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Horace C. Wright
Wright spent 44 years with the company and led it through its transition from the small Chicago Flexible Shaft Company to its present incarnation as Sunbeam Corporation. Under his leadership, Sunbeam dramatically expanded its home appliance View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107060 International Capital Markets and Sovereign Debt: Crisis Avoidance and Resolution Harvard Business School Note 707-018 Successive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
"Many people want to spend their productive years doing something that they care about, and one way to do that is to work through the social sector on issues that markets alone don't always address," Childress says. A Two-Way Street While... View Details
- January 2004
- Teaching Note
Worker Rights and Global Trade: The U.S.-Cambodia Bilateral Textile Trade Agreement (TN)
Teaching Note to (9-703-034). View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
with enough oil, gas, and food supplies, given supply chain disruptions. Important, too, was being mindful of budget deficits and encouraging investments from international partners. “We had to do it all purposefully, accurately, and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
increased focus on the external labor market is not a trend that is reversing easily," O'Mahony remarks. "There's been a fundamental change in the compact between the employer and employee that is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
the planet if you’re not jumping on that plane. But the friendships we’ve formed and the lives that many people have led that reach across boundaries, the lives of families that cross international boundaries—that’s the sad part that I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Laura Alfaro to Costa Rican Post
country’s new president, Laura Chinchilla. An expert on international economics, including foreign direct investment, financial markets, and sovereign debt, Alfaro, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, was honored as a Young Global... View Details
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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?
By: Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr
Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Geographic Location; Employment; Market Entry and Exit; Supply Chain; Manufacturing Industry
Glaeser, Edward L., and William R. Kerr. "Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?" Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 18, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 623–663.
Leading with the Long View
had a couple of friends in the class, so I decided to take it. I didn’t know there was this business history niche at HBS, and it ended up being an awesome class. The cases we discussed were international and covered a longer time horizon... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
product. We’ve got some fantastic clinical results to back it up and all the reasons why seaweed is good for the skin—but we’re not a beauty company,” Perkins says. “For us, beauty is the thin end of the wedge. It’s a high-value market to... View Details
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
in the world is crazy." It's evident in labor markets, where the case of India and the software industry is just one example of how incredibly active things are right now. "Of course, the idea View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- November 2011 (Revised February 2012)
- Case
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul: Building on a Diversified Base
By: William W. George
Since the 1970s, the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan region (MSP) had outpaced the nation in job creation and income per capita. MSP's diversified base of industry clusters had enabled the region to adapt to economic downturns and an exodus of major corporate... View Details
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Employment; Organizations; Transformation; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Minneapolis; Saint Paul
George, William W. "Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul: Building on a Diversified Base." Harvard Business School Case 412-074, November 2011. (Revised February 2012.)
- 14 Apr 2015
- News
History Has Its Place in Business
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
manufacturing in this country might look a lot more attractive.) By subsidizing other industries so generously, we have tilted the scales away from manufacturing. Thus, its decline is not completely a result of “natural” market forces.... View Details
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Betas
How do I find current betas for companies? Historical? Industry Beta? Current BETA: Bloomberg Current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income securities, currencies, commodities, and... View Details
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FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness
remain low. The meager job creation that has occurred in the last two decades has been overwhelmingly in local industries, not those facing international competition. Labor force participation in America... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
markets where American football has no grassroots presence. Ongoing concerns include players' use of performance-enhancing drugs and off-field misbehavior and the PR and internal challenges they pose. And... View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity (defined as the percentage of household income recovered by the unemployment benefit), we estimate that a one standard deviation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne