Urban - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

wireless—varies dramatically by location, especially when comparing urban and low-density locations, but even when comparing one city to another. On a different dimension, the types of employment affiliated with implementing frontier... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

23 Apr 2024
Cold Call Podcast

Amazon in Seattle: The Role of Business in Causing and Solving a Housing Crisis

Keywords: Re: Paul M. Healy; Technology

04 Sep 2019
Blog Post

A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship

Justin Ernest (MBA 2019) had interned at Sidewalk Labs. Stan reached out to Justin for coffee and conversation. “He said the culture was great,” Stan says. “Justin had a great experience there working on deals to invest in other urban... View Details

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

movement. “Let’s look for evidence,” she says, drawing them back to the document each has in hand. She’s hoping they’ll discover the statistics in Exhibit 4 showing the divide between New York’s rural and urban communities. One student... View Details

Keywords: April White

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and sustain high-performing K–12 public school districts in the United States. These efforts have resulted in more than 30 case studies focused on adapting and applying management concepts within urban school systems to drive improved... View Details

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Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

resilience in affordable housing, which falls under Title III (Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs).[22] Affordable housing is geared towards low-income people, a group that is disproportionately people of color because of systemic racism... View Details

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

purpose-built full-electric 16-ton truck designed for urban logistics, reducing the environmental impact of freight deliveries in cities by an estimated 1.2M tons of CO2 by 2025. Dallin's role prior to HBS was an Engagement Manager at... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Zone Defense

but have accounted for over half of combat casualties in recent conflicts. Most of those occur in close, urban combat, as service members go building by building in search of hidden threats. “We hear things like, ‘This product made a... View Details

Keywords: April White; drone technology; military; security; entrepreneurship; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation

November 2023 (Revised July 2024)
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'Care in Every Drop': Ayala Corporation and Manila Water (A)

By: Debora L. Spar, Paul Healy, Tricia Peralta and Julia M. Comeau

Since 1834, eight generations of the Ayala family have used their conglomerate to fund nation-building projects in the Philippines, including investments in tramcars, telecommunications, hospitals, and schools. In 1997, Ayala’s subsidiary, Manila Water, took control of... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Economic Growth; Social Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Natural Resources; Crisis Management; Failure; Privatization; Social Issues; Urban Development; Adaptation; Public Opinion; Mission and Purpose; Utilities Industry; Asia; Philippines

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01 Mar 2004
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Derek Ferguson

York after graduating from college. Then, in 1988, Ferguson and Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990) founded Urban Profile, a lifestyle magazine for young African-American professionals. “We didn’t consider printing costs or subscribers,”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

07 May 2014
What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

obvious that we must tax the hell out of vacant properties and/or urban land speculation?" Others suggested non-tax solutions. One such proposal was put forth by Mok Tuck Sung: "(The wealthy) should be encouraged to participate... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

December 2023
Article

Advances in Power-to-Gas Technologies: Cost and Conversion Efficiency

By: Gunther Glenk, Philip Holler and Stefan Reichelstein

Widespread adoption of hydrogen as an energy carrier is widely believed to require continued advances in Power-to-Gas (PtG) technologies. Here we provide a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics of system prices and conversion efficiency for three currently prevalent... View Details

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Harvard Business School

joined American Express as a marketing vice president in the travel-related services division. Before his retirement in 1993, he was promoted to senior vice president for worldwide communications. Wilkinson was a trustee and national treasurer of the National View Details

Portrait Project

Emily Stapleton

economy. Done really well, it also encourages physical activity, builds community, and protects the environment. With the global urban population projected to nearly double in my lifetime, transportation solutions will be fundamental to... View Details

06 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations

industries, and technologies re-emerge from the brink of collapse. And while his initial research has focused on the watch industry, his findings also help explain a recent resurgence of independent bookstores, a renaissance of streetcars in numerous View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Apparel & Accessories; Technology; Consumer Products

Profile

Brandon Lovell

"I found myself hanging with not necessarily the right crowd," Brandon says. After graduating from high school and spending a couple years searching for a purpose, Brandon was introduced to Year Up, a nonprofit program founded by a HBS alum Gerald Chertavian... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Financial Services

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

routes added Influence: Medium 10 1910 s 19 Anti-immigration sentiment peaks during WWI Great Migration begins as African-Americans relocate from rural South to northern cities Influence: Medium-High 20 1920 s 19 Population of urban... View Details

07 Dec 2022
Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

chemical recycling technology that is able to remove contamination and reproduce virgin plastic qualities. Earthbond: Digital platform that combines traditional group guarantees with carbon accounting and innovative financing to make solar affordable for View Details

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

the benefits of the “work-from-anywhere” movement for both companies and workers. “There’s been brain drain from small towns into large urban clusters, but I don't think we have seen the spatial redistribution that we could potentially... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

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