Filter Results
:
(2,915)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,915)
- People (7)
- News (1,013)
- Research (1,206)
- Events (8)
- Multimedia (43)
- Faculty Publications (761)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,915)
- People (7)
- News (1,013)
- Research (1,206)
- Events (8)
- Multimedia (43)
- Faculty Publications (761)
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
the host city increased their overall charitable donations by an average 30 percent. Super Bowls corresponded with a 10 percent increase in donations. "If you're a philanthropic leader, the time to hit up a company is around these...
View Details
Keywords:
by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Digital Transformation - HBS Online
professional network, including the HBS Online Connext conference, HBS faculty events, and HBS Online Community Yes No *Considered more impactful than other online programs (From a 2023 survey of participants across all HBS Online programs, conducted by View Details
- Fast Answer
Music & Activism: Market Research Resources
code/local level? Cambridge, MA Town Gown Reports – yearly report produced for the City of Cambridge by each local university, including demographic information on students SimplyAnalytics generates tables and maps for the...
View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Thomas S. Murphy (MBA 1949)
approached him. “He said that he was going into a little crapshoot in Albany and needed someone to run a television station,” recalls Murphy. “That’s how in 1954 I became Capital Cities first employee.” Just ten years later, he was named...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leadership Fellows
Kennedy, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Christopher Daniels, US Department of Education; Aaron Anderson, City of Sacramento Mayor's Office; Emily Rasmussen, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; Dileepan Siva, Endeavor Global;...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Eyeing the Dominoes?
parties, one politician who some experts believe could make a strong run as a centrist alternative is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA ’66), according to the Associated Press (December 20, 2006). Bloomberg’s strengths are that...
View Details
- 20 Oct 2020
External Partner Event: Virtual Forté MBA Forum East Coast US Event #3
schools. Usually held in cities around the world, Forté MBA Forums are moving online this year. Our HBS team will be online and is looking forward to meeting you.
View Details
- Fast Answer
Buying a Small Business Pt3: Screening brokers /small companies (For HBS Alumni)
public companies by industry, geography, Keywords, etc. America City Business Journal – provides local business news and information from more than forty cities across the United States. Open...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Inner-City Advantage
Investment in the inner city can reap social rewards, but there’s real money to be made as well, agreed panelists at the 32nd annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference. Named for Fitzhugh (MBA ’33), one of the School’s first African-American...
View Details
- 27 Oct 2022
- News
John Middleton’s Big Swing
think it’s your passion as a fan that kind of fuels your ambition. It certainly fuels my ambition for this team.” A Philadelphia native and longtime sports fan, he told the Press of Atlantic City that he watched the Phillies beat the...
View Details
- Fast Answer
Public companies: fast growing
the top of the filters where it says Unsaved Screen, click the drop down and select TR US Large Growth to load the saved screen. You will see all of the filters applied at the bottom of the screen. These can be edited by clicking the pencil icon, if desired. Use...
View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Entrepreneurship flourishes in the Bayou
entrepreneurs. “It is a very easy city in which to adopt new approaches. It's a very open city in which to take a risk,” says Wilkins. “After Katrina, everyone needed to become an entrepreneur. Everyone...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
East Side Story
In January, veteran New York state senator Roy Goodman (MBA '53) was appointed president and CEO of the United Nations Development Corporation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA '66). In accepting the position, Goodman, a...
View Details
- May 2018 (Revised October 2018)
- Case
Urban Us
By: Mitchell Weiss and Phoebe Peronto
Shaun Abrahamson and Stonly Baptiste aimed to invest in what they called "urbantech superheroes." At Urban Us, the seed-stage urban technology-focused venture capital firm the two started in 2012, they looked for startups innovating around the future of cities. By...
View Details
Keywords:
Public Entrepreneurship;
Govtech;
Urbantech;
Seed Investing;
Urban Us;
Shaun Abrahamson;
Stonly Baptiste;
Remix;
One Concern;
Starcity;
SeamlessDocs;
Venture Capital;
Public Sector;
City;
Urban Development;
Entrepreneurship;
Miami;
San Francisco;
New York (city, NY)
Weiss, Mitchell, and Phoebe Peronto. "Urban Us." Harvard Business School Case 818-115, May 2018. (Revised October 2018.)
- 2010
- Chapter
The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors
By: William R. Kerr
The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation - with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail....
View Details
Keywords:
Information Technology;
Geographic Location;
Patents;
Ethnicity;
City;
Innovation and Invention;
United States
Kerr, William R. "The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors." In Agglomeration Economics, edited by Edward Glaeser, 237–276. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- 13 Jun 2013
- News
Learning Curve
solution was the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, a nonprofit spun out of City Hall that is focused on turning around 22 of the district's lowest-performing schools. Serving close to 16,000 students, the partnership is a collaborative...
View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
New York has invested to elevate the number of waterproof transformers and switchgear in case the city has to face another event like Superstorm Sandy . This is not a noted warming alarmist utility. Globally, the new issuance of weather...
View Details
John D. Hertz
quickly, and he was soon able to franchise operations in cities throughout the country. In 1924, Hertz went on to establish the Hertz Drive-Yourself Corporation – the first rental car business in the United States. Both operations were...
View Details
Keywords:
Automotive & Aerospace
Martin W. Clement
lines from New York City to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Harrisburg. At the end of World War II, Pennsylvania Railroad controlled 6% of the railway mileage in the U.S., but more than 20% of the nation’s passengers and 11% of...
View Details
Keywords:
Transportation
- 9 AM – 11:59 PM EDT, 20 Jun 2018
- HBS Alumni Events
Take an Alum to Lunch Day
Are you tired of eating at your desk alone? Want to make some new HBS friends and connections? Then join HBS alumni around the world for a unique networking event Take an Alum to Lunch Day Wednesday, June 20, 2018
View Details