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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
How did the United States lose its leading edge in producing innovative goods and services? Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Shih, professor of management practice,... View Details
Wilbert L. Smith
After leaving behind the first family company, Smith-Premier Typewriter Company, Wilbert and his brothers formed the entity that later became L.C. Smith Corona. Under Wilbert Smith’s leadership, the company re-engineered their product, capitalizing on improvements made... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Reginald F. Lewis
Just 10 years after founding his investment ventures firm, Lewis had established a $2.5 billion financing business, the largest firm owned by an African American in United States history. Through his... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
individuals displaced by natural disasters could surge to 1.2 billion by 2050, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace. Beyond the United States and France, the world witnessed the View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
Fox News has influenced how companies disclose financial news. Legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on the set in 2016. Source: Wikipedia Commons, CC 3.0) The United States presidential election of 2000 took place in... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
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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
- 24 Sep 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
and advisor, Philippe Schucht (both PLD 21, 2016), a neurosurgeon and Trustedoctor’s chief medical officer, and Lukasz Rzeczkowski, a co-founder—will launch partnerships with two large healthcare providers in Switzerland, United Kingdom... View Details
Hans W. Becherer
Becherer rebuilt Deere & Company, following the financial farm crisis of the 1980s, into a diverse, global competitor. In 1998, revenues from outside the United States accounted for approximately 25% of... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Walter H. Annenberg
Annenberg built a fledgling, debt-burdened newspaper business into a publishing empire. He introduced Seventeen in 1944 – sparking a new trend in targeted publications to America’s youth. In 1953, he overcame numerous logistical challenges to launch TV Guide, combining... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 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
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Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
B432 4 boxes, approx. 600 photographs Collection Guide The collection documents electric railway cars and lines in twenty-six states and in Washington, D.C. First introduced in the United View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
Investing for the Long Term in Education
Originally, he worked on libraries. As you know, most of the libraries in the United States and many in other parts of the Commonwealth are Carnegie-funded libraries. We continue to believe at Carnegie that... View Details
- 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
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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
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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
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Alfred D. Chandler Papers | Baker Library
lecture and seminar notes and almost the entire body of his professional correspondence. It is rich in research material gathered during his comparative studies of corporate structure and its development in the United View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 08 Apr 2015
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Closing The Middle-Skills Gap: How Business Leaders Can Help
In this session, Professor Fuller will discuss research on the role of businesses in closing middle-skills gaps. He will explain why the traditional definition of middle skills is inadequate and present a unique view of jobs data. He will argue that by adopting a... View Details
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
United States Patent and Trademark Office on the number of medical device patents in states during the same period. They found, on average, that once a View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
of schools and libraries didn’t have a broadband connection that met their needs. Although nearly all public K–12 schools in the United States were connected to the internet by 2006, most had slow dial-up or... View Details