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- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
Urban Waste Entrepreneurs John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr, and Fan ZhaoHarvard Business School Case 211-086 Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
divisions between the North and the South. Document three is excerpted from Whig Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen of New Jersey's six-hour speech to Congress opposing Indian removal. Document four is excerpted from a speech by Senator View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Overview
By: John D. Macomber
Mr. Macomber's research looks at finance and delivery of infrastructure and buildings that address issues in urbanization, economic development, and the growth of cities in the face of extensive challenges from migration, resource scarcity, and increasing peril from...
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Real Property
By: John D. Macomber
This course is intended for any student serious about a career in managing, developing, or investing in real estate. Due to its rigor, it will be more than sufficient for those thinking about real estate as a hobby or for those considering real estate for limited... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
workers; and the production of knowledge, including the idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, the essays suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is made by political authority, how it is...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Shaky Ground Senior Lecturer John Macomber Because of a housing shortage in Williston, oil worker Glenn Robinson, from Missouri, sleeps in his car, staying warm by idling the...
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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to investment performance is the most frequent motivation for use of ESG data followed by client demand and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
African people, businesses, cities, and nations are increasingly stressed by climate related perils like drought, river flooding, extreme heat, and sea level rise. This is already leading not just to destruction of assets but also...
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- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
by forming collaborative agreements with John Maynard Keynes, Lucien March, Corrado Gini, and other prominent economists of the time. Through these contacts, the Harvard method influenced the evolution of...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
PublicationsWhen Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice? Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Hanna Hałaburda Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (forthcoming) Abstract We present a theory for why it...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
emergence of political economy and the project of creating market societies. By reconstructing ideas in their historical contexts, I address motivations and contingencies at the very foundations of modernity. Publisher's link:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
competition by moving quickly into new cities, balancing the buying power of multinational retailers who were also purchasing merchandise for export, leveraging Beijing Hualian's understanding of the rapidly changing domestic market,...
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Martha Lagace
- Teaching
Overview
By: John D. Macomber
Teaching and research interests center around the matching of private and instituional capital into large public infrastructure and resilience projects that shape the future of cities and urban environments around the world. The world's population is increaslingly...
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Exec Ed: Real Estate Executive Seminar: Capital, Partnerships, and Portfolios
By: John D. Macomber
With both a quest for yield and new opportunities emerging across the real estate supply chain, business leaders must have the financial capabilities, analytical tools, and strategic skills to ensure the long-term profitability of their development projects and...
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Innovation in Business, Energy and the Environment
By: John D. Macomber
This MBA Elective is offered as a half credit classroom course and as a full credit classroom plus project course. Students investigate industries and interventions in a wide range of topics ranging from hydraulic fracturing to nutrition in urban school districts;...
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Sustainability, Real Estate and the Built Environment
By: John D. Macomber
Research interests include:
- Real estate development, design, and construction, notably how design creates value;
- Sustainable cities, in particular entrepreneurship and project finance in light of global trends in urbanization and resource... View Details
- September–October 2024
- Article
Should a Family Business Accept a Returning Daughter’s Radical Proposal?
By: John D. Macomber
A family-owned and controlled conglomerate in Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa, has to decide what titles and authority to give to a daughter who is being courted to leave a promising career in Europe to come back and join the business. The choices of role range from an...
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Succession Planning;
Power Grid;
Family Business;
Management Succession;
Emerging Markets;
Business Strategy;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Côte d'Ivoire
Macomber, John D. "Should a Family Business Accept a Returning Daughter’s Radical Proposal?" R2045M. Harvard Business Review (September–October 2024): 156–161.
- January 2019
- Case
King Abdullah Economic City: Population Drivers and Cash Flow
By: John D. Macomber
CEO of high profile new economic city in Saudi Arabia must decide how to allocate limited investment funds across projects under duress. Issues include understanding core economic drivers; planning infrastructure investment and return; attracting multinationals; and...
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Urban Development;
Infrastructure;
Project Finance;
Resource Allocation;
Decision Making;
City;
Real Estate Industry;
Saudi Arabia
Macomber, John D. "King Abdullah Economic City: Population Drivers and Cash Flow." Harvard Business School Case 219-079, January 2019.