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    Walter A. Friedman

    Walter A. Friedman is Director of the Business History Initiative and Lecturer.  He edits Business History Review with Geoff Jones. He specializes in business, labor, and economic history. He is author of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; automobiles; automotive; electrical equipment; electronics; information technology industry; marketing industry; railroad; retailing; soft drink
    • 15 Mar 2022
    • News

    How a Ukrainian Economist Is Fighting the Russians

      Adi Sunderam

      Adi Sunderam is the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 2 in... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; federal government; financial services; investment banking industry

        Samuel G. Hanson

        Samuel G. Hanson is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 1... View Details

        Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; federal government; financial services; investment banking industry
        • August 2001 (Revised January 2002)
        • Case

        Votia Empowerment AB (A)

        The founder of a Swedish company specializing in e-democracy examines the economics of her business and the value proposition it delivers to customers, including municipalities, unions, and companies. View Details
        Keywords: Internet and the Web; Communication; Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Sweden
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          Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

          Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He joined HBS in 2000 where he has taught the required MBA Strategy course, an elective course on Competing Business Models, and Ph.D. courses on... View Details

          Keywords: apparel; energy; paper; semiconductor; software

            Tomomichi Amano

            Tomomichi Amano is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at HBS. He teaches the Marketing course in the MBA required curriculum.

            Professor Amano draws on economic theories to understand novel mechanisms by which new... View Details
            • 25 Aug 2016
            • Video

            Seth Pinsky responds to MOC class discussion in 2016

            • 06 Mar 2014
            • HBS Seminar

            Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School

            • Research Summary

            Democratic Governance and Decision Making

            By: David A. Moss
            Under what conditions are public policies in a democracy determined by special interests or, alternatively, by the general interest?  A good deal of academic work, particularly associated with the economic theory of regulation, suggests that special interests... View Details
            • 2012
            • Mimeo

            Françafrique and Oil

            By: Noel Maurer
            France's special relationship with its oil-producing former colonies has become entirely divorced from economic or strategic considerations. What drives the relationship, rather, are special interests: the French oil companies, the connections between African leaders... View Details
            Keywords: Relationships; Economics; Strategy; Natural Environment; Interests; Crime and Corruption; Energy Industry; France; Gabon; Congo, Republic of the
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            • September 2024
            • Case

            XYZ Robotics

            By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Brian Mao Fu, Shu Lin and Jamie Gong
            Founded in 2018, XYZ Robotics was a China-based startup specializing in robotic picking solutions and 3D machine vision products. Amid an economic downturn and intense competition, the company faced considerable financial challenges and needed to determine the best way... View Details
            Keywords: Robotics; 3D Systems; China; Resource Allocation; Business Startups; Competition; Product; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Technology Industry; China
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            Business history

            Espen Storli is currently working on a project on commodity trading in the post-WWII period, with a special interest in the political economy of the world mercury markets. He is also one of the editors of a forthcoming book on the global economic history of bauxite. View Details
            • 23 Mar 2015
            • News

            Cities Turn to Social Media to Police Restaurants

              Josh Lerner

              Josh Lerner graduated from Yale College with a special divisional major. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on... View Details

              Keywords: biotechnology; high technology; venture capital industry
              • April 2003 (Revised October 2003)
              • Background Note

              Diasporas: Causes and Effects

              By: Tarun Khanna and Paula Campbell
              Articulates a simple supply-demand framework to understand why people immigrate and focuses attention on the specialized cross-border intermediaries that facilitate such movement. Analyzes a series of important effects, primarily economic, of the diaspora communities... View Details
              Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Diasporas; Economics; Framework; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Business or Company Management
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              Sigecom Test of Time Award

              Winner of the 2018 SIGecom Test of Time Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on E-Commerce for “Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second Price Auction: Selling Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords” with Michael... View Details

                Aiyesha Dey

                Aiyesha Dey has been part of the Accounting and Management unit at the Harvard Business School (HBS) since July 2017. She started her career as an accounting faulty at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, after which she joined the accounting group at... View Details
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                Business History

                By: Walter A. Friedman
                Walter Friedman serves as co-editor of Business History Review. He has a special interest in the history of marketing and personal selling, and is author of Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America (Harvard, 2004). He is also interested in the... View Details
                • 2010
                • Chapter

                The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics

                By: David Moss and Mary Oey
                What drives policy making in a democracy? The conventional view is that political actors, like economic actors, pursue their self interest, and that special interest groups dominate the policy making process by satisfying policy makers' need for money and other forms... View Details
                Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Media; Interests; Power and Influence; Public Opinion; United States
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