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- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
the city an opportunity to rebuild its low-performing public school system. What led you to do this research and teach case studies on this subject? Stacey Childress: I developed and teach an MBA elective course at HBS called... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
are eighteen chapters around the United States. It's almost in every major city that has a lot of technology. And there are many similar organizations in most major research university environments. There's a group called WEST here in... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
New York City mayor Robert F. Wagner (MBA '36), elicited a torrent of dissenting letters in 1956 and was followed with a similar article from the Republican point of view. Fenn also increased the number of internationally focused articles... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
New York City that specializes in math, science, and technology. Moore views her own efforts at Time Inc. as part of a trend of community involvement that she has seen among her colleagues and classmates. “I think people are really doing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
just to compete,” she says. After high school, she worked as a maid and as a typist in New York City and Washington, DC, and then attended Howard University, where she enrolled in a business class taught by Professor H. Naylor Fitzhugh... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
Atlanta was awarded the 1996 Games. Like Los Angeles, the Olympics' host city in 1984, Atlanta is funding the Games almost exclusively with private money. One major difference, however, between the two cities' efforts is that because of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
other cities and other countries,” Neeley points out. Despite these upsides, however, shifting to working remotely is not without its challenges, especially when it comes to communication and coordination among managers and employees.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
and gift certificates for post-pandemic gatherings. Large businesses and state and local governments need to make small business contracting a priority. Biden administration policymakers and mayors from the Bloomberg Harvard City... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Investments, in 2003. A third company, Cityboxes — a service for city dwellers that stores, tracks, and delivers items to and from storage upon request — is already in the development stage. “I love all businesses and get involved in all... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
political, religious, and social persecution and the consequent moral catastrophe in a city that had once prided itself on its inclusiveness and diversity. As such, it makes chilling and vital reading for our time—when racial, ethnic, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
gravity that exists in Silicon Valley is only going to disperse to other regions that also have some critical mass—like Austin, Texas, or other cities like Boston. So I believe there will be long-standing implications on the centers of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
development and real estate have become synonymous with economic growth and prosperity. Tracking land reforms and urban development nationally and in three cities in one Chinese region, the study reveals that the initial liberalization of... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Medical City Edmondson, Amy C., Sydney Ribot, and Tiona ZuzulHarvard Business School Case 613-022 Describes Lake Nona, a 7,000-acre residential and research cluster in central Florida, and its process and innovation culture, and Lake Nona... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
a failure that served me well. It forced me to leave the comforts of a “great” job for the unknown of Johannesburg, a bigger city where I had no close family. Within six weeks of my arrival, I had run out of the little money I had and was... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
case of hotels, professionals tend to not be as well-regarded anymore. Why? Because they have different values of what they consider important than [the average consumer does]. If I have a family and [experts] start talking about how amazing the nightlife is in that... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
millennials but for the time being this group has a gun-shy nature and they are pretty frugal. Lal: Millennials are also attracted to experiences, like Baby Boomers. Alvarez. Yes, they are interested in experiences and social communities. They are driven towards View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
the making of the global world over the last two centuries. Individual entrepreneurs and managers invented new products and shaped consumer demand. Firms created and diffused technologies and products, alongside the values in which they were embedded. They lit up the... View Details
- 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 York View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
Age of Mass Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract—In this paper, I show that political opposition to immigration can arise even when immigrants bring significant economic prosperity to receiving areas. I exploit exogenous variation in European immigration to U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
by foreign ethnicities, Indians and Chinese in particular, was closely tied to H-1B admission levels. A 10 percent increase in the H-1B population correlated with a 4 percent to 5 percent growth in Indian ethnic invention in dependent View Details