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- 2003
- Book
The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896
By: Sven Beckert
This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of the most powerful group in the nineteenth-century United States: New York City's economic elite. This small and diverse group of Americans accumulated unprecedented economic, social, and political power,...
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Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896. Paperback ed. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- 09 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?
researching the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany. In an interconnected corporate world, he says, the pipeline project illustrates how inseparable politics and business are, especially at the edges of old Cold View Details
- 2013
- Book
Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline
By: Steven Rosefielde and Daniel Quinn Mills
Democracy and Its Elected Enemies reveals that American politicians have usurped their constitutional authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector...
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Ethics;
Government and Politics;
Macroeconomics;
Public Administration Industry;
United States
Rosefielde, Steven, and Daniel Quinn Mills. Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- 26 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More
Cavallo suggests that American companies—and more recently, consumers—are bearing the brunt of the trade war with China, whose government has been retaliating with its own import tax increases. US exporters,...
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- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
We can be forgiven, especially this time of year, for questioning a decision our predecessors made just over a century ago. In the 1910s, Americans decided to make personal and corporate income taxes a permanent feature of the United...
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by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- Web
The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910
Civil War represents a marketing revolution in which technology, creativity, and art were marshaled together to serve commercial ends. Drawing from Baker Library’s Historical Collections, The Art of View Details
- 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...
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- Web
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
electorate FDA approves oral contraceptive pill Influence: High 70197019 National Organization for Women mobilizes for Equal Rights Amendment Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion Social discord continues over Vietnam War and View Details
- 2011
- Chapter
American Exceptionalism?: A Comparative Analysis of the Origins and Trajectory of U.S. Business Education Development
By: Rakesh Khurana
As business education in an academic setting becomes an increasingly global phenomenon, the university-based business school in America remains a unique institution. This holds true despite the fact that the American business school as it evolved in the post-World War...
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- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?
theme. Silverthorne: In general, what effect will the war and the perceived unilateral tactics of the president have on the reception of American brands overseas? Quelch: During the 1990s, View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- January–February 2013
- Article
Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities
By: Christopher Marquis, Gerald F. Davis and Mary Ann Glynn
We examine the link between corporations and community by showing how corporate density interacts with the local social and cultural infrastructure to affect the growth and decline of the number of local nonprofits between 1987 and 2002. We focus on two sub-populations...
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Keywords:
Business and Community Relations;
Civil Society or Community;
Business Model;
For-Profit Firms;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Profit;
Local Range;
Welfare or Wellbeing;
Business Processes;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Trends;
Management Practices and Processes;
United States
Marquis, Christopher, Gerald F. Davis, and Mary Ann Glynn. "Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities." Organization Science 24, no. 1 (January–February 2013): 39–57. (Read a summary of the article in Stanford Social Innovation Review.)
- 2017
- Working Paper
The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age
By: Ufuk Akcigit, John Grigsby and Tom Nicholas
We examine the golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking inventors from historical U.S. patents to Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940 and to regional economic aggregates. We provide a theoretical framework to motivate the...
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Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas. "The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-063, January 2017. (Revised June 2017.)
- October 2012 (Revised July 2014)
- Background Note
The Role of the Government in the Early Development of American Venture Capital
By: Josh Lerner and Tom Nicholas
Whether the government or markets, or a mixture of both, can provide efficient and effective incentives for encouraging entrepreneurial activity and new venture financing is an age-old question. Public promotion efforts are controversial and in most cases they tend to...
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Lerner, Josh, and Tom Nicholas. "The Role of the Government in the Early Development of American Venture Capital." Harvard Business School Background Note 813-096, October 2012. (Revised July 2014.)
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Replica Bell for Baker Library; Historic Original Returns to Russia
In August, the bell atop Baker Library was replaced by a replica as the original, along with seventeen other bells at Harvard University, is being returned to Russia. Amid fears that the Soviets might melt them down, the bells were sold in 1930 to an View Details
- 31 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World
Wealth around the World: Benjamin Franklin and the Globalization of American Capitalism,” published in American Historical Review (February 2015). “I’m interested in how ideas reflect but also change...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
events provided a teachable moment regarding our role as global citizens and the importance of ending poverty." "We know that all the might in the world won't end the war on terrorism," added Neal Keny-Guyer, CEO of Mercy Corps...
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- Web
American Currency | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
commerce from Colonial times through the Civil War. 55 73740 American Currency /citations/sc-business-manuscripts/american-currency Digital collection of over 700 pieces of paper money ranging in date from...
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- summer 1992
- Book Review
Review of Predators and Prizes: American Privateering and Imperial Warfare, 1739-1748, by Carl E. Swanson
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Koehn, Nancy F. "Review of Predators and Prizes: American Privateering and Imperial Warfare, 1739-1748, by Carl E. Swanson." Business History Review 66 (summer 1992): 400–402.
- 20 Nov 2013
- News
Gettysburg Address: A powerful lesson for business leaders
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
World War II, members played a key role in the Normandy invasion. When Sundy left the army for the corporate world, he turned his attention to similarly storied names such as Cheerios, Betty Crocker, KitchenAid, and Maytag in his...
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