Northeastern United States - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2004
News

Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)

Services Inc. — and play fast-pitch softball for the defending national champions, the Raybestos Cardinals. That team drew me to Connecticut as much as the fact that the state was a good place to start a health plan. Those of us who set... View Details

Keywords: Lewis Rice; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

unreported numbers said. It’s startling to find that managers are not even neutral; they’re somewhat negative.” RESEARCHERS CREATE FORECASTING MODEL To test their ideas, the researchers studied 50 big-box retailers in the United States,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

bureaucratic and political constraints imposed on scholars by the government that seem to work against intellectual progress. Q: What does a Chinese entrepreneur need to succeed today, and is it different from what someone launching a business in the View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

22 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

goals has different effects on performance. This paper reports on a longitudinal study of 23 neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in a structured, quality-improvement program. We test the relationship between collaboration within the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

Whaling Ventures Nicholas, Tom, and Jonas Peter AkinsHarvard Business School Case 813-086 : Whaling was a prominent global industry in the nineteenth century and the United States was dominant. By 1850 there... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

How patient should we be in waiting for the tech productivity dividend? What do you think? Original Column For years we have been regaled with prospects of outsized productivity increases in the United View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

10 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

ideal choice for the study because its labor market shares many of the same characteristics as those found in the United States and the United Kingdom. "Aside from being a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

22 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Hedge Fund as Activist

investment horizons make them willing to accept takeover offers that do not fully recognize the overall value of the target—a merger at a low price is preferred to no merger at all. Another question that interests us is what the role of activist investors in countries... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services

22 Feb 2022
News

An Rx for Small Business Recovery

first-year MBA students will travel to 15 cities across the United States to work on projects that involve the design of a new product, service, or experience for a local segment of that city’s population.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Feb 2000
News

Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders

outside the power structure. I'd like to see a few self-indulgent female millionaires run for office! Is the United States ready for a woman in the White House? Currently, about 75 percent of the population... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

10 Aug 2015
News

A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges

earthquake, they were still so hospitable. It was a great opportunity for me to think about how to help them.” She returned to the United States, committed to making a deeper dive into social enterprise work. She landed at the Initiative... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 2015
News

Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness

company Long-Stanton and a 2013 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard, has been promoting competitiveness-based ideas to improve the regional economy. During the past 18 months, he’s given dozens of talks about US competitiveness to state... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson; Walmart; Health, Social Assistance; Retail Trade

02 Jun 2011
News

Serious Fun

why I went to HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School. I’ve always had an interest in entrepreneurial enterprises and activities that can have an impact on people’s lives, especially the poor and working poor in the United States.” View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2007
News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

more clearly than ever, the task these academics were setting for themselves of educating and socializing business school students as genuine professionals would not be easy to accomplish. The Fall of Managers Beginning in the early 1970s, the View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

March 2022 (Revised April 2023)
Case

Pittsburgh: A Successful City?

By: Karen Mills, Caroline Elkins, Vikram Gandhi, Gabriella Elanbeck and Zeke Gillman

Pittsburgh, PA, was once the crown jewel of American heavy industry. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the city was an undisputed leader in steel production, boasting some of the largest companies and wealthiest individuals in the world. Its abundance of... View Details

Keywords: Economic And Social Disparities; Economic Development; Local Economic Development; Contextual Intelligence; Contextual Knowledge; Context; City Growth; City Innovation; City Leadership; Pittsburgh; Local Government; Local Stakeholders; Business And Community; Business And Community Relations; Community Engagement; Community Relations; Cross-sector Collaboration; Innovation; Innovation Economy; Innovation Clusters; Innovation Ecosystems; Shared Prosperity; Equality Of Opportunity; Equity; Inclusion; Business And Government; Business ＆ Government Relations; Business And Government Relations; Business And Society; Neighborhoods; Race And Ethnicity; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Diversity; Ethnicity; Race; Household; Income; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economics; Local Range; Urban Development; Urban Scope; City; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Growth and Development; History; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Society; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Public Sector; Social Issues; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Education Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania

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01 Jun 1996
News

Four Professors to Retire

ten most innovative programs in the United States even though the program was then in its 66th session. In the MBA classroom, Crum offered courses in corporate finance, bank lending, financial institution... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

This article is a repost from the Social Enterprise Initiative blog. Prior to Harvard Business School, I spent eight years on active duty military service as an Aviation officer and helicopter pilot in the United View Details

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

business model, and the transition from a world in which throwing CO2 up the chimney was free to one in which throwing away CO2 is a costly activity. This won't be easy, but it will be easier than we expect. Between 1942 and 1944, for example, the View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities

05 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

"Race-Based Judgments, Race-Neutral Justifications: Experimental Examination of Peremptory Use and the Batson Challenge Procedure." Samuel R. Sommers and Michael I. Norton Law and Human Behavior (in press). The peremptory challenge remained an inviolate jury... View Details