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- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
Reset is focused on a couple of basic truths about most people in prison, Anderson says. First, prisoners will get out someday. The majority of US inmates are serving sentences of eight years or less, and many will be released before... View Details
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling FDI to promote growth through backward linkages. Using realistic parameter values, we quantify the response of growth to FDI and show that an increase in the share of FDI leads to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
the Cluster Mapping Project, uses statistical techniques to profile the performance over time of regional economies in the U.S., with a special focus on clusters. Clusters are geographically concentrated groups of interconnected... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The "Skype" of broadband, offering free Internet service. On an April morning known as "Super... View Details
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
in diverse urban public schools, which forged my passion for racial equity. After graduating from college in Washington, DC, I was founding director of the DC Community Anchor Partnership (DCAP), a public-private network, in partnership... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Navigating Success in Volatile Times
that forces us to reinvent ourselves," he said. Throughout the day, panelists shared valuable strategies and lessons from a wide range of career paths and industries. The distinguished list of presenters included Paula Banks (AMP:ISMP... View Details
- 08 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
up just 3 percent of the US armed services 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... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
the Foxwoods story. The true story is one of strategic negotiation and the leveraging of tribal sovereignty into economic opportunity. Using a close analysis of the Foxwoods-Connecticut negotiations as a point of departure, this chapter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
founders being less likely to use commercial activity than their male counterparts, these effects are moderated by cultural beliefs about gender and commercial activity within founders’ local communities,” the researchers write. “The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
R. Brown Convention Center, which had been mostly parking lots, into Discovery Green, now known for its kayaking and performance spaces. The Partnership has just finished a $53 million capital campaign, which is being used to add 14,000... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
evolve along this continuum, forward or backward," he says, "is a useful strategic tool for managers who are assessing what type of relationship they're in and considering if and how they should progress to the next stage." In the first,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
Ponzetto Abstract—Cities generate negative, as well as positive, externalities; addressing those externalities requires both infrastructure and institutions. Providing clean water and removing refuse requires water and sewer pipes, but the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
nonprofit focused on improving urban economies, and ICV Partners, a Black-owned private equity firm focused on companies in the lower middle market. Willie Woods is cofounder, president, and managing director of ICV Partners, and in this... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Above: Cummings in the iconic Fisher Building, known as “Detroit’s largest art object.” Cummings and his partners are redeveloping the 28-story landmark. A trip through downtown Detroit with Peter Cummings (OPM 13, 1988) is part urban... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II, by Iris Chang, is such a poignant book about the lesser known, perhaps, Holocaust of World War II, and helps me understand more about my own history and ancestry. I think it’s so important for us to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Paradox of the American Metropolis by Alan Rabinowitz (MBA 1950) (CreateSpace) This is a citizen’s guide to dealing with citywide problems: transportation, climate change, public safety, etc. The context is the worldwide increase in urban... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to identify success factors in this emerging industry. Ecocities, for the most part, are viewed as a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while creating urban living... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
turned into a cement-like byproduct used in construction. Bags of waste feedstock that arrived at Amager Bakke. Source: Amager Bakke site visit presentation.Waste feedstock awaiting incineration. Image source: the authors. Amager Bakke... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
Jerry R. Green, using game-theory insights, studies the negotiation process within agencies as he looks for ways that business or government can make the right decision for an organization as a whole while still benefiting individual... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- Web
“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
“It’s like a pie-eating contest” One night during his RC year at HBS, Josh Latson (MBA 2015) shadowed an emergency room physician through his rounds in a busy urban hospital. Josh was there as a member of the school’s Health Care Club,... View Details