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  • 10 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

own business—even if that business may have failed." Nanda and Sørensen control for the possibility that former and aspiring entrepreneurs are more likely to cluster together at a company with an entrepreneurial culture,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 15 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 15

explores the role of economic and cluster performance. Detailed historical economic and social data allow for an evaluation of policy results. The case finishes highlighting the main economic challenges the city was facing in 2012.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 13

811-106 Location choice is a critical decision for entrepreneurs. This note explores how entrepreneurs should think about different city options through a systematic framework that encompasses professional and personal issues. We use the intellectual frameworks of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

DSMC holds as a consistent pattern in a dynamic equilibrium. Given DSMC, clusters of firms making different complementary goods, including open platforms with surrounding ecosystems, can survive and compete effectively against integrated... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 10

note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412050-PDF-ENG Envision Charlotte: Building an Energy Cluster (Abridged) William W. GeorgeHarvard Business School Case 412-087 Charlotte, North Carolina, was one of the leading economic centers... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 29

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1475725 Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation Author:William R. Kerr Abstract We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

"Privatization and the Role of the Governments in a Global Economy," the prime candidates for state-run operations clustered around five sectors of the European economy— transportation, telecommunications, financial services,... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 07 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 7

incumbent attracting and retaining more profitable customers over time. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39914 Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation By: Chatterji, Aaron, Edward Glaeser, and William Kerr... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

  Publications August 2013 University of Chicago Press Innovation Policy and the Economy By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo18508109.html August 2013 Innovation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

How to Spur Prosperity

whether it makes sense for their particular region. What would be a wiser strategy? States and countries, for that matter, because this also happens internationally, should look at clusters of entrepreneurial activity that are already... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • January 2013 (Revised October 2015)
  • Case

Pittsburgh

By: Eric Werker, Meg Rithmire, Benjamin Kennedy and Andrew Knauer
The case narrates the development of Pittsburgh from the 1940s to 2012. It analyzes the collapse of the steel industry in the early 1980s, the city's subsequent decline, and the city's later re-emergence as a hub for higher education, the tech sector, and the... View Details
Keywords: Google; Population; City Growth; Shale; PNC; Tom Murphy; Luke Ravenstahl; Public-private Partnership; Tax Increment Financing; Brownfields; Renaissance; Industry Clusters; Industry Growth; City; Business and Government Relations; Taxation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Nonprofit Organizations; Higher Education; Technology Industry; Health Industry; Steel Industry; Education Industry; Pittsburgh
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  • 23 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 23

Casals, 129-150. Papers d'Economia Industrial. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, 2010 Abstract The chapter provides an overview of the recent literature discussing the pros and cons of cluster policy. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2024
  • Case

Fusion Industry Association: Igniting the Future of Clean Energy

By: Joshua Lev Krieger, Jim Matheson, Kyle R. Myers and Henry Tao
Fusion energy is evolving from a scientific idea to a commercial possibility, drawing large investments and regulatory discussions; how should the FIA navigate this evolution?

The Fusion Industry Association (FIA) is at the forefront of transforming fusion... View Details
Keywords: Science-Based Business; Engineering; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Government Legislation; Industry Clusters; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Technological Innovation; Energy Industry; United States
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  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

Organizing for Society: A Typology of Social Entrepreneuring Models Authors:Mair, Johanna, Julie Battilana, and Julian Cardenas Publication:Journal of Business Ethics Abstract In this article, we use content and cluster analysis on a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

between 6,594 (1.6%) and 97,579 (21.7%) matched observations are different from one download to the next. The changes, which include alterations of recommendation levels, additions and deletions of records, and removal of analyst names, are non-random in nature: They... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety

Americans could avoid food poisoning each year simply by reducing the number of establishments an inspector visits on a single day. Often, inspectors will cluster their schedule to conduct inspections on two or three days each week,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Service
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Books

searches and appropriately rewards their efforts." The result of this dynamic has been one of history's great technology success stories. In a second volume of Design Rules, the authors will examine how the interrelated processes of design and industry evolution... View Details
  • 27 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 27

(forthcoming) An abstract is unavailable at this time. The Variance of Non-Parametric Treatment Effect Estimators in the Presence of Clustering Authors:Samuel G. Hanson and Adi Sunderam Publication:The Review of Economics and Statistics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

product category to attract the customer into the store (measured by the category market share); (2) sharing real estate in malls by building clusters of SMI stores and brands (measured by sales per square foot and multi-store traffic);... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail