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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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Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950 (BOOK)
In my first book manuscript, Experiments in Financial Democracy, I 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... View Details
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Business History - Faculty & Research
readers an overview of key factors of doing business in Brazil, including Brazil’s economic transformation since its colonial years until 2023, when leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in for his third term, after the...
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Team - Case Method Project
as the creation of the Case Method Project at Harvard Business School in 2015 and, subsequently, the Case Method Institute for Education and Democracy in 2020. Joanna Beinhorn Joanna Beinhorn is the program coordinator for the Case Method...
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Events - Business History
illuminating comparisons to the trajectories of three Chinese contenders: Tsinghua University, Nanjing University, and the University of Hong Kong, which aim to be world-class institutions that can compete with the best the United States...
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
consumers. Participants will explore how the declining interest in, and sales of, jazz music can be reversed; the role of Marsalis and JALC in this context; and the lessons for arts and cultural institutions worldwide and for cultural...
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Dissertation Prize in the Twentieth Century category for "Financing the African Colonial State: Fiscal Capacity Building and Forced Labor." 2017 Rawi E. Abdelal: Received the 2017 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the School of Economics...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Labs Enable Large-scale Research
Illustrations from VectorStock.com The Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) aims to supercharge HBS’s research agenda by applying a lab-based model similar to that used by the scientific community for problem solving,...
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- 15 Jan 2013
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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 View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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2march2023program | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Sculpture at Rockefeller Center, New York. Mosley is the recipient of the 2022 Isamu Noguchi Award. His work is held in a number of public collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the High Museum...
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- 23 Jun 2020
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Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
Katherine M. Gehl, founder of Institute for Political Innovation, and Harvard Business School strategy expert Michael E. Porter. Among the reforms put forward by Gehl and Porter is a nonpartisan congressional legislative system that rises...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 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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- 15 Oct 2007
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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 2021
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International Women's Day Featured Stories
Business School Prior to coming to HBS I created a company Pension Consulting Alliance, Inc. that advised some of the world’s largest institutional investors concerning their private market investments. I was asked to be their advocate...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
that had previously given it coherence and meaning,” Allawi argues, asserting that under colonial rule, traditional institutions and ways of life were replaced by modern equivalents that spoke little to the...
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- 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15
Consequences of Colonial Institutions By: Iyer, Lakshmi Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138779723/ August 2013 Journal of International Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
coherence of the institutional structures on which their economic performance rested and the policy options available to them. Representative cases include the Trans-Pacific Partnership; Goodbye IMF conditions, hello Chinese capital:...
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- 23 Aug 2010
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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
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier Timeline 1607 JamestownA Short History of Jamestown Jamestown Colony 1619 Enslaved Africans brought to Point Comfort, Virginia The 1619 Landing — Report & FAQs First African Slave Ship Arrives at...
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- 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16
despite having institutions that limited political participation for the masses (Lindert, 2004; Engerman, Mariscal, and Sokoloff, 2009) and having one of the worst colonial View Details
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Martha Lagace