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  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Andrea Silbert

people, including thousands of women entrepreneurs in southern New England, are better off because of it. As founder and CEO of the Center for Women & Enterprise, the energetic Silbert has followed her parents’ example of helping others,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Getting Security Right

fifth-generation nuclear capabilities. The threat of nuclear aggression among powerful nations did not disappear with the Cold War; it remains a major challenge for the United States and poses a more serious... View Details
Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 19 Jul 2013
  • News

All in Good Time

possible. Its initial program focuses on partnering with school districts to coordinate federal and private funds to provide free breakfast in public schools. "Hunger in the United States is not like hunger... View Details
Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 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
  • Web

Trade Publications - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

with American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900 (Harvard users only: Harvard ID and University PIN required) Note: issues from 1929 (July - December) online with Google Trust Companies of the United View Details

    Archie A. Alexander

    Alexander was one of the first and most successful black engineers to enter the large-scale industrial construction business. Through his leadership, his firm built over 300 major construction projects in the United View Details
    Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
    • 24 Jun 2016
    • Op-Ed

    Why Brexit is a Big Deal

    States will reassert itself. Likewise, the trade links among British Commonwealth countries will be revitalized. Look for the UK to also accelerate its expanding business links with China. Brexit is not only bad news for the European ... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch

      Lorimer D. Milton

      Under Milton’s leadership, Citizens Trust grew to become one of the top five black-owned financial service institutions in the United States by 1940. It was the first black-owned bank to become a member of... View Details
      Keywords: Finance
      • 20 May 2013
      • Op-Ed

      Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

      industries. Research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sowed the seeds for the internet and advanced computer graphics. And massive investments by the National Institutes of Health in biomedical research, including the Human Genome... View Details
      Keywords: by Gary Pisano; 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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      • 01 Mar 2006
      • News

      The Real Conflict

      intermediaries such as Wal-Mart against a combination of old-line retailers and labor, community, and development activists. Particularly in retailing, policies in the United States favor consumers and offer... View Details
      Keywords: Pankaj Ghemawat; Ken A. Mark; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
      • 01 Dec 2017
      • News

      2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived

      The technology behind telemedicine—health care delivered remotely and asynchronously—has been improving for years, but in 2017, the United States hit a tipping point. This year, Kaiser Permanente’s CEO... View Details
      Keywords: Halle Tecco (MBA 2011), founder emeritus, Rock Health; angel investor; adjunct professor, Columbia Business School

        John P. Thompson

        Continuing the expansion begun by this father, John Thompson, aided by his brother Jere, grew 7-Eleven into the national business it is today. Despite a failed venture into the oil industry with the Citgo chain, Thompson successfully grew 7-Eleven through franchising,... View Details
        Keywords: Retail

          Edward J. Bednarz

          Bednarz secured Pinkerton’s position as the market leader in the office security business. Between 1968 and 1976, Pinkerton’s financial performance was among the top 50 companies in the United States in... View Details
          Keywords: Services
          • 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 09 Jan 2019
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          How Better Immigration Policies Foster Business Innovation and Growth

          Talent is a critical factor in driving innovation in science, engineering, and today's knowledge economy. Professor Bill Kerr explores the data and ideas that should drive the next wave of policy and business practice around high-skill immigration. View Details
          • 13 Mar 2014
          • Research & Ideas

          Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

          When Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria first moved from India to the United States more than 30 years ago, he was impressed with how well the highways and airports hummed along in this country. Yet... View Details
          Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto
          • 02 Sep 2014
          • Research & Ideas

          Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

          Established in 1997, the program provides health insurance to uninsured children in moderate-income families. To research the link between SCHIP and entrepreneurship, Olds studied 1992-2011 data from the United View Details
          Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
          • May 2018 (Revised October 2018)
          • Case

          Urban Us

          By: Mitchell Weiss and Phoebe Peronto
          Shaun Abrahamson and Stonly Baptiste aimed to invest in what they called "urbantech superheroes." At Urban Us, the seed-stage urban technology-focused venture capital firm the two started in 2012, they looked for startups innovating around the future of cities. By... View Details
          Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; Urbantech; Seed Investing; Urban Us; Shaun Abrahamson; Stonly Baptiste; Remix; One Concern; Starcity; SeamlessDocs; Venture Capital; Public Sector; City; Urban Development; Entrepreneurship; Miami; San Francisco; New York (city, NY)
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          • 01 Jun 2007
          • News

          Faculty Books

          in the Media Age by Steven Rosefielde & D. Quinn Mills (Cambridge University Press) Professor Mills and his coauthor assert that the United States will confront a series of fundamental challenges posed by... View Details
          Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

            Charles L. Brown

            Brown guided AT&T through one of the largest corporate reorganizations in United States history by settling the government’s antitrust case in 1982. He successfully divested of AT&T’s local phone... View Details
            Keywords: Communications