Detroit - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 17

supply chain. Many OEMs sole-sourced customized microprocessors from the fab, so its shutdown forced the "Big Three" of Detroit and Japan to shut down production as well. Data from two automotive customers in particular,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 1997
News

Facing the Music

Detroit to Los Angeles in 1972, adds that the current stagnation can also be attributed to "a lack of hits" on the part of the major labels and increased competition for the consumer entertainment dollar. In 1996, efforts by big stars... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

This typology is similar to work on how industry membership influences companies. For example, regarding governmental factors, the city of Detroit created an Enterprise Zone to attract local inner-city corporate spending. Cleveland firms... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2011
News

James McNerney Jr.

mingled technological achievement and pure courage. It’s hard not to respect each and every one of them. Did you know what you wanted to be when you were growing up? I wanted to be the center on the Detroit Red Wings hockey team. And if... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Air Transportation; Transportation

13 Feb 2020
News

Not Throwing Away My Shot

consider to be a classic innovation community. The same way we think of Silicon Valley now, or maybe Detroit in the 1920s with the automobile industry. Okay, there's all these musicians, there's all this music. It's in the air. New... View Details

06 Feb 2025
News

How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details

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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

Whitney Museum of American Art Lilian Dodd Environmental Defense Fund William Dong Hebrew SeniorLife Eric Horne Megafire Action Joel Hurd City of Detroit Kazumi Kanagawa The Shed Sebastian Negron-Reichard City of Boston Mayor's Office... View Details

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

Detroit was the Silicon Valley of its day at the turn of the 20th century. Kendall Square is the pride of Boston activity these days, but was rather quiet and sleepy even ten years ago. Special innovative and entrepreneurial clusters,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

(MBA 1976)—to raise an additional $6 million. APRIL 21 Martin Dober (MBA 1998), managing director of Invest Detroit Ventures, recently teamed up with investors and donors to launch the Tech Startup Stabilization Fund, a $3 million fund... View Details

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Oral Histories | Baker Library

scholarship and a loan to make it possible. So for the age of twenty-one, I went east of Detroit for the first time in my life. I had never been to the East Coast, which I thought was very exciting. I enrolled in the program and lived at... View Details

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