City Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 2001
News

Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success

motivation, capability, and commitment. "The most important part of the opportunity is you," she emphasized. Professor Clayton Christensen expanded on his research concerning disruptive innovation in an afternoon plenary session that... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Frank Batten (MBA '52); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 Jan 2016
News

Electric Avenues

Illustration by Mario Wagner RELATED Learn about how HBS students and alumni are helping transform Boston Watch alumni discuss innovation inside City Hall Once viewed as an oxymoron, civic View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Jun 2014
News

Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy

November 2013, and launched its first official new market expansion into Washington, DC, in February—a city close in culinary and cultural equivalence to Brussels. The Question: Bookalokal's cofounder and CEO Evelyne White (MBA 2010)... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot

need arise.) Lyft plans to ease the rest of its 23 million passengers into the new model gradually, city by city. Here, Kapoor takes your questions about what a self-driving future might look like. Illustration by Matt Chinworth How does... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

10 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice

Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image by HBSWK with assets from AdobeStock/PNG City and... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

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By: Mitchell B. Weiss

Public entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, leadership, business and government, cities, artificial intelligence View Details

Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Business And Government; Artificial Intelligence; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Public Sector; City; AI and Machine Learning

14 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Understanding Users of Social Networks

Its user base is not really growing, but 70 million users is nothing to sneeze at. So why doesn't MySpace get the attention it deserves? The fascinating answer, acquired by studying a dataset of 100,000 MySpace users, is that they largely populate smaller View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Publishing

2008
Working Paper

The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors

By: William R. Kerr

The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation—with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail.... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Geographic Location; Patents; Ethnicity; City; Innovation and Invention; United States

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09 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)

organizations driving systemic changes in public education. City Fund partners with local leaders across the country to build innovative public school systems aimed at moving children out of poverty and into... View Details

Walter B. Wriston

Soon after assuming the presidency, Wriston built Citibank into the nation’s second largest bank in terms of total assets. He was instrumental in the convergence of Citibank and the First National City Corporation (Citicorp) which by 1976... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

specifically for beneficiaries who have received advanced degrees in the United States.) "It's a lightning rod for a very heated debate," says William Kerr, a professor at Harvard Business School who studies how immigration affects View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

Profile

Luc Sirois

vision is Hacking Heath, a Montreal-based social collaborative that hosts weekend brainstorming sessions, or “hackathons,” to spur innovation in the industry and, ultimately, save lives. “The end game is to transform health care with more... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology; Nonprofit / Government

17 Aug 2015
News

The Play Alchemist

do is take technology and combine it with human nature to create meaningful products.” After she graduated, Matthews did a stint at a startup, but soon left that position to help launch Uncharted Play, a company based in New York City... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

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Entrepreneurship | MBA

and conferences. Boston is one of the largest cities for startups in the US with venture investment growing year-after-year, making it a breeding ground for innovative ideas to grow into new ventures. Meet... View Details

24 Feb 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach

Emeritus Bill Sahlman (MBA 1975). During his remarks, Dean Datar talked about several innovative initiatives that he anticipates will have lasting value for the School and that place the School at the cutting edge of addressing the... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Everything Old Is a New Opportunity

series of summit-style events that bring like-minded technology and design innovators together with experts in the field of aging. The next step will be scaling the enterprise through local chapters in View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Health, Social Assistance; Personal Services

27 Mar 2019
News

Sharing the Road

Sakshi Vij (GMP 23, 2017) is the founder and CEO of Myles, an innovative car-sharing company operating in 21 cities in India. In this interview, she talks about the potential growth in the car-sharing space... View Details

05 Nov 2013
News

Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans

sectors." Wilkins adds that this is perhaps an upside to the tragedies New Orleans has endured: "The beauty of Katrina—if there is a silver lining to Katrina—is it washed a lot of problems away. It forced the city to start over and do... View Details

Keywords: New Orleans; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

28 May 2019
News

Tech for the People

help San José partner with innovative tech firms to address high-impact civic challenges. He knew the city had worked with Airbnb to make emergency housing available after the recent disaster, and he... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2012
News

Alumni Books

which offers low-income young adults training, mentorship, internships, and real jobs. Today, Year Up serves more than 1,300 students in nine cities across the nation. The book follows a Year Up class from admissions through graduation.... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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