Neighborhoods - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

stores with higher information-gathering costs for headquarters). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50576 Measuring Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change By: Glaeser, Edward... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Dec 2016
Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

American in ways that are not only tangible, but also, in fact, consequential. Half of the people who work in America either own or work for a small business. And small businesses have created 60 percent of all net new jobs since 1995. Four million Main Street... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

06 Nov 2015
Blog Post

Casey Gerald: Becoming a Leader at HBS

this scrawny kid from our neighborhood could go to a place like Yale and it meant so much to them. I went really because I thought I couldn’t afford not to go. Once there, Yale really opened my eyes in so many ways. One, to the potential... View Details

13 Nov 2018
News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

“He rolled down the window and said, ‘You are coming to make these neighborhoods better. Thank you,’” Davis recalls. “I got somewhat emotional at that.” Learn more about Tawan Davis and his work in Philadephia. View Details

Keywords: April White; Real Estate

05 May 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

it looks like to be a Chinese person in North America,Having the opportunity to share my culture with others,Being Chinese and Canadian at the same time,and being as proud of one as I am the other. Vi Mai (MBA 2023) I grew up in a predominantly white View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Lesson Plans

neighborhoods don't have the potential to succeed or aren't capable. It's much more about decades of underinvestment and a lack of attention to what we say we're all about as a society—namely, that no matter where you come from, you have... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

28 May 2007
Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

Quarterly Journal of Economics, HBS professor Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani of the University of Washington, St. Louis, and Ernesto Schargrodsky of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella delve into this question by comparing the beliefs of two groups of squatters... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2018
News

Disrupting India’s Dental Market

Amar Singh (MBA 1998) traces his curiosity about the Indian dental marketplace to the type of experience that might scare most people away for good. Lured in by the $20 price—roughly equal to Singh’s insurance copay when he lived in San Francisco—he visited a clinic in... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

City Advantage In 1994, Porter founded the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a non-profit program to study and catalyze inner city business development. He and the group in ICIC define inner cities as urban areas with high poverty and high unemployment,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

decade, they have also encountered difficulties that could limit future growth. In some ways they’ve become victims of their own success, says Raffaelli, reinvigorating neighborhoods only to see their own rents rise. In addition, they’ve... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

07 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Negotiation and All That Jazz

neighborhood real estate, all negotiations are chaotic in that they are fluid and not wholly predictable. Successful negotiators embrace that reality, so when conditions change—and they will—their agility allows them to sidestep pitfalls... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Jun 2021
News

The Value of Difficult Conversations

Ashley McCray and Brian Ratajczak share their views about the Tulsa Massacre case discussion. This case was different. It seemed impossible to separate emotions from the events that had occurred in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa,... View Details

Keywords: April White; Tulsa Massacre

03 Apr 2019
News

Finding Common Ground

over the last decade, both within the company he started and more broadly in city and state initiatives. In 2016, when Cicero needed to expand its office space, he chose a site in an underdeveloped neighborhood on Salt Lake City’s west... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2006
News

William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958

family’s home in Buffalo and then a neighborhood newspaper route, Donaldson went on to bigger things in high school. “Another fellow and I put together a company that did everything from mowing lawns to painting houses,” he recalls. As an... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

Extraordinary People

social service organizations through their family foundation. “There comes a responsibility with success, and that is leaving the world better than you found it,” says Klarman. Robert Kraft, MBA 1965 Founder, Chairman and CEO, The Kraft Group Greeting guests at a... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

07 Sep 2021
News

Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act

rebuilding harder-to-serve urban neighborhoods in a broader way than just housing. And I get excited thinking about it. And I wake up at night fearful that we won't succeed because it's so important to get this to happen. Richard Linowes,... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

A Piece of the Action

know-how. It was here in Santa Clara County that the idea of venture capital was born when Arthur Rock (MBA '51) funded the invention of the silicon-based semiconductor that would give the Valley its name and its identity. It was in a garage in this View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

23 Oct 2018
News

Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart

being there that week and meeting those people in Detroit. We met this guy who had decided to save the worst neighborhood in Detroit. The mayor himself had said the neighborhood ought to be wiped off the... View Details

07 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers

have been increasing their footprint of small urban stores. In February, Walmart announced plans to add 270 to 300 small stores during the fiscal year, adding to the existing stable of 346 Neighborhood Markets and 20 WalMart Express... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

01 Dec 1998
News

A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

through a community service mentoring project. At first, O'Neill took his young charge to a succession of museums and sporting events in an attempt to show him a reality outside his troubled neighborhood and family life. "After some weeks... View Details