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20 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

worse than the financial crisis,” says Mills, who led the United States Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013. “Many small businesses will not survive more than a month.” Small businesses have been... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage

01 Jun 2001
News

On the Inside

Top billing, of course, goes to her boss, George W. Bush (MBA ’75), but Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao (MBA ’79) is also making a name for herself in the new administration. Chao, who has previously served in several government posts and as president of View Details

Keywords: Government

01 Sep 2020
News

Building a Strong and Prosperous Society

political climate in the United States today, do you think that democracy is in jeopardy? Rebecca Henderson: Yes, I think democracy is in trouble, and there are two key indicators. One is that in the View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Ideas: Books

Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and entrepreneurial styles in the View Details

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

William R. Hearst

journalism" enabled him to capitalize on the public's thirst for exaggerated stories, and in the process, his circulation numbers soared. Though he was reviled as a journalist, Hearst built the largest publishing conglomerate in the View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

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Generational demographics

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Global generational demographic reports and data. SimplyAnalytics
Enables creation of maps and tables for the United States that incorporate data such as... View Details

James L. Kraft

large part to Kraft’s efforts. In 1928, his company employed 10,000 people and sold a million pounds of cheese a day. Today, the firm ranks first in the United States in cheese and dairy products and second... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

01 Dec 2011
News

A Modest Tax Proposal

profits, as most industrialized countries use.Â In a pure territorial system, the profits of multinational companies based in the United States would be taxed only by the country in which the profit is... View Details

Keywords: Robert C. Pozen; tax holidays

08 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year

United States—which is comparable to the number of fatalities resulting from car accidents. Current gun-purchase laws in most states allow the buyer to take home a firearm immediately after completion of an... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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

01 Dec 2014
News

Taking Tailoring High Tech

Jamal Motlagh began research for his fashion business at HBS, with male classmates who were beginning to recognize the importance of being well dressed. They were part of a larger trend: According to the NPD Group, the menswear market in the View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

Working PapersThe Rise of Business Forecasting Agencies in the United States Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract This paper analyzes the rise of business and economic forecasting agencies in the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

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01 Mar 2023
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Fostering a Supportive Community

After graduating from Cornell University, where he majored in policy analysis, Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021) spent seven years working in education and for a nonprofit that advances equity and economic mobility in the southern View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

30 Sep 2010
News

Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Kosovo in 2005-2006. Talk about making a difference in the world! With the United States mired in partisan and dysfunctional political gridlock, negotiation seems a dying art — in Washington at least — and... View Details

Keywords: Nobel Peace Prize; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government; National Security and International Affairs; Government

23 Sep 2010
News

How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?

A recent issue of the Harbus offers a quick glimpse of what a few MBAs have been up to over the past three months. Internships based in the United States (at Major League Baseball, MTV Networks, and the U.S.... View Details

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

01 Sep 2011
News

Whale Wars

Thoren Photo courtesy Beth Thoren Related Links View video of confrontations in the Southern Ocean Have you noticed that when you live in a big city long enough, your thoughts can struggle to travel further than the building in front of... View Details

Keywords: Marybeth I. Thoren; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

12 Apr 2012
News

HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups

augmented-reality instructions southwestern us HBS Association of Southern California Brandon Molina, MBA 2010 CEO Swing by Swing Golf technology for the greens 2012 HBS Alumni New Venture Contest legal services sponsor: Cooley, LLP... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; Alumni New Venture Contest

Lee Shubert

Shubert and his brothers broke the Klaw-Erlanger Syndicate which controlled 95 percent of all theaters in the United States at the turn of the century. Beginning with a few theaters in New York and... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

25 Oct 2016
News

Dimon on the Federal Reserve, Taxes, and his Optimistic Outlook

In the 45-minute interview with Carlyle Group CEO David Rubenstein, Dimon discussed everything from his early career at Citi to economic policy to the current state of affairs in the United States. “America... View Details

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