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  • 17 Apr 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Would You Live in a Smart City Where Government Controls Privacy?

  • April 2022
  • Supplement

Connecting Students in Chattanooga (B)

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Manjari Raman
Keywords: K-12 Education; Pandemic; COVID-19; Accessibility; Education; Urban Development; Wealth and Poverty; Education Industry; Tennessee
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  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

the capabilities they need. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52603 September 2017 Current History China Gambles on Modernizing Through Urbanization By: Looney, Kristen, and Meg Rithmire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 1995 (Revised November 1995)
  • Case

Charoen Pokphand: The New Conglomerate

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Jane L. Wertz and Thomas N. Urban Jr
Keywords: Business Conglomerates
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  • March 2004 (Revised April 2006)
  • Case

St. Louis: Inner-City Economic Development

By: Michael E. Porter, Anne S. Habiby and Joanne Lasala
Describes the history and challenges of the economically distressed inner city areas of St. Louis, a major U.S. metropolitan area. Profiles regional and inner city economics and describes a new effort by community leaders to develop and implement a strategy to... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Leading Change; Urban Development; Problems and Challenges; Public Administration Industry; Saint Louis
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  • 07 Dec 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

firsthand how swiftly places such as Chicago, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh, were growing. In these and other cities, he could observe the effects of accelerating industrialization: the emergence of new enterprises and occupations, the coincidence of great wealth with... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
  • 05 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

Taking Learning Beyond the Classroom

Grasso of Urban Mining Industries, protagonists of the case, "Harvard University and Urban Mining Industries: Decarbonizing the Supply Chain", facilitated by Professors Shirley Lu and Robert Kaplan. The case... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

“A National System of Income Supplementation”

Richard America’s analysis of the crippling legacy of racial discrimination in the United States was underscored by a study released last summer. In the wake of a spate of riots in urban America in the 1960s, a federal government... View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • Web

Rhonda Haynes Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results SPNM Perspectives: Rhonda Haynes, National Association For Urban Debate Leagues Rhonda... View Details
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Advances in Power-to-Gas Technologies: Cost and Conversion Efficiency

By: Gunther Glenk, Philip Holler and Stefan Reichelstein
Widespread adoption of hydrogen as an energy carrier is widely believed to require continued advances in Power-to-Gas (PtG) technologies. Here we provide a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics of system prices and conversion efficiency for three currently prevalent... View Details
Keywords: Clean Tech; Decarbonization; Carbon Emissions; Learning By Doing; Environment; Energy; Environmental Management; Sustainable Cities; Price; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Transportation Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
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  • June 2023
  • Case

Rent Control in Boston, Again?

By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback, Robert Ialenti and Tom Quinn
This case explores the merits and drawbacks of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s proposal to bring rent control back to the city in 2023. It lays out the features, objectives, and potential unintended consequences of this policy, before highlighting the expected impact of... View Details
Keywords: Renting or Rental; Housing; Urban Development; Policy; Boston; Massachusetts
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  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Ideas That Stick

demonstrate in their book, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Random House, 2007). They chronicle not only urban legends but real-life success stories, explaining how six principles of stickiness (simple, unexpected,... View Details
Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Minding The Gap

Alameda at the corner of 33rd Street. "That neighborhood?" he queries in a thick Russian accent. "Not good." Well outside the boundary of Inner Harbor tourist attractions, the northeast Baltimore district in question admittedly shares the city's well-publicized... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Elevator Pitch: Bridging the Gap

Anas Aljumaily (MBA 2017) Elian Pres-Gurwits (MBA 2018) Cofounders, Gently Concept: Focused on urban markets, Gently is a last-mile delivery service that uses predictive analytics, electric trucks, and “nano-fulfillment” centers to provide sustainable, affordable... View Details
Keywords: logistics; EVs; delivery; nanofulfillment; entrepreneurship
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Alumni Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
  • 29 May 2013
  • Blog Post

Four Weeks on the Road with MBAs Across America

compost accelerator), plant trees, and restore Detroit’s urban canopy. We worked with Sebastian on his community and environmental engagement strategy, compensation model, and team culture.We also held a community workshop on inclusive... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • Profile

Inessa Lurye

curiosity drew her into urban studies, which in turn drew her into professional work on urban issues. At McKinsey, Inessa consulted with the Harlem Children’s Zone, helping them expand their services from... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Helping one child led to improving the lives of thousands

Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) volunteered as a Big Brother and saw firsthand how urban youth suffered from a lack of job options. He wrote his HBS application essay about starting a program to connect those young adults with a growing need... View Details
  • April 2016
  • Case

Detroit: On the Right Track?

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Manjari Raman
As this case opens in 2012, a cross-sector alliance to bring new rail transport to the Motor City seems about to collapse, and civic leaders have one last chance to save it. The case covers the rise of Detroit, the city’s devastating fall, and the ongoing potential... View Details
Keywords: Urban Development; Rail Transportation; Infrastructure; Transportation Industry; Michigan
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  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

City of Dreams

more concrete (sometimes literally) world of doing that affected a great many more people in far more fundamental ways. For the next seven years, he served as an urban development specialist for the Asian Development Bank, working on... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; 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