Northwestern United States - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

history, HBS assistant professor Noel Maurer considers these questions and opens the door to other queries involving issues of economics and governance that reach well beyond the United States and its... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Oscar S. Wyatt, Jr.

Using his Ford automobile as collateral, Wyatt entered the gas distribution and energy pipeline business with $800 in 1955. His tenacity and determination quickly secured gas contracts throughout Texas, and in short order, Wyatt had built one of the largest suppliers... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

Article

Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

By: Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr

We study entrepreneurship and growth through the lens of U.S. cities. Initial entrepreneurship correlates strongly with urban employment growth, but endogeneity bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near cities led to specialization in... View Details

Keywords: Industrial Organization; Chinitz; Agglomeration; Clusters; Cities; Mines; Industry Clusters; Urban Development; Entrepreneurship; City; Mining; Mining Industry; United States

Franklin served as the CEO for United States Lines both prior to and after World War II. Under his leadership, United States Lines grew from a... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

Samuel P. Colt

Colt organized United States Rubber into a vertically integrated business with a centralized administration. Colt also diversified United States... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

Francis B. Davis Jr.

In 1928, United States Rubber lost $10 million due to the collapse of the world crude rubber market. Taking over the helm in 1929, Davis reorganized the company, putting in place a multi-divisional... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

15 Sep 2016
News

US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’

prosperity to millions of Americans if the United States remains mired in crippling political gridlock and vicious rhetoric. In addition to government, business must take responsibility for restoring US... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Inspiring conversations around the world

Sigal Bussel (MBA 2003) creates artwork intended to engage people around the world in a meaningful dialogue. Her large-scale, thought-provoking works have been displayed from Asia to the Middle East and from the United View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

A U.S. Turnaround?

Wien In 1945, the United States was clearly the world’s leader militarily, economically, and politically. Its universities were preeminent, and its cultural life was enriched by the migration of Europeans... View Details

Keywords: Byron Wien; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

ultimately be bankrupt, and Americans will be forced to pay for a much higher share of their health care bills. There is a better way. The United States must make healthy living the twenty-first century... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

01 Jun 2009
News

Decisions through the Ages

WATANABE: A primer for all ages on how to think entrepreneurially. Photo Courtesy Portfolio/Penguin Group USA In business and education, Japan and the United States seem to alternate as inspirations for one... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

29 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying

including the United States and Brazil, "are led by men who have projected strong masculinity attitudes and dismissed the need for precautionary practices, such as wearing masks," the article says. When Pons... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

01 Jun 2015
News

Rebooting Europe

percent in the next two years. Global patent filings from the EU also dropped to record lows, hovering at a dismal 5.8 percent of global filings in 2013. (In comparison, the United States was at 22.3... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; European Union; Government; Health, Social Assistance

Profile

Juliane Schwetz

Many HBS graduates will manage brands; few, however, will be responsible for a brand as storied – and as important – as the one that will be under Juliane Schwetz’s care: the United States Military Academy... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Opinion: Making It Better

Image by Jezper by Regina E. Herzlinger Health care now represents some 18 percent of the American economy. With its costs continuing to rise, and with tens of millions uninsured, we in the United States are... View Details

Keywords: Herzlinger, Regina; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2004
News

No Nukes

Often overshadowed by higher-profile conflicts, North Korea’s nuclear intentions have concerned the United States for many years. Now it is a high-stakes test of diplomacy in which China, Japan, Russia, and... View Details

Keywords: nuclear; programs; National Security and International Affairs; Government

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

19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

projects that it will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by the end of 2014. But as the Great Wall exemplifies the great feats of Chinese unity, so too does it reflect a tradition of... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

2010
Chapter

The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors

By: William R. Kerr

The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation - with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail.... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Geographic Location; Patents; Ethnicity; City; Innovation and Invention; United States