New York City Marathon - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

in Manhattan's tony Carnegie Hill. Community resistance erupted immediately, spearheaded by celebrity and socialite residents. Facing rejection of his firm's proposal of a 17-story residential condominium building for the site by the New... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

technology is now also used for assigning children to New York City high schools and to Boston schools at all levels. And many professional organizations, and universities and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

it to be an overreach of constitutional commerce powers. Yet the fair trade movement later won some victories in the Supreme Court, including a decision to uphold a New York state law that fixed milk prices... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

classes and visits to New York (where FashionStake is based). "The contest worked as a forcing mechanism for us," Gulati says. "Without the discipline of deadlines and deliverables we might have flamed out... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

controversial issues like civil rights and climate change? Two, in terms of consumer response, does CEO activism affect customer perceptions about the company? (They recently discussed the paper in the New View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

21 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 21

these features may also facilitate discrimination based on sellers' race, gender, age, or other aspects of appearance. In this paper, we test for racial discrimination against landlords in the online rental marketplace Airbnb.com. Using a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 20

http://hbr.org/search/313111-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-100 Open Innovation at Siemens The case describes Siemens, a worldwide innovator in the Energy, Healthcare, Industry, and Infrastructure & Cities sectors, and its... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

Builders Association, 350,000 carriages were sold in New York City alone between 1894 and 1899 compared to 125 cars. The idea that the automobile would someday replace the... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

that may have simply been terrible situations in which the coach had very little chance of success. For example, in his first opportunity as an NFL head coach, Carroll lasted just one season as coach of the New View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

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