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  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

housing option in the United States. Yet government policies and programs continue to grapple with widespread problems, including affordability, distressed urban neighborhoods, poor-quality housing stock, concentrated poverty, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

  Publications January 2015 Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics Agglomeration and Innovation By: Carlino, Gerald, and William R. Kerr Abstract—This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006

the school's charter. The case explores the opportunities and challenges of starting up and leading an urban charter school as well as the consequences of a state accountability system based on student achievement data. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

allegories play to. In large cities and urban and ethnic areas, Mountain Dew barely shows up on the radar. However, in the mostly working-class, non-urban metro areas in the Eastern half of the country, Mountain Dew "blew through the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

(www.icic.org), has shown that inner cities have advantages in terms of proximity to transportation infrastructure, unmet market needs, lower employee turnover and much more. Have you seen a growing awareness of the potential of urban... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2019
  • Case

Bjarke Ingels Group

By: Boris Groysberg and Aldo Sesia
Danish-born Bjarke Ingels is regarded as a giant in the field of architecture. He started his firm—the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)—in 2005 in Copenhagen. Fourteen years later, the firm has additional offices in New York City, London, and Barcelona and employs over 500... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Growth Management; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Talent and Talent Management; Urban Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Construction Industry; Service Industry; Real Estate Industry; Denmark; Spain; United Kingdom; United States; New York (city, NY)
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  • 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19

urban development at the national level and in three cities in a single Chinese region. The study reveals that the initial liberalization of land was reversed after China's first contemporary real estate bubble in the early 1990s and that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19

provide potable water services to rural and urban India where the public infrastructure does not exist. Past efforts have been stymied by rural operations problems including expensive technologies, challenging maintenance issues, cash... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2025
  • Case

'Net Zero in Action': Impact Investing at the McKnight Foundation

By: Lauren Cohen, Christina R. Wing and Sophia Pan
Elizabeth McGeveran, Vice President of Investments at the McKnight Foundation, reflected on how to effectively advance the organization’s net-zero strategy. The foundation had committed 10% of its endowment to building a portfolio of impact investments and was among... View Details
Keywords: Investment Fund; Philanthropy; Charitable Donations; Sustainability; Foundation; Impact Investing; ESG; Family Business; Forecasting and Prediction; Private Sector; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Institutional Investing; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Private Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Issues; Sustainable Cities; Financial Services Industry; Minnesota; United States
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  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

them also to provide public space Wi-Fi, advertising, and urban intelligence sensors. "One year from now we will no longer sell any machines," Kutner planned to tell the company's board of directors. Would they buy his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

jobs and dignified salaries. As of March 2010, La Fageda has opened up a new production facility to make ice cream in an urban area outside of its well-known agricultural farm. Students are faced with understanding La Fageda's business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

employees received, how workplace rewards made employees feel significantly predicted their optimal functioning. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=56020 forthcoming Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics Local... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

Glaeser, William R. Kerr, and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto Publication:Journal of Urban Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

outsiders? We study this question in the context of the first Great Migration (1915–1930), when 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to urban centers in the North, where 30 million Europeans had arrived since 1850. We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

outfitter Timberland, begun in 1989 when City Year requested from Timberland fifty pairs of boots for its urban youth service corps, founded the previous year. The service corps program organizes youths from diverse ethnic, racial, and... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
  • 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

investment officer, Brian Trelstad, must decide whether or not to fund two for-profit ventures. The first provides clean and accessible shower and toilet facilities in urban areas, serving a critical need for low-income populations—its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

models, and partnerships involved in 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 View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

accept all kinds of intrusions in our urban environments—buses, highway ramps, traffic lights, telephone poles. I am hopeful that PRT will stack up well—huge benefits relative to the intrusion it asks a community to permit. But a lot... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation
  • 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

"course researchers," whose class participation can be exceptionally valuable in the theory-building process. Buy Local? The Geography of Successful Venture Captial Expansion Authors:Paul A. Gompers, Henry Chen, Anna Kovner, and Josh Lerner... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

use biometric identification technology to improve the reliability of administrative information and deliver social services more efficiently. This paper exploits the random placement of biometric devices in tuberculosis (TB) treatment centers in View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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