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- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
place-based solutions. The above shift and debate reflects the troubles encountered in the original urban renewal efforts, and the desire today to provide affordable housing that is close to jobs and transportation, mixed-income, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
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
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
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
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
evolved from the original vision of Lewis and Hutchinson to radically transform the construction industry to a go-to-market partnership model using the real estate as a "showroom" for evolving sustainable urban technology—a $3... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
1989," he adds. In fact, overpricing, not overbuilding, is the market's biggest problem, says Joseph O'Connor (HBS MBA '70), the founder and president of Singleton Associates, a real estate development firm based in Boston, and former chairman of the View Details
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
near the media hubs (except Atlanta) and far away from those elite opinion-makers in coastal urban areas. “You need to shift your mindset from social media to social strategy.” "MySpace has a PR problem because its users are in... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
program at an urban hospital in Massachusetts, they’re ready to disseminate the software to other accountable care organizations and bundled-payment hospitals. The case explores the issues the two entrepreneurs consider as they pursue the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
led to cuts in basic public services, declines in population, and significant urban blight. The State of Michigan appointed an emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, to lead the city though the restructuring process. In March 2014, Orr and his... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
re-read Khalil Gibran Muhammad’s The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, which I assigned to a class a few years ago and had Professor Muhammad speak to them about, because I might see new and... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
re-read Khalil Gibran Muhammad’s The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, which I assigned to a class a few years ago and had Professor Muhammad speak to them about, because I might see new and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
support for Trump, the candidate who scores lower on competence in our survey. But two groups respond to the treatment with a large (between 5 and 7 percentage points) increase in their support for Donald Trump: those living in rural areas and those that are low... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
School Case 809-098 This case describes how Alex Wolf, the founder of a small architecture and urban planning firm based in Portland, Oregon, decides to offer partnership to two trusted colleagues, and then how strains develop in their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
run gas and water distribution systems in diverse urban and rural locations throughout mainland China—often in the face of entrenched local interests who could have blocking power. Discussions with HKGC's negotiation teams revealed an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
survey of randomly selected urban and rural colleges and document statistically significant differences in employment opportunities for rural and urban graduates. Our survey results also indicate that not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
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
- First Look
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
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
It means we should be taking the long view. Detroit doesn't have to turn things around in a year or even five years. And it doesn't have to reclaim the place it once held among America's largest urban economies. It simply needs to be a... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
value-added products like yogurt. The entry of large multi-brand retailers like Walmart and Carrefour in the Indian market threatens to squeeze Amul's margins and undermine its low-cost distribution network. India's large young rural population is shying away from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
and you say, holy cow. That's the conundrum that Walmart is in. Think about this. There are more than 30,000 dollar stores in the US, you can find one everywhere: in rural regions you find Dollar General and in the urban settings you have... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
giving a subsidy as a lump sum to offset capital costs is more effective. This has different regulatory implications for urban and rural settings where the environmental objectives may differ. Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne