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a way to prosper in lean economic times, Scharfman says that “being a manufacturer in the United States means you’re constantly swinging back and forth between optimism and wanting to throw yourself off a... View Details

Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; cheese; lobster fishing; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

February 1996 (Revised June 1996)
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Indianapolis: Activity-Based Costing of City Services (B)

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: City; Service Operations; Infrastructure; Service Industry; Indiana

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01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived

The technology behind telemedicine—health care delivered remotely and asynchronously—has been improving for years, but in 2017, the United States hit a tipping point. This year, Kaiser Permanente’s CEO... View Details

Keywords: Halle Tecco (MBA 2011), founder emeritus, Rock Health; angel investor; adjunct professor, Columbia Business School

01 Jun 2009
News

Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage

fruitfully partner in a global economy. Bhidé argues that high-level know-how developed in other countries benefits the United States because it is highly mobile and cheap: What is invented expensively in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2011
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Green Day

in the northeastern state of Bahia, the $43 million thermoelectric plant built as a result of those initial talks has a year-round capacity of 30 megawatts (enough to power 200,000 Brazilian homes),... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Apr 2001
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Books: A Nation Transformed by Information

Edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and James W. Cortada (Oxford University Press) In their new book, A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to... View Details

Keywords: Information

18 May 2011
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U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?

Don’t give up on American manufacturing yet. There are signs of new life that give rise to optimism about a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. A new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimates that within the next five years the wage gap between the View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2004
News

Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)

and, of course, the doors opened by an MBA from a prestigious northeastern business school, it has been a great ride. When I compare myself to my mother, we both fulfilled very different demographic norms. She had four children in the... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

01 Apr 2002
News

University Elections

Northeastern University. President, Housing Partners, Inc. Watertown, MA. Stephen R. Wong, AB ’81, MBA ’85. Chairman and CEO, Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. San Francisco, CA. View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government

11 May 2020
Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

a vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemic is Moderna, a Cambridge company with an immigrant co-founder and an immigrant CEO. Another firm already conducting vaccine trials is Inovio Pharmaceuticals of Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, led by cofounder J. Joseph Kim. Kim,... View Details

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

Restoring American Competitiveness, which lays out their views in detail. Despite their dire analysis, Pisano and Shih remain cautiously optimistic that the United States can regain its competitive footing.... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

ophthalmology, gynecology, and so on. His ambition is breathtaking." "He has also started training doctors in Tanzania and Malaysia. His ambition is to cure the poor of the world for one dollar a day. He also thinks there is no reason this couldn't work in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

12 May 2016
Research & Ideas

When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions

Christopher Poliquin. “It would take approximately 66 people dying in individual gun homicide incidents to have as much impact on bills introduced as each person who dies in a mass shooting” The researchers constructed a dataset of all gun-related legislation and mass... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Apr 2014
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Understanding the global economy from a new perspective

to further economic growth and environmental preservation in the United States and China. “The United States and China need to help power global... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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Losing Our Competitive Edge

Business Review, how the United States has lost or is in the process of losing the ability to manufacture many of the cutting-edge products it invented. These include the batteries that power electric and... View Details

Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2003
News

Center Court

It was a big boost for American tennis when Andy Roddick triumphed at the U.S. Open in September, and no one was more pleased than United States Tennis Association president Alan Schwartz (MBA 1954). Having... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

December 2001 (Revised February 2004)
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Aviation Security after September 11th: Public or Private?

Was the public or the private sector best positioned to provide security and baggage screening services? The suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the plane crash outside Pittsburgh, marked September 11, 2001, as the date of the most severe... View Details

Keywords: Private Ownership; National Security; Air Transportation; State Ownership; Air Transportation Industry; United States

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