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  • June 1990 (Revised February 1991)
  • Case

In the Shadow of the City

Traces the history of a collaborative effort to create an organization to manage a major international development project in the slums of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Focuses on a serious set of disagreements which develops several months into the project between the two... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Conflict and Resolution; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Ethiopia
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  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

in West Africa, 1950-1970 Author:Stephanie Decker Periodical:Business History Review 81 (spring 2007): 59-86 Abstract Development, modernity, and industrialization became dominant themes in corporate advertising in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2013
  • Book

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World

By: Geoffrey Jones
This book examines the history of entrepreneurship and multinationals in the making of the modern world. In recent years economists, historians, and political scientists have written extensively on the history of globalization and patterns of global wealth and poverty,... View Details
Keywords: FDI; Economic History; Business History; Industrial Organization; Chinitz; Agglomeration; Clusters; Cities; Mines; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Banking Industry; Chemical Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Electronics Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; South America
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  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Book

Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

History of the British Empire. Elkins, who has conducted extensive research in Africa and the former British Empire, marshals a decade of research across four continents to... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 09 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

Company, which began by importing and exporting into West Africa but, beginning in the 1950s, turned to investing heavily in local manufacturing, especially brewing and textiles. The United View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
  • December 2019
  • Case

Noiler

By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
In 2019, Nigerian entrepreneur Dr. Ayoola (Ayo) Oduntan is accelerating distribution of Noiler, a genetically optimized breed of poultry, to smallholder farmers across Nigeria. The bird was bred to be productive as a source of both meat and eggs and to thrive in the... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Poverty; Health; Growth and Development Strategy; Nigeria
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  • 04 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 4

with U.K. and U.S. regulators the firm agreed to pay $450 million in fines. Within a few days of the settlement, Barclays' CEO, Robert Diamond, had resigned under pressure from British regulators. Diamond blamed a small number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America

had much compunction about dispossessing Native Americans or each other. Sometimes they resorted to outright murder. The movement west constituted a great epic, but in its details was not a pretty story. Land was available in prodigal... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
  • 11 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 11

a 5.3% increase in RVUs per clinician workday; an increase in delegation of EHR tasks of 1 standard deviation resulted in an 11.0% increase in RVUs per clinician workday (P August 2013 Journal of Development Economics Evolution of Land Distribution in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

The Future of Economic, Business, and Social History

By: G. Jones, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen and Stephen Broadberry
Three leading scholars in the fields of business, economic, and social history review the current state of these disciplines and reflect on their future trajectory. Geoffrey Jones reviews the development of business history since its birth at the Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Economic History; Business History; History; Asia; Africa; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
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  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

permitted to seek diversification opportunities beyond West Africa by buying all manner of businesses in Europe. There had been major progress at cutting costs, but less in creating an atmosphere for more... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
  • 04 Feb 2022
  • Book

Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

“alternative globalizations”—namely, programs of globalization and international exchange that are not centered on the West or the expansion of capitalism. Some scholars have focused on the foreign policies and international agendas of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Dec 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

Patients with resources can easily go where care is provided. "Historically doctors moved from Africa and India to London and New York to provide care. Now we are basically flipping it around and saying, 'Why don't the patients move?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 02 Mar 2021
  • HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

requires us to address the past,” Desai says. Indeed, the case covers other episodes where victims of racial injustices have been compensated, and these efforts at reparations have been critical for progress. West Germany paid reparations... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 18 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

investment as it once was—to palm oil. Unilever, the largest private holder and buyer of palm oil (an ingredient used in its famous “Sunlight Soap” and other products), diversified its holdings from the crop’s native West View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 30 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

trying to augment the curriculum with international cases. For example, I wrote a case about a hotel in Barcelona, a shopping center development in Hungary, and the recapitalization of Canary Wharf in London. Currently, most of my focus is on Latin America, but I hope... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate
  • 23 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

5th Annual Africa Business Conference at Harvard Business School on March 8. Much of the debate over AIDS in Africa has surrounded the high cost of the drugs that have turned the deadly disease into one that... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 2022
  • Article

Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment

By: A.V. Whillans and Colin West
Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we conducted a longitudinal feld experiment over six consecutive weeks in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of... View Details
Keywords: Time; Subjective Well Being; Administrative Costs; Friction; Poverty; Well-being; Money; Perception; Kenya
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  • 18 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

Evolution and Resilience Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence By: Jones, G. Abstract—This chapter explores the British experience in a volume which examines the historical evolution of business groups in developed Western... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

and threats to Unilever's global business in 1978 based on the commercial and political challenges faced by three of its subsidiaries, Lever Brothers in the United States, Hindustan Lever in India, and United Africa Company in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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