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Debra J. S. Fields

Capitalizing on the trend of upscale home baked goods, Fields began the company with one store in California in 1977 and, by 1984, had expanded to 160 stores in the United States and four international... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

08 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

advantage; other options include auctioning permits to the highest bidders, or assessing each firm's operations by size and industry and then estimating benchmark pollution levels; if a firm exceeded those levels, it would need to buy additional permits. Trading In The... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

01 Dec 2000
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Vivek Ranadivé

"dream" in conversation more frequently than "market cap," "stock options," or "IPO." A native of Bombay, India, Ranadivé says he feels both international and American. "You can have big dreams here," he remarks. "The United View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Telecommunications; Information; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity

by venture capital in the past decades, there were many failures. But collectively, the companies that did succeed represent a significant fraction of the private-sector jobs in the United States today. The... View Details

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

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

they hear the words "national health insurance," but it is disturbing that we fail to provide health care to so many of our citizens. At the same time, firms in the United States are global leaders in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

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

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2007
News

A Call to Innovation

BIG BETS: Kao proposes investment in research and education. Robert Gumpert/NB Pictures As innovation guru and former HBS faculty member John Kao (MBA ’82) sees it, the United States is already losing on the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Telecommunications; Information; Management

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

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

States. But that was then; this is now. Just in the past few years, said Lerner, "we've seen a lot more syndication transactions across the United States and Europe and more early-stage involvement by... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

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Kresge Way | About

Foundation, the philanthropic organization established by his father, Sebastian S. Kresge. The elder Kresge was a legendary retailing entrepreneur who founded a chain of five-and-ten-cent stores in the United View Details

Adolph Zukor

Zukor independently built numerous theatres in major United States cities. Because of the popularity of these theatres, he began to invest heavily in movie production, convinced that big-name actors in large... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

29 Sep 2020
News

A Righteous Path

When Rich Leimsider (MBA 2003) became the executive director of the Safe Passage Project in 2016, his mandate was to expand the organization. Today, there are 40 staffers working in partnership with 450 pro-bono attorneys to represent 1,001 young refugees who arrived... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

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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

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Multiple Identities View of How Dominant Group Members Can Challenge Inequality" at the 2017 Gender and Work Symposium. Of Margins and Modalities Lex Smith Washington Lex Smith Washington, Assistant Professor of Managament at Oklahoma View Details

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

22 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

afford to write off these firms as noncompetitive threats or unworthy partners on the global business stage. "There is still a lot of apprehension about state-owned enterprises," says Musacchio. "The debate is very polarized. Either you are the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Justin Bardin

As a participant in the United States Navy's Immediate Graduate School Program, Justin Bardin is one of only twenty Naval Academy graduates selected for continued graduate studies, even as he maintains... View Details

December 2012
Background Note

Jefferson County: Specific Swap Detail

Jefferson County, Alabama, faces an EPA mandate requiring sewer system upgrades. How will they finance the upgrades? What consequences will follow? View Details

Keywords: Local Government; Political Process; Bankruptcy; Debt Management; Financial Planning; Financial Management; Urban Development; City; Infrastructure; Government and Politics; Alabama

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05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

description is generally the antithesis of cadavers made typically available through donations, so the supply is further strained. Not surprisingly, both in the United States and other countries, those who... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

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