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  • June 2003 (Revised June 2006)
  • Case

Highlands' Garden Village

By: Arthur I Segel, Eve Bould and Hank Midgley
It was March 2003 and Chuck Perry was awaiting the arrival of his New York-based business partner, Jonathan Rose. He and Rose had begun Highlands' Garden Village, their latest mixed-use, mixed-income development project. In 1996, they had optioned the unused Elitch... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Urban Development; Housing; Society; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; Colorado
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  • 14 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • September 1995 (Revised October 1995)
  • Case

Loblaw Companies Limited: Differentiation in the 90s and Beyond

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Thomas N. Urban Jr and Jane L. Wertz
Loblaw wants to develop long-term relationships with its customers and is testing a variety of strategies to do this. View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business or Company Management; Marketing Strategy
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  • 23 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers

workers; transportation subsidies might not matter to remote employees. Shrewd organizations tailor benefits to workers’ roles and demographics. An essential frontline urban worker needs different support than a remote, rural one. Audit... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 11 Jun 2024
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 07 Dec 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

Today we might point to Heinz and Noble's skill in exploiting economies of scope, in developing additional goods that utilized existing inputs and organizational capabilities. 48 But neither man thought in theoretical terms about what he... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

quality. We develop a structural model of product entry that illustrates how the regulator's standard setting rule affects a firm's product quality decision. Counterfactual simulations illustrate that ratcheting down was prevalent in this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines Authors:Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr, and William R. Kerr Abstract Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work

delivery? CIO Nitin Tandon explains the global workforce strategy underpinning the effort. Shake Shack’s test kitchen: Developing a good jobs and automation combo 21 MAY 2025 | Managing the Future of Work Shake Shack Chief Growth Officer... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The New Real Estate

some of the best real estate market returns anywhere. Green real estate development in dense locations in our urban centers could have an enormous impact on our energy use. The average home owner in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate
  • January 2013 (Revised March 2015)
  • Case

Hudson Yards—The Other Side of the Tracks?

By: Christopher M. Gordon, John D. Macomber, A. Eugene Kohn and Lisa Strope
Stephan Ross, CEO of Related Companies, is considering an opportunity to invest $1 billion for the air rights over the Hudson Rail Yards in New York City. The investment would allow Related to build a platform over the operating rail tracks and develop this blighted... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Property; Growth and Development Strategy; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; New York (city, NY)
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MBA Experience | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

experience by choosing elective courses and independent projects specific to social enterprise. Courses Independent Projects Impact Investing Careers MBA students can engage in a wide variety of career development programs that support... View Details
  • Web

Africa - Global

into the local business environment. The HBS Africa Research Center in collaboration with the HBS Business and Environment Initiative hosted an in-person Alumni event on Climate Adaptation and Urban Economic View Details
  • Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

them easier to disassemble and repair, how secondhand retail pilot programs at IKEA stores are reaching new customers, and how investments like RetourMatras are developing circular solutions for end-of-life mattresses. Karen also... View Details
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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

resources in urban and rural parts of the country. The foundation developed mentorship programs and built a flagship school which admitted 100 new rural students a year on a full scholarship basis. To select... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2024
  • Research & Ideas

When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge

For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details
Keywords: by Glen Justice
  • 04 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology
  • December 2006 (Revised November 2008)
  • Case

West Wacker Drive: To Build or Not to Build?

In 1980, Thomas J. Klutznick, president of a Chicago-based development company, was considering whether he should build a Class A building on a second-rate site outside the Central Loop or not. He had a promising design, but the economic conditions, concurrent... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Interest Rates; Geographic Location; Risk Management; Urban Development; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; Chicago
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  • 10 Feb 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Land Institutions and Chinese Political Economy: Institutional Complementarities and Macroeconomic Management

Keywords: by Meg Rithmire; Public Administration; Real Estate; Financial Services
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About the Project - Managing the Future of Work

outdated workforce development models and human resource practices. Instead, they will need to embrace new ideas, create new institutions, and forge new alliances with external stakeholders—in ways that build competitive advantage for the... View Details