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  • 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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  • 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
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices

For a long time, the United States was striving to become energy self-sufficient; now the country is self-sufficient and is becoming a net exporter of energy. That has pretty profound global economic and... View Details
Keywords: Sarah Wright (MBA 1997), founder, Hull Street Energy
  • December 2020
  • Supplement

Video Interview with Rebecca Fishman Lipsey

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Joyce 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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  • December 2020
  • Supplement

Video Interview with Felecia Hatcher

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; Sexism; Racism; 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
    • 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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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    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
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    • 13 Aug 2024
    • Op-Ed

    Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

    "more personal, meaningful, and effective patient interactions," according to the organization. Several hospitals across the United States have piloted AI scribes to address the growing burden of data entry... View Details
    Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health
    • 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
    • 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 2000
    • News

    Going Public: Raymond M. Jefferson

    On October 18, 1995, U.S. Army Captain Ray Jefferson was excited about his future. The West Point graduate had eagerly accepted challenging assignments commanding Ranger and Green Beret units in the United... View Details
    Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
    • 29 Mar 2023
    • News

    Robert Kraft Launches Campaign to Combat Antisemitism

    Photo courtesy New England Patriots Photo courtesy New England Patriots New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) launched a $25 million "Stand Up to Jewish Hate" campaign last week, which is "aiming to raise awareness nationwide about soaring incidents of... 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

      Crawford H. Greenewalt

      As the tenth president of duPont Corporation, Greenewalt built the Savannah River Plant for nuclear processing, one of the largest construction projects in the United States. As CEO, Greenewalt generated a stellar return on equity... View Details
      Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
      • Web

      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