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- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Japan. An entire system of governance was blown away. In 1911, an imperial tradition of more than 2,000 years ended. After the subsequent disasters of world war and Maoist utopianism, China was an impoverished third world economy holding 20% of the world's population... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
academic psychologists, Harvard Business School professors, directors of organizations, and government officials. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51447 Winter 2017 Oxford Review of Economic Policy The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
the optimal capital requirement is around 20%. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51305 The Empirical Economics of Online Attention By: Boik, Andre, Shane Greenstein, and Jeffrey Prince Abstract—In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Historical Roots of Globalization
preferences (with the beauty industry as an example). According to panelists, globalization has a homogenizing effect on diverse national cultures. Its pressures cause societies to become more alike, converging in business approaches, political and View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
Business and Economics, arguably the most comprehensive collection of early economics found anywhere. The institution in effect has a very long history of engaging with such questions, dating back to its... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
productive. The authors have studied when 161 countries adopted 104 technologies over the past 200 years, and they conclude that profound economic advantages-as measured by per capita income-accrue to early adopters of technology. Read... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
As Harvard Business School professor Laura Phillips Sawyer sifted through historical documents to trace the history of competition policy in the United States, an interesting figure emerged: Edna Gleason, who became known as the “mother... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
concern with the role of firms in creating markets, shaping policies, and diffusing globalization," says Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. In this... View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
managers. We haven't always understood these changes." Leviathan In Business In a new working paper, Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and Their Implications for Economic Performance, Musacchio and colleague Sergio G.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Feb 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
establishing the struggling young country's financial system. In The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy, Thomas McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at... View Details
- 2011
- Chapter
Another Grand Tour: Cameralism and Antiphysiocracy in Tuscany, Baden, and Denmark-Norway
Reinert, Sophus A. "Another Grand Tour: Cameralism and Antiphysiocracy in Tuscany, Baden, and Denmark-Norway." In Physiocrats, Antiphysiocracy and Pfeiffer, edited by Jurgen Backhaus, 39–69. Springer, 2011.
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
is mostly based on developed markets. Contextual factors, especially major economic and political shocks, might explain these unexpected findings. Silverthorne: What about practices or approaches that didn’t work out for those... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
build successful businesses. The desire to capture the scale of this change is the ambitious goal of Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets project, whose new website was profiled in HBS Working Knowledge last year. The Business View Details
- 2010
- Chapter
Paying in Paper: A Government Voucher from the Southern Song
By: William N. Goetzmann and Elisabeth Koll
Goetzmann, William N., and Elisabeth Koll. "Paying in Paper: A Government Voucher from the Southern Song." In The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets, Translation by Wany Yu and Wang Wenyu. Shenyang: Wan juan chu ban gong si, 2010, Chinese Mandarin ed.
- 2020
- Book
American Business History: A Very Short Introduction
By: Walter Friedman
By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business civilization." President Coolidge in 1925 said, "The chief business of the American people is business." More recently, historian Sven Beckert characterized Henry Ford's... View Details
Keywords: American Economy; Democratic Capitalism; Business History; Economy; Entrepreneurship; United States
Friedman, Walter. American Business History: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
- July 1991 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
Great Depression: Causes and Impact (Abridged)
Provides a vehicle for discussing the problems caused by the Great Depression. View Details
McCraw, Thomas K. "Great Depression: Causes and Impact (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 391-258, July 1991. (Revised June 1993.)
- February 2023 (Revised February 2025)
- Case
Doing Business in New Delhi, India
By: Vikram S Gandhi and Radhika Kak
The case uses the example of Tata Motors to discuss the opportunities and challenges of doing business in India. View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economy; Macroeconomics; Business History; India
Gandhi, Vikram S., and Radhika Kak. "Doing Business in New Delhi, India." Harvard Business School Case 323-083, February 2023. (Revised February 2025.)
- September 2002
- Case
World Trade Organization, The
By: David A. Moss and Nick Bartlett
Explores the origins and workings of the World Trade Organization (WTO), focusing particular attention on the special challenges of trade liberalization at the dawn of the 21st century. View Details
Moss, David A., and Nick Bartlett. "World Trade Organization, The." Harvard Business School Case 703-015, September 2002.
- March 2010
- Article
Sudden Stops: Determinants and Output Effects in the First Era of Globalization, 1880–1913
By: Michael D. Bordo, Alberto Cavallo and Christopher Meissner
We study the determinants and output effects of sudden stops in capital inflows during an era of intensified globalization from 1880 to 1913. Higher levels of exposure to foreign currency debt and large current account deficits associated with reliance on foreign... View Details
Keywords: Sudden Stops; Capital Flows; Economics; Macroeconomics; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Globalization; History
Bordo, Michael D., Alberto Cavallo, and Christopher Meissner. "Sudden Stops: Determinants and Output Effects in the First Era of Globalization, 1880–1913." Journal of Development Economics 91, no. 2 (March 2010): 227–241.