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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Good Luck Charm
city it calls home. The company’s grants support Lincoln Center but also local performing- and community-arts groups and schools. For Quiroz, who grew up on Staten Island, attending events all over the city...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Richard Edelman
founded just over fifty years ago, from $6 million in fees in 1978 to $230 million today. Now the largest independently owned PR firm in the world, the company has offices in 38 cities and an account list that includes UPS, Swiss Re, and...
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Lew R. Wasserman
actors, directors and other staff for television programming, but also creating and producing much of the programming itself. MCA went on to buy the Universal City studio and production lot, and also invested in some tourism enterprises....
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Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 2011
- Working Paper
Why Fears about Municipal Credit Are Overblown
Highly publicized predictions of 50-100 municipal defaults have caused anxiety among municipal bond investors. While there is some chance that negative investor sentiment will lead to further spread widening, the probability of the kind of widespread default that would...
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Financial Crisis;
Borrowing and Debt;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Bonds;
Investment Return;
City
Bergstresser, Daniel, and Randolph Cohen. "Why Fears about Municipal Credit Are Overblown." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-129, June 2011.
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Luc Sirois
for children with cystic fibrosis that teaches them skills to deal with their daily treatment regimens. The pace is scrappy and the conversation engaging. Since launching in 2012, HH hackathons have been held in major cities around the...
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- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
disasters all present significant risks for India’s sustained economic growth and the wellbeing of its population. As a coastal city with extensive area below sea level and already high ambient temperatures, Mumbai faces acute urban heat...
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Hank Willis Thomas Ernest and Ruth 2015 | About
speech and beliefs.” Thomas’s work is in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Brooklyn Museum, New York; and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Thomas was recently...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Carnival Queen
than the Zulu Queen at the Big Easy's celebration of Mardi Gras. The Zulu Queen presides for one year over the Zulu Organization, a New Orleans nonprofit that supports charities throughout the city. Rogers's reign is in honor of her late father, Roy Glapion, a New...
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- 8 AM – 8 PM MDT, 18 May 2018
- HBS Alumni Events
HBS Hacks: Solving For The Future of Work in San Francisco
Collaborate with fellow HBS alumni to create the actionable solutions to one of societys most vexing challenges.
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- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
Ernst & Young, or McKinsey should all get a shot at becoming candidates to run cities and districts with a history of corruption. Entities that are experts at municipal accounting, consulting to foreign governments, or providing...
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by Eric Werker
- 14 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
On the Road: Zurich, Warsaw, and Istanbul
what did Dana and Rachel enjoy most about their latest trip to Europe? Here’s what they had to say. What was your favorite part of the trip? We had a great time exploring all three cities learning about the culture, history,and culinary...
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Ripple Effect | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
management and strategic thinking tools in the social sector,” he recalls. In that class, however, Nicolette grappled much more deeply with the challenges and injustices faced by urban school districts in America. “That realization sparked a passion in me that tied...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
"We see infrastructure as a $60 trillion opportunity." —Jeffrey Immelt (MBA 1982), CEO, General Electric "Transportation offers the single best opportunity to make cities livable and affordable." —Scott Griffith, former CEO, Zipcar...
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- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive...
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- 11 Dec 2017
- News
A Pioneer of Affordable Housing
by rehabilitating historic structures in towns and cities in the Midwest. Its work has received numerous state, local, and national awards, including two from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Today, the company focuses on...
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- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Innovating Education to Create College-Ready Academic Achievers
Bronx and Manhattan have graduated 100 percent of their eighth-grade classes to a college-prep high school. “What we are doing for 1,500 students in New York City can become a model for hundreds of thousands of students across the...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
One Two Punch
It's sometimes called "the second toughest job in America," so with Michael Bloomberg (MBA '66) now the mayor of New York City and George W. Bush (MBA '75) in the White House, HBS alumni have shown once again they relish nothing more than...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
LBS Picks New Dean
Commenting on his appointment, Buchanan told the Times (November 8, 2006): “London Business School is an outstanding asset, not only to this city and this country, but also to business around the globe.” He expressed eagerness to help the...
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- February 2024
- Teaching Note
CityScore: Big Data Comes to Boston
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-050. In 2016, Mayor Marty Walsh of Boston introduced CityScore, a data dashboard that measured the city’s progress across a range of metrics.
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- February 2022
- Case
CityScore: Big Data Comes to Boston
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
In 2016, Martin “Marty” Walsh, the Mayor of Boston, introduced CityScore, a data dashboard that measured the city’s progress across a range of metrics. The dashboard was updated daily and publicly available. The mayor frequently discussed the CityScore targets in...
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Analytics and Data Science;
Government Administration;
Leadership;
Transformation;
City;
Measurement and Metrics;
Public Administration Industry;
Boston;
United States
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "CityScore: Big Data Comes to Boston." Harvard Business School Case 422-050, February 2022.