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credit. The collection is strongest in Western Europe and the United States from the fifteenth through1850. Thematic strengths are the history of political economy, economic philosophy, business theory,... View Details

01 Mar 2005
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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

June 2023 (Revised January 2024)
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Chipmaking in the Desert: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's Global Expansion

By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit

On December 6, 2022, in Phoenix, Arizona, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Executive Chairman Mark Liu outlined the company’s ambitious plans to invest $40 billion to build semiconductor manufacturing plants in Phoenix. The event also celebrated the... View Details

Keywords: Geopolitical Units; Government and Politics; Government Legislation; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan; United States

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20 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

worse than the financial crisis,” says Mills, who led the United States Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013. “Many small businesses will not survive more than a month.” Small businesses have been... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage

14 Apr 2010
News

The First African-American MBAs at HBS

Cunningham in 1913-14 and a year later The election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States had me wondering who the first African-Americans were to earn Harvard MBAs. I... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

Oscar S. Wyatt, Jr.

Using his Ford automobile as collateral, Wyatt entered the gas distribution and energy pipeline business with $800 in 1955. His tenacity and determination quickly secured gas contracts throughout Texas, and in short order, Wyatt had built one of the largest suppliers... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

reconsidering the traditional model of global health delivery. Each year, the United States alone spends over $9 billion on health improvement worldwide, yet nearly 13 million people die from illnesses that... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

history, HBS assistant professor Noel Maurer considers these questions and opens the door to other queries involving issues of economics and governance that reach well beyond the United States and its... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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

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

17 Dec 2015
News

Examining Global Workforce Management

in Brazil. Furloughs as an alternative to layoffs are used less frequently in the United States than in the rest of the world. Sucher’s case on Honeywell reveals how the firm—the only one of its US peers to... View Details

08 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

As today's fiscal deficit and dragging economy continue to cast long shadows, it's easy to forget much darker times in American history. Shortly after winning its independence from Great Britain, the United View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking

23 Aug 2017
News

Developing Leaders Behind Bars

Chris Michel (MBA 1998) has taken photographs all over the world. He recently had the opportunity to visit the Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California to document the graduation ceremony of a unique business program for... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

01 Feb 2001
News

Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde

Baker returned to the United States and was involved for many years in a variety of trading activities that took him to some two dozen countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Observing further how... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Government

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

01 Sep 2010
News

RX for Change

performance, and innovation. Peterson and three colleagues from Emory were among the program’s 68 participants from the United States and fifteen foreign countries. “We’ve always felt there was an... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2022
News

Contributing to a Better Future

School, Harvard University, and the worldwide business community, an undertaking that is ambitious, but with some historical precedent at HBS, Spar says. “When the United States was in World War II, the... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Feb 2002
News

Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story

that chance. What are some of that story's highlights? One striking aspect is that by the mid-1980s, the United States had almost entirely lost both the computer and the consumer electronics industries... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

2010
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The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors

By: William R. Kerr

The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation - with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail.... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Geographic Location; Patents; Ethnicity; City; Innovation and Invention; United States