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  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

book manuscript and seeking a publisher for it. This includes filling a few gaps in my research by using historical collections that are housed here at HBS and at a number of other libraries in the Boston area. Bank records have been... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services
  • April 2016 (Revised December 2019)
  • Case

Dan Gilbert: Crazy or Crazy Like a Fox?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz
Keywords: Detroit; Rock Ventures; Dan Gilbert; Real Estate; Buildings and Facilities; Demographics; Financial Crisis; Government and Politics; Housing; Risk and Uncertainty; Real Estate Industry; United States
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  • 03 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The State of Customer Service Leadership

example, that company would not be selling a “lifestyle” so successfully on a global basis today to its customer base of students, younger singles, and married couples moving into their first apartment or house together. Aisner: We live... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail
  • 2012
  • Chapter

Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?

By: Robert G. Eccles, Annissa Alusi, Amy C. Edmondson and Tiona Zuzul
Two trends are likely to define the 21st century: threats to the sustainability of the natural environment and dramatic increases in urbanization. This paper reviews the goals, business models, and partnerships involved in eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; City; Urban Development; Infrastructure; Housing; Urban Scope; Business Ventures; Business Model; Green Technology Industry
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  • 26 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom on proper sequencing: "Get your own house in order first." Yet this was not the path that President George H. W. Bush followed in preparing for the first Gulf War. Instead of approaching... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
  • 19 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

in the 1920s. The same two companies began the process of commercializing television in the 1930s. Telefunken, housed in Berlin, lost its learning base during World War II. So in the 1940s RCA took the lead in commercializing... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology
  • 29 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

their product group and housing them side-by-side with other salespeople selling other products is unlikely to create true customer intimacy. Wes Thompson, LFD's President, and Kim Miner, the Human Resources VP, undertake a sweeping... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

scale. In time, the South Sea Company won the bidding war, and the House of Commons approved its debt conversion plan. Now it was up to the House of Lords to approve or reject the deal. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2004
  • Case

Macroeconomic Policy and the State of the U.S. Economy, 2003

By: David A. Moss
Based on excerpts from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on July 16, 2003, as well as economic data that were available to Chairman Greenspan at the time. Taken together, the text... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Banks and Banking; Policy; Housing; Analytics and Data Science; Problems and Challenges; Urban Development; United States
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  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

housing firm. Along the way, he and his partners have contributed countless hours of community service to the neighborhoods in which they own properties. Now 80 and ready to retire, Gates is creating a request for proposal for his firm.... View Details
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

positioning? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/714412-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 414-017 The Battle at JPMorgan Chase No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/414017-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-006 Lighting the Way... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

Endeavor Entrepreneur Guillermo Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a for-profit company providing affordable housing to low-income Mexicans living at the base of the pyramid (BOP). This case tells the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

to expand aggressively, focusing on a full-service model, often including swimming pools and racquetball courts, at moderate prices. Rumors of an IPO had circulated for over a decade, triggered by the fact that several private-equity View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

2016 Random House The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change By: Anand, Bharat Abstract—Companies everywhere face two major challenges today: getting noticed and getting paid. To confront these obstacles, I examine a range... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

and a little understood provision in the federal tax code that is implemented at the state level, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). The relationship is complex because, while the federal government uses the CRA to control bank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2012
  • Op-Ed

Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison

We have created a housing hybrid in America, refashioning the single-family home into a mini debtors' prison. Almost 11 million dot the landscape. In Las Vegas and Phoenix, over 50 percent of homeowners live in one. “Understandably, most... View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

default. Finally, in April, he released his budget-calling for spending cuts and tax hikes adding to $1.8 trillion (over 10 years). However, in the preceding two weeks, both the House Republicans and the Senate Democrats had approved... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 29 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?

The United States housing market is no longer the boat anchor dragging down economic growth. Data from the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show that average home prices in an assortment of American cities have been on the upswing,... View Details
Keywords: Construction; Real Estate
  • 02 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

influences. This discourse hence suggested that this art had so far been aesthetically misjudged, therefore implying that it had also been economically undervalued. Saffronart and the other auction houses (Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

Enterprise Community Partners must determine whether to rebuild the Lafitte housing projects in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans and, if so, how to mitigate the risks. Set in January 2007, more than a year after Hurricane Katrina made... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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