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Who Make Steel. New York: American Iron and Steel Institute, 1936. American Steel & Wire. Welcome. New Haven: American Steel & Wire, [1956]. Backman, Jules, and United States Steel Corporation. Steel Prices,... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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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

28 Mar 2016
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The Alum Building a Brand New City in Panama

Colombian billionaire Jaime Gilinski (MBA 1980) is the man behind what Forbes calls “the most audacious real estate project in the world”: the redevelopment of Howard Air Force Base along the Panama Canal. After the United View Details

01 Feb 2002
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When a Rainy Day Comes: The Economics of Happiness

involving some 300,000 individuals in Europe and the United States over the last 25 years. Participants were asked to describe their state of mind by selecting one of three... View Details

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

01 Dec 2003
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Books

with the job, to getting it done well. It’s not much time — even the president of the United States gets one hundred days — but HBS associate professor Michael Watkins insists that it can be done. In his new... View Details

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

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Insurance industry: companies and analysis

Where can I find information on the insurance industry? Best's Library Center: provides profiles of property, casualty, life and health insurance companies in the United States and Canada. View Details

13 Jun 2013
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Learning Curve

help as many people as I can in my lifetime. The greatest social issue we have in the United States is the disparity in children's education. If you don't get a good education, it's extremely unlikely that... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

11 Dec 2019
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A Righteous Path

the New York–based nonprofit, which was founded five years ago to provide legal assistance to young refugees who arrive in the United States alone. Launched with a single full-time employee, the organization... View Details

Keywords: April White; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

the public sector or nonprofit world, as well as in the business world. “When we start closing minds, we jeopardize our competitiveness.” I've been concerned about what has happened to the United States in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2010
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Hunting Red Balloons

In December, the government agency DARPA tethered to the ground ten red weather balloons at random locations around the United States in a test to see how social networks might mobilize and use the Internet... View Details

Keywords: contests; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

Portrait Project

Mike Cohen

When it comes to the legacy I hope to leave, I have some tough acts to follow. My grandparents escaped death in Nazi concentration camps to provide a safer environment to raise their children. Thirty years later, my parents fled a war-torn Israel—with nothing to their... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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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

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

02 Mar 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents

After many on and off signals, President Donald Trump pulled the trigger March 1 and announced he would slap long-term duties on steel (25 percent) and aluminum (10 percent) imports next week. The last imposition of tariffs on steel by the View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini; Steel; Manufacturing

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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14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

Gridlock has unfortunately become a way of political life in the nation's capital. But as of midnight on September 30, things went from bad to worse with the shutdown of funding for the federal government. And as if that weren't unsettling enough, more trouble lies... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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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

07 Nov 2014
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Investing for the Long Term in Education

Originally, he worked on libraries. As you know, most of the libraries in the United States and many in other parts of the Commonwealth are Carnegie-funded libraries. We continue to believe at Carnegie that... View Details

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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

companies from 2000-2010. Tinsley also has collaborated with the White House and U.S. State Department to execute a woman-to-woman mentorship summit and has partnered with the U.S. State Department and the... View Details

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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship | Baker Library

potential target customers including jobs and occupations, educational attainment, employment status, school enrollment, health, housing, and more. Suggested Resources United States Census Bureau Demographic... View Details

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

MBA Program 26 times, and daytime program twice. Both are records. In 2016 he was a volunteer professor at the United States Military Academy. He has taught in Africa, Australia, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong,... View Details

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