Western United States - Publications - Faculty & Research

Francis B. Davis Jr.

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

01 Mar 2004
News

Alumni Relations Gets a New Director

new ways to support the many HBS clubs and associations in the United States and abroad. Since joining Alumni Relations as an assistant director in 1998, Goff has worked closely with numerous reunion... View Details

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

01 Jun 2005
News

Do You Speak Business?

management,” declares HBS professor John Quelch, an expert in international marketing and business development. He describes this style as an amalgam, built atop a U.S. model that has borrowed freely from others around the world. “With the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2010
News

Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying

that had previously given it coherence and meaning,” Allawi argues, asserting that under colonial rule, traditional institutions and ways of life were replaced by modern equivalents that spoke little to the people. The deterioration accelerated as View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2006
News

Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum

the unique juncture at which the United States now finds itself, with many speakers urging their audience to get involved in the issues of the day. The event also featured some twenty sessions led by HBS... View Details

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

16 Oct 2014
News

Innovating for International Aid

of San Francisco. Wu is currently chairman of the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants as well as a Presidential Innovation Fellow working on the Development Innovation Ventures project at the United View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Feb 2002
News

Springboard Boosts Funding Prospects for Women Entrepreneurs

applicants by a committee of top venture capitalists and business leaders from around New England. In opening remarks, HBS Dean Kim B. Clark said entrepreneurship has become not only a tremendous engine of growth in the United View Details

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

01 Jun 1997
News

Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets

available in the United States. What exactly is Feng shui, and why should a businessperson be interested in it? Feng shui is a method for arranging your living and work spaces so that you may tap into the positive energies in your... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

The Path to Economic Revival

article, “Restoring American Competitiveness,” which lays out their views in detail. Despite their dire analysis, Pisano and Shih remain cautiously optimistic that the United States can regain its... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

2010
Chapter

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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08 Nov 2024
HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

during military conflicts. As countries such as the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom honor their veterans this month, Harvard Business School Professor Robert Simons reflects on how service... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Dec 2006
News

Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge

roles of Europe and the United States in promoting the flow of capital across national borders. Investor Protection: The Czech Experience When TV Nova launched as the first privately owned TV channel in... View Details

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

Portrait Project

Valerie Galinskaya

opportunities the United States could provide, free of the anti-Semitism he tackled throughout his childhood. "Hard work is not lost in translation," he assured me. I didn't recognize the full... View Details

Portrait Project

Matthew Puglisi

On a scorching hot August afternoon in 2007, Dad and I returned home. Nearly 50 years since he set sail for the United States and its invigorating promise of unbridled opportunity, we visited a humble stone... View Details

Portrait Project

Marwan Chaar

1,400 years, Muslims today are in a unique situation. In Muslim lands there is an unprecedented lack of critical thought, and in the Western lands Muslims from all walks of life are being discriminated against. As a Muslim in post-9/11... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Shop Talk, Different Avenues

$205,000). By Invitation Only, a book detailing their entrepreneurial journey, will be published in April. AW: Marvin, you spend a lot of time traveling abroad. Are there any innovative retail concepts that you see outside the United... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; shopping; e-commerce; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

02 Mar 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents

After many on and off signals, President Donald Trump pulled the trigger March 1 and announced he would slap long-term duties on steel (25 percent) and aluminum (10 percent) imports next week. The last imposition of tariffs on steel by the View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini; Steel; Manufacturing

Fast Answer

Scaling Minority Businesses (SMB)

Where can I get started with research for my project assignment? Research Task Suggested Resources Consumer & Business Demographics United States Census Bureau - Demographic... View Details

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

and Indonesia to the Philippines, is now just half the world average. Poverty is not, of course, a new phenomenon. But during the Cold War, economic misery abroad did not matter to Washington; the United View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

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