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  • 24 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

world's premier regulator of food, drugs, cosmetics, and other products and also of helping to lead the transformation of medicine to a molecular level. Current logistical challenges include ever-more rapid movement of products across View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

    John P. Thompson

    Continuing the expansion begun by this father, John Thompson, aided by his brother Jere, grew 7-Eleven into the national business it is today. Despite a failed venture into the oil industry with the Citgo chain, Thompson successfully grew... View Details
    Keywords: Retail
    • Fast Answer

    Foreign direct investment: statistics

    available online in World Bank DataBank. World Investment Report From the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.   For FDI in OECD countries broken down by industry, you can use the... View Details
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    Stereograph Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

    Motor Co. United Fruit Co. Smaller Collections Yousuf Karsh Portraits Margaret Bourke-White Farm Security Administration 1934 Art and Industry Exhibition Early Aviation Electric Railway Jones & Laughlin Steel 19th-Century Boston Portrait... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2001
    • News

    Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies

    Look beyond the United States and Great Britain and you are likely to find networks of companies — ranging from Latin America’s grupos to India’s business houses to Japan’s keiretsu — that are integral parts of the global economy. For HBS... View Details
    Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services
    • 25 May 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

    autonomy includes the right to relinquish it.” Consumer empowerment is perhaps more evident in the United States than other developed economies served by single-payer national health systems. In the View Details
    Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
    • 01 Jun 2012
    • News

    Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home

    Explains Fields, “Especially since the recession, to be more competitive, we’ve looked beyond things like labor costs when deciding where to locate new business.” He believes that the United States can often claim competitive advantage in... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing
    • 30 Nov 2021
    • News

    Cold Calculations

    electrical engineering and 58 patents, asked the venture capitalist for help in setting up the organization. In the intervening years, the small nonprofit has attracted interest from such organizations as the United View Details
    • 15 Dec 2015
    • News

    Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)

    strategic vision. He was a founding partner in a Lawrence, Massachusetts, hydroelectric plant which was the first venture to take advantage of the 1978 National Energy Act’s alternative energy incentives. Later, he and his team at J.... View Details
    • 19 May 2023
    • Blog Post

    Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change

    raised from private sources of equity and debt financing. According to Mark Carney, United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero has resources to... View Details
    • 29 Oct 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying

    virus and a refusal to abide by public health rules, according to the article "Gender Differences in COVID-19 Attitudes and Behavior: Panel Evidence from Eight Countries (PDF)" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [div... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
    • 01 Mar 2011
    • News

    Making Their Way

    but from Mexico, South Korea, and elsewhere — was coming in at a lower price point than our unionized operations could match,” Chirchirillo recalls. “And many of my OPM classmates were from outside the United States, so I was getting a... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation
    • March 2014 (Revised January 2025)
    • Case

    Ukraine: On the Border of Europe and Eurasia

    By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael M. Di Tella, Sogomon Tarontsi and Lavinia Teodorescu
    In the fall of 2013, the people of Ukraine disagreed passionately whether their country should intensify ties with the European Union or Russia. After President Yanukovych rejected the free trade agreement with the EU in November, thousands of Ukrainians peacefully... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Judgments; Geopolitical Units; Country; Globalization; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Globalized Markets and Industries; Government and Politics; International Relations; National Security; Growth and Development; History; Europe; Ukraine; European Union; Russia
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    • 11 Jul 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: July 11, 2006

      Working PapersGlobalizing the Beauty Business Before 1980 Geoffrey G. Jones This working paper examines the globalization of the beauty industry before 1980. This industry, which had emerged in its modern form in the United States... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Fast Answer

    GDP: Contribution by sector/industry

    How do I find industry contribution to GDP by country? Economist Intelligence Unit From the View Details
    • 01 Jun 2011
    • News

    Alumni Books

    It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace by Rye Barcott (MPA/MBA ’09) (Bloomsbury USA) Barcott relates how as a college student he lived in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, for part of a summer, seeing poverty he’d never imagined. Wanting to help, he... View Details
    Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs
    • 30 Apr 2025
    • News

    A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado

    also serves as the SEI’s faculty chair, and in that role, he organized and moderated the panel discussion, which featured Rosie Allen-Herring (SPNM 2015) the President and Chief Executive Officer of United Way of the View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley
    • 10 Jul 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    The State of the Markets

    be to use central banks to oversee this function. As these and other processes are carried out, however, the United States should avoid the temptation to declare that what's good for this country is good for the world. "We have to... View Details
    Keywords: by James E. Aisner
    • 01 Oct 1998
    • News

    Supplying Demand

    When it opens next year, Los Angeles' new state-of-the-art sports complex will bear the name of a $7-billion international retail giant, a newcomer that will join heavyweights such as United Airlines, Anheuser-Busch, and MCI in seeing its... View Details
    Keywords: Paul Michelman
    • 04 May 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands

    Insurance Corporation. Today, the FDIC is the most important ingredient brand in the world, way more important than Intel. Trust in the FDIC and the United States Government enables consumers to confidently deposit up to $250,000 in any... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch; Banking; Financial Services