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- 2022
- Book Chapter
Creating 'Smart' Policy to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation
By: Karen G. Mills and Annie Dang
| Entrepreneurship is a key to unlocking innovation and fostering regional and national economic productivity. Extensive studies demonstrate that small and young firms contribute to innovation and employment growth. But which of the many types of small firms are... |
- 2022
- Book Chapter
The Servicification of the U.S. Economy: The Role of Startups versus Incumbent Firms
By: Mercedes Delgado, J. Daniel Kim and Karen G. Mills
| Over the last few decades, the U.S. economy has exhibited a significant shift from manufacturing towards services. This transition has been particularly prominent in an important subcategory of services industries that drives innovation and employs many high-wage... |
- 26 Mar 2021
- News
- American Express
Are FinTech Solutions the Key to Unlocking Small Business Growth?
By: Karen Mills
| “Many of the processes associated with running an SMB have traditionally been very paper-based, difficult and slow. But with the advent of new technological solutions, all of these processes will be transformed,” explains Karen G. Mills, senior fellow at Harvard... |
- 08 Mar 2021
- News
- Bloomberg
Working Women Are At A Tipping Point: Former SBA Head (Podcast)
Re: Karen Mills
| CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY: Karen Mills, Former Small Business Administrator and Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School, on the landscape for women entrepreneurs. Lisa Shalett, Chief Investment Officer at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, on her current... |
- 04 Mar 2021
- News
- Quartz
Sole proprietors, contractors, and freelancers now qualify for bigger PPP loans
Re: Karen Mills
| The rule change is a great and long-overdue correction to provide PPP support to sole proprietorships, which represent 24 million of America’s 30 million small businesses,” said Karen Mills, a former administrator of the SBA during the Obama administration and a senior... |
- 18 Feb 2021
- News
- Brookings Institution
How family sustaining jobs can power an inclusive recovery in America’s regional economies
Re: Karen Mills
- 20 Jan 2021
- News
- Business Insider
In Biden’s first 100 days, businesses can expect more stimulus, easier access to loans, and government contracting opportunities
Re: Karen Mills
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
- Harvard Gazette
Great promise but potential for peril
Re: Joseph Fuller & Karen Mills
| “Virtually every big company now has multiple AI systems and counts the deployment of AI as integral to their strategy,” said Joseph Fuller, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, who co-leads Managing the Future of Work, a research project that... |
- October 2020
- Article
- Research Policy
The Supply Chain Economy: A New Industry Categorization for Understanding Innovation in Services
By: Mercedes Delgado and Karen G. Mills
| An active debate has centered on the importance of manufacturing for driving innovation in the U.S. economy. This paper offers an alternative framework that focuses on the role of suppliers of goods and services (the “supply chain economy”) in national performance. We... |
- May 2019
- Teaching Material
Amazon's HQ2 (C): Choices
By: Karen Mills and Jan W. Rivkin
| This supplement discusses Amazon’s 2018 decision to split its HQ2 between two locations--Long Island City in New York and National Landing outside Washington, DC—as well as the ensuing response from local politicians and the public. |
- 2019
- Book
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity
By: Karen G. Mills
| Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream describes the needs of small businesses for capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been plagued... |
- June 2018
- Case
The Grommet in 2018
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Karen Gordon Mills and Lena Goldberg
| The Grommet, an online product launch platform, was at the brink of scaling its business. The Grommet's daily launch and sale of innovative consumer products, using personal videos created by product makers, had led to its initial success. In 2014, the company launched... |
- February 2018 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
Amazon's HQ2 (A)
By: Karen Mills and Jan W. Rivkin
| In September 2017, the Internet giant Amazon announced that it aimed to open a second headquarters in some city other than Seattle, its current home base. By 2032, the company projected, this “HQ2” would be home to as many as 50,000 high-paying tech jobs and up to $5... |
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
- Politico
A Real Path to Shared Prosperity in America
By: Karen Mills, Joseph Fuller & Jan Rivkin
| It’s not hard to see why Americans feel they are getting conflicting messages about the economy. On the one hand, they read in the headlines that the economic recovery is in full swing. Unemployment is down to 5.1 percent, lower than it was before the Great Recession.... |