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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
For a long time, the United States was striving to become energy self-sufficient; now the country is self-sufficient and is becoming a net exporter of energy. That has pretty profound global economic and... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project
and actions that boost the ability of companies in the United States to compete in the global economy and raise American living standards. The announcement included the introduction of a new digital forum... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
of San Francisco. Wu is currently chairman of the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants as well as a Presidential Innovation Fellow working on the Development Innovation Ventures project at the United View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
the unique juncture at which the United States now finds itself, with many speakers urging their audience to get involved in the issues of the day. The event also featured some twenty sessions led by HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
encouraged than discouraged.” As one of the key business leaders who has spoken out about corporate responsibility, Paulson praised the free-market system and cautioned that the United States must be careful... View Details
William K. Coors
Under Coors' leadership, the brewery underwent a period of massive growth. Though it was a regional brewery, it held the top market share in 10 of the 11 western states in which its product was distributed, becoming the 4th largest brewer... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
in the United States and Europe. Within this new scenario, three groups play unique roles: policymakers who identify and use groups for support; companies that understand the interests of diffuse groups and... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
James J. Ling
Ling was a maverick in the development of the conglomerate business model, building in 14 years the 14th largest industrial corporation in the United States. A major risk taker, Ling extensively used debt to sustain parent company growth... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
In Search of Innovation
Many of the innovations needed to increase the quality of health care in the United States while reducing its cost already exist, says Professor Richard Hamermesh, faculty cochair of the Forum on Health Care... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
East Side Story
In January, veteran New York state senator Roy Goodman (MBA '53) was appointed president and CEO of the United Nations Development Corporation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA '66). In accepting... View Details
Clarence M. Woolley
of the major European markets. As business picked up in the United States in the 1910s, especially with the onset of World War I, American Radiator began handling annual sales of $10 million and by the time... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
aspirations of the School’s graduates. The inaugural year for the Alumni New Venture Contest attracted more than seventy teams representing HBS Clubs in the United States and abroad. The seven finalists made... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Education Innovation
system: "By practically any measure, the quality of public K–12 education in the United States is dismal." And the stakes are high. As Childress, deputy director of education at the Gates Foundation,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steel Tax
more cheaply than the United States, Spar said, “The industry has been seeking and receiving protection for almost thirty years. Parts of the industry have already restructured and become quite competitive in certain niches.” However, she... View Details
- December 2012
- Background Note
Jefferson County: Specific Swap Detail
Jefferson County, Alabama, faces an EPA mandate requiring sewer system upgrades. How will they finance the upgrades? What consequences will follow? View Details
Keywords: Local Government; Political Process; Bankruptcy; Debt Management; Financial Planning; Financial Management; Urban Development; City; Infrastructure; Government and Politics; Alabama
Bergstresser, Daniel, Randolph Cohen, and Jeff Klein. "Jefferson County: Specific Swap Detail." Harvard Business School Background Note 213-061, December 2012.
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
says. “What we’re asking is, can we build algorithms that will help find better matches that will allow people to integrate more easily?” The paper presents data from Switzerland and the United States that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
assistant professor Regina Abrami, who led the breakout session “China in the WTO: Two Years In.” The United States and other developed nations welcomed the required lowering of tariff and nontariff trade... View Details
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Emily Hannenberg
Personally, I felt an ability to inspire trust in others and lead them toward goals. I had the physical fitness required to contribute as a member of a team, and I shared the military's core values: loyalty, integrity, duty, respect." After graduating from the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
article, “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... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by... View Details