Competitive Inner City

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.