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  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

company. Digitizing Disclosure: The Case of Restaurant Hygiene Scores By: Dai, Weijia (Daisy), and Michael Luca Abstract— Collaborating with Yelp and the city of San Francisco, we revisit a canonical example of quality disclosure by... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

contractions in demand. At exactly this time, between 2007 and 2012, the provincial municipality of Chongqing in China's mountainous southwest became the fastest growing city in China with GDP growth averaging over 15%. Chongqing's growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Curing Health Care

Illustrations by Andrea Manzati Prescription: Free the Data! On a bright September morning, on the expansive lawn outside the Watertown, Massachusetts, headquarters of the e-health firm athenahealth, city and state officials, company... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Vive la Madeleine!

Georges Viana surveyed a factory floor filled with silent, outdated machinery. Then, a quick, scuttling movement caught the corner of one eye: rats. He hadn’t known what to expect when he arrived in the city of Caen, 150 miles west of his... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

have higher productivity than their counterparts from large cities. As a possible explanation of our results, we test for selection and find that employees hired from smaller towns outperform their large city counterparts in standardized... View Details
  • September 2024
  • Case

Faena: Magic in Mid-Miami Beach

By: Robin Greenwood, Denise Han, Dave Habeeb and Ruth Page
The link to this multimedia case should be provided to students in advance as preparation for classroom case discussion.

This multimedia case follows real estate developer Alan Faena as he expanded his luxury development business from Argentina to the... View Details
Keywords: Development; Real Estate; Hotels; Luxury; Urban Development; Sustainable Cities; Design; Markets; Transformation; Cost vs Benefits; Economic Growth; Private Sector; Public Sector; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Financial Strategy; Investment Return; Geographic Location; Urban Scope; Corporate Accountability; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Opportunities; Culture; Value Creation; Real Estate Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Florida; Miami; Argentina; Buenos Aires
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  • 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008

economists, to kidney exchange, and school choice in New York City and Boston. Third-World Multinationals: A Look Back Author:Louis T. Wells Periodical:In Emerging MNEs from Emerging Markets, edited by Ravi Ramamurti and Jitendra V.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.

Nations Secretary General António Guterres published dire predictions with the release of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. His language was unvarnished: “We are on a fast track to climate disaster: Major cities under... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • News

Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

Their answers suggest that clean power will take off over the next decade or so, but hydrocarbon fuels will remain dominant. The E & E Club teamed up with the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) to host the receptions—one in New York View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power
  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Profiles from the Class of 2005

unexpectedly offered Williams an ad agency internship at the conclusion of his first year. Building on that 2004 summer experience, he’s headed for an advertising job in New York City upon graduation. Finally, his dueling... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Julia Hanna; James E. Aisner; Graduate profiles; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to dispatch inspectors, which in turn limits the number of inspections that can be performed. We argue that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

Chinese citizens living in cities than in the countryside. China's rapid urbanization, and the accompanying conversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural uses, raised a number of economic, social, and political concerns. Could China... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2022
  • News

Leading to Salvation

panels cut with natural leaf patterns that allow light while preserving a sense of privacy. I understood the historical context of the community and what this quarter meant to African Americans and the Jewish community based on the redlining of many nasty, terrible... View Details
  • 14 Mar 2019
  • News

The Merchant of Osaka

to the spirit of equality that infuses the company. Oishi wants employees to feel like they’ve landed on an island, she says, “and everyone should have their own vision of the city they want to build on it.” She entertains any idea with... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • 02 Sep 2018
  • News

Havana Rising

ubiquitous on city rooftops, potable water access an egalitarian issue in the city.) These kinds of complications, Benedetti notes, are commonplace. “Last week we had no lemons,” he says with a broad smile. “And Thursday we had no... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
  • Web

Faculty & Advisors | MBA

MBAs; Avoiding Startup Failure; and Managing Networked Business _,_ which surveyed strategies for platform-based businesses that leverage network effects. He twice co-led a Harvard Innovation Lab course, Cultural Entrepreneurship in New York View Details
  • 12 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

structures underpinning the process of globalization. Harvard Business School Case 517-083 CJ E&M: KCON Goes Global In January of 2017, CJ Entertainment & Media (E&M) proudly announced that it will be holding its first ever KCON in Mexico View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

about the trainee pilot to school administrators, who eventually contacted the FBI. The student was arrested near the flight school on August 16, 2001. He was Zacarias Moussaoui, now charged as the so-called twentieth hijacker in the September 11, 2001, attacks on New... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Diversity and Community

effort, Project Change, was honored for its work in four medium-sized U.S. cities where the San Francisco-based apparel company operates. The company has a long tradition of humanitarian outreach. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

Pursuing Systemic Change through Entrepreneurship Stacey Childress and James WeberHarvard Business School Case 310-052 After Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in August 2005, the state had taken over 102 of the 118 public schools in... View Details