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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

01 Dec 2009
News

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

24 Apr 2014
News

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

February 1996 (Revised June 1996)
Supplement

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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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

September 1997 (Revised January 1998)
Teaching Note

Indianapolis: Implementing Competition in City Services TN

By: William J. Bruns Jr.

Teaching Note for (9-196-099). View Details

Keywords: Competition; City; Indiana

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15 Oct 2001
Op-Ed

Lessons from the Rubble

whose knowledge and expertise may prove irreplaceable. People resent the United States for its prosperity, for its power, and for the presumption that prosperity and power give it the right to judge and... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

23 Jul 2024
In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

rerouting through intermediary countries, pointing to an increase in imports from China and a corresponding rise in exports to the United States since 2018 in countries like Vietnam and Mexico as evidence.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications

18 Jan 2012
News

Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem

“the ability of companies in the United States to compete successfully in the global economy while supporting high and rising living standards for Americans.” While HBS alumni widely shared a negative view... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2004
News

Download This

the files downloaded in the United States come from computers in the United States. Sixteen percent of music files are downloaded from computers in Germany, 7 percent from... View Details

Keywords: file sharing; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

Portrait Project

Zuriel Chavez

and to value the sacredness of Thanksgiving; all foreign to a family of Mexican immigrants. At the 7:30pm nightly dinners he made mandatory, with the fire that comes with having lived in the United States... View Details

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

(Ivy) Onyeador Assistant Professor in the Management and Organizations Department at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Understanding peoples' reactions to group-based inequality As the View Details

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Do Yoon Kim

I was born in Seoul, South Korea and spent most of my life there. For my undergraduate degree, I went to Northwestern and majored in Math, Economics, and Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences (MMSS). Since my sophomore year at... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China

Illustration by Patric Sandri Over the last five years, global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress from the pandemic, natural disasters, geopolitical events, and general anti-globalization sentiments. Nowhere is this more evident than in the trade... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

18 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

In the current squabble over how many skilled immigrants to let into the United States on H1-B visas, academics have fiercely debated whether they create jobs by bringing new skills to companies or whether... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

who feared increasing Native organization and a possible uprising. This was especially so, given the formation of the Northwestern Confederacy (aka the United Indian Confederacy), which began in 1783 and... View Details

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The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

Fidelity Investments: Spartan Florida Municipal Fund (TN)

Managing at Scale in the Long Beach Unified School District, Teaching Note

Managing at Scale in the Long Beach Unified School District

When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions