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- 30 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
4 Takeaways from HBS
my finance background in real estate private equity, I believed strongly in the power of investing to transform cities and communities. However, I had it drummed into me that the shareholder was the most important stakeholder. In...
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- 27 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
technical people to collaborate with. Boston isn't the Valley for consumer or New York for enterprise tech, but it's very frequently where the biggest names in those cities got the skills that helped them build their companies. (Which is...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
listens and emotional connections to the music (“you’ve provided the soundtrack to their life, so there is even more excitement for the show”) and two, the data that artists can get from their streams help uncover fan bases in cities they...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium
Old, Something New Traditionally HBS has met prospective students at networking events such as open houses hosted in various locations by HBS alumni clubs as well as on campus by MBA Admissions. The current strategy builds on this existing strength by expanding open...
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Cindy Olnick
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
not knowing which offices are the most honest. To address that, Bantay has three main initiatives: City Watch recruits students and volunteers to grade government offices on everything from their air conditioning to the prices of bribes....
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
nonfiction, North America and India—as well as the similarities: Both are, in some way, chronicles of changing times and lives, suggesting the universality of change and its impact on the human condition, more generally." —Associate Professor Mukti Khaire on Vintage...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates
Executive Education alumni in cities across the United States and abroad. They explored questions such as: How connected do you feel to HBS today? How has that changed over time? Does your local HBS club or association meet your needs?...
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- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
was premised on an allegory about hillbillies, which working class people outside America's cities found valuable at a time when American ideology was all about engineering life and technological progress. Holt describes the geographical...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
Jamaica, and Zimbabwe. Some have worked in cities like Baghdad, Phnom Penh, Monrovia, Tokyo, and Madrid. But none of the students in our group has been to Santa Ana del Valle, a village of just under 2,000 inhabitants, where rug weaving...
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- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE privatizations, and this increase is larger in cities with strong IPR protection. Our results support theoretical arguments that IPR protection strengthens firms’ incentives...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
individual contracts with each town or city they serve, after bidding against other cable providers for the chance to do so. They then, in turn, receive fees from broadcasters to be included in their limited channel lineup in each area....
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- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
effects from the GQ upgrades in either setting. These findings suggest that in the time frames that we can consider—the first five to seven years during and after upgrades—the economic effects of major highway projects contribute modestly to the migration of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
streetlamps) and efforts by the City of Boston to address them. Some participants observed a count of new, open, and recently closed service requests, while others viewed these requests visualized on an interactive map that included...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere topped 400 parts per million. Scientists now believe sea levels could rise three feet by the year 2100. A recent article in the journal Nature Climate Change predicts massive flood losses for the world's 136 largest coastal View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
time zones, the event was held in the morning in the U.S., giving alumni in London and India a chance to join later in their day. “The format was speed-networking, where seven HBS alumni met every seven minutes with alumni from seven View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
Theatre, first starring Eli Wallach and now Hal Linden. After successful runs this year in Johannesburg and Stuttgart, the play will open within a year in eight other cities around the globe. The play draws on Baron's real-life...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
experience physical improvements? In this paper, we introduce a computer vision method to measure changes in the physical appearances of neighborhoods from time-series street-level imagery. We connect changes in the physical appearance of five U.S. View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
important roles in the passage of child labor laws, union labor campaigns, and City Beautiful movements, for example. But Sawyer notes that Gleason is exceptional in that she didn’t participate in issues considered maternal or those...
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- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=15-001.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 414-078 The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board In 2014, as the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) has just brought former New...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
tracks the origins of sweetriot from Sarah's formative early career experiences, to the company's launch and beyond as Sarah prepares future products, establishes production channels, and seeks future funding. Sarah was not content to just be a small New York View Details
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Sean Silverthorne