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- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
1960s—but its most influential product might just be its model of entrepreneurship: disruptive, asset-light and capital-intensive businesses with a scale-at-all-cost mentality and no fear of failure. But now something is threatening to... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
workers and laid out an expansion of the private sector that granted operating licenses for 201 jobs—everything from the highly specific “flower wreath arranger” and “Benny Moré Dance Team” to the more general “artisan” and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Twain, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway, to name just a few, and was well known for fostering a productive national debate around the pressing issues of the time—the modest goal being nothing less than advancing the sum of human... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Individuals who fail to purchase coverage are penalized up to $912 on their taxes; companies with more than eleven employees must pay the state $295 per year per employee if they don’t offer their workers a company-based plan. The plan’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
bus. START SMALL, THINK BIG: Clients of Compartamos Banco, a microfinance institution based in Mexico City that funds entrepreneurial activity in the areas of agriculture, crafts, and consumer products and clothing. Courtesy Compartamos... View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
and 2018, and those numbers are continuing to grow. And our findings confirmed Nielsen's findings that our youngest black and brown female desk workers are extraordinarily innovative. They are the first to adopt new technologies. Bonita:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
plus parks, a museum, even a beer garden. "We are tackling one of our nation's biggest challenges, fixing health care," said President and CEO Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997), and creating a dedicatedspace where workers can be "creative,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
landlord, the entrepreneur, or the worker contributed most to England's prosperity. Later, as HBS Dean, Gay's primary duty was to prepare his students for their role in the administrative organization that was emerging as the business... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
explored questions like “How can business, government, and nonprofit leaders come together to mitigate the effects of worker displacement? How should entrants to the workforce best prepare themselves?” Leaders from the City of San... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
employed more than 10 million American workers and generated $1.8 trillion in revenue in 2003, concluded a study by Global Insight, a leading economic and forecasting firm. HBS professors Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner, in their 2001 book,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
rationale as to why this union-backed legislation is needed and why it is good for employees. Alas, he didn’t. In my 20s and 30s, I directly supervised a total of several thousand hourly workers in at least a dozen departments in both New... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
of hard work, fidelity, and building the alliances necessary to achieve enduring success. John Andrew, a retired Boeing executive, offers a unique insider look at the profound changes the company experienced in the 1960s as the product... View Details