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- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
had lower creativity ratings than men, but other ratings were not influenced by the gender of the judge or the difference in gender of the target-judge dyad. The implications of these findings are discussed. Colonial Land Tenure,...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
problems. 5. Role of Governments. In recent years the subject of the role of governments seems to have lost favor with business historians. In contrast, economists, among others, have launched vigorous debates on government and economic growth that center on issues of...
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 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...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717498-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-034 Goodbye IMF Conditions, Hello Chinese Capital: Zambia's Copper Industry and Africa's Break with Its Colonial Past Over the past several decades,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
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
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
legendary Mahatma Gandhi. Provides the opportunity to consider the impact of colonialism on shaping Indian entrepreneurship and the role of the small Marwari group, originally from the Marwar region of Rajasthan, in creating many of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54177 Countering Political Risk in Colonial India: German Multinationals and the Challenge of Internment (1914–1947) By: Lubinski, Christina, Valeria Giacomin, and Klara Schnitzer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
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...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
Things Fall Apart, which describes the reactions of an Ibo tribe in Nigeria to the coming of the Christian missionaries and British colonial authorities at the turn of the 20th century. The novel started me thinking about the...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
interests that later proved complementary when it came to carving up iTrust management responsibilities. Agarwala grew up in Calcutta, the original capital of India during British colonial rule, dreaming of playing cricket. He ultimately...
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- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
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 explore what Foreign Direct Investors can do to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
generalizations are misleading. The two countries are neighbors who share a common Spanish colonial legacy. However their institutions differ in important ways and this affects the process of decision-making. Historically Chile developed...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
factories, a retail franchise, a cattle ranch, a 5,000-acre plantation, a sawmill, and an exporting business before the end of British colonial rule in 1960. Seizing business opportunities as he saw demand, Odutola moved between markets...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
provides another example. Mira Wilkins published a major study of the globalization of Ford in 1964, only four years after the word "multinational" was coined. Her study of the growth of American multinationals from the colonial...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
enduring consequences that generate ongoing harm, which needs to be addressed as a matter of justice and equity. Time for Reparations provides a wealth of detailed and diverse examples of state injustice, from enslavement of African Americans in the United States and...
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- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
an event titled Greater China: Myth, Reality, and Opportunity. Of special note will be the opportunity to observe and consider what's in store for the former Crown Colony on the eve of its transformation into a "Special Administrative...
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Daniel Penrice
- Web
Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Currency Collection. Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School, olvwork36590; Bottom: Mahaiwe Bank (Massachusetts), 10 dollars, 1854. American Currency Collection. Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School, olvwork365901During the...
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- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
says economist Ricardo Torres, from the University of Havana’s Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy, over lunch at Río Mar, a waterfront spot overlooking the juncture of the sea and the Almendares River. Torres explains that when Cuba was a Spanish View Details
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North