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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Porter's Paradox
associated institutions in particular fields that compete but also cooperate." In a recent interview in Working Knowledge, a quarterly report on research at HBS, Porter was asked whether clusters and other local economic circumstances... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
changed for them when the world went remote. They’ve since hired six employees who are clustered in Boston but working remotely. As the team expands, the founders wonder whether they should build a remote-first company or plan for an... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
off his own consulting firm, Competitiveness.com, in 1993 to work exclusively on cluster competitiveness reinforcement projects. Consultant and Networker One of his firm’s first challenges was helping the 500-year-old leather industry in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
prominence to the role of dynamic clusters as a key to regional and national economic success. He defines clusters as geographic concentrations of interconnected companies and institutions in a particular... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Construction Begins on New Exec Ed Building
as office space for administrative staff. Bedrooms will be clustered in groups of eight around a shared living area that includes a meeting space, kitchenette, and lounge. A tunnel will connect Tata Hall to Baker Hall next door. The $100... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
A Club for the Cosmos
In May, as Khaled Al-Hashmi (GMP 11, 2011) was introducing the UAE Space Agency at the Global Space and Satellite Forum in Abu Dhabi, another launch was taking place inside the confines of the larger conference. The Harvard Business School Aerospace Alumni Group, the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
and to take action quickly on less data, which is probably a result of studying so many cases and testing some of the principles on the job." Next year, TGM's administrators hope to attract more clusters of general managers from a single... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
degree of interest from a cluster of northeastern states as well as broader interest across the country,” she notes. In particular, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has expressed interest in using social impact bonds to address... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
national security and a civilian tech sector that is the main engine of the economy. Another plus is Israel’s cluster of great universities, large companies, start-ups, and “connective tissue” such as top-notch engineering talent and... View Details
- 10 Oct 2013
- News
How a Prolonged Government Shutdown Will Impact the Business World
- 31 May 2017
- News
Father Agribusiness
In the late 1950s, an HBS lecturer named Ray Goldberg noticed something: traditional farming and the wider world of business were beginning to intersect with greater and greater frequency. Intrigued, he came up with a name for what he would spend the next 60 years... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell
In the light and airy fourth-grade classroom at the Bowman public school in Lexington, Massachusetts, the desks are clustered back-to-back in groups of five, forming a series of islands. In one corner, a large spider web made of aluminum... View Details
Keywords: Eileen McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
plants, you don’t need to employ highly skilled technicians to maintain equipment. Suppliers of production equipment also tend to cluster near manufacturing. (The countries with the highest production of machine tools—Germany, Japan,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
Cunningham hopes it will lead to a statewide initiative that will support significant research and investment, education, and workforce development, and the development of strong clusters of related companies within the region.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Comfort Zone
mind,” he says. First up: Bring the comfort of the lounge to the boarding hall. Tandem seating is a thing of the past, Fraser says. Among other things, he advises replacing the rows of chairs with what he calls soft seating: small couches that are comfortably spaced,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Porter Directs New Institute at HBS
impact of Harvard's intellectual capital." Research at the ISC will span a wide array of topics, such as regional cluster development, the impact of the Internet on competitive positioning, antitrust policy, and strategies for... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Is the Real Estate Market Going to Collapse?
In a wide-ranging Los Angeles Times interview Robert Sulentic (MBA 1984), president and CEO of CBRE Group Inc. (long known as Coldwell Banker & Co.), is bullish about the real estate market, the future of brick-and-mortar retail, and the growth of entrepreneurship... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
cluster concept pioneered by Michael Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor (Renewal Leave) at HBS, Mills argues that organizing a region’s small and large businesses around specialized industries—such as biotech in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was considered the most logical path for... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
someone’s “baseline behavior,” so you have a reliable reference point for measuring changes later. Don’t point your finger and say, “Oh, your eyebrow twitched, you’re lying.” Look for clusters of verbal and nonverbal indicators of deceit:... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna