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- 16 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
foundational concepts in finance and spent a lot of time with tutors and professors getting up to speed. I learned a lot from some really smart folks in my section which helped me build out my skills in Finance. How have you been able to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
shown that those scrappy, community-based weeklies and monthlies serve a vital role in society, curbing political polarization and boosting civic participation. They also remain an unparalleled check on city and town councils, school... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Technical University of Munich in 2009. 2008 Lauren H. Cohen : Named a 2008 Cutting Edge Academic, Smart Money, Pensions & Investments, 2008. Lauren H. Cohen : Won the 2008 Smith Breeden Prize for a distinguished paper in the Journal of... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
Kenny: : "This flat tire needs a man," says the narrator of the Goodyear Tire commercial that aired during the inaugural Super Bowl between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs in 1967. The ad featured a damsel in... View Details
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Sustainability in Construction Industry
information for industry practitioners and academia including best practices Construction Industry Institute Knowledge Base Smart Cities World Back to Baker Library's Sustainability Research... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
Working in Tech 4Dev
and NGO budgets are squeezed. The City of Los Angeles, for example, used our platform to crowdsource broken sidewalk locations for repair, saving the city a costly location survey estimated at millions.... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 19 Mar 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager
iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey Jones notes that being a business-environmentalist can be... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
undervalued? How a Coal Polluter Became a Renewable Energy Leader Enel, Italy’s state-owned power company, was one of Europe’s largest coal-users and polluters. Now it is recognized as a leader in renewable energy services. Smart View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Inner-City Advantage
are smart moves. “Think about transaction processing,” he counseled. “That’s measured in bits and bytes, not square footage.” There are also opportunities for people who want to build businesses of size, said James H. Lowry (PMD 25,... View Details
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Luis Cervantes
International in Mexico City and Sao Paulo, the largest private-equity firm in Latin America and one of the largest in the world. Although the positions gave Luis “a broad operational view” and hands-on experience with IPOs and... View Details
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Urban development
How do I find articles on urban development and environmental issues in city planning? EBSCO covers studies on various topics in the field of urban development, such as third world planning issues, urban strategies, View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
street. He looks for positive signs such as strong rental demand from city employees and blue-collar workers; a mix of rental and owner-occupied properties; successful local businesses; city revitalization... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
the great cities of America. But there will likely be massive arguments about how to raise the money and how to invest it. The solution may lie in finance models that have proven successful in several nations across the Atlantic Ocean—not... View Details
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Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship
Responsive City Check Harvard Availability Startup City Check Harvard Availability Websites View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
among US millennials. Climate Change Challenges Facing the Real Estate Industry Arthur Segal and a Boston Properties EVP talk about the difficulty of financing development in coastal cities and the need to retrofit buildings to reduce... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
Genta manages 5 percent of the state budget and a staff of 270. His ministry oversees the telecom industry and digital improvements in smart city initiatives, education, and health care, as well as programs... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
savings. In the area of prevention, the spread of ever-cheaper mobile smart phones enables citizens in remote rural areas to receive online medical consultations, treatment suggestions, and prescriptions. Readings on diagnostic machines... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
particularly excited about is smart lighting—a kind of responsive lighting for city streetlights. “Let’s say you’re on 5th Avenue in New York at 7 p.m. on a weeknight. Do you need the lighting grid to be... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
smart cities will perform better environmentally, financially, and socially than has been the case in most of the world's cities to date. A pretty View Details