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- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
mercantilist model of government-managed trade. Japan's version of mercantilism primarily used its own banking system, as well as export revenues themselves, to generate the needed capital (in contrast to making heavy use of foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- Web
Exploring Trade Links in the Interior - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Related Collections Site Credits China’s commercial revolution gained further momentum in 1860 when the new, large-scale upcountry purchase of tea and silk became fully developed. — Yen-P’ing Hao, The Commercial Revolution in Nineteenth-Century China: The Rise of... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- What Do You Think?
Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?
Summing Up Krishnamurthy suggested that a return of mercantilism is not a threat, and that "the present dilemma is probably an aberration that will taper off in due course." Alejandro Ocana stated bluntly, "Global... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections
Dun & Bradstreet Corporation Records contain a vast array of materials that document the history and evolution of America’s first credit reporting firm. Coverage extends from the firm’s first iteration as the Mercantile Agency, then... View Details
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
Lalocracio In thinking about the current contested state of global capitalism, and what to do about it, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Seeking the Unconventional in Forging Histories of Capitalism, which... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
academic sessions, the conference offered plenty of time for relaxation and socializing. A gala dinner was held at The Field Museum, where the Chicago Club presented this year's Statesman of the Year Award to Leo Melamed, chairman emeritus of the Chicago View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
of how the historic merger between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and CBOT almost didn’t happen. She details the reasons behind the derivatives market’s spectacular growth and explains how derivatives affect the lives of average... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
virtue of its size and growth, high levels of entrepreneurial energy, legalistic culture, and a number of other unusual features. In our essay we show that the business systems of Britain and the Netherlands shared many similarities. Both countries had an imperial and... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Web
Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
institutions also included collections of Chinese art from mercantile families like the Heards. Augustine Heard advised that money enabled one “to gratify his taste for literature and the fine arts, but most all, money was worth... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
individual’s creditworthiness, founding the Mercantile Agency after his own silk importing business failed in the wake of the collapse. Subscribers paid a fee to gain access to that report on Henrietta Bruckman and thousands of others;... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Abstract—N.S.B. Gras, the father of Business History in the United States, argued that the era of mercantile capitalism was defined by the figure of the “sedentary merchant,” who managed his business from home, using correspondence and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
a normal historical process. Just as mercantile capitalism was displaced by proprietary capitalism, and that new form was later displaced by managerial capitalism, it makes sense that managerial capitalism will be displaced by a new, more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
economic―and from a variety of related perspectives, including debt and state finance, tariffs and tax policy, the encouragement and discouragement of trade, merchant communities and companies, smuggling and illicit trades, mercantile and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
Cabot Lowell (1775-1817). Slater, a skilled British textile machinery engineer, helped to develop the country's first cotton spinning mill. Lowell, a member of a prominent New England mercantile family, established the first integrated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
that mercantilism of invention should be the goal of the United States, as great good can come from ideas and innovation elsewhere that diffuse and spread. But the gains from innovation leadership are huge, ranging from the tech giants... View Details
Keywords: by Staff