Eastern United States - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2014
News

Understanding the global economy from a new perspective

to further economic growth and environmental preservation in the United States and China. “The United States and China need to help power global... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

The Billion-Dollar Question

—World traveler, public speaker, and consultant Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) is the author of Hike Your Own Hike: 7 Life Lessons from Backpacking across America and The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us. While on his way to... View Details

Keywords: Advice; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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

Keywords: City; Service Operations; Infrastructure; Service Industry; Indiana

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15 Oct 2001
Op-Ed

Lessons from the Rubble

whose knowledge and expertise may prove irreplaceable. People resent the United States for its prosperity, for its power, and for the presumption that prosperity and power give it the right to judge and... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

23 Oct 2019
News

A Bid for the Future

state workforce development programs in the United States. “People think about economic development folks making pitches to companies, and wining and dining, and that is part of it,” says Moret. “But what... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

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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

01 Sep 2014
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Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities

unemployment. Nevertheless, a minimum wage increase is controversial. Why is that? Because the conversation is really about much more than a technical debate on the costs and benefits. Most people are aware that the long-term economic path for the View Details

Keywords: April White; faculty research; writing

21 Mar 2019
Blog Post

What I Didn't Know About HBS Faculty

Khalid Alghimlas earned his bachelor’s degree in chemical and biological engineering from Colorado State University in 2011 and is a strategist and business development consultant. Khalid was born and raised in the View Details

26 Jul 2011
News

An Entrepreneur of the Arts

moved to the United States in 1993 and settled in Chicago. An early blooming entrepreneur, Efimova founded Russian Pointe, her first company, in 1998 while she was a junior in college. Russian Pointe, a... View Details

Keywords: ballet; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

03 Aug 2011
News

No Ducking the Debt Ceiling

paragon of fiscal management” compared to how the United States and its political leadership is doing. Among a number of Tweeters with multiple tweets on the subject, Professor of Management Practice Bill... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

18 Jan 2012
News

Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem

“the ability of companies in the United States to compete successfully in the global economy while supporting high and rising living standards for Americans.” While HBS alumni widely shared a negative view... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

Portrait Project

Valerie Galinskaya

opportunities the United States could provide, free of the anti-Semitism he tackled throughout his childhood. "Hard work is not lost in translation," he assured me. I didn't recognize the full... View Details

Portrait Project

Matthew Puglisi

On a scorching hot August afternoon in 2007, Dad and I returned home. Nearly 50 years since he set sail for the United States and its invigorating promise of unbridled opportunity, we visited a humble stone... View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

Who Owns Yoga?

people,” Deshpandé says. The enterprising Bikram, born in 1946 in Calcutta and known worldwide by his first name, began studying yoga as a four-year-old. He arrived in the United States in 1971, opening his... View Details

Keywords: Kim Girard; yoga; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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

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Fellowships | Baker Library

is to enable established scholars from around the world with the primary interest in the business and economic history of the United States to spend time in residence at Harvard Business School, conducting... View Details

Louis F. Bantle

During his tenure as CEO, Bantle generated a 10-fold increase in revenues (from $100 million to $1 billion) for United States Tobacco. He divested of non-core operating units... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

Portrait Project

Zuriel Chavez

and to value the sacredness of Thanksgiving; all foreign to a family of Mexican immigrants. At the 7:30pm nightly dinners he made mandatory, with the fire that comes with having lived in the United States... View Details

John M. Franklin

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

21 Jul 2011
News

Social Investing’s Time Has Come

meaningful social impact and earn a financial return based on measurable results. While still new, the idea is gaining traction in the United States and England, where this innovative approach to funding... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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