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Charting a Course for Boston: Organizing for Change
By: Lisa C. Cox, Mitchell B. Weiss and Jorrit De Jong
Michelle Wu had been elected on the promise of systemic change, but four days after her November 2021 election and just eleven days before taking office as mayor of Boston, she was still considering how best to staff and manage a range of over-arching priorities.... View Details
Cox, Lisa C., Mitchell B. Weiss, and Jorrit De Jong. "Charting a Course for Boston: Organizing for Change." Cambridge, MA, United States: Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative Case, 2022.
- 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
Kerr, William R. "The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-003, July 2008. (Forthcoming book chapter in Agglomeration Economics.)
Louis F. Swift
Capitalizing on his father’s success, Louis Swift continued to expand the meat packing company even further. During his tenure the family company became the largest meat packer in the United States and was... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Bruce Barton
In 1919, Barton co-founded the advertising agency for which he acted as president. Barton was responsible for helping to develop a more favorable public image for United States Steel after the Steel Strike... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 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
- 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
- 2021
- Case
Leading Through Challenging Times: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms
By: Michael Norris, Rawi Abdelal and Kimberlyn Leary
Keisha Lance Bottoms took office as Mayor of Atlanta in 2018 with a progressive agenda and hopes to “keep Atlanta moving forward, leaving no one behind.” She was an Atlanta native, had previously served as a local judge and city councilor, and came into office with... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; City; Problems and Challenges; Health Pandemics; Social Issues; Economy; Atlanta; United States
Norris, Michael, Rawi Abdelal, and Kimberlyn Leary. "Leading Through Challenging Times: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms." Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative Case 0036TC, 2021.
- 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
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Robert Kraft Launches Campaign to Combat Antisemitism
Americans to stand up against Jewish hate." CBS also notes the ongoing work of the foundation, which monitors online antisemitism from a command center in Gillette Stadium. "It's going on constantly, and there's no let up, and it makes me sad, actually," Kraft told... View Details
- December 2020 (Revised April 2021)
- Teaching Note
Women Entrepreneurs and Tech Ecosystems: One City, Two Realities, and Four Diverse Women
By: Rosabeth Moss 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: Women; Racism; Black Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Diversity; Gender; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Innovation and Invention; City; Culture; Miami
- 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
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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
- February 1996 (Revised November 2003)
- Case
Indianapolis: Activity-Based Costing of City Services (A)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
A new administration in the City of Indianapolis is initially determined to privatize many municipal services. Before taking this action, however, the city managers want to know the current cost of performing these services with the municipal workers. Existing... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Public Sector; Activity Based Costing and Management; Service Delivery; Privatization; City; Indianapolis
Kaplan, Robert S. "Indianapolis: Activity-Based Costing of City Services (A)." Harvard Business School Case 196-115, February 1996. (Revised November 2003.)
- Web
Photographs & Prints | Baker Library
and people at work in industrial settings ranging from automobile plants to paper mills. The photographs document American industry and business operations across the United States and in Central and South... View Details
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Teaching Resources - Business History
supplement to cases, textbooks, and other readings. Case Method Teaching The C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning was established in 2004 to promote and support teaching excellence and innovation within Harvard Business School. It also provides... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Examining Global Workforce Management
in Brazil. Furloughs as an alternative to layoffs are used less frequently in the United States than in the rest of the world. Sucher’s case on Honeywell reveals how the firm—the only one of its US peers to... View Details
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Energy data sources: consumption and efficiency
by US Department of Commerce, US Census Bureau. You may search this site for more surveys on the topic. Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency® -- A source of information on incentives and policies... View Details
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U.S. Competitiveness Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
the U.S. economy. The Looming Challenge to U.S. Competitiveness In a March 2012 article of the Harvard Business Review , Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin outlined the looming challenge to U.S. competitiveness. The United View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- News
An Educational Start-Up
case, this particular class was being led by HBS professor Bill Sahlman, and the students were in fact professors, representing a Rand McNally of institutions: St. Petersburg State University, the University of Malta, the University of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
policymaker in Europe last week, and he confirmed the Japanese auto industry’s belief that its supply chain in the United States would be disrupted should the three automakers fail. That’s because key... View Details