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      American Business History - Business Manuscripts | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
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      • 2020
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      American Business History: A Very Short Introduction

      By: Walter Friedman
      By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business civilization." President Coolidge in 1925 said, "The chief business of the American people is business." More recently, historian Sven Beckert characterized Henry Ford's...  View Details
      Keywords: American Economy; Democratic Capitalism; Business history; Economy; Entrepreneurship; United States
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      Friedman, Walter. American Business History: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
      • October 2020
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      When Institutions Fail: HIV/AIDS in the 1980s

      By: Tom Nicholas and Christian Godwin
      During the early 1980s, young gay men in urban centers such as San Francisco and New York City began contracting a mysterious illness that would come to be known as HIV/AIDS. A diagnosis meant almost certain death, with a less than 1% survival rate. Conflicting...  View Details
      Keywords: Ethics; Policy; Government And Politics; Health; history; Rights; Media; Organizations; Business And Community Relations; Religion; Social Psychology; Identity; Prejudice And Bias; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Health Industry; Journalism And News Industry; Media And Broadcasting Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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      Nicholas, Tom, and Christian Godwin. "When Institutions Fail: HIV/AIDS in the 1980s." Harvard Business School Case 821-002, October 2020.
      • June 2020
      • Teaching Note

      Brand Storytelling at Shinola

      By: Jill Avery, Giana M. Eckhardt and Michael Beverland
      Detroit, Michigan, aka “The Motor City,” is known as the birthplace of most of the American classic automotive brands. It is a city filled with the rich history of the industrial age, the pride of American manufacturing, and of the soulful sounds of Motown music. It is...  View Details
      Keywords: Brand Storytelling; Brand Management; Brand Management Of Places; Luxury Brand; Marketing; Brands And Branding; Marketing Communications; Advertising; Luxury; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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      Avery, Jill, Giana M. Eckhardt, and Michael Beverland. "Brand Storytelling at Shinola." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 520-127, June 2020.
      • May 2020 (Revised August 2020)
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      Brand Storytelling at Shinola

      By: Jill Avery, Giana M. Eckhardt and Michael B. Beverland
      Detroit, Michigan, aka “The Motor City,” is most known as the birthplace of most of the American classic automotive brands. It is a city filled with the rich history of the industrial age, the pride of American manufacturing, and of the soulful sounds of Motown music....  View Details
      Keywords: Marketing; Brands And Branding; Marketing Communications; Advertising; Luxury; Consumer Products Industry; Apparel And Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; Detroit; United States; North America
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      Avery, Jill, Giana M. Eckhardt, and Michael B. Beverland. "Brand Storytelling at Shinola." Harvard Business School Case 520-102, May 2020. (Revised August 2020.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States

      By: Paola Giuliano and Marco Tabellini
      We test the relationship between historical immigration to the U.S. and political ideology today. We hypothesize that European immigrants brought with them their preferences for the welfare state, and that this had a long-lasting effect on the political ideology of...  View Details
      Keywords: Political Ideology; Immigration; history; Values And Beliefs; Welfare; United States
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      Giuliano, Paola, and Marco Tabellini. "The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-118, May 2020. (Revised November 2020. Available also from VOX, UCLA Anderson Review, Weekendavisen and in Cato Institute.)
      • November 2019 (Revised December 2020)
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      Grupo Éxito: Facing Colombia's Competitive Grocery Retail Industry

      By: Jose Alvarez, Carla Larangeira, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Miguel Diaz Moreno
      Grupo Éxito, a leading South American retailer, faced declining market shares in Colombia in 2019 with the arrival of low-cost competitors and emerging digital trends. Originally founded in Medellín, Éxito had over the course of its seventy-year history evolved from a...  View Details
      Keywords: Grocery; Market Share; Technology; Trends; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; Colombia; Latin America
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      Alvarez, Jose, Carla Larangeira, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago, and Miguel Diaz Moreno. "Grupo Éxito: Facing Colombia's Competitive Grocery Retail Industry." Harvard Business School Case 520-043, November 2019. (Revised December 2020.)
      • Fall 2019
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      Du « défi américain » à l’expansion européenne: Les relations économiques transatlantiques des années cinquante aux années soixante-dix

      By: Grace A. Ballor
      Economic histories of post-war transatlantic relations have focused on two predominant narratives: US aid for European reconstruction through the Marshall Plan, and the threat of American business investment in Europe. But little research has linked these two elements....  View Details
      Keywords: Multinational Corporations; Economic History; International Relations; Business history; Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms And Management
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      Ballor, Grace A. "Du « défi américain » à l’expansion européenne: Les relations économiques transatlantiques des années cinquante aux années soixante-dix." Relations internationales 180, no. 4 (Fall 2019): 43–57.
      • 2019
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      Business, Ethics and Institutions. The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in a Comparative Perspective

      By: Asli M. Colpan and G. Jones
      This chapter offers a survey of the evolution of Turkish capitalism from the 19th century Ottoman Empire until the present day. It shows that Turkish business over the last century and a half was shaped in an institutional context similar to those in many developing...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Groups; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Government And Politics; history; Religion; Business history; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East
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      Colpan, Asli M., and G. Jones. "Business, Ethics and Institutions. The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in a Comparative Perspective." Chap. 1 in Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives, edited by Asli M. Colpan and G. Jones, 3–22. New York: Routledge, 2019.
      • 2019
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      VC: An American History

      By: Tom Nicholas
      An exploration of venture financing in America, from its origins in the whaling industry to the rise of Silicon Valley, that shows how venture capital (VC) created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation. The VC industry arose from the United States’...  View Details
      Keywords: Innovation; Venture Capital; Innovation And Invention; Entrepreneurship; history; United States
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      Nicholas, Tom. VC: An American History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. (Chinese Edition: 风投 看懂巨头的投资倾向 汤姆·尼古拉斯 著 中信出版社, Beijing: CITIC Press, 2020.)
      • January 2019 (Revised February 2020)
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      Jay Gould, 'The Most Hated Man in America'

      By: Tom Nicholas, John Masko and Matthew G. Preble
      Railroad magnate Jay Gould, a controversial figure in the history of U.S. capitalism, was a disruptive influence on an industry that had previously relied on formal and informal agreements to move traffic long distances across lines operated by different companies....  View Details
      Keywords: Railroads; Gould; Vanderbilt; Rail Transportation; history; Consolidation; Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms; Competition; Strategy; Rail Industry; United States
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      Nicholas, Tom, John Masko, and Matthew G. Preble. "Jay Gould, 'The Most Hated Man in America'." Harvard Business School Case 819-006, January 2019. (Revised February 2020.)
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Racial Diversity, Electoral Preferences, and the Supply of Policy: The Great Migration and Civil Rights

      By: Alvaro Calderon, Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
      Between 1940 and 1970 more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized...  View Details
      Keywords: Civil Rights; Great Migration; Race; Diversity; Demographics; Rights; Government Legislation
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      Calderon, Alvaro, Vasiliki Fouka, and Marco Tabellini. "Racial Diversity, Electoral Preferences, and the Supply of Policy: The Great Migration and Civil Rights." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-017, August 2019. (Revised February 2021. Available also from VOX and in Broadstreet.)
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      Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970

      By: G. Jones and Rachael Comunale
      This article contributes to the literature on political risk in business and economic history by examining both new perspectives (risk encountered by companies domestically, rather than risk for foreign investors) and new settings (emerging markets economies in Latin...  View Details
      Keywords: Political Risk; Emerging Market; Bribery; Business & Government Relations; Turbulence; Violence; Risk And Uncertainty; Emerging Markets; Crime And Corruption; Business And Government Relations; Business history; India; Latin America
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      Jones, G., and Rachael Comunale. "Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970." Australian Economic History Review 58, no. 3 (November 2018): 233–264.
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Racial Heterogeneity and Local Government Finances: Evidence from the Great Migration

      By: Marco Tabellini
      Between 1915 and 1930, during the First Great Migration, more than 1.5 million African Americans migrated from the South to the North of the United States, altering the racial profile of several northern cities for the first time in American history. I exploit this...  View Details
      Keywords: Migration; Race; City; Financial Condition; Government And Politics; history; United States
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      Tabellini, Marco. "Racial Heterogeneity and Local Government Finances: Evidence from the Great Migration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-006, July 2018. (Revised September 2019. Featured in Harvard Magazine.)
      • July 2018
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      LIXIL Group Corporation: Building a New Company in an Old Industry

      By: Boris Groysberg and Akiko Kanno
      In the spring of 2018, Kinya Seto, president and CEO of LIXIL Group Corporation, a major housing and building products and services company, called a meeting at the company’s head office in central Tokyo to discuss how to implement the new three-year strategic plan....  View Details
      Keywords: Turnaround; Leadership And Change Management; Consolidation; Change Management; Leadership; Global Strategy; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
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      Groysberg, Boris, and Akiko Kanno. "LIXIL Group Corporation: Building a New Company in an Old Industry." Harvard Business School Case 419-009, July 2018.
      • 2017
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      Democracy: A Case Study

      By: David Moss
      Democracy: A Case Study invites readers to experience American history anew and come away with a deeper understanding of the greatest strengths and vulnerabilities of the nation’s democracy as well as its resilience over time. The book adapts the case method to...  View Details
      Keywords: Democracy; Political Economy; history; Constitution; Productive Tension; Culture Of Democracy; E Pluribus Unum; United States; history; Government And Politics; Governance; Economic Systems; United States
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      Moss, David. Democracy: A Case Study. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.
      • 2016
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      The Origins of High-Tech Venture Investing in America

      By: Tom Nicholas
      The United States has developed an unparalleled environment for the provision of high-tech investment finance. Today it is reflected in the strength of agglomeration economies in Silicon Valley, but historically its origins lay in the East Coast. Notably, immediate...  View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Technology; history; Financial Services Industry; United States
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      Nicholas, Tom. "The Origins of High-Tech Venture Investing in America." In Financial Market History: Reflections on the Past for Investors Today, edited by David Chambers and Elroy Dimson, 227–241. CFA Institute Research Foundation, 2016.
      • 2016
      • Working Paper

      Decision-Making by Precedent and the Founding of American Honda (1948 – 1974)

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and John Heilbron
      American Honda was founded in 1959 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Honda Motor Company to facilitate sales and distribution in the United States. The details of American Honda’s early history have long served as evidence in debates among scholars and practitioners...  View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Decision Making; Auto Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and John Heilbron. "Decision-Making by Precedent and the Founding of American Honda (1948 – 1974)." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-016, August 2016.
      • 2016
      • Working Paper

      Entrepreneurs and the Co-Creation of Ecotourism in Costa Rica

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora
      Between the 1970s and the 2000s, Costa Rica became established as the world’s leading ecotourism destination. This working paper suggests that although Costa Rica benefited from biodiversity and a pleasant climate, the country’s preeminence in ecotourism requires more...  View Details
      Keywords: Tourism; Latin America; Business History; Sustainable Strategy; Sustainability; Nonprofit; Entrepreneurs; Environment; Entrepreneurship; history; Environmental Sustainability; Tourism Industry; Costa Rica
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      Jones, Geoffrey, and Andrew Spadafora. "Entrepreneurs and the Co-Creation of Ecotourism in Costa Rica." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-136, June 2016.
      • August 2015 (Revised June 2019)
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      Shonda Rhimes' ShondaLand

      By: Anita Elberse and Henry McGee
      In January 2015, superstar television creator Shonda Rhimes, whose production company ShondaLand dominates American television's most competitive and lucrative night with three shows in primetime on network ABC's Thursday night, is plotting the future. One challenge...  View Details
      Keywords: Entertainment; Television; Broadcasting; Creative Industries; Television Industry; Product Portfolio Management; Superstar; Talent Management; Television Entertainment; Media; Creativity; Marketing; Talent And Talent Management; Personal Development And Career; Media And Broadcasting Industry; United States
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      Elberse, Anita, and Henry McGee. "Shonda Rhimes' ShondaLand." Harvard Business School Case 516-026, August 2015. (Revised June 2019.)
      • April 2015 (Revised January 2021)
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      Bankruptcy in the City of Detroit

      By: Stuart Gilson, Kristin Mugford and Annelena Lobb
      The June 2013 bankruptcy of Detroit, Michigan, was, at the time, the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. Detroit had struggled for years with a weakening tax base, high unemployment, a heavy debt load, and increasing retiree costs. These financial strains...  View Details
      Keywords: Chapter 9; Chapter 11; Restructuring; Financial Liquidity; Insolvency And Bankruptcy; City; Government Administration; Public Sector; Financial Crisis; Financial Management; Failure; Labor Unions; Urban Development; Public Administration Industry; Michigan; Detroit
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      Gilson, Stuart, Kristin Mugford, and Annelena Lobb. "Bankruptcy in the City of Detroit." Harvard Business School Case 215-070, April 2015. (Revised January 2021.)
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