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03 Oct 2014

HBS & HKS Information Session for Women in Mexico City

This event is designed for prospective women applicants to learn more about the graduate programs at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School. The event will include admissions presentations and the opportunity to ask questions to a panel of HBS and HKS women... View Details

08 Jan 2024

Coffee Chat with Current Student in Mexico City (9 AM)

Join current HBS student, Camila Flores, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with your questions! View Details

16 Oct 2015

HBS & HKS Information Session for Women in Mexico City

This event is designed for prospective women applicants to learn more about the graduate programs at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School. The event will include admissions presentations and the opportunity to ask questions to a panel of HBS and HKS women... View Details

11 Jan 2016
News

Harvard Business School Launches Startup Studio in New York City

Keywords: Rock Center

November 1997 (Revised May 1998)
Teaching Note

Indianapolis: Activity-Based Costing of City Services (A) and (B) TN

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Teaching Note for (9-196-115) and (9-196-117). View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; City

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2015
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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

By: Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr

We study entrepreneurship and growth through the lens of U.S. cities. Initial entrepreneurship correlates strongly with urban employment growth, but endogeneity bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near cities led to specialization in... View Details

Keywords: Industrial Organization; Chinitz; Agglomeration; Clusters; Cities; Mines; Industry Clusters; Entrepreneurship; City; Mining; Mining Industry; Pittsburgh

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27 Apr 2016
News

2016’s Cities Where People Are Most Overleveraged on Their Homes

January 1999 (Revised March 2001)
Case

Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (C2): Project Explore

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne

The fourth in a five-part series about Bell Atlantic Corp.'s technology-in-education partnership with the Union City, New Jersey school system. Describes Bell Atlantic's planning, implementing, supporting, and assessing elements of the partnership, with special... View Details

Keywords: Education; Technology Adoption; Strategic Planning; Partners and Partnerships; Projects; Telecommunications Industry; Education Industry; New Jersey

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09 May 2016
News

‘Big Teaming,’ Audacious Innovation, and the Uncompleted Dream of a Smart City

February 2024 (Revised April 2024)
Supplement

Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B8): Minneaoplis-St. Paul Climate Action Snapshot

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Praveen Kumar and Jacob A. Small

Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an... View Details

Keywords: Mitigation Policies; Carbon Footprint; Climate Finance; Mobility; Adaptation; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Problems and Challenges; Sustainable Cities; City; Innovation Strategy; Investment; United States; Minneapolis; St. Paul

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February 2024
Supplement

Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B12): San Antonio Climate Action Snapshot

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Natania Elias and Jacob A. Small

Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an... View Details

Keywords: Mitigation Policies; Carbon Footprint; Climate Finance; Mobility; Adaptation; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Problems and Challenges; Sustainable Cities; City; Innovation Strategy; Investment; United States; Texas

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2017
Book

Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming

By: Niels Viggo Hauter and Geoffrey Jones

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance industry from the nineteenth century to the present day. Reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, was largely unnoticed outside the expert... View Details

Keywords: Insurance; Risk Management; Business History; Globalization; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; Africa; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America; Asia

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April 2011
Teaching Note

Consumer Lending in Japan: Citi CFJ (TN) (A) & (B)

By: J. Gunnar Trumbull

Teaching Note for 709017 and 710018. View Details

Keywords: Profit; Saving; Situation or Environment; Mergers and Acquisitions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Japan

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08 Jan 2024

Coffee Chat with Current Student in Mexico City (8 AM)

Join current HBS student, Camila Flores, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with your questions! View Details

08 Oct 2019

HBS MBA Program Breakfast Chat for Women in Mexico City

Join us before work for a casual breakfast and conversation with local HBS alumni. This event is designed for prospective students to learn more about the MBA Program, the admissions process, and the community of women at HBS. View Details