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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Escape from Alcatraz
Illustration by Noah MacMillan Illustration by Noah MacMillan The first challenge of Boda Borg is describing it. The Swedish company—headed by president and CEO David Spigner (MBA 1987) and imported to the United View Details
Keywords: April White
- Fast Answer
Business demographics: number of establishments and employees
Where can I find the number of business establishments and employment size in industries? County Business Patterns has data for the United States as a whole, by county, zip code, and major metropolitan area.... View Details
William H. Nichols
Nichols was instrumental in the building of the chemical supply business in the United States and was one of the original founders of the American Chemical Society. Under his leadership of General Chemical,... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 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
- March 2022 (Revised June 2023)
- Background Note
Climate Issues on the Ground: Snapshots of Diverse American Cities
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Coelin Scibetta and Ryan Barr
This compilation provides brief snapshots of climate action and its geographic and institutional context in 13 U.S. cities that send diverse participants to the Harvard Business School Young American Leaders Program to learn about cross-sector collaboration to address... View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct By: Egan, Mark, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru Abstract—We construct a novel database containing the universe of financial advisers in the United View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
intellectual center that will stimulate engagement." “There is a need to look for ways to blend Asian and Western approaches.” “There is a need to look for ways to blend Asian and Western approaches.”... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
performance, and innovation. Peterson and three colleagues from Emory were among the program’s 68 participants from the United States and fifteen foreign countries. “We’ve always felt there was an... 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
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details
- 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
- January 2002 (Revised July 2004)
- Case
Renationalization of Railtrack?
Railtrack faces bankruptcy five years after its privatization. Railtrack's performance deteriorated since its privatization in 1996, exhibited by its weakening financial health, unsatisfactory services, poor safety record, and mismanaged investment program. In October... View Details
Keywords: Rail Transportation; Privatization; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; State Ownership; Rail Industry; United Kingdom
Dyck, Alexander, and Irina L. Christov. "Renationalization of Railtrack?" Harvard Business School Case 702-032, January 2002. (Revised July 2004.)
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
visitor engagement. “In the United States we have a number of discrete, unrelated houses and centers dedicated to individual writers, but no single location celebrating the country’s rich, diverse... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
for jobs if government doesn’t invest in the forthcoming change, change will be painfully slow if at all.” Should we be addressing the next jobs crisis now? What do you think? Original Column It’s clear that the focus of the new United... View Details
- 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
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Growing and Competing at the Local Level
on average reduce that by 44 percent. “I think what’s critical right now is understanding that 98 percent of the manufacturers in the United States are really small and medium sized. It’s that metal bender... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
profits, as most industrialized countries use. 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
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
on with X.” Global sales are critical to the success of most big businesses. In fact, for companies in the S&P 500, some 46 percent of sales came from outside the United States in 2011. "When nearly half... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel