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  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path

published by the Brookings Institution in the fall of 2020, predicted that business bankruptcies in the United States could increase as much as 140 percent that year, clogging courts and causing confusion in... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Ideas: Books

Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and entrepreneurial styles in the View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Damon Silvers

policymaker in Europe last week, and he confirmed the Japanese auto industry’s belief that its supply chain in the United States would be disrupted should the three automakers fail. That’s because key... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation
  • 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
  • Profile

Julio Cedeno

Julio Cedeno was born in Texas just months after his mother and father (originally from Mexico and Venezuela respectively) arrived in the United States from Venezuela. As the oldest among a generation of... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
  • Profile

Clarissa Quintanilla

As a dual United States and Mexican citizen, Clarissa Quintanilla made a long road trip with her family each Christmas from St. Louis, where she and her twin brother, Pablo, attended high school, to her... View Details
  • 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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    Scott G. McNealy

    McLeod presided over a period of infrastructure investment and development for Moore. During his tenure, Moore became one of the premier providers of business forms and printing services in the United States... View Details
    Keywords: Computers & Electronics
    • December 2020
    • Supplement

    Video Interview with Maxeme Tuchman

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
    Four diverse women entrepreneurs launched their ventures in a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem that was part of a shift to a creative technology-driven economy for Miami. Although Miami was rated the #1 U.S. city for startups in 2017, the region contained structural... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Female Entrepreneur; Racism; Sexism; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Diversity; Gender; Race; Prejudice and Bias; City; Culture; Miami
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      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
      • 01 Mar 2005
      • News

      Venture Capital’s Comeback

      great ideas abroad and bring them to the United States to launch. That approach works for Domain Associates in Princeton, New Jersey, which invests exclusively in life sciences companies. “We try to license... View Details
      Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
      • 01 Sep 2015
      • News

      An Unconventional Suggestion

      © Alexandra Hootnick/zumapress.com The United States needs to find a “rational middle” ground on the topic of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, says Professor Michael Porter. In a report released this... View Details
      Keywords: April White; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

        Ivan J. Houston

        Houston was instrumental in streamlining Golden State’s operations and enabling it to profitably expand. He moved the company into the group insurance field securing business from organizations such as Ford, General Motors, and AT&T. Under his tenure, Golden View Details
        Keywords: Finance
        • Article

        Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth

        By: Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn
        In the aftermath of World War II, the world's economies exhibited very different rates of economic recovery. We provide evidence that those countries that caught up the most with the U.S. in the postwar period are those that saw an acceleration in the speed of adopting... View Details
        Keywords: Hardware; Country; Business Cycles; Globalized Economies and Regions; Economic Growth; Welfare or Wellbeing; War; Technology Industry; United States; Japan; Europe
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        • 2011
        • Working Paper

        Fractionalization and the Municipal Bond Market

        We study the impact of ethnic and religious fractionalization on the U.S. municipal debt market and find that issuers from more ethnically and religiously fractionalized counties pay higher yields on their municipal debt. A two standard deviation increase in religious... View Details
        Keywords: Ethnicity Characteristics; Bonds; Financial Markets; Investment Return; Geographic Location; City; Religion; United States
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        • 01 Jun 2008
        • News

        Alumni Books

        carrier-borne fighters and their airframes and engines. The Tuition Travesty and What Students, Parents, Alumni, and Donors Can Do about It by Robert Ronstadt (DBA ’75) (BookSurge Publishing) This book explains why colleges across the View Details
        Keywords: Management

          John C. Malone

          formed joint partnerships to build a combined cable telephone system in Britain. Under Malone’s leadership, TCI became the #2 cable television operation in the United States and grew into a media powerhouse... View Details
          Keywords: Communications
          • 01 Jun 2004
          • News

          Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates

          entire spectrum of manufacturing and service enterprises in the United States and upward of 100 other nations. Executive Education alumni are different from MBA alumni in important ways. Unlike the MBA... View Details
          Keywords: Ted Fischer; Alumni Association Board of Directors; committee; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
          • 08 May 2006
          • Lessons from the Classroom

          Writing the Case for Public School Reform

          The state of public education in the United States is a perennial hot-button topic, with rhetoric often outpacing any real sense of progress. The Public Education Leadership... View Details
          Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

            John K. Northrop

            After frustrating attempts at aircraft engineering with many other firms, John Northrop founded Northrop Aircraft and helped it grow into a very lucrative defense contractor, providing everything from bombers, fighter jets, and reconnaissance planes to the View Details
            Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace