5/16/2000
Are inner city businesses being left behind in the new economy? Far from it,
says HBS Professor Michael
E. Porter. With their strategic location and a readily available
workforce, inner cities are "ideal sites for the quick-response manufacturing and services that the new economy demands." Inc. Magazine's
second annual Inner City 100, a ranking of the fastest-growing private
companies in the inner city (co-sponsored by Porter's Initiative for A Competitive Inner City), shows a new breed of companies helping to revitalize America's urban economy.