Neighborhoods - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein, which describes the complicity of the federal government in redlining policies that confined Black people in segregated neighborhoods with low opportunity. And for leadership... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

retail channel made up of thousands of small neighborhood shops called bakalas. In October 2018, all three of these focal points were under pressure. Under the economic-restructuring programs of Saudi Arabia’s new crown prince, Mohammed... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 8

different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem"-and the use of data to drive decision. In the case, managing director Jeff Edmondson is faced with two dilemmas: how to attract business engagement in the City Heights View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 17

in a transition economy and the role of legacy and geographical neighborhood in the process of economic upgrading. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/713479-PDF-ENG View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

Services cut the ribbon on its new, modern complex at the corner of Penn and Plymouth Avenues in the predominantly Black neighborhood of North Minneapolis. It was a high point in a journey that began five years earlier, following the... View Details

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

Setagaya ward. Just as importantly, the clinic succeeded as an experimental lab, a place to pilot new ideas incubated within Mediva. From that one neighborhood clinic a much bigger business took shape, all focused on the organizing... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

company are added to the drives by the neighborhood distributor. Hip-hop duo La Reyna y La Real also use the service for promotion, noting that most of their fellow musicians advertise this way. “If you dig deep into Cuba’s history, it’s... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

Web

Past Issues - Alumni

Dlodlo’s community-first approach to developing a historically vibrant section of Baltimore can offer a blueprint for reviving neighborhoods across the globe Ready for Departure Preparing for a post-pandemic comeback at the airport Open... View Details

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

grew up in a poorer environment? Morino: My family was blue collar, but we were never poor. There's a distinction between being in deep poverty and living in a low-income world. We had food and clothing. And the world was different in the 1950s. Even a tough View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

demand of millennials looking for a way to live, walk, and work in the city. Abandoned factories have been repurposed as lofts and retail space; elsewhere, new construction is rising at the BeltLine’s edge. And in Cabbagetown, a View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

back even further, to his elementary school days, when he bought packages of light bulbs in bulk and sold them door-to-door in his neighborhood at slightly below retail prices. "I think I always wanted to have control over my future. We... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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