City Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

February 2022 (Revised September 2022)
Case

Lilium: Preparing for Takeoff

By: Navid Mojir, Vincent Dessain, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney

Lilium is a German company focused on developing electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) that can be used to offer air taxi services. The company went public in September 2021 through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deal, raising more than... View Details

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01 Jun 2020
News

Lesson Plans

Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June Bulletin Last summer, HBS Online asked the market research firm City Square Associates to poll 1,000... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

25 Aug 2021
News

Reimagining Chicago’s Schools

challenge. In 2012, she launched the Intrinsic Schools, a network of public charter schools with an innovative approach to the middle school and high school experience. Rather than employ the data from standardized tests and apply it to a... View Details

18 Dec 2018
Blog Post

"There's No Substitute For Finding The Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015

mission-driven organization," says James. The perfect opportunity arose through the Leadership Fellows program, through which James joined the Sacramento Mayor's Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship. "I looked inward, and... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

15 Nov 2020
News

Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative

Greater China Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science & Tech Innovation Special Cooperation Zone Students learned how special economic zones (SEZs) are designed and how they can help spur investments and economic development. Yantian International... View Details

17 Apr 2014
News

York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition

With online crowd votes from more than 1,200 alumni and MBA students, the winners of the 2014 alumni New Venture Competition have been crowned. Winner of the crowd-voted Most Innovative and Greatest Impact categories is York Street... View Details

Keywords: New Venture Competition; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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America's Digital Divide: Where Workers Are Falling Behind | Working Knowledge

Data and Technology America's Digital Divide: Where Workers Are Falling Behind Featuring Shane M. Greenstein and Raffaella Sadun . By Danna Lorch on February 10, 2025 . With rural areas significantly lagging behind cities in computer use,... View Details

15 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: November 15

essential to develop the self-awareness, compassion, emotional intelligence, and authenticity required to be inspired human beings and inspiring leaders. Book: http://www.bkconnection.com/ProdDetails.asp?ID=9781609940072&PG=1&Type=AUTH&PCS=BKP Business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020

across business, finance, tech, entrepreneurship, and policy joined panels spanning an array of topics from energy policy and circular economy to breakthrough innovations and investing. Industry expert Ted Wiley, Co-Founder, President,... View Details

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Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

carried from school. The fellowship enabled me to take a role I wouldn’t ordinarily be able to consider.” Measuring success at the consumer level Kasia joined Acumen in 2014 in New York City as an Innovation... View Details

10 Nov 2014
HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

profit. How do these chefs express the full extent of their culinary innovativeness while at the same time as creating a return for investors? Two recent Harvard Business School case studies explore this tension through the experience of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

16 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

scale?" That's the problem he explores in the HBS Teaching Note, Technology Innovations in K-12 Education, cowritten with Roniesha Copeland (HBS MBA '14), and research assistant Christine S. An. The report reviews the burgeoning... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

05 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea

Meet Rebekah Emanuel – she’s the senior advisor for social impact at the Harvard Innovation Labs (i-lab). A McKinsey alum and HBS grad, Rebekah served as executive director of Imagine Boston, the first long-term plan for the View Details

10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

large-sample evidence adding to a growing literature suggesting that NPEs—in particular, large patent aggregators—on average act as "patent trolls," suing cash-rich firms seemingly irrespective of actual patent infringement. This has a negative impact on... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Sep 2018
News

Bringing Government Up to Code

What are some similarities and differences between local government and between the tech sector that we can really leverage to learn more about government services, and how to provide them more efficiently? Ingersoll: A lot of times what we see in View Details

11 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

cities between 1910 and 1930. Instrumenting immigrants’ location decision by interacting national changes in migration flows across ethnic groups with pre-existing immigrants’ enclaves across U.S. cities, we find that immigration raised... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Dec 2015
Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Laura Mackay...

career with NeoCare Solutions – a mobile engagement platform that helps parents of NICU babies navigate the NICU and transition home. Interestingly, the business was incubated and is run as a start-up within Healthagen, the innovative... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Health Care; Entrepreneurship

13 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably

city of Enschede, our group of students heard about the beer company’s corporate sustainability initiatives, saw these initiatives in action during our brewery tour, and then got to taste their results in an on-site beer sampling. Their... View Details

22 Dec 2015
First Look

December 22, 2015

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815129-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-022 IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design This case describes the human-centered innovation culture and service design process at IDEO, one of the... View Details