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- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
slavery had its financial benefits for slave owners. And, in virtually every case of misconduct that I've studied, the perpetrators justified their actions by reference to the anticipated financial gains. What's important to recognize, as...
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by Carla Tishler
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
respond to the effects of slavery and racist governmental policies in the US. Participants will leave with a sense of how to engage with social issues as a business leader, a facility in talking about complex social issues, and a greater...
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Tulsa Massacre | Information Technology
for the Tulsa Massacre, the idea of reparations generally, and the use of reparations to respond to the effects of slavery and racist governmental policies around the world. My grandest ambition is that this multimedia case becomes the...
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- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Building on History
move from a period of abject slavery and oppression to a country that celebrates its diversity of many types and kinds. “That, without a doubt, is the thing I am most proud––of all the things I've worked on and been exposed to in my life....
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
used as punishment for a crime 1662 Partus Sequitur Ventrem (or, literally, “offspring follows belly”) law ensures multigenerational bondageJennifer Morgan, 'Partus Sequitur Ventrem’Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery 1664...
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- 25 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Machiavelli, Morals, and You
the Self-Made Myth" from his collection The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It. Lincoln's struggle, Badaracco suggested, was not just with supporters of slavery in the south and skeptics in the north. It was also a...
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by Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
terrible thing. Not only does it create a new social class of underground activity in the U.S., but it also creates millions of broken homes ... in Mexico." He concludes that legalizing the free flow of labor into the U.S. "could be equivalent to the...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Beckert and Christine Desan (Columbia University Press) This volume presents a sampling of cutting-edge research from prominent scholars. These essays offer new angles on finance, debt, and credit; women’s rights; slavery and political...
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- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
outsiders, including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, is desired? No country can easily exist in a vacuum and cut itself off from the global economic marketplace, commented Spar. Given the complicated and often tragic legacy of View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
technology or by the requirements of incentives and efficiency. I'll first consider a range of examples, from slavery and indentured servitude (which once were not as repugnant as they now are) to lending money for interest (which used to...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
performance including population density, financial development, and geographic connectedness. We also explore the impact of social structure measured by slavery and religion. We then profile the characteristics of inventors and their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
that all the giants in this book are white men. It is inconceivable that an African American or a woman could have done what Andrew Carnegie did when he did it. When Carnegie immigrated in 1848, there was slavery in the United States and...
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by Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
would end with the South becoming an independent nation—one that would keep slavery intact. The president was racked with worry. He knew he could not relinquish universal emancipation as a condition of ending the war. He could not send...
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Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
with that group. The University office is an excellent resource across a range of issues and they are working on professional development opportunities for staff across the schools and creating alignment with the University's priorities—such as the reports on the...
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- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
efficiency. I'll first consider a range of examples, from slavery and indentured servitude (which once were not as repugnant as they now are) to lending money for interest (which used to be widely repugnant and is now not), and from bans...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
beneficiaries, even if the beneficiaries themselves might (had they been asked) have preferred more socially responsible investments. This quandary led one pension fund manager to respond to my question of whether she would invest in a company doing business in a...
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by Carla Tishler
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States By Alliah L. Agostini (MBA 2009); Illustrated by Sawyer Cloud becker&mayer! Kids On June 19, 1865—more than two years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Matache, and Caroline M. Elkins, Professor of Business Administration,Editors University of Pennsylvania Press With a sweeping international perspective, Time for Reparations makes the case that past state injustice—be it slavery or...
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- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
history? American Capitalism presents a sampling of cutting-edge research from prominent scholars. These broad-minded and rigorous essays venture new angles on finance, debt, and credit; women’s rights; slavery and political economy; the...
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