Regional Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

fail just when the region needed it most. The advent of coal mining more than a century ago (the first rail shipment of eastern Kentucky coal rolled out of Harlan County in 1911) transformed a sparsely populated rural area dominated by... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

28 Mar 2018
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Fueling the Future

recruiter and marketing director to head of innovation. Today, she runs Fueled for Growth, an innovation consulting company, which assists financial firms with due diligence in the energy and industrials sector and helps companies solve... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 2017
News

The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job

coworkers, Eckert says. Created for small businesses rather than the automotive industry—which makes up 70 percent of the US industrial robot market—Rethink’s bots do the boring, monotonous stuff. Humans get more interesting jobs: the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Apr 1998
News

Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges

profits. In his first visit to HBS, Corzine spoke in January to a large Burden Hall audience about opportunities in, and the outlook for, the investment banking sector. He predicted good times ahead for the industry amid strong demand for... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

24 May 2018
Blog Post

Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris

Geography – the regions in which you have worked – can also play an important part. "Do you have experience in areas the company is expanding into? If, for example, you spent your career in the US, but now live in the EU, your insights... View Details

13 Feb 2020
News

Honoring a Legend

Inventions at Georgia Tech’s ATDC incubator, with a mission to commercialize a set of scientific breakthroughs for improving silicon photovoltaics. Through his Freeing Energy Project, Nussey is writing a book to help people outside the View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Jun 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

Business School professors Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine argue that while robust governments must play a role, leadership by business is essential. For enterprising companies—whether large multinationals, established View Details

18 Dec 2018
Blog Post

"There's No Substitute For Finding The Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015

When James Correa was coming to the conclusion of his military service as a logistics officer (Captain) in the US Army, "There was only one desire for a professional career that I was sure of -- to continue a career in leadership." With no particular View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

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Connections & Relationships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

regional economic competitiveness issues. After graduation, I took a position as Advisor to the Mayor for the City of Boston, sponsored by the HBS Leadership Fellows program . The role really fit well with my desire to advise and lead... View Details

31 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

Case 118-053 Kaiser Permanente Colorado: Primary Care Plus A gerontologist in Kaiser Permanente’s Colorado region is concerned with the high and growing cost of treating the elderly population. She introduces a new care model, Primary... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

locations begins to dry up? In 1986, a group of social entrepreneurs reimagined education in India, developing a low-cost, "one-teacher school" model to provide educational access in regions that had proven cost prohibitive for government... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2017
News

Swimming with the Stream

longer only the Top 40 artists dominating the live show landscape. All of us can find our tribes and build a successful following,” says Gandhi. “The industry is less of a zero-sum game thanks to streaming.” Plus, all that extra time can... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

Profile

Georges F. Doriot

individual, given the chance and the financing, could change the world. He also looked presciently around the New England region and recognized that most of the once thriving industries such as textiles,... View Details

20 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 20

members questioned the logic of additional investment in the region whose resources were so uncertain and wondered whether it was more prudent to pursue growth elsewhere. At the same time, some of Woolf's owners began to believe that more... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Apr 2016
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April 26

do. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316042-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-006 La Ribera Health Department La Ribera was a privately managed, publicly funded health department in the Valencia region... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Tips to Reinvent the Department Store

Here's a snapshot of department stores today: Regional brands have all but disappeared; larger players like Federated and May are merging their multi-brand companies, and consolidation continues. Meanwhile, all sorts of retailers from... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Retail

01 Sep 2018
News

New Ways to Stay Connected

their homes or at local restaurants around the world, MBA students working in the region during the summer between their first and second years have the opportunity to meet with alumni, forging connections around their shared HBS... View Details

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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

"General Doriot selected the name Manufacturing because he believes this activity is the hard core of our great industrial strength and one of the foundations of our business system....He believes that one can find great creative... View Details

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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Education Team: Nicole Bucala Description: The U.S. currently leads the world in technological innovation and technology employers: according to an industry report by PWC, 90% of the largest SaaS firms in the world are U.S. firms.1 To... View Details

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

competitiveness of firms in one sector can have implications for the competitiveness of firms in another. Industries and the suppliers of capabilities to the industries need each other. Kill a critical... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

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