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November 2011 (Revised February 2012)
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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul: Building on a Diversified Base

By: William W. George

Since the 1970s, the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan region (MSP) had outpaced the nation in job creation and income per capita. MSP's diversified base of industry clusters had enabled the region to adapt to economic downturns and an exodus of major corporate... View Details

Keywords: Industry Clusters; Employment; Organizations; Transformation; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Minneapolis; Saint Paul

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14 Apr 2015
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History Has Its Place in Business

01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know

expansion. The heart of the problem in the 1930s, in other words, was not a shortfall in productive capacity—too little labor or too little plant and equipment, due to a famine or earthquake—but rather a shortfall in demand due to “some... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Research Brief: Capitol Gains

issue of the Journal of Financial Economics. "It might seem obvious that legislation that either supports or challenges an industry would have predictable financial fallout for a state's firms engaged in that industry," says Cohen. "But the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Mar 2012
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Putting Ghosts to Rest

the right inputs to grow more and access the right markets to sell more. Co-ops are one way to do this (form a group to access credit for inputs and sell products in bulk), but they are notoriously messy and hard to sustain. There are... View Details

Keywords: Chris Maloney; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

long-standing tradition of being one of the state’s few Democratic pockets outside Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, with a history of labor unrest and unionization dating back to the 19th and early 20th centuries. That energy carried workers... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Mar 2011
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Noted & Quoted

with stories of humble beginnings and noble struggles against overpowering adversaries, providing underdog narratives for consumers.” — HBS assistant professor Anat Keinan describing the market power of “challenger brands.” (Financial... View Details

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

10 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

Danish labor market across time (the data tracks when a person enters a company and when he or she moves between periods of employment and self-employment), Nanda and Sørensen found that rates of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

10 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

research organizations that partnered with business groups and regulatory bodies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53310 The Decline of Big-Bank Lending to Small Business: Dynamic Impacts on Local Credit and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

both organizations and employees benefit by emphasizing newcomers' authentic best selves. Paper: http://www.francescagino.com/publications.html First-Party Content and Coordination in Two-Sided Markets Authors:Hagiu, Andrei, and Daniel... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

25 Feb 2013
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Among millions, a blank slate

05 May 2017
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Barnes & Noble Names Demos Parneros CEO

feature full-service restaurants. The changes are in reaction to a market that, as the Times notes, is in flux: After decades of decline, independent bookstores have rebounded. The American Booksellers Association counted 1,775 member... View Details

23 Jun 2021
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One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs

face in labor markets, they would want managers to use it more,” Koning says. When they examined product performance over time, they found that on a platform where nine-in-10 users are men, typical female-focused products showed 40... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Oct 2005
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Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

perspective, the illegality of the practice and its misalignment with official organizational goals might be most salient. Thus, the topic of homer making puts the person disclosing it in a position of vulnerability, one in which hasty judgment is likely. The unusual... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2008
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A U.S. Turnaround?

During the 1960s and 1970s, U.S. textile, apparel, and shoe manufacturing migrated to Latin America and Asia. By 1990 many products formerly manufactured in the United States were being produced abroad. In addition, foreign automakers were taking View Details

Keywords: Byron Wien; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

July 1995 (Revised September 1997)
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Baseball Strike, The

Describes structural conditions in the American baseball industry in 1995. Although this case covers conditions leading to the 1994-95 strike, it is designed primarily for analysis of the structural tensions that arise between suppliers, buyers, and rivals as industry... View Details

Keywords: Industry Structures; Sports; Labor and Management Relations; Sports Industry; United States

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29 Jun 2015
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Why Xiaomi Can't Succeed Without India

Keywords: Telecommunications; global strategy; China; India; Telecommunications; Information

01 Sep 2018
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After the Fall

mortgage-backed securities were greatly overvalued, giving investors and bank CEOs a false sense of security. “The cycles of optimism and pessimism in financial markets will always exist, but we can help people make better informed... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

it far because there’s a lot of air you’re moving around,” he explains. “This is very much a local business.” Consumer preference for plastic and the marketing trend toward rejuvenating a brand with new packaging designs have been pushing... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

02 Nov 2009
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Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

perks and forms of compensation, such as stock option grants. "My sense is that the Obama administration fundamentally believes in the power of markets combined with good government supervision," Ferri says. "While some... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

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