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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Books
edited by Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky (Brookings Institution Press and the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University) Increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United States, rental housing faces... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
construction. STARTING SMALL: The last step involved planting 9,000 tiny perennials roughly eight inches apart. In blazing summer heat, the daytime temperatures on a conventional asphalt roof can reach 160 degrees or higher compared to the 80s and 90s for a green roof.... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
required to accomplish such a planned massive expansion, from yet-to-be hit rural areas to overwhelmed urban health systems. As leaders consider how to tackle the task, they might look at the Harvard Business School case View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
can then help articulate the deeper reforms that will make it possible for those practices to be more widely adopted. “Our task,” Leschly concludes, “is to study and influence how these urban school systems... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
the "Big Owe." It took that city 30 years to repay the municipal debt—$1.5 billion in 1976 dollars, or more than $6 billion today. Sometimes "building new urban infrastructure" is a justification for hosting the Games,... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
new-economy innovation. "It takes a mix of perspectives," he observes. "Older companies must resist becoming mature, dull, and methodical. They need a youthful view." But Price, whose professional career has been complemented by civic involvement with entities such as... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Leveraging the HBS platform to enter social enterprise
Hampshire, but attended undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. At Penn, I double-majored in Urban Studies and Political Science, and spent much of my non-academic time working for an... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis
hospitals treating civilians wounded in the war as well as schools and social service providers supporting the refugees. “Only 9 percent of refugees in Turkey live in refugee camps,” says Fabbe, who has long studied migration in Turkey.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore
more globally and to be more savvy about business and finance.” Khoo is well-equipped to lead that drive. In 1992, while still serving in the government’s Urban Redevelopment Authority, he completed the School’s Advanced Management... View Details
- Profile
Lauren Booker
the 1960s and '70s. At Yale, Lauren exhibited the family traits of social activism and leadership, becoming the head of the Black Student Alliance and co-founding a magazine entitled Sphere, "focused on global citizenship awareness." As an View Details
- Profile
John Clayton
John Clayton speaks French, Italian, Chinese, and Spanish, and his resume looks less like a CV than an atlas: He has studied in Bologna, Italy, and Shanghai, China, and worked on the sustainable-development portfolio of the World Bank on... View Details
- Web
Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society
the causes and impacts of economic disparities, exploring factors such as race, gender, and geography, and discusses how businesses can play an essential role in bridging these divides. Slides presented at the BiGS Mexico City Roundtable Case View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
economic pie available to be divided among its various stakeholders, instead of just slicing up a fixed pie in a way that favors one group over another. Consider, for example, the conclusions of the McKinsey Global Institute’s study of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Alameda at the corner of 33rd Street. "That neighborhood?" he queries in a thick Russian accent. "Not good." Well outside the boundary of Inner Harbor tourist attractions, the northeast Baltimore district in question admittedly shares the city's well-publicized... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
before. However, big data will not solve large urban social science questions on its own. Big data has the most value for the study of cities when it allows measurement of the previously opaque, or when it... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51552 forthcoming Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm By: Kato, Takao, and Pian Shu Abstract—We View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
over the last three decades, educational performance in the United States has shown only marginal improvement, and lags that of other developed countries in Europe and Asia. While some school districts have excelled, the majority of districts, including most View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
increasingly used as a key input by firms, understanding its impact on productivity becomes critical. This study measures the firm-level productivity impact of nonpecuniary (free) OSS and finds a positive and significant value-added... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Harvard Business School
curriculum. Existing first–year required courses such as "Human Behavior in Organizations" and "Planning and the Business Environment" started to incorporate case studies on Black entrepreneurship and corporate expansion into View Details