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  • 15 Nov 2022
  • Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

Indonesia that enables merchants and creators to showcase and sell products promoted by creators. YouTube, Instagram, and Pinterest all have shoppable posts. Longer-form content. TikTok began with a 15-second limit. It announced in... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
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Morgan Hall | About

and iconic figure in US business. Morgan began his career in 1857, working in international finance in a firm headed by his father. In 1871, with Anthony Drexel, he cofounded Drexel, Morgan & Company, a merchant bank that served as an... View Details
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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Related Collections Site Credits From the earliest days of trade between the United States and China, the major obstacle to this commerce had been the lack of American commodities that could be sold in China. — Thomas Layton, The Voyage of the ’Frolic’: New England... View Details
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Historical Data Visualization - Business History

Median US Home Prices Unadjusted Trends Over Time Managing Distance Merchant Shipping Tonnage Trends Over Time Managing Distance Mobile Phone Subscriptions per 100 People Trends Over Time Corporations Natura Cosméticos Trends Over Time... View Details
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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
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HBS Cases | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
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Events - Business History

1970s - Present Einar Lie, University of Oslo Nov 4 04 Nov 2019 Business History Seminar The Company's Two Bodies: The Reinvention of the French East India Company in the late Eighteenth Century Elizabeth Cross, Georgetown University Oct 21 21 Oct 2019 Business History... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

venues and functions often enough to stay energized, to stay passionate," says Jim Stern about the twenty years he spent at Lehman Brothers - in posts ranging from corporate finance specialist to managing director and head of the firm's View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade

merchant active in the West Indies. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, but never graduated. At at young age Heard became captain of his own brig. He traveled to ports as far-flung as Rio de Janeiro, Liverpool, and... View Details
  • 2007
  • Book

Accounting: Text and Cases

By: Robert N. Anthony, David F. Hawkins and Kenneth Merchant
Keywords: Accounting
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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

recorded as Soviet Union Download Data Set in Excel Median US Home Prices Unadjusted United States Census Bureau, Decennial Census, various years Download Data Set in Excel Merchant Shipping Tonnage G. Harlaftis, A History of Greek-Owned... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting

extended over greater distances, personal connections were not always available. Yet, as every merchant knew, restricting business to known customers was no way to grow a company. The solution to this problem was the new industry of... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2012
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Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

effort, he mobilized Rakuten’s merchants in the south to help disaster victims in the north. The Rakuten Eagles, whose crimson uniforms symbolize the role that Harvard has played in Mikitani’s life, are based in the region hit hard by the... View Details
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Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

public interests.” 9 It was leading political figures like Gladstone, economist Mark Casson contends, who “believed that the right of a railway to interfere with private property, in the interests of merchants and industrialists, could... View Details
  • 19 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?

convenience, the quick in-and-out. And they’ve gone into underserved areas. They’re affordable and in low-population-density areas. They’re very successfully serving those. The pressure will be on the small Main Street merchants in these... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail
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The de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room | About

the future without learning from the past.” About the Name Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien II (MBA 1954) and his wife, Nan-b, are longtime HBS supporters. A member of one of the oldest merchant families in Quebec, Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien,... View Details
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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

business history in 2000 for Merchants to Multinationals (Oxford University Press, 2000). 1999 Leemore S. Dafny : Recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 1997–2001. Geoffrey G. Jones : Winner of the... View Details
  • 01 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan

the community, cares for the region, and cares for the producers," he says. "Lending is something that people don't really like in Italy. They think of usury, going back to Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. Many people still... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Food & Beverage