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  • 1984
  • Book

Energy Policy in America Since 1945: A Study of Business-Government Relations

By: Richard Vietor
Follows the history of government intervention in U.S. energy markets from 1945 to the present and shows how shifting market conditions of surplus and shortage and above all, price have played a determining role in the political process and U.S. fuel policy... View Details
Keywords: Political Economy; United States; Postwar Policy; Energy; Energy Sources; Policy; United States
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  • May 2000 (Revised June 2000)
  • Case

German Financial System in 2000, The

Describes the evolution and current situation of Germany's financial system. Based on a discussion of the German economy in the postwar period, the case highlights the impact of financial globalization and EU policies on Germany's domestic system of banking and... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Corporate Governance; Banks and Banking; Germany
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  • May 1989 (Revised June 1990)
  • Case

Great Britain: Decline or Renewal?

Focuses on the origins of economic decline and the problems of economic management in Great Britain, the oldest industrial state. Reviews the formation of macroeconomic policy, welfare policy, and industrial policy in the postwar period. Examines Prime Minister... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Great Britain
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  • April 2002 (Revised October 2002)
  • Case

The Blair Wealth Project: Antecedents and Prospects

By: Huw Pill and Ingrid Vogel
Discusses the macroeconomic and political situation in the United Kingdom from the end of World War II through 2001. Focuses on the interactions among macroeconomic performance, labor relations, the corporate governance system, and social services. In particular,... View Details
Keywords: Welfare; Corporate Governance; Labor and Management Relations; Government and Politics; Macroeconomics; United Kingdom
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  • December 2008
  • Article

The Teaching of Strategy: From General Manager to Analyst and Back Again?

By: Joseph L. Bower
Courses in strategy are an outgrowth of the business policy course first taught at Harvard Business School in 1912. This article examines how the teaching of a course concerned with the development and implementation of the goals and policies of a firm changed during... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Policy; Business History; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy
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  • 08 Aug 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Managing Governments: Unilever in India and Turkey, 1950–1980

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones
  • 24 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

Paul S. Adler. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, forthcoming Abstract No abstract is available at this time. Publisher's site: http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199535231 A Better Approach to Foreign Aid Authors: Justin Muzinich and Eric Werker Publication:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2022
  • Book

Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World

By: Jeremy Friedman
A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.

In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent... View Details
Keywords: Socialism; Economic Systems; Globalization; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies
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  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

able to sustain large businesses in those countries even in the postwar era of hostility to foreign multinationals. It argues that the explanation is multi-causal. Unilever held first-mover advantages in both countries, but it was also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

prevent the deepest recession in postwar history. A Crisis of Beliefs makes us rethink the financial crisis and the nature of economic risk. In this authoritative and comprehensive book, two of today’s most insightful economists reveal... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Book

Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

turned to “trusteeship,” the sacred trust between paternalistic rulers and their subjects. It was a topic that would bedevil other imperial conferences in the years ahead as trusteeship expanded beyond its eighteenth-century British origin. It had informed View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 23 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 23

both economically risky and a source of reduced purchasing power. This attitude has its roots in the early postwar lending environment, in which loans were seen to be beneficial only if they were accompanied by strong government... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

executive compensation. Yet while laws, regulations, and policies have a clear role to play here, they are a relatively expensive and inefficient way for a society to promote responsible conduct and trustworthy business leadership. In the... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

less regulation of business, so they are eager to accept that advocacy groups have little control over public policy. But since the Second World War, Trumbull notes, a pro-business policy approach has given way to a stronger View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 24 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

corporate policies that will be administered by corporate support units. Corporate office to business units: The corporate priorities are cascaded into business unit strategies. Business units to support units: The strategic priorities of... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 23 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

Yangzi region and Manchuria. Growth was slowed significantly in the 1930s by the global depression and by the financial policies of the Nationalist government, and it would be stopped altogether by the onset of the Sino-Japanese and then... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
  • 28 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

LED lighting? Pisano: Semiconductor companies were not thinking about the future of lighting. That's not their business. But that's a challenge, and that's the complexity of this. It also suggests a role for public policy in terms of... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

organizational action."3 By the 1960s, classroom discussions in the business policy course focused on matching a company's "strengths" and "weaknesses"—its distinctive competence—with the "opportunities"... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 07 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

Its early milestones—comparative product tests launched by Consumer Reports in 1936, the Kennedy administration's Consumer Bill of Rights in 1960, Ralph Nader's critique of the U.S. automobile industry in Unsafe at Any Speed in 1965—became models for subsequent... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 07 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

and policies that were influential as Europe first took off relative to the rest of the world. They also shed light on the historical interconnection of businesses and governments at the dawn of real globalization. The reigning idioms of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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