Northeastern United States - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2011
News

Uncle Sam’s Business Man

economic growth, and promote American competitiveness. ÃÂ That means that Johnson, who had previously led several Obama administration regional innovation initiatives, logs a lot of time on the road touting the United View Details

18 Mar 2015
News

9 Alumni Named Young Global Leaders

members are: Ruzwana Bashir (MBA 2011), founder and CEO, Peek.com, United Kingdom Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009), CEO, Pampered Chef, United States Sadiq Gillani (MBA 2006),... View Details

Keywords: World Economic Forum

Profile

Laura Sandoval

In the late ‘80s, Laura Sandoval’s mother emigrated from Peru to the United States to find a better a future. “We faced some tough immigration challenges,” Laura says. When her father later joined her mother... View Details

23 Sep 2010
News

How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?

A recent issue of the Harbus offers a quick glimpse of what a few MBAs have been up to over the past three months. Internships based in the United States (at Major League Baseball, MTV Networks, and the U.S.... View Details

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

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

Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta

22 Dec 2016
Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

A recent Washington Post editorial suggested that the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) is, in many ways, a remnant of days gone by. The arguments implied that small businesses that make up... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

18 May 2015
News

Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges

with the HBS US Competitiveness Project, Kanter convened a national summit at HBS that drew leaders from government, business, labor, technology, and community coalitions. Together, they worked on overcoming barriers that have prevented the View Details

21 Apr 2014
News

A lifetime of quiet leadership

The late John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947, LLD 1995) garnered enough career achievements for three lifetimes—as a business leader, public servant, and philanthropist. After retiring as cochairman of Goldman Sachs, where he worked for 38 years, Whitehead served as US Deputy... View Details

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International Job Search Resources

Creating a target list of multinational company locations. Creating a target list of companies headquartered in one country with operations in another country. Capital IQ Example: Companies headquartered in China but operating locations in the View Details

2015
Working Paper

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; Entrepreneurship; City; Mining; Mining Industry; Pittsburgh

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As the tenth president of duPont Corporation, Greenewalt built the Savannah River Plant for nuclear processing, one of the largest construction projects in the United States. As CEO, Greenewalt generated a stellar return on equity... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

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 Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities

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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

engineering to sales. 32 Labor Practices: Slider United States Steel Corporation. Paths of Opportunity in U.S. Steel. [New York?]: United States... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Alumni Relations Gets a New Director

new ways to support the many HBS clubs and associations in the United States and abroad. Since joining Alumni Relations as an assistant director in 1998, Goff has worked closely with numerous reunion... View Details

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

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

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2009
News

Faculty Books

coeditor, and academic and public service experts dissect the state of consumer and mortgage credit in the United States and point the way out of the current impasse. Managing... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

03 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

School's Alfred Chandler, the doyen of business historians, famously ascribed Britain's relative economic decline to the United States from the late nineteenth century to that country's proclivity towards... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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Scaling Minority Businesses (SMB)

Where can I get started with research for my project assignment? Research Task Suggested Resources Consumer & Business Demographics United States Census Bureau - Demographic... View Details

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

Keywords: Sarah Wright (MBA 1997), founder, Hull Street Energy

George J. Mecherle

differential rates, Mecherle started his own firm, State Farm Insurance and began a career that would revolutionize the insurance business – introducing low risk rates, safe driver discounts, and semi-annual payment plans. His company... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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