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  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Faculty Books

Mexico Since 1980 by Stephen Haber, Herbert S. Klein, Noel Maurer, and Kevin J. Middlebrook (Cambridge University Press) Associate Professor Maurer and his co-authors address two questions that are crucial to understanding Mexico’s current economic and View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

this interview he discusses the development of the German corporation and what modern managers can learn from that history. The book was edited by Thomas K. McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, and was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

Azmi, famous actress and political activist; Shinta Kamdani, CEO of Indonesia’s Sintesa Group; and Dr. Manu Chandaria, chair and CEO of the Kenyan-based steel and aluminum group Comcraft. Young Indian woman sorting red chilli peppers,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’

change to economists, political scientists, sociologists, and a host of popular writers." A renewal of interest in the "history of capitalism" is finally beginning to correct this peculiar omission.   Related Article An... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones

    Intriguing Questions

    criteria of success since I leave with more questions than answers, and three broad lessons that I would like to share. The first is that as much as history is shaped by political figures and pivotal events,... View Details
    • 2020
    • Article

    Remaking the Imperial Presidency: The Mayaguez Incident of 1975 and the Contradictions of Credibility

    By: Mattias Fibiger
    This article argues that the Mayaguez incident of 1975 was a missed opportunity to establish a more democratic American foreign policy. President Gerald Ford managed the crisis with an eye toward domestic and international credibility. But his conception of credibility... View Details
    Keywords: Foreign Policy; Presidency; Ford Administration; Government and Politics; History; Crisis Management; United States
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    • Forthcoming
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    Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S.

    By: Stefano Gagliarducci and Marco Tabellini
    How do ethnic religious organizations influence immigrant assimilation? To answer this question, we assemble novel data from the Catholic directories to measure the presence of Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920, when four million Italians moved... View Details
    Keywords: Assimilation; Religious Organizations; Immigration; Religion; History; United States
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    • 01 Sep 2014
    • News

    HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World

    Building an Evidence Base for Emerging Markets It’s one thing to research the history of companies in Europe, the United States, or Japan, where libraries, archives, and public records are abundant. But what about emerging markets, where... View Details
    Keywords: faculty research
    • 14 Dec 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America

    Keywords: by Gunnar Trumbull
    • 14 Jul 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival

    Keywords: by Oliver Falck, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich & William R. Kerr; Manufacturing
    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century

    By: Ufuk Akcigit, John Grigsby, Tom Nicholas and Stefanie Stantcheva
    This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the 20th century. We use three new datasets: a panel of the universe of inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location, and patents of firms... View Details
    Keywords: Taxation; Innovation and Invention; History; United States
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    • 27 Jan 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

    look at portfolios because that’s a natural way to measure risk, and then we needed an area where we could actually observe some scandals and misconduct happening,” Minor says. “Hmm, where could that be? Politicians! It turns out they have a rich View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland
    • 14 Dec 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

    Imagine you've arrived for a meeting at a corporate campus. But now you discover that the conference room is in another building a quarter mile away. Sure, you could walk there but in the rain? Up purrs an automated people mover, a vehicle shaped like a segment of a... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation
    • Article

    From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration

    By: Vasiliki Fouka, Soumyajit Mazumder and Marco Tabellini
    How does the arrival of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration. Between 1915 and 1930, 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to Northern... View Details
    Keywords: Assimilation; Great Migration; Group Identity; Immigration; Race; History; United States
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    • 02 Oct 2008
    • What Do You Think?

    Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?

    down" and "bottom up" provisions, the product of a political compromise. Some would claim that markets that were too free and not sufficiently regulated got us into this mess. That will be a topic of debate (not unlike the one that led to... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • Web

    Forest L. Reinhardt | About

    and political perspectives, and considering the strategies both of incumbent firms and startups. Professor Reinhardt has developed two courses for Harvard Business School Online. The first, Global Business, draws on microeconomics,... View Details
    • Web

    Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources

    Press, 1945). Clark, Christopher. The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990). Ernst, Joseph Albert. Money and Politics in America, 1755-1775: A Study in the Currency Act of... View Details
    • November 2021
    • Article

    The Nixon Doctrine and the Making of Authoritarianism in Island Southeast Asia

    By: Mattias Fibiger
    This article argues that the Nixon Doctrine was an instrument of authoritarianization in island Southeast Asia. It traces the formulation of the Nixon Doctrine and its implementation through foreign aid decisions, revealing that President Richard Nixon and his chief... View Details
    Keywords: Diplomacy; Foreign Aid; Authoritarianism; Geopolitics; Nixon; International Relations; Policy; History; Southeast Asia; United States
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    Kress Collection of Business and Economics Graphic Materials | Baker Library

    views of stock exchanges, banks, mints, and treasuries portraits of bankers, statesmen, and financiers political and personal satires national finance and taxation images of money lenders, avarice, corruption, poverty, charity, and... View Details
    • 30 Apr 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

    with finding a political way to implement low corporate taxes. –Ane Damgaard Jensen It also has to be said that a lot of the appeal behind the flat tax is related to the reduction in the administrative burden, but also that flat taxes... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace