Economic History - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jan 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs

underappreciated, as gastronomically valuable, thus promoting a different, locally sustainable food culture. Somewhat similarly, Saffronart harnessed academic discourse to recast twentieth-century Indian art as modernist, and therefore aesthetically and View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

Originally designed for HBS classroom use, the BAV software was recently made available to the public for purchase for $69 through Harvard Business School Publishing. We asked Healy to discuss the BAV in an e-mail interview. Sean Silverthorne: What's the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course

topics – from an exploration of history and the economic landscape to the role of procurement and barriers to accessing financial capital – and each class featured prominent guests and leaders in these... View Details

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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Resilience ; Pandemic Resilience: Getting It Done ; Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century ; and Educating for American Democracy: Excellence in History and Civics for All Learners K-12 . She was for many... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship

Bruce V. Rauner recently celebrated his 15th HBS Reunion in a big way, establishing a professorship in business administration at HBS that bears his name. At 40, he is one of the youngest alumni in the School's history to create an... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

22 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Publication:American Economic Review 99, no. 5 (December 2009) Abstract We use a new firm-level dataset that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries. Using a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2002
News

Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future

memory of war on one's home soil. We know how tragic history can be, and we understand the fragility of society." A native of France who relocated to New York last summer, Hannezo recalled John F. Kennedy's famous declaration, "Ich bin... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Business at the Summit

Democrats don’t like ‘standards.’ ” Ignore history at your peril: HBS professor Niall Ferguson, an economic historian, declared that a global economy is more likely to create View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

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Daniel Serna

marketing projects. To learn more about agriculture itself, he studied at Yale. "Most people don't think of Yale as a big 'aggie' school," Dan explains. "But it has a long history in environmental and agricultural View Details

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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Sally Smith Hughes, in "Early Bay Area Venture Capitalists: Shaping the Economic and Business Landscape," Venture Capitalists Oral History Project , The Bancroft Library Regional Oral View Details

19 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

deficit that drives up interest rates. She cares if we have a huge current account deficit and import everything from elsewhere. Her own business might erode to the point of failure. Finally, the American cares because our economic... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library

iconic landscape photographer Ansel Adams. The South Sea Bubble, 1720 Explore one of the most extensive collections in the world relating to the first international stock market crash. An exhibition featuring selections from the collection provides further context for... View Details

22 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

market looked behind "the thin film of gold." Our results point to a dichotomy: whereas country-risk premia fell after gold adoption in developed countries, there were no credibility gains in the volatile economic and political... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

change, NATO, immigration, and energy in direct opposition to what they need to build their companies. As a result, they are stepping up to take the lead on vital global issues. Business leaders have a history of stepping in This is the... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

2010
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A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism

By: Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Robert MacCulloch

We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the period 1983-2004. The measure of beliefs is the answer to a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help... View Details

Keywords: History; Natural Environment; Non-Renewable Energy; Values and Beliefs; Price; Poverty; Policy; Economy; United States

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January 2000 (Revised April 2000)
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StarMedia: Launching a Latin American Revolution

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust

By the fall of 1999, StarMedia had sprinted to a sizable lead in the race to acquire Latin American Internet users. Its pan-regional, horizontal portal was the first to target Spanish- and Portuguese-language speakers on the Internet, registering 1.2 billion page views... View Details

Keywords: Private Ownership; History; Risk Management; Business Cycles; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; Media; Emerging Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Web; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry

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14 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism

different economic paths in relation to Russia even though they all had similar starting points. "Some countries thought the dependence on Russia was perfectly fine, and a reason to re-integrate with Russia," Abdelal explained.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

professor and Dean of the Faculty, provided a brief outline of the landscape as well as thoughts on how to view the proposed bailout. Lecturer Nicolas P. Retsinas, Director of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, then gave a brief View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

01 Jan 2003
News

James E. Burke, MBA 1949

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Emeritus Johnson & Johnson Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page ©2003 www.RockyThies.com EARLIER EDUCATION College of the Holy Cross, 1947 B.S., Economics LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "HBS had a... View Details

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