Eastern United States - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy

01 Sep 2010
News

Start-Ups "R" Us

aspirations of the School’s graduates. The inaugural year for the Alumni New Venture Contest attracted more than seventy teams representing HBS Clubs in the United States and abroad. The seven finalists made... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta

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Films & TV | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

steel mill plant in Pennsylvania and the Fairless Hills community for plant employees. The film underscores the corporation’s outreach efforts with the local community. Full film available at: https://vimeo.com/353587440 United View Details

20 Sep 2014

MBA2U Brussels

Meet HBS alumni and staff at this all-day 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

13 Dec 2011
News

Carry It On

told the Boston Business Journal in 2009. Last spring, Wainwright Bank was sold to and merged with Eastern Bank, with Glassman continuing to serve as a director. Glassman’s values were shaped to a large extent in the crucible of the 1960s... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

Clarence M. Woolley

of the major European markets. As business picked up in the United States in the 1910s, especially with the onset of World War I, American Radiator began handling annual sales of $10 million and by the time... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

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The Coming of Managerial Capitalism - Course Catalog

defined by how business leaders and other stakeholders operate. Course Content and Organization This course offers students an opportunity to explore the historical development of the United States as the... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Education Innovation

system: "By practically any measure, the quality of public K–12 education in the United States is dismal." And the stakes are high. As Childress, deputy director of education at the Gates Foundation,... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

11 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

says. “What we’re asking is, can we build algorithms that will help find better matches that will allow people to integrate more easily?” The paper presents data from Switzerland and the United States that... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

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

01 Dec 2014
News

Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships

fellowship gives me the freedom to pursue my passion for helping suffering communities.” Cenat’s desire to give back stems from her own experience. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Haiti when... View Details

Keywords: fellowships

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

assistant professor Regina Abrami, who led the breakout session “China in the WTO: Two Years In.” The United States and other developed nations welcomed the required lowering of tariff and nontariff trade... View Details

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

01 Mar 2006
News

The Real Conflict

intermediaries such as Wal-Mart against a combination of old-line retailers and labor, community, and development activists. Particularly in retailing, policies in the United States favor consumers and offer... View Details

Keywords: Pankaj Ghemawat; Ken A. Mark; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

20 May 2013
Op-Ed

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

industries. Research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sowed the seeds for the internet and advanced computer graphics. And massive investments by the National Institutes of Health in biomedical research, including the Human Genome... View Details

Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

24 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Why Brexit is a Big Deal

States will reassert itself. Likewise, the trade links among British Commonwealth countries will be revitalized. Look for the UK to also accelerate its expanding business links with China. Brexit is not only bad news for the European ... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

Profile

Emily Hannenberg

Personally, I felt an ability to inspire trust in others and lead them toward goals. I had the physical fitness required to contribute as a member of a team, and I shared the military's core values: loyalty, integrity, duty, respect." After graduating from the... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

22 Nov 2013
News

A Passion for Film

Africa, China, and Eastern Europe," he recalls. "There's always pressure to take a somewhat trodden path, but I saw people from completely different backgrounds, and I realized how many opportunities had been given to me." His classmates... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

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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Educators

Purchase

Ludwig created the largest shipping company in the United States (the world’s third largest) and one of the world’s biggest private multinational corporations. His operations spanned 23 countries, employed... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

William F. Kerby

Kerby was responsible for building the Wall Street Journal into the second largest national newspaper in the Unites States with a circulation in excess of 2 million. He championed the company’s... View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

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