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- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
This was a growth fueled above all by private enterprise, urban and rural, in what we may now consider the first "golden age" of Chinese capitalism. This new economic activity began and spread outward from China's centers of... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 15 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development
estate development and business investment. Having studied architecture before transitioning to urban and African-American studies in my undergraduate program, it was a relief to discover that developers, not architects, actually build... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- February 2008 (Revised May 2012)
- Supplement
The Big Easy, Not So Easy: The Letter
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Ben Creo
A short, supplemental case to "The Big Easy, Not So Easy" (208-068). Doris Koo must respond to new challenges at Lafitte in New Orleans. View Details
Keywords: Natural Disasters; Housing; Projects; Risk Management; Urban Development; Reputation; New Orleans
Retsinas, Nicolas P., and Ben Creo. "The Big Easy, Not So Easy: The Letter." Harvard Business School Supplement 208-125, February 2008. (Revised May 2012.)
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Driving the family business onto a global stage
equipment. “We decided that we weren’t going to be in any business that wasn’t global. You can’t compete in a small pool anymore,” he observes. M&M’s single largest product investment has been the Scorpio, which gave the corporation a leadership spot in the Indian... View Details
- Fast Answer
Tax news and analysis
Multimedia Center platforms, and Statements and Announcements of the IRS. Tax Policy Center (TPC): News and analysis from this joint venture of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution. The Center is made up of nationally... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
600 urban centers accounting for roughly 60 percent of global GDP. The creation of this economic and social value, however, involves the consumption of considerable natural resources. For example, cities today contain 50 percent of the... View Details
- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
capital campaign and expansion of the nonprofit organization’s programs, which include science education, character development, and summer learning opportunities for 6,500 local adolescents annually. A key initiative is a multiyear experiential learning program for... View Details
- February 2020
- Case
Rotoplas: Bringing More and Better Water
By: John D. Macomber and Carla Larangeira
Private companies were being turned to for potable water in the world’s megacities due to impacts of climate change including droughts and flooding. Mexico City had endured several water-related crises, with its population suffering from floods, droughts, water... View Details
Keywords: Water Supply; Water Management; Finance; Infrastructure; Urban Development; Business and Government Relations; Latin America; Mexico
Macomber, John D., and Carla Larangeira. "Rotoplas: Bringing More and Better Water." Harvard Business School Case 220-064, February 2020.
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
homelessness. But the affordable housing problem is especially acute in urban areas, where entire tranches of the workforce—teachers, laborers, first responders, restaurant and transit workers, for example—are squeezed out of their... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group), Bloomberg sees cities as focal points in the struggle against global warming and climate change. Urban areas are now home to half the world’s population, consume half the world’s energy, and,... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
When Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) first read of Amazon’s search for a second headquarters in the Wall Street Journal, he was certain the newspaper had made a typo. The online retailer couldn’t be talking about creating 50,000 jobs. Moret’s years in economic development... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- News
Juan Salgado Honored for Immigrant Education Efforts
complete an adult basic education, improve language abilities, and acquire job skills.” And in 2010, Salgado opened a charter school that offers counseling and support to students beyond graduation through the first two years of postsecondary education or training.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Having a Ball
founder and CEO of a Virginia technology company, snapped it up through his Stafford Foundation. “We’ve gotten away from the core values that made America great,” Stafford told the Washington Post (December 4, 2008). “We just need to get back to caring about each... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Creation of parks connects people to nature and each other
grasslands, for example—the Trust does it all, from inner-city parks to the wilderness of Alaska. This kind of conservation can require some complicated business deals; Rogers, a former urban developer, likes the art of closing. The Trust... View Details
Samuel J. Lefrak
Lefrak was the first private company participating in city-financed housing projects in the United States. His company completed several housing projects, such as King’s Bay in Brooklyn, Parc Vendome in Queens, and Lefrak City, a 40-acre, $150 million housing... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- Web
Tony Shu | MBA
areas of interest: PropTech, Real Estate Tech, Data Science, Web Development, Platform Businesses, Automation, Smart Cities/Buildings, Consumer Technology Professional goals: I hope to be an entrepreneur for the rest of my life and orient my work around the... View Details
- March 2014 (Revised May 2014)
- Case
China Vanke (A-1)
By: Lynn S. Paine, John Macomber and Keith Chi-ho Wong
As China's largest homebuilder, China Vanke Co. Ltd. (Vanke) was facing an industry downturn sparked by strong government intervention. Faced with falling prices, Vanke's president must decide whether to keep the company's pricing and product positioning intact, and... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; China; Green Building; Sustainable Development; Business Government Relations; Leadership; Business and Government Relations; Urban Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Safety; Real Estate Industry; China
Paine, Lynn S., John Macomber, and Keith Chi-ho Wong. "China Vanke (A-1)." Harvard Business School Case 314-104, March 2014. (Revised May 2014.)
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
reduce the urban heat island effect, a condition created when dark, impermeable surfaces like asphalt absorb heat and radiate it back into the air, forming an urban heat dome. When it rains, a green roof... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Allston Options Up for Discussion
in June a forty-page report outlining design options for the new Allston campus. Of all the issues considered, “effective transportation is the most critical to the overall feasibility of the project,” concluded the report, prepared by the New York View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
to get inside the system.” Nielsen decided to run for the Seattle school board and was elected in 1993. For the next eight years, he and other reformers on the board pushed through some remarkable changes, making Seattle one of the most innovative View Details