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- 12 Apr 2022
- Book
Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence
Studies, won the Pulitzer Prize for her first book, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya. Legacy of Violence, upends old myths about the British Empire and sheds new light on the legacy of colonialism that...
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by Avery Forman
- 2018
- Introduction
Introduction: History and Political Economy
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis, and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end...
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Reinert, Sophus A., and Robert Fredona. "Introduction: History and Political Economy." Introduction to New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy, edited by Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert, 11–32. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- Research Summary
Making Markets Work: An Executive Education Program for Africa
By: Debora L. Spar
In the last decades of the 20th century economic growth was distributed unevenly across the world. While some countries experienced sustained and unprecedented prosperity, others fell further and further behind. This widening gap was particularly evident in Africa,...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America
was the American Dream in its earliest form, and for the people living the dream, it had an aura of double-edged incredulity. There was disbelief not only at their own good fortune, but also at the backbreaking work required to capitalize on it. From the View Details
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by Thomas K. McCraw
- 2018
- Book
New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy
By: Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert
This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end...
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Fredona, Robert and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- 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
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by Geoffrey Jones
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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take...
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- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones...
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- 08 Apr 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective
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by Geoffrey Jones
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Upper Burma in 1886 brought the rest of that country under British control. Also during the late nineteenth century large regions of tropical Africa were incorporated in the European, especially British and French, colonial empires during...
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by Geoffrey Jones
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
administrative/political (laws, trading blocs, colonial ties, currency, etc.), geographic (physical distance, lack of land border, time zones, climates, etc.), and economic (income levels, cost of natural resources, financial resources,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
tournament at Colonial Country Club. Ultimately, she didn't make the final cut, but her victory as a woman competing successfully in a male tournament carried so much interest and credibility the conventional measures of golfing...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
to move into palm oil—a much more capital intensive crop to process, with higher barriers to entry for small farmers. Geopolitical forces also played a part in the palm oil industry’s development, Giacomin says. After World War II, Indonesia’s Communist-backed...
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- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
Working Papers Direct versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-term Consequences (revised) Author: Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under direct British View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
corporate abuses or (2) less-developed nations roughly equal in power and with some control of corporate abuses. Unfortunately, much of today's international trade does not meet these conditions. Under the colonial system, powerful...
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by Paul R. Lawrence
- 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...
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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
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by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
things," while noting to his HBS colleagues with a laugh that he is not a Yankee and is from a former colonial state. At HBS, colleagues were interested that the research seems to play down the role of country effects in determining...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
companies from Germany dealt with the incarceration of thousands of their German national employees in India during World War I and World War II in her recent working paper, Countering Political Risk in Colonial India: German...
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- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
challenge the idea that it was colonial institutions that sent Brazil, a civil law country, down a particular path of corporate governance and finance. Detailed archival research reveals significantly different patterns of corporate...
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Martha Lagace