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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Driving economic growth and job creation
Karen Gordon Mills (AB 1975, MBA 1977) served in President Barack Obama’s cabinet as administrator of the US Small Business Administration, which is focused on economic growth and support for small... View Details
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My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
PA Bowen Borgeson Hill School Pottstown, PA TX Bryan Boucher St. Mark’s School Dallas, TX Subjects: AP U.S. History, US History and Government CT Karen Boyea Greenwich High School Greenwich, CT Subjects: AP U.S. History, College... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
The Musts of 2023
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and ask the alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details
- 03 Feb 2015
- News
What's missing in America's immigration debate
- 16 Sep 2014
- News
Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap
- 09 Mar 2018
- News
The Supply Chain Economy and the Future of Good Jobs in America
- December 2019
- Case
Steemit: A New Social Media?
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Alexander White and Karen Elterman
This case discusses the alternative social media site Steemit, including the principles it was founded on in 2016 and the challenges it faced in 2019. Steemit was a blockchain-based platform that aimed to differentiate itself from other social media companies by... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Decisions; Voting; Economic Systems; Money; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Goals and Objectives; Digital Platforms; Product Design; Design; Problems and Challenges; Network Effects; Motivation and Incentives; Social and Collaborative Networks; Reputation; Business Strategy; Competition; Internet and the Web; Social Media; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; Virginia; New York (city, NY)
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Alexander White, and Karen Elterman. "Steemit: A New Social Media?" Harvard Business School Case 720-428, December 2019.
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Partners - Case Method Project
CO 3 of 13 Cody Blackburn Mapleton Expeditionary School Of The Arts Thornton, CO CO 4 of 13 Karen Chaney Moffat County High School Craig, CO CO 5 of 13 Rebecca DiMaio Broomfield High School Broomfield, CO Subjects: History CO 6 of 13... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
better stakeholder engagement and transparency around CSR performance, are important in reducing capital constraints. The results are further confirmed using an instrumental variables and a simultaneous equations approach. Finally, we show that the relation is driven... View Details
- 07 Sep 2016
- News
Who Wants to Start a Bank?
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Regional Winners - Alumni
2022, Co-founder & CEO Eric Gruskin, MBA 2022, Cofounder & COO Region: New York Codigo Codigo is a rapid software development platform which tools help developers accelerate Blockchain development by automating the generation of back-end... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- News
Corporate Efforts to Address Social Problems Have Limits
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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni
Administration, Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society Professor Peter Tufano, Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration 10:00 a.m. Case Study Discussion: Jeff Harmening at General Mills On May 25, 2020, George... View Details
- April 2017
- Supplement
Imprimis (C)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karen Elterman and Marc Appel
This case is a supplement to Imprimis (A & B). Set in 2015, it first describes Imprimis’s decision to introduce its own line of compounded eye drop medication called LessDrops. The case then examines the moral dilemma faced by CEO Mark Baum, who was struck by the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Moral Sensibility; Competitive Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Karen Elterman, and Marc Appel. "Imprimis (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-497, April 2017.
- 15 Dec 2016
- News
Trump must see that small business is the engine of America
- 2022
- Chapter
The Servicification of the U.S. Economy: The Role of Startups versus Incumbent Firms
By: Mercedes Delgado, J. Daniel Kim and Karen G. Mills
Over the last few decades, the U.S. economy has exhibited a significant shift from manufacturing towards services. This transition has been particularly prominent in an important subcategory of services industries that drives innovation and employs many high-wage... View Details
Keywords: Servicification; Supply Chain Industries; STEM Labor; Innovation; Growth; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Economic Growth; Policy; Service Industry; United States
Delgado, Mercedes, J. Daniel Kim, and Karen G. Mills. "The Servicification of the U.S. Economy: The Role of Startups versus Incumbent Firms." In The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth, edited by Michael J. Andrews, Aaron Chatterji, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
experimentation that is required for the initial commercialization and diffusion of technologies. A New Categorization of the U.S. Economy: The Role of Supply Chain Industries in Innovation and Economic Performance By: Delgado, Mercedes, and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 2016
- Working Paper
The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation
By: Karen Gordon Mills and Brayden McCarthy
Small businesses were among the hardest hit in the Great Recession, accounting for more than 60% of the total jobs lost. The economic crisis was one focused on the banking sector, which is one reason for the disproportionately high impact on America’s small businesses,... View Details
Mills, Karen Gordon, and Brayden McCarthy. "The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-042, November 2016.
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Reducing unemployment among Palestinian youth and helping small businesses in the West Bank by establishing a cell-phone based job matching service. Business Track, 2005 Uplift Karen Grajwer Business Track... View Details