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- 2022
- Chapter
Creating 'Smart' Policy to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation
By: Karen G. Mills and Annie Dang
Entrepreneurship is a key to unlocking innovation and fostering regional and national economic productivity. Extensive studies demonstrate that small and young firms contribute to innovation and employment growth. But which of the many types of small firms are...
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Economic Policy;
High-growth;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Business Startups;
Economic Growth;
Policy;
United States
Mills, Karen G., and Annie Dang. "Creating 'Smart' Policy to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation." 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.
- May 2019
- Supplement
Amazon's HQ2 (C): Choices
By: Karen Mills and Jan W. Rivkin
This supplement discusses Amazon’s 2018 decision to split its HQ2 between two locations--Long Island City in New York and National Landing outside Washington, DC—as well as the ensuing response from local politicians and the public.
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Economic Development;
Headquarters;
Local Government;
Incentives;
Business Headquarters;
Business and Government Relations;
Development Economics
Mills, Karen, and Jan W. Rivkin. "Amazon's HQ2 (C): Choices." Harvard Business School Supplement 719-465, May 2019.
- 21 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job
company I was considering joining after school. Enter Plaid. Plaid is a startup that enables businesses to access their users’ financial information by streamlining the connection to their users’ bank accounts. This service is not only...
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- September 2020
- Teaching Note
First Aid Beauty
By: Karen G. Mills and Annie Dang
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 319-082.
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- May 2018
- Teaching Note
Amazon's HQ2
By: Karen Mills and Jan W. Rivkin
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 718-494, 718-503, and 718-465.
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- 23 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Trends in Consumer Products
other businesses like hotels, which were clearly severely impacted. Overall, General Mills saw simultaneous highs and lows during the pandemic. For the job seeker, it is important to research how companies were affected View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
Aubree Mills with students at the Ira A. Murphy Elementary School in Peoria, Arizona. Courtesy Aubree Mills Elementary school principal Aubree Mills had two dilemmas she needed...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
depends on the ability to deliver great service. The Low Cholesterol Cookbook and Action Plan by Karen Swanson (MBA 1990) (Rockridge Press) Getting serious about heart health can be overwhelming. That’s why...
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James S. Love
Beginning as a rayon producer, Love built the world’s largest textile mill by the mid-1950s. Love, the architect of the company’s growth, expanded the company to 22 plants by...
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Fabric & Apparel
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Bridging Domains
Karen and Sanjeev (MBA 1986) Mehra Karen and Sanjeev Mehra (MBA 1986) perceive both great opportunities and serious challenges at the nexus of business, science, and engineering. Their endowment of the Mehra...
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Thomas B. McCabe
McCabe transformed Scott Paper from a sleepy 500 person paper mill company in Chester, Pennsylvania, into a multinational concern with over 60 manufacturing plants throughout the world employing over 40,000 people. View Details
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Wood, Paper & Forestry
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
in the Media Age by Steven Rosefielde & D. Quinn Mills (Cambridge University Press) Professor Mills and his coauthor assert that the United States will confront a series of...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Faculty Books
value, and secure their commitment to implementing the solution. Building World Class Universities in Asia by Daniel Quinn Mills (CreateSpace) After discussing higher education’s potential contribution to...
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F. Kenneth Iverson
Iverson pioneered the mini steel mill and, in the process, reinvented the steel industry. By the early 1980s, Nucor Corporation had grown into the most profitable carbon-steel operation in the world. In...
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Metals
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Feedback
characterizes the sector. But the sad state of traditional public education negatively impacts all of us—even those who can afford private school for their children. I’m puzzled, though, by his organization’s support of the proposal for...
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- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
there are situations such as Venezuela, which can’t feed its own people anymore.” For another case, Alvarez toured Molino Cañuelas’s flour mills in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and examined the company’s milling...
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Trade Publications - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
World (Later Exhibitors’ Herald World and Motion Picture Herald) (New York: Chalmers Pub. Co, 1907-1972). Note: issues from January – June, 1909 online with Google Spice Mill (New York: The Spice Mill...
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- 02 Dec 2014
- Blog Post
Building a Consumer-Centric Strategy: Highlights from the Marketing & CPG Club’s Conference
shared many General Mills brand campaigns (e.g., Betty Crocker, Cheerios, and Fiber One) that effectively tailored messaging to their Brand Champion. Kerri Hoyt-Pack of Nike Women’s Training closed the day View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leadership Fellows
Hospital for Special Surgery; Ebele Mora, Year Up; and Karen Tang, Nonprofit Finance Fund. Not pictured: Chris Hurst, Mercy Corps, and Casey Littlefield, Social Finance. SUPPORTING SUCCESS: Fellowship donor Lou Fouts (MBA 1996) with...
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