local government - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Dec 2016
Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

the government should not be in the business of helping some small businesses and not others. The editorial writers reinforced their view of SBA by pointing to President Obama’s proposed reorganization of federal economic agencies in... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

01 Dec 2016
News

How DC is Taxing the Country

reason for optimism, too. Business leaders as well as state and local policymakers have a major role to play in restoring competitiveness—and there are promising signs of change at the local and state level.... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

28 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

coming off welfare to avert a potentially large national problem (and a political problem for President Clinton). Intermediary organizations such as local and national nonprofits provided training and helped identify job-ready candidates.... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

30 Apr 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World

threats posed by climate change and aims to mitigate future emissions, India must forge a new, sustainable development pathway. This “twin challenge” of developing while decarbonizing was the main topic of our work in India. Throughout our trip, we engaged with View Details

14 Feb 2018
Blog Post

Meet HBS Leadership Fellows: Verdell Walker, Sesame Workshop

opportunity to make a substantive impact on SW. One project I’m very excited about is developing a long-range business and content strategy for SW’s new office in South Africa, which will oversee the local edition of Sesame Street called... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

commodity, the major actors have focused primarily on lowering and shifting costs, increasing their bargaining power, and restricting services. Providers have offered broad and undifferentiated services, competing based on convenience and historical reputation in their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

investment by entering into joint ventures or by licensing local partners. Still, they must remember that the concept of "open" can be deceptive. For example, executives believe that China is an open economy because the View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

businesses often answer unmet wants and needs that they see on a local level." Gopal Padinjaruveetil asked " where is the wealth created? In the case of small business the wealth is created in the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Mar 2018
Blog Post

“Mission + Profit: What’s the Balance?” asks SECON 2018

to learn from local communities truly has allowed them to effectively balance meeting its mission and being financially sustainable. With nearly 50 panels, a Pitch Competition, a Showcase event and various other special events held in... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

those who view immigrants as a threat to national identity and local culture. Cultural concerns are often amplified by the idea that immigrants are unwilling or unable to assimilate. But has anything happened to validate these concerns?... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

painfully clear to me a number of years ago in Veraguas province, Panama, where I was working with students to help a radical bishop, Marcos McGrath, establish credit and marketing cooperatives. Local View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

20 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

shoemakers in Italy among other industries to understand why manufacturing clusters still survive. ©iStock.com/panpipe The two shoe clusters studied are physically only 50 kilometers apart, but worlds apart in their success. The sports shoe cluster in Montebelluna... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

the local level, and typically filled rural niches for consumer goods. At their peak in the early 1990s, an estimated 19 million TVEs operated across the country. By contrast, the SOEs were controlled by various View Details

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

08 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

Some may shrug at the inevitable passing of the local newspaper, writing it off as a dinosaur that doesn’t have much to offer in our modern world of blogs, social media sites, and streamed soundbites. But no news is not necessarily good... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

30 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1999
News

Q & A: Herb Kohl

there was a question about whether that would be a detriment - people might think that I was buying the election. The local newspaper took a poll and asked, "Are you offended by Herb Kohl spending his own money to run for office?"... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent

destabilizing effect on some local cultures. But what has begun cannot be undone, he said. "There is no point in imagining a world where Pandora's box has not been unlocked," he said. "We cannot dig trenches around any... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

The same group of people who had been working for an under-performing company can produce outstanding results if they have the right leader. Japan may be the first country in the world where companies can choose from two different View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

18 Mar 2008
News

Election ’08, HBS Style

Holidazzle and the Newport Ball, as well as the “TGIF” get-togethers in between, a question from a current student government officer about raising the fee sparked a lively give-and-take about transparency. “The SA lost several thousand... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

Fast Answer

Buying a Small Business Pt3: Screening brokers /small companies (For HBS Alumni)

public companies by industry, geography, Keywords, etc. America City Business Journal – provides local business news and information from more than forty cities across the United States. Open database and industry... View Details

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