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  • September 2014
  • Article

Colonial Institutions, Trade Stocks, and the Diffusion of Elementary Education in Brazil, 1889–1930

By: Aldo Musacchio, Andre C. Martinez Fritscher and Martina Viarengo
We show how the decentralization of fiscal responsibility among Brazilian states between 1889 and 1930 promoted an unequal expansion of public schooling. We document how the variation in state export tax revenues, product of commodity booms, explains improvements in... View Details
Keywords: Institutions; Economic History; Education; Development Economics; Policy; Brazil
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  • October 2017
  • Article

American Danger: United States Empire, Eurafrica, and the Territorialization of Industrial Capitalism, 1870–1950

By: Sven Beckert
During the last third of the nineteenth century, a debate emerged in a number of European countries on the “American danger.” Responding to the rapid rise of the United States as the world’s most important economy, some European observers feared their nations’... View Details
Keywords: Atlantropa; Colonial Expansion; Economic Nationalism; Second Great Divergence; Economics; Global Range; History; United States; Europe; Africa
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  • 2019
  • Chapter

From Coast to Hinterland: Fiscal State Formation in British and French West Africa, c. 1880–1960

By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
This chapter contrasts and compares the ways different colonial states in West Africa developed local fiscal capacity. We show that per capita revenues were higher in the more commercialised coastal export economies than in remote parts of the interior. We argue that... View Details
Keywords: Fiscal Capacity; Public Debt; French West Africa; British West Africa; Geography; History; Africa
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  • 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
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

integrating into the game aggregator role, which would capture more value but put Mochi into direct competition with platform partners. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811056-PDF-ENG William Jeffrey Departs from Bay View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

candidates to become major producers. They were consequently well positioned to diversify into production. A third determinant was the further expansion of imperial frontiers. In Asia, British political influence was extended over the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

steered Hakluyt into remarkable growth and heightened ambition. By 2023, Hakluyt had transformed into a £113.1 million business, boasting 196 employees spread across 13 strategic international offices. However, this rapid expansion and... View Details
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Events - Business History

Jeremy Friedman (HBS), Chair Mary O'Sullivan (University of Geneva), "The Ruin of Britain's Manufactures: Capitalism and Colonialism through the Lens of Pitt's 1785 Irish Proposals" D'Maris Coffman (UCL), "The First Crisis Economists:... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

capital sector. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-114.pdf Multi-Sided Platforms: From Microfoundations to Design and Expansion Strategies Author:Andrei Hagiu Abstract Multi-sided platforms (MSPs), which bring together... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

"course researchers," whose class participation can be exceptionally valuable in the theory-building process. Buy Local? The Geography of Successful Venture Captial Expansion Authors:Paul A. Gompers, Henry Chen, Anna Kovner, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

Change: The Expansion of Primary Education in India By: Mangla, Akshay Abstract—This article analyzes India’s recent enactment of universal primary education. This programmatic policy change is puzzling given the clientelistic features of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

side so that empire can make its way. The Native family is not only cast aside but aligned with a felled tree, signifying an obstruction cleared. Such depictions, however, ignore the Native resistance to westward expansion in the US,... View Details
  • 23 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

vulnerable to superior service alternatives. Along the way, we also show that firms trade off price and service quality and that when the incumbent offers relatively low service quality in a local market, it is susceptible to the entry or View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

work, we look at the gold standard era (1880-1914) as a "natural experiment" to test whether adoption of a rule-based monetary framework such as the gold standard increased policy credibility. On the basis of the largest possible dataset covering almost sixty... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

merchant houses established business groups with diversified portfolio and pyramidal structures overseas, primarily in developing countries, both colonial and independent. In the domestic economy, large single product firms became the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

understanding how corporations manage the symbolic use of information and how corporate behavior is influenced by civil society scrutiny embedded in institutional processes. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1836472 Colonial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2018
  • News

Havana Rising

workers and laid out an expansion of the private sector that granted operating licenses for 201 jobs—everything from the highly specific “flower wreath arranger” and “Benny Moré Dance Team” to the more general “artisan” and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
  • Web

Print View - Course Catalog

capitalist expansion and the impact of technology and finance. The course's perspective provides a broad understanding of the long-term impact of technological change, entrepreneurship, and market evolution on U.S. business, managers, the... View Details