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      Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership

      By: Stacey Childress, Richard F. Elmore, Allen S. Grossman and Susan Moore Johnson
      Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement. At the center of this work is the... View Details
      Keywords: Management; Strategy; Leadership; Public Sector; Organizational Design; Education; Performance Improvement
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      Childress, Stacey, Richard F. Elmore, Allen S. Grossman, and Susan Moore Johnson, eds. Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2007.
      • August 2007
      • Article

      Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India

      By: A. Banerjee, Shawn A. Cole, E. Duflo and L. Linden
      This paper presents the results of two randomized experiments conducted in schools in urban India. A remedial education program hired young women to teach students lagging behind in basic literacy and numeracy skills. It increased average test scores of all children in... View Details
      Keywords: Literacy; Teaching; Performance Improvement; Competency and Skills; India
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      Banerjee, A., Shawn A. Cole, E. Duflo, and L. Linden. "Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India." Quarterly Journal of Economics 122, no. 3 (August 2007): 1235–1264.
      • March 2007
      • Teaching Note

      Canyon Johnson Urban Fund (TN)

      By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee
      Teaching note to 706442. View Details
      Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Investment; Projects; Urban Development; Business and Community Relations; Price; Economics; Financial Services Industry; Los Angeles
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      Oberholzer-Gee, Felix. "Canyon Johnson Urban Fund (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 707-546, March 2007.
      • March 2007 (Revised June 2007)
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      Wal-Mart, 2007

      By: David B. Yoffie and Michael Slind
      In 2007, Wal-Mart faced challenges to its historically high growth rate. Lagging same-store sales and setbacks overseas led the company to consider strategic shifts. Wal-Mart was the world's largest retailer, but competition had become particularly acute as the company... View Details
      Keywords: Competition; Management Practices and Processes; Rural Scope; Human Resources; Problems and Challenges; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Globalized Firms and Management; Marketing Strategy; Growth Management; Urban Scope; Retail Industry; United States
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      Yoffie, David B., and Michael Slind. "Wal-Mart, 2007." Harvard Business School Case 707-517, March 2007. (Revised June 2007.)
      • February 2007 (Revised August 2007)
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      Urban Video Game Academy: Getting in the Game

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Susan Saltrick
      Urban Video Game Academy was founded to enhance the academic and career prospects of urban youth. How will its founder grow it into a sustainable business? Provides an opportunity to discuss the challenges of social entrepreneurship and how to create a sustainable... View Details
      Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Social Enterprise; Change Management; Education; Education Industry; Video Game Industry
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      Applegate, Lynda M., and Susan Saltrick. "Urban Video Game Academy: Getting in the Game." Harvard Business School Case 807-122, February 2007. (Revised August 2007.)
      • January 2007 (Revised October 2011)
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      Roppongi Hills: City Within a City

      By: Anita Elberse, Andrei Hagiu and Masako Egawa
      Minoru Mori is the CEO of Mori Building, which has built Roppongi Hills, an ambitious large-scale, mixed-use development in Tokyo, Japan that includes high-end retail, restaurants, hotel, office, library, and art museum. A destination site for tourists and local... View Details
      Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Development Economics; Brands and Branding; Urban Development; Competition; Real Estate Industry; Tokyo
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      Elberse, Anita, Andrei Hagiu, and Masako Egawa. "Roppongi Hills: City Within a City." Harvard Business School Case 707-431, January 2007. (Revised October 2011.)
      • January 2007 (Revised May 2009)
      • Case

      Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (A)

      By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Arthur I Segel, Marc Diaz and John Dean Shepherd
      Kenya's Minister of Housing faces tremendous pressures in dealing with the pervasive housing troubles in his country. Kibera is the largest slum in Africa and home to more than 800,000 residents, yet only measures two square kilometers, roughly half the size of... View Details
      Keywords: Construction; Housing; Urban Development; Poverty; Kenya
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      Retsinas, Nicolas P., Arthur I Segel, Marc Diaz, and John Dean Shepherd. "Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (A)." Harvard Business School Case 207-017, January 2007. (Revised May 2009.)
      • November 2006 (Revised August 2007)
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      Chongqing Tiandi

      By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas P. Retsinas, Joshua A. Katzin, Nadeem Meghji and Cindy Yan
      In late 2000, Vincent Lo, a prominent Hong Kong developer was invited by the Deputy Mayor of Chongqing, China to undertake a major redevelopment of the urban core. Lo had previously successfully developed the landmark Xintiandi retail and entertainment district in... View Details
      Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; Chongqing (municipality, China); Hong Kong
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      Segel, Arthur I., Nicolas P. Retsinas, Joshua A. Katzin, Nadeem Meghji, and Cindy Yan. "Chongqing Tiandi." Harvard Business School Case 207-019, November 2006. (Revised August 2007.)
      • November 2006
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      How to Manage Urban School Districts

      By: Stacey Childress, Richard Elmore and Allen Grossman
      Keywords: Management; City; Education
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      Childress, Stacey, Richard Elmore, and Allen Grossman. "How to Manage Urban School Districts." Harvard Business Review 84, no. 11 (November 2006).
      • July 2006
      • Teaching Note

      New Songdo City (TN)

      By: Arthur I Segel
      Keywords: Urban Development; South Korea
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      Segel, Arthur I. "New Songdo City (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 207-004, July 2006.
      • March 2006 (Revised April 2007)
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      Cinco de Mayo

      By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas P. Retsinas, David Margain and Andres Caldera Radonski
      In 2004, Adrian Pandal is seeking financing for a residential conversion of a building in Mexico City's historic center district. He must convince potential lenders that the project is viable and that it makes sense to bet on the future potential of an area that, until... View Details
      Keywords: History; Risk Management; Opportunities; Urban Development; Investment; Property; Real Estate Industry; Mexico City
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      Segel, Arthur I., Nicolas P. Retsinas, David Margain, and Andres Caldera Radonski. "Cinco de Mayo." Harvard Business School Case 206-115, March 2006. (Revised April 2007.)
      • December 2005 (Revised September 2007)
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      Canyon Johnson Urban Fund

      By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Alexa Arena
      Basketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson and K. Robert Turner, managing partner of Canyon Johnson Urban Fund (CJUF), raised $271.7 million for investments in urban real estate. The fund considered two projects, both located in Hollywood, CA. The first was located on... View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Projects; Business and Government Relations; Public Opinion; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; Los Angeles
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      Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Alexa Arena. "Canyon Johnson Urban Fund." Harvard Business School Case 706-442, December 2005. (Revised September 2007.)
      • September 2005 (Revised June 2012)
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      New Songdo City

      By: Arthur I Segel, Brandon Blaser, Gerardo Garza, Albert Kim, John Richard and Andrew Murphy
      The government of South Korea has chosen John Hynes and Gale International to construct New Songdo City. This is an entirely new city, about the size of Boston, between the new Incheon airport and the capital of Seoul. The proposed city is the government's attempt to... View Details
      Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Urban Development; Construction; Design; Climate Change; South Korea
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      Segel, Arthur I., Brandon Blaser, Gerardo Garza, Albert Kim, John Richard, and Andrew Murphy. "New Songdo City." Harvard Business School Case 206-019, September 2005. (Revised June 2012.)
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      How Did Location Affect Adoptions of the Commercial Internet?: Global Village vs. Urban Leadership

      By: Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein
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      Forman, Chris, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein. "How Did Location Affect Adoptions of the Commercial Internet? Global Village vs. Urban Leadership." Journal of Urban Economics 58, no. 3 (November 2005): 389–420.
      • December 2004 (Revised April 2006)
      • Case

      Managing Diversity at Cityside Financial Services

      By: Robin J. Ely and Ingrid Vargas
      Cityside Financial Services, a disguised consumer bank, serves both a largely African-American urban community and a more affluent, predominantly white clientele. To match the gender and racial makeup of its staff to that of its customers, Cityside's sales division... View Details
      Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Situation or Environment; Race; Employees; Gender; Customer Satisfaction; Diversity; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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      Ely, Robin J., and Ingrid Vargas. "Managing Diversity at Cityside Financial Services." Harvard Business School Case 405-047, December 2004. (Revised April 2006.)
      • July 2004 (Revised May 2008)
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      Beacon Lakes

      By: Arthur I Segel, Robert Barlick Jr and Jose Gonzalez
      In September 2001, Armando Codina, the CEO and chairman of Codina Group, is facing the decision of whether to go ahead as planned with its $220 million Beacon Lakes project, a 6.6-million-square-foot warehouse and office park in Miami's Airport West submarket. Although... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Making; Urban Scope; Business and Government Relations; Natural Environment; Expansion; Environmental Sustainability; Real Estate Industry; Everglades National Park; Miami
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      Segel, Arthur I., Robert Barlick Jr, and Jose Gonzalez. "Beacon Lakes." Harvard Business School Case 805-023, July 2004. (Revised May 2008.)
      • March 2004 (Revised April 2006)
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      St. Louis: Inner-City Economic Development

      By: Michael E. Porter, Anne S. Habiby and Joanne Lasala
      Describes the history and challenges of the economically distressed inner city areas of St. Louis, a major U.S. metropolitan area. Profiles regional and inner city economics and describes a new effort by community leaders to develop and implement a strategy to... View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Leading Change; Urban Development; Problems and Challenges; Public Administration Industry; Saint Louis
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      Porter, Michael E., Anne S. Habiby, and Joanne Lasala. "St. Louis: Inner-City Economic Development." Harvard Business School Case 704-492, March 2004. (Revised April 2006.)
      • March 2004
      • Teaching Note

      Meadowlands (TN)

      By: Arthur I Segel
      Teaching Note to (9-898-074). View Details
      Keywords: Urban Development; Financing and Loans; Acquisition; District of Columbia
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      Segel, Arthur I. "Meadowlands (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 804-120, March 2004.
      • January 2004
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      Macroeconomic Policy and the State of the U.S. Economy, 2003

      By: David A. Moss
      Based on excerpts from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on July 16, 2003, as well as economic data that were available to Chairman Greenspan at the time. Taken together, the text... View Details
      Keywords: Macroeconomics; Banks and Banking; Policy; Housing; Analytics and Data Science; Problems and Challenges; Urban Development; United States
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      Moss, David A. "Macroeconomic Policy and the State of the U.S. Economy, 2003." Harvard Business School Case 704-030, January 2004.
      • 2004
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      Compensation Reform at Denver Public Schools

      By: Allen Grossman, Nancy D. Beaulieu and Jennifer Suesse
      Keywords: Education; Urban Scope; Compensation and Benefits; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Colorado
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      Grossman, Allen, Nancy D. Beaulieu, and Jennifer Suesse. "Compensation Reform at Denver Public Schools." Harvard Business School Publishing Case, 2004.
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