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  • February 2022
  • Case

CityScore: Big Data Comes to Boston

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
In 2016, Martin “Marty” Walsh, the Mayor of Boston, introduced CityScore, a data dashboard that measured the city’s progress across a range of metrics. The dashboard was updated daily and publicly available. The mayor frequently discussed the CityScore targets in... View Details
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Government Administration; Leadership; Transformation; City; Measurement and Metrics; Public Administration Industry; Boston; United States
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  • 08 May 2006
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Writing the Case for Public School Reform

The state of public education in the United States is a perennial hot-button topic, with rhetoric often outpacing any real sense of progress. The Public Education Leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • Fast Answer

Buildings: performance data

Where can I find design and performance data for green buildings worldwide? You may begin with: Building Performance Database - United States EU Buildings Database - European Commission Additional... View Details
  • 08 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year

United States—which is comparable to the number of fatalities resulting from car accidents. Current gun-purchase laws in most states allow the buyer to take home a firearm immediately after completion of an... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Elevator Pitch: Bridging the Gap

retailers’ data, Gently leverages AI to predict demand for inventory, placing it at its centers to meet anticipated demand. The Why: Delivery in the United States is bifurcated between Amazon (two days) and... View Details
Keywords: logistics; EVs; delivery; nanofulfillment; entrepreneurship
  • 01 Jan 2010
  • News

James A. Lovell, AMP 62, 1971

President, Lovell Communications Former Astronaut, Apollo 13 Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education: B.S., United States Naval Academy, 1952 On Leadership: “If you aren’t motivated... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Alumni Books

carrier-borne fighters and their airframes and engines. The Tuition Travesty and What Students, Parents, Alumni, and Donors Can Do about It by Robert Ronstadt (DBA ’75) (BookSurge Publishing) This book explains why colleges across the View Details
Keywords: Management
  • 14 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49339   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-016 The Sino-Russian Rapprochement: Energy Relations in a New Era The United States could... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Printed Collections

credit. The collection is strongest in Western Europe and the United States from the fifteenth through1850. Thematic strengths are the history of political economy, economic philosophy, business theory,... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Dot Vertigo

"dot nothings"; that legacy systems can be built upon; that the United States is the Internet leader; that PCs provide the only access to the Internet; and that English is the language of the Internet. Nolan... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 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? (B2): Boston Climate Action Snapshot

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Margot Zuckerman 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; Boston; United States
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Louise Bourgeois Eye Benches II 1996-1997 | About

quality of your eyes and the strength of your eyes that are expressed here. Nobody is going to keep me from seeing what is instead of what I would like.” In 1982, Bourgeois was the first female artist to have a retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In 1993,... View Details

    Pierre S. du Pont

    duPont headed the duPont Corporation during the period of the first World War. During duPont’s presidency, the corporation was greatly expanded in order to meet munitions orders from the United States and... View Details
    Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
    • 01 Feb 2001
    • News

    A Miller's Tale

    The oldest flour company in the United States — and perhaps the only one whose sales are rising amid a decline in home baking — is King Arthur Flour, a firm that's been in operation since George Washington... View Details

      Daniel K. Ludwig

      Ludwig created the largest shipping company in the United States (the world’s third largest) and one of the world’s biggest private multinational corporations. His operations spanned 23 countries, employed... View Details
      Keywords: Transportation

        William F. Kerby

        Kerby was responsible for building the Wall Street Journal into the second largest national newspaper in the Unites States with a circulation in excess of 2 million. He championed the company’s... View Details
        Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
        • 17 Jul 2017
        • Op-Ed

        Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

        As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
        Keywords: by Bill George

          Sebastian S. Kresge

          Kresge built the precursor to K-Mart, one of the first mass discounters. He started with ten-cent stores and developed full-fledged variety stores. By his retirement, his chain had almost 600 United States... View Details
          Keywords: Retail
          • 01 Jun 1998
          • News

          New Releases

          Franchise Organizations by Jeffrey L. Bradach (Harvard Business School Press) How much impact do chains such as Pizza Hut and McDonald's have on today's economy? Here are some telling numbers: a new franchise opens in the United View Details