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- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
When science fiction writer Neal Stephenson dreamed of the metaverse—a term he coined in his 1992 novel Snow Crash—he envisioned a long city street that’s “always garish and brilliant, like Las Vegas freed from constraints of physics and... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
that are on the front line of this. And so we heard from the mayor of Venice of all places. Talking about the engineering work that's going on just for the survival of that city as we have rising water levels. Or the mayor of Sao Paulo,... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- Blog Post
HBS/HKS Alum Regan Turner on Empowering Veterans
entrepreneurial in my role, and that I am given the latitude to form partnerships that will benefit our organization and the cities we work in. “I work with some of the largest and most innovative companies... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
volunteers “have helped the city capitalize on the innovation sprouting from Silicon Valley, through specific initiatives such as designing the structure of the city’s startup incubator, developing View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
Revival of the Fittest by Donald N. Sull (Harvard Business School Press) Your company has been outperforming competitors for years, your charismatic CEO was just featured on the cover of a national business magazine, and your city boasts... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
March–April 2017 Harvard Business Review Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For By: Butler, Timothy Abstract—Aspiring to be innovative and agile, companies of all shapes and sizes want to recruit entrepreneurial managers. But... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
destroyed several square miles of the city feeds directly into the energy and vision required to start a new business, he said. (A hub for early-stage ventures located in the city’s Merchandise Mart is named 1871 for just that reason.)... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
looking at the health of America’s supply chains shouldn’t just consider large companies, but also small innovative suppliers of both goods and services. Are they getting access to the capital, the trained workforce, and the intellectual... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
research fellow at Professor Clay Christensen’s Forum for Growth and Innovation, thinks that the smaller, scrappier Chinese automakers may turn out to be the true disruptive innovators of the global EV market. By manufacturing inexpensive... View Details
- Fast Answer
Private companies: fast growing
cities in the U.S. publish books of lists that include fast growing companies. Note: Some cities' lists (ex. Chicago, Los Angeles) are available only in print in the Stamps Reading Room (ask at the desk for... View Details
- 19 Aug 2017
- News
Getting Off the Well-worn Farm Track
with fewer cows, more crops, and a growing investment in systems that will be net zero carbon emitters. In addition, he expects more food will be grown in cities and in buildings, not just in the countryside. "I think people realize that... View Details
- 01 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Confronting Climate Change in the Classroom and Beyond
From the RC’s Finance I discussion on international carbon finance and EcoSecurities, to electives such as Sustainable Cities and Resilient Infrastructure, to cases such as “Climate change: Paris, and the road ahead,” Harvard Business... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
Working PapersDiffusing Management Practices within the Firm: The Role of Information Provision Authors:Michael J. Lenox and Michael W. Toffel Abstract A key role of corporate managers is to encourage subsidiaries to adopt innovative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2019
- News
Impact: Toward the Greater Good
School’s faculty generate to enhance the practice of management. HBS shares such innovative ideas with leaders in business and government to benefit society at large. We are launching a new section of the Alumni Bulletin entitled Impact... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
other outputs by autonomous machines. I argue that organizational researchers of creativity and innovation should invest significant energy in studying artificial intelligence and computer-assisted human intelligence, the ways in which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Alumni Named to 2022 Worthy 100
Several HBS alumni have been named to Worth magazine's 2022 Worthy 100, a collection of people "who have made the most significant impact on the world this year." The HBS alumni honored include Mike Bloomberg (MBA 1966); Citi CEO Jane... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
alma maters (Miami University of Ohio and Vanderbilt University). They've also taken a leadership role at the school, serving on the Board of Dean's Advisors and as cochairs of their 25th Reunion, and as early founding donors of the Harvard View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees 1997 Publishes Bloomberg by Bloomberg 2001 Elected Mayor of New York City 2012 Launches Bloomberg Philanthropies 2014 Returns to Bloomberg LP as CEO 2017 Coauthors Climate of Hope Founder,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
structured loans usually carry a few years of guaranteed low interest, which allows local governments to reduce the cost of their debt quickly and obviously. But after the honeymoon period, these loans end up carrying highly variable interest rates resulting from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
the most popular worldwide choice for getting around—even for the short, solo trips that make up most of driving life in dense cities and sprawling suburbs. Swapping in smaller, energy-efficient electric vehicles, like bicycles and... View Details