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  • September 2014
  • Article

Metropolitan Blueprints of Colonial Taxation? Lessons from Fiscal Capacity Building in British and French Africa, 1880-1940

By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
The historical and social science literature is divided about the importance of metropolitan blueprints of colonial rule for the development of colonial states. We exploit historical records of colonial state finances to explore the importance of metropolitan identity... View Details
Keywords: Colonial Administration; Quantitative Sources; Governance; Money; Taxation; Trade; History; Africa
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  • 12 May 2021
  • News

Colonial Pipeline Shutdown Prompts Federal, State Action to Move Fuel

    Awa Ambra Seck

    Awa Ambra Seck is an Assistant Professor in the  View Details

    • December 2013 (Revised August 2015)
    • Case

    Viva Macau (A)

    By: Dante Roscini and G. A. Donovan
    A fast-growing Macau-based airline backed by private US investors faces a dramatic expropriation in the wake of the first change of head of government since the former Portuguese colony became a Special Administrative Region of China. The case allows students to... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Air Transportation; Ownership; Foreign Direct Investment; Government and Politics; Emerging Markets; Venture Capital; China; Macau
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    • 2018
    • Chapter

    Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    This chapter explores the British experience in a volume which examines the historical evolution of business groups in developed Western economies. The chapter argues that during the nineteenth century British merchant houses established business groups with... View Details
    Keywords: Business Groups; Conglomerates; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Organizations; Business Conglomerates; United Kingdom
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    • 22 Aug 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

    excluded from the Communist world. In the twenty years after 1945 the European colonial empires were dismantled. In some cases, decolonization was followed by an aggressive reaction against the businesses of the former View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
    • Web

    Team - Case Method Project

    About Team 1ms David Moss Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business Administration David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School and the founder of the Case Method Institute. Before joining the Harvard... View Details
    • Web

    Events - Business History

    Origins of the Hilton Hotel Chain" Megan Elias (Boston University), 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Apr 9 09 Apr 2025 Virtual Seminar Gareth Austin (University of Cambridge), "Determinants of African Business Performance in Colonial and Post-Colonial... View Details
    • 25 Aug 2022
    • News

    Labs Enable Large-scale Research

    Marvin Bower Associate Professor Marco Di Maggio, Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of Business Administration Scott Duke Kominers, Professor of Business Administration SEAS: David Parkes, George F. View Details
    • Web

    Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections

    Bradstreet. A separate series covers the firm’s biggest rival, Bradstreet & Co., until the two firms merged in 1933. The records include correspondence, legal, financial, administrative records, and some visual material pertaining to the... View Details
    • 01 Dec 1996
    • News

    On Eve of Transition, Alumni Conference Set for Hong Kong

    The final stages of one of the most significant events in Asia this century Hong Kong's transformation from British colony to Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China will be witnessed... View Details
    Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
    • 04 Sep 2019
    • News

    The School that Donham Built

    government, became his mentor and continued to support his studies through law school. Donham specialized in corporate restructuring as a vice president at Boston’s Old Colony Trust Company and won wide praise from both labor and... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg
    • Web

    American Business History Records | Baker Library

    with global reach. Strengths include the papers of colonial and early republican-era farmers, craftsmen, and merchants; the records of major manufacturing firms, especially textile companies that developed the factory system from the... View Details
    • 15 Apr 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: April 15

    between firms' CSR ratings and analysts' forecast errors, indicating that learning is unlikely to account for the observed shifts in recommendations. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1507874 August 2013 A New Economic History of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 07 Jun 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

    the world Sixteen years ago, Elkins completed a dissertation on colonial-era Africa, which earned her a PhD in history from Harvard and ended up making history in the world. Based on years of extensive interviews with elderly Kenyans and veteran British View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 16 Mar 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: March 16

    pricing mechanism, capitalism must have the administrative capability to regulate the behavior of economic actors within those markets and the political capability to redesign their institutions; regulation and the design of market... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 10 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

    economic―and from a variety of related perspectives, including debt and state finance, tariffs and tax policy, the encouragement and discouragement of trade, merchant communities and companies, smuggling and illicit trades, mercantile and View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 Mar 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: March 22

    waste. This increase reflects a change in the behavior of households, which keep unaltered the production of total waste but sort it to a larger extent. In addition, we show that several factors that may discourage local administrators... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 May 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

    They often functioned, as a result, as part of the problem, rather than part of the solution. In the more recent globalization era, the strategies of Western corporations have moved beyond the practices of the colonial past, but linkages... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 18 Apr 2018
    • First Look

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

    British merchant houses established business groups with diversified portfolio and pyramidal structures overseas, especially in developing economies, including both British colonies and the independent nations of Latin America. While... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne