Urban Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work

Primarily interested in incentives for growth in developing countries, the researchers began their study in India, where a large portion of businesses are family-owned. But they ended up finding similar results with follow-up studies in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a featureless landscape of... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2017
News

Supercharged

programs. “Those funds,” says Cox’s Camargo, “are drying up.” The Chinese market is evolving quickly in the face of sun-setting subsidies. Shen, for example, is using technology developed by a German firm he acquired to produce two basic... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-art-of-strategic-renewal/ August 2013 Journal of Development Economics Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen D. O'Connell... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

16 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 16

Development on the Investment Cash Flow Relationship: Cross-Country Evidence from Europe Authors:Bo Becker and Jagadeesh Sivadasan Publication:B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate financing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Understanding Users of Social Networks

Only difference: Piskorski has spent years studying users of online social networks (SN) and has developed surprising findings about the needs that they fulfill, how men and women use these services differently, and how Twitter—the newest... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Publishing

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

or is the phenomenon evident in other developed economies-such as Australia? We assessed Australians' perceived and ideal wealth distributions and compared them to the actual wealth distribution. Although the United States and Australia... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

explanations about the development of the United States’ Federal Reserve System, which was created in 1913 in direct response to the Panic of 1907; and an engaging and entertaining account of a fascinating period in financial and economic... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

13 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens

for America, which describes itself as the "Peace Corps for Geeks." Its coders take publicly available data and use technology to visualize the work of government for the public in accessible ways. In Boston, for example, the group worked with the Mayor's... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

25 Mar 2025
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

schools across the US and Europe and have some thoughtful discussions about how we'll all fit into the changing landscape. I was pleased that the conference focused so much on Food & Ag and included an urban farm tour of Oxford Tract... View Details

21 May 2018
News

Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

volunteers “have helped the city capitalize on the innovation sprouting from Silicon Valley, through specific initiatives such as designing the structure of the city’s startup incubator, developing innovative ways to incorporate... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

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Black History Month | Baker Library

of the Harvard Business School today and into the future. Collection activities focus on the career and professional development needs of our MBA students and alumni, as well as on access to business content to the Harvard University... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

An American Odyssey

He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance

01 Sep 2006
News

Light Years Ahead

MBA courses on Investment Management and Capital Markets. Later in the decade, he took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of investment and financial policies for the Ford Foundation, returning in 1979. Back at HBS, Light focused his research and course... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Harvard Business School

Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits Visiting the Exhibit More Baker Library Exhibits Baker Library Special Collectons The African–American Student Union (AASU) at HBS emerged from the turbulence of the late 1960s, years marked by large–scale View Details

19 Jan 2016
First Look

January 19, 2016

continued and expanded, with further empirical exploration of a distributed model of innovation that includes communities and platforms in a variety of contexts and with the development of theory to explain the economic underpinnings of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2005
News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

don’t see a repeat of 1989,” he adds. In fact, overpricing, not overbuilding, is the market’s biggest problem, says Joseph O’Connor (MBA ’70), the founder and president of Singleton Associates, a real estate development firm based in... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

June 2024
Case

Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project

By: Richard S. Ruback, Matthew Preble, Ruth Page and Dave Habeeb

Vinalhaven is an island community located approximately 12 miles off the coast of Maine. The island has a year-round population of about 1,300 people as of 2022, with an additional 3,000 people who reside on the island in the summer months. The two largest industries... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Natural Resources; Natural Environment; Weather; Sustainable Cities; Forecasting and Prediction; Construction; Property; Infrastructure; Capital Budgeting; Projects; Project Finance; Negotiation; United States; Maine

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18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

As we work on challenging public problems, embracing the entrepreneurial spirit can help in developing solutions, says Harvard Business School Professor Mitchell Weiss in a new book, We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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