Publications

1982
Chapter

Strategies and Mechanisms for Urban and Rural Subsidization: The Case of CONASUPO

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Strategy; Policy; Rural Scope; Urban Scope; Sovereign Finance; Mexico

October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
Supplement

Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

By many measures the largest health-club chain in the United States in the early 2000s, Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness clubs to 24 Hour Fitness in 2014 and disappeared from the industry top 100 rankings. After Bally was bedeviled by accounting... View Details

2004
Chapter

The City and the Countryside: Economy, State and Socialist Legacies in the Vietnamese Labor Market

Keywords: History; Economic Systems; Human Capital; Urban Scope; Rural Scope

1975
Chapter

Planned Reduction in Electrical Energy Use in Nashville: A Preliminary Assessment

By: J. K. Sebenius and B. D. Lichter

Keywords: Energy Conservation; Urban Scope; Planning; Energy Industry; Tennessee

April 1981
Case

Mexican Rural Development: SAM and PIDER

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Development Economics; Food; Rural Scope; Mexico

November 2017
Teaching Note

Reinventing Best Buy

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455. On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details

Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul

April 1994 (Revised April 1995)
Teaching Note

Subarctic Survival Situation TN

By: Linda A. Hill and Katherine Seger Weber

Keywords: Geographic Scope

January 1975
Article

The Spatial Distribution of Urban Pharmacies

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Sam Leinhardt

Keywords: Health; Urban Scope; Health Industry

1966
Thesis

Economic Functions of Central Cities

By: Richard L. Nolan

Keywords: Economics; Urban Scope

May 2019
Background Note

Geographic Inequality Primer

By: William Kerr, Joseph Fuller, Manjari Raman and Donald Maruyama

There are large and persistent divides between urban centers and rural areas in America due in part to structural causes. This primer focuses on the demographic differences between urban and rural areas within the United States and the unique challenges facing rural... View Details

Keywords: Inequality; Rural; Development; Equality and Inequality; Demographics; Rural Scope; Urban Scope; Development Economics; Problems and Challenges; Globalization; United States

Educators

1 Aug 1973
Conference Presentation

De-Housewifing Women, Domesticating Men: Equality between the Sexes in Urban Communes

By: R. M. Kanter and M. Halter

Keywords: Gender; Urban Scope

November 2011 (Revised February 2012)
Background Note

Location Choice for New Ventures: Choices within Cities

By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell

Keywords: Business Startups; Urban Scope; Geographic Location

Educators

1983
Other Unpublished Work

Services from Public Capital: The Outlook for Boston's Physical Infrastructure

By: Dutch Leonard, Arnold Howitt, Helen F. Ladd and Ann B. Weeks

Keywords: Capital; Infrastructure; Public Ownership; Urban Scope; Boston

1976
Other Unpublished Work

Barriers to Equal Opportunity in Rural Housing Markets

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Housing; Equality and Inequality; Rural Scope

2010
Chapter

What Makes a City Entrepreneurial?

By: Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; City; Urban Scope; Situation or Environment

Read Now

December 1978
Article

An Alternative Model for a Global Analysis of Quadratic Programs in a Finite Number of Steps

By: André Perold

Keywords: Global Range

July 1997
Article

The Presidio Trust legislation: Preservation or Privatization?

By: Brian Trelstad

This analysis of the Presidio Trust legislation places the recent developments on the Presidio in the context of a century and a half of environmental planning. By first exploring the Presidio's history, and then tracing the more recent legislative background to the... View Details

Keywords: Presidio; Presidio Trust; National Parks; Urban Parks; Public-private Management; Natural Environment; Urban Scope; Planning

Article

The Rise of the Urban Entrepreneur

By: M. E. Porter

Keywords: Urban Scope; Entrepreneurship

March 24, 2014
Article

Roundtable on Shared Value in Education

By: Mark R. Kramer and Kate Tallant

Seventeen corporate and global education leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum 2014 in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss how they are rethinking the role of business in global education. View Details

Keywords: Shared Value; Education; Global Range