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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
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details
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SimplyAnalytics | Baker Library
SimplyAnalytics Generates tables and maps based upon desired United States data, including population, age, race, income, employment, and education. Read More Generates tables and maps for the View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
As Harvard Business School professor Laura Phillips Sawyer sifted through historical documents to trace the history of competition policy in the United States, an interesting figure emerged: Edna Gleason, who became known as the “mother... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
CHIDAMBARAM: In Mumbai after his HBS visit, with Tata Industries’ Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975 ) at left and U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (MBA ’70). SAJ JAD HUSSAIN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Just twenty years from now, India’s population of... View Details
- 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
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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
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
individuals who incorporate for business purposes. Implementing such a tax would require measures to prevent some unintended consequences. A large fraction of corporations' excess cash--as much as two-thirds, according to some estimates--is held outside of the View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s ARD holding a significant stake, the company had some 63 European financial institutions and banks as shareholders. Management included a stellar group of French business luminaries. The EED investment port-folio grew over time, but Europe (even the View Details
- 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
- 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
Harvey H. Lamm
Lamm created the only publicly traded car importer in the United States through the founding of Subaru of America. He introduced the United View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 17 Sep 2015
Amsterdam MBA Fair
Meet HBS alumni and Admissions staff at this event brought to you by Ivy Circle Netherlands (with the support of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants). The event will feature top MBA programs in the United View Details
- 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
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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
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Henry Villard Business Papers | Baker Library
promoting the Pacific Northwest, and in the development of the electrical industry in the United States and Germany. The collection primarily consists of business records created by Villard and his... View Details
- 22 Sep 2014
MBA2U Munich
Meet HBS alumni and staff at this event brought to you by The MBA Tour and MBA2U initiative. The event will feature top MBA programs in the United States and Europe. View Details
- February 1996 (Revised June 1996)
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Indianapolis: Activity-Based Costing of City Services (B)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Kaplan, Robert S. "Indianapolis: Activity-Based Costing of City Services (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 196-117, February 1996. (Revised June 1996.)
- 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