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- 02 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Transforming American Public Education
that work. The challenge now is to build the support to scale these solutions. Key concepts include: Public education is in a state of crisis. Fixing it requires radically reforming a dysfunctional system. Effective educational reform...
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Education
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Art Nature Business
declined by nearly 12 percent per decade. ESTEBAN CABEZA DE BACABackbone of the Universe, 2019Acrylic on canvasSchwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, 2019.7Esteban Cabeza de Baca grew up in San Ysidro, California, on the border between the View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
years, I believe I have a clear sense of the state of corporate governance in the United States and in much of Western Europe. Not surprisingly, my crystal ball for predicting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
result of the IRA alone across manufacturing, onshoring, installation, and maintenance. As a venture investor focused on climate, I see the IRA as an inflection point for inclusive growth here in the United View Details
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
and engineering, reshaped the economy, and influenced society at large. But America is bogged down in thorny debates on immigration policy, and the world around the United States is rapidly catching up,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter In the wake of the Snowden leaks in 2015, the New York Times dropped the bombshell news that one company had played a unique role in enabling the National Security Agency’s domestic spy program. The report, “AT&T Helped US Spy...
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- January 2013 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Pittsburgh
By: Eric Werker, Meg Rithmire, Benjamin Kennedy and Andrew Knauer
The case narrates the development of Pittsburgh from the 1940s to 2012. It analyzes the collapse of the steel industry in the early 1980s, the city's subsequent decline, and the city's later re-emergence as a hub for higher education, the tech sector, and the...
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Google;
Population;
City Growth;
Shale;
PNC;
Tom Murphy;
Luke Ravenstahl;
Public-private Partnership;
Tax Increment Financing;
Brownfields;
Renaissance;
Industry Clusters;
Industry Growth;
City;
Business and Government Relations;
Taxation;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Higher Education;
Technology Industry;
Health Industry;
Steel Industry;
Education Industry;
Pittsburgh
Werker, Eric, Meg Rithmire, Benjamin Kennedy, and Andrew Knauer. "Pittsburgh." Harvard Business School Case 713-035, January 2013. (Revised October 2015.)
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
the cement market, Evans points out, followed by India, while the United States accounts for only 4 percent. “China’s most recent five-year plan includes some serious commitments to reducing carbon,” he...
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Alice Yang
Alice Yang was born in Taiwan, then lived in the Netherlands before immigrating to the United States. “The experience of attending public schools on three continents gave me a deep sense of gratitude for the opportunities I’ve been...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
like to help the faculty identify management issues, such as privatization or post-stabilization volatility, that are prevalent in Latin America (and perhaps elsewhere) but are not commonly experienced in the United View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
be driven as much by markets as by science.” Experts say that, in the United States alone, those markets could offer therapies for tens of millions of people who are suffering from conditions such as...
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Garry Emmons
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Anja Anliker
On September 11, 2001, Anja Anliker was a senior in high school. “Even though I had no direct relationship to any of the victims, the events of that day shook me to my core,” she says. “It made me think of the state of the world and our...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
School’s centennial celebration a few years ago, we convened groups of business leaders in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the United States to consider the future of the global market system. In keeping...
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- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
million. Now with a $1.2 billion rights fee for London, most pundits expected it to lose between $100 and $200 million. Instead, NBC not only broke even on the Games, but it also made it the most viewed television event in United View Details
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
equity shop effectively scooped up Celanese, stripped it of its German identity, and repotted it in the United States nine months later, thereby closing a large valuation gap. And there were other situations...
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by Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
Argentina and Chile? These leaders had an inside-looking-out view during this much of this time—what do we learn from them? A: These interviews supplied both contextual and personal information simply not available elsewhere. Unlike the View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
utilization of ground forces—the personal selling and get-out-the-vote strategy.” "I think this research connects beautifully with a normal business operation within a corporation," says Doug J. Chung, an assistant professor in the Marketing View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading a community of health care providers
As CEO and chairman of the board of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc., Kent Thiry (MBA 1983) has built the second-largest kidney dialysis company in the world. He oversees 2,074 outpatient dialysis centers that serve 163,000 people in the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Revamping the corporate tax code could improve America’s competitiveness and living standards
investments that could raise American productivity and living standards. “A handful of changes would transform the corporate tax system from an obstacle to an asset,” says Desai. He advises creating better incentives for global corporations to locate and invest in the...
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Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde
Both Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde and her husband, Alain, had completed master’s degrees, and both had considerable experience in corporate finance. But Alain was eager to go the United States to get an MBA....
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