Publications

August 2016
Teaching Note

Reworking Office Space: Industry City, Brooklyn

By: Arthur I Segel and Alexander W. Schultz

Jamestown is contemplating how to best lease a portion of their new development along the Brooklyn waterfront: Industry City. The 6-million-square-foot, mixed-use development is meant to accommodate Brooklyn’s growing innovation, creative, and “maker” communities.... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Development; Shared Office Space; Coworking; Business Model; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Business Offices; Leasing; Real Estate Industry

June 2016 (Revised March 2017)
Case

Reworking Office Space: Industry City, Brooklyn

By: Arthur I Segel, Andrew Baum, Nori Gerardo Lietz, Charles F. Wu and Sid Yog

Jamestown is contemplating how to best lease a portion of their new development along the Brooklyn waterfront, Industry City. The 6 million square foot, mixed-use development is meant to accommodate Brooklyn’s growing innovation, creative, and “maker” communities.... View Details

Keywords: WeWork; Office Space; Real Estate; Jamestown; Level39; Shared Office Space; Information Technology; Leasing; Property; Strategy; Real Estate Industry; United States

January 1992
Teaching Note

New York Life Insurance Co.: Pension Department, Teaching Note

By: Robert J. Dolan

Teaching Note for (9-591-051). View Details

August 2013
Case

Desi Shack: Location Choice in the Big Apple

By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell

Desi Shack is a “fast casual” restaurant, started by two HBS alumni, that serves Indian and Pakistani cuisine in midtown Manhattan. The founders are looking to expand into a second location and also plan to hire a COO, and there is very little room for error in the... View Details

Keywords: Restaurant; New York City; Location Choice; Entrepreneurship; Food; Geographic Location; Food and Beverage Industry; New York (city, NY)

August 16, 2004
Other Article

Danmark går glip af ny vækstmodel [Denmark is Missing Out on a New Growth Model: Clusters]

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; Denmark

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March 1990 (Revised March 1992)
Supplement

New York Against AIDS (B): Backlash to the Advertising Campaign

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sohel Karim

Provides a follow-up to the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Health Disorders; Advertising Campaigns; New York (city, NY)

October 2009
Supplement

Merger of Equals: The Integration of Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York (C)

By: Ryan D. Taliaferro, Clayton S. Rose and David Lane

[Continuation of "A" and "B" cases.] Less than a month after the close of the merger between The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial, managers at the two firms realized that plans for combining their asset servicing businesses – and realizing the $180 million of... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Horizontal Integration; Financial Institutions; Business Processes; Risk Management; Strategy; Market Transactions; Assets; System; Saving; Banking Industry; New York (state, US)

2013
Other Unpublished Work

Debt and Democracy: The New York Constitutional Convention of 1846

By: David Moss and Dean Grodzins

April 2001
Teaching Note

The New York Times Electronic Media Company (A) and (B)

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Elliot N. Maltz and William A. Sahlman

May 2017
Case

Vicki Fuller: Chief Investment Officer of New York State's $150+ Billion Employee Pension Fund

By: Steven Rogers and Valerie Mosley

Vicki Fuller traveled from a four-room tenement bordering Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects to speaking at conferences around the world and typically holding court wherever she went. As a teenager, she helped raise her siblings. As a Wall Street... View Details

October 2009 (Revised February 2010)
Case

Merger of Equals: The Integration of Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York (A)

By: Ryan D. Taliaferro, Clayton S. Rose and David Lane

Less than a month after the close of the merger between The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial, managers at the two firms realized that plans for combining their asset servicing businesses—and realizing the $180 million of annual cost savings that they had promised... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Asset Management; Financial Institutions; Risk Management; Integration; Information Technology; Financial Services Industry

2003
Book

The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896

By: Sven Beckert

This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of the most powerful group in the nineteenth-century United States: New York City's economic elite. This small and diverse group of Americans accumulated unprecedented economic, social, and political power,... View Details

Keywords: Literacy; Income; Identity; Culture; Economics; Power and Influence

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April 2016
Teaching Note

IBM and the Reinvention of High School (C): Toward P-TECH's Rapid National Expansion

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Kelsi Stine-Rowe

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 316-130. This Teaching Note accompanies the third case in a 3-case series on P-TECH and the Reinvention of High School. The case focuses on the development and early diffusion of organizational innovation—how to create pilot projects for... View Details

Keywords: IBM; P-TECH; Stanley Litow; Robin Wilner; Cuomo; Scaling; Innovation; New York State; New York City; Business Model; Innovation Strategy; Innovation Leadership; Education; Business and Community Relations; Change; Technology Industry; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)

December 2014
Teaching Note

Rick's Dilemma

By: Arthur I Segel and Ben Eppler

This is a teaching note designed to accompany the case "Rick's Dilemma." View Details

Keywords: Land Markets; Finance; Inequality; Trusts; New York City; New York Property; Valuation Methodologies; Cap Rates; World Cities; Real Estate Industry; New York (city, NY)

2004
Working Paper

Regulation and Reaction: The Other Side of Free Banking in Antebellum New York

By: David A. Moss and Sarah Brennan

Free banking, which first appeared in the United States in the late 1830s, comprised two essential features: general incorporation for banks and rigorous security requirements for note issue. Because the general incorporation feature is what allowed free entry, it has... View Details

Keywords: History; Law; Competition; Financial Liquidity; Money; Market Entry and Exit; Financing and Loans; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

October 2009 (Revised February 2010)
Supplement

Merger of Equals: The Integration of Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York (B)

By: Ryan D. Taliaferro, Clayton S. Rose and David Lane

[Continuation of "A" case.] Less than a month after the close of the merger between The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial, managers at the two firms realized that plans for combining their asset servicing businesses – and realizing the $180 million of annual cost... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry