. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1836472 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books
1963), Editor Palgrave Macmillan This book qualitatively and quantitatively examines the exploitation of Africa through six centuries of colonialism and imperialism. The chapters introduce new ways to measure some of the coerced income... View Details
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
to move into palm oil—a much more capital intensive crop to process, with higher barriers to entry for small farmers. Geopolitical forces also played a part in the palm oil industry’s development, Giacomin says. After World War II, Indonesia’s Communist-backed... View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
administrative/political (laws, trading blocs, colonial ties, currency, etc.), geographic (physical distance, lack of land border, time zones, climates, etc.), and economic (income levels, cost of natural resources, financial resources,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2021
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International Women's Day Featured Stories
Business School Prior to coming to HBS I created a company Pension Consulting Alliance, Inc. that advised some of the world’s largest institutional investors concerning their private market investments. I was asked to be their advocate... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice
and places like colonial America where hard currency was scarce. Resourceful merchants and retailers devised clever instruments and institutions of credit that made possible large, complicated transactions... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
that had previously given it coherence and meaning,” Allawi argues, asserting that under colonial rule, traditional institutions and ways of life were replaced by modern equivalents that spoke little to the... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15
Consequences of Colonial Institutions By: Iyer, Lakshmi Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138779723/ August 2013 Journal of International Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier Timeline 1607 Jamestown A Short History of Jamestown Jamestown Colony 1619 Enslaved Africans brought to Point Comfort, Virginia The 1619 Landing — Report & FAQs First African Slave Ship Arrives at... View Details
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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
institutions can be developed which focus the uncoordinated actions of individual households and firms as well as voters and politicians on good, rather than bad, overall outcomes. Such institutions are key... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Labs Enable Large-scale Research
Illustrations from VectorStock.com The Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) aims to supercharge HBS’s research agenda by applying a lab-based model similar to that used by the scientific community for problem solving,... View Details