Northwestern United States - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?

Several months ago, Harvard's Forum on Health Care Innovation surveyed industry executives, policy makers, academics, and doctors about the state of health care in the United States. Their report card was... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

18 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

In the current squabble over how many skilled immigrants to let into the United States on H1-B visas, academics have fiercely debated whether they create jobs by bringing new skills to companies or whether... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting

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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In 1928, United States Rubber lost $10 million due to the collapse of the world crude rubber market. Taking over the helm in 1929, Davis reorganized the company, putting in place a multi-divisional... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

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

01 Sep 2008
News

An American Story

Hitler’s popularity grew, Boris emigrated to the United States with his wife and four children, settling in Dayton, Ohio. Times were tight and jobs few and far between. Boris heard about work at a shoe... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Profile

Malory Mclemore

Space. Who is one person from your life that you admire the most today? My father the United States Marine, firefighter, and entrepreneur. My dad did not go to college, but he is the most entrepreneurial and... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses

to create. But life in America, which began when he left Iran as a one-year-old, taught him about the qualities that immigrants bring to the country—perseverance, entrepreneurialism, a willingness to adapt to new cultures—that made it possible, he says, for the View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

ultimately be bankrupt, and Americans will be forced to pay for a much higher share of their health care bills. There is a better way. The United States must make healthy living the twenty-first century... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

13 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors

prospects of lower pay or fewer chances at promotion than men. In the medical world, recent studies show doctors are less alert to symptoms in older adults when a patient is female. Heart attacks are the leading cause of death in the View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

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

06 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

The Art of American Advertising

Card. Photo: Bates Trade Card Collection, Harvard Business School "The challenges that marketers faced as the United States grew into a national market because of changes in transportation and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

01 Jun 2001
News

On the Inside

Top billing, of course, goes to her boss, George W. Bush (MBA ’75), but Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao (MBA ’79) is also making a name for herself in the new administration. Chao, who has previously served in several government posts and as president of View Details

Keywords: Government

06 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?

earlier pledge to give reporters covering the Olympics unfettered access to the Web. At the same time, it accused the Bush administration of politicizing the Games after the United States criticized China's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit

substantial growth, because it looks as though they have been foregoing opportunities,” explains Kim. Whether a tech startup or a pet shop, small businesses are a major economic force, contributing 44 percent of gross domestic product in the View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

01 Dec 2008
News

Energy Sources: Daniel Yergin and the EP Team

book, Shattered Peace, on the origins of the Cold War, when Robert Stobaugh approached him about joining the Energy Project. As Stobaugh explains, “I knew I could string together sentences, but I recognized Dan Yergin was a writer.” Yergin was weighing job offers from... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

October 2013 (Revised June 2014)
Case

Demarketing Soda in New York City

By: John A. Quelch, Margaret L. Rodriguez, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Christine Snively

In 2013, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried and failed to institute a ban on serving sizes of large sugary beverages. Obesity posed a large public health risk to the city. Mayor Bloomberg's proposed ban was one of many attempts to combat the rising threat of... View Details

Keywords: Soda; Public Health; Business And Public Policy; Obesity; Business and Government Relations; Public Sector; Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Marketing; Health; City; Food and Beverage Industry; New York (city, NY)

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10 Feb 2016
News

Investing in Sustainability

produced in the United States is never eaten; 3.8 million gallons of fuel are wasted everyday from unnecessary idling. The nonprofit’s investment strategy is far less typical. Sustainable America makes... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War

Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84), are the lost opportunities that the United States could have pursued: expanding services for its own citizens, offering crucially needed leadership on the world stage, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Dec 2005
News

What’s Next for You?

At a fall reunion session titled “Downshifting Your Career or Just Changing Direction?” panelist Michael Jeans shared a startling World Health Organization prediction: In the United States today, those who... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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