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- 28 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
It’s India Above China in New World Order
also concerned about instability caused by migration to cities and the large (though decreasing) role of bankrupt, state-owned enterprises that continue to play a Social Security-like role in China. But the biggest source of worry is the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs
Travel Dates: June 11-18 Travel Party: Fifteen people, including nine faculty members. Locations: The cities of Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. Companies and institutions visited include Tsinghua Science Park, Microsoft, Li-Ning, Gome,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to dispatch inspectors, which in turn limits the number of inspections that can be performed. We argue that Natural Language Processing (NLP)...
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Anna Secino
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
citizens’ service requests—such as potholes and broken streetlamps—and efforts by city government to address them became more trusting and supportive of government. Study 3 (N=21,986) was a natural experiment using data from a mobile...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome
historian Polybius’s writings on witnessing a friend weep over Carthage, the enemy city he has just destroyed; and a reading from Plutarch on how his fellow Greeks should deal with not being an imperial superpower anymore. When it comes...
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by Julia Hanna
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the School of American Ballet, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The leadership structure is complex. In 2010, Lincoln Center's...
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- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
with very specific practices and identifiable cultures. For example, City Year, the national youth service organization, has programs in fourteen cities across the country. Its founders made a strategic...
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by Carla Tishler
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
reality. For GE, leafy Fairfield was simply too hard a sell to make to increasingly urban millennials, who not only prefer to live in cities like Boston, San Francisco, and New York, but are willing to make employment decisions based on...
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by Joseph Fuller
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
also demonstrated a base of support in their cities for system-wide change. We discussed the program in this e-mail Q &A with Childress and Allen Grossman, who is the HBS faculty chair for the program. Childress, Grossman, and...
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- June 2011 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
Patagonia Sur: For-Profit Land Conservation in Chile
By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas Ibanez and Jay Verjee
Warren Adams founded Patagonia Sur in 2007 as one of the world's first for-profit land conservation businesses. His goal was to purchase over 100,000 acres of land in southern Chile and to run a variety of sustainable businesses to generate annual returns for...
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Business Model;
Environmental Sustainability;
Profit;
Investment;
For-Profit Firms;
Entrepreneurship;
Investment Return;
Revenue;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Capital;
SWOT Analysis;
Real Estate Industry;
Chile
Segel, Arthur I., Nicolas Ibanez, and Jay Verjee. "Patagonia Sur: For-Profit Land Conservation in Chile." Harvard Business School Case 211-103, June 2011. (Revised October 2012.)
- March 2010 (Revised June 2010)
- Case
The Greening of DUMBO
By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson and Abhijit Prabhu
The Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass (DUMBO) has seen a revitalization since the late 1970s. The neighborhood's business improvement district (BID) is charged with supplementing New York City's efforts in several areas, including...
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Transformation;
Local Range;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Government Relations;
Environmental Sustainability;
Wastes and Waste Processing;
Urban Development;
Public Administration Industry;
New York (city, NY)
Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, and Abhijit Prabhu. "The Greening of DUMBO." Harvard Business School Case 410-079, March 2010. (Revised June 2010.)
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
Sharks have been stigmatized on screen for decades, from the 1975 movie Jaws, in which a gigantic great white shark terrorizes a resort island off the coast of Massachusetts, to the 2013 movie Sharknado, in which the eponymous spout of shark-infested seawater...
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- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
Ronald Reagan's vision of a shining city on a hill. "The world of commerce has never seen a brand insult its way to market share leadership" Superficially, Trump's call to make America great again offers a similar aspiration....
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- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
release data on public works requests for repairs such as potholes, graffiti, and broken streetlights. Using a cell phone application developed by the mayor's office, citizens can request service by snapping a photo of the problem and uploading it to the View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
Business School Case 716-444 Detroit: On the Right Track? As this case opens in 2012, a cross-sector alliance to bring new rail transport to the Motor City seems about to collapse, and civic leaders have one last chance to save it. The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
co-creators of Citizens Connect, Chris Osgood and Nigel Jacob, a chance to grow their vision for citizen-engaged governance and civic innovation, but it also requires that the two City of Boston leaders sit on a formal selection committee...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
Essentially, subjects are shown dots on a screen representing 25 cities and asked to make a route that hits all of the cities and returns to their starting point. The goal: find the route requiring the...
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by Roberta Holland
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
is in that triumvirate? A: I believe that Steve Jobs, Andy Grove, and Bill Gates are the three people who put a computer on everybody's desk. Q: We'll segue a little bit into him as a manager. He was a highly trained engineer. First in his class at View Details
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
and time costs. Organic wine finally attained niche popularity in the 2010s, mainly in northwest Europe and in cosmopolitan global cities elsewhere, as fine-dining restaurants like Noma sought wines with clear terroir. Organic wine...
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Carmen Nobel
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain? Authors:Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr Abstract Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across...
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Martha Lagace