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James W. Riley
James Riley is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.
Professor Riley is an economic sociologist. He conducts ethnographic research to... View Details
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The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities
By: John D. Macomber
Three trends will drive urban investment, development, and entrepreneurship in the next two decades. This article provides tools to identify the situations and circumstances that will be most favorable for private sector involvement in consideration of these trends.... View Details
Keywords: Trends; Demographics; Private Sector; Investment; City; Infrastructure; Opportunities; Urban Development
Macomber, John D. "The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 23, no. 3 (Summer 2011): 64–74.
- October 2017 (Revised November 2017)
- Case
NYC311
By: Constantine E. Kontokosta, Mitchell Weiss, Christine Snively and Sarah Gulick
Joe Morrisroe, executive director for NYC311, had some gut instincts but no definitive answer to the question he was just asked by one of the mayor’s deputies: “Are some communities being underserved by 311? How do we know we are hearing from the right people?” Founded... View Details
Keywords: New York City; NYC; 311; NYC311; Big Data; Equal Access; Bias; Data Analysis; Public Entrepreneurship; Urban Informatics; Predictive Analytics; Chief Data Officer; Data Analytics; Cities; City Leadership; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Prejudice and Bias; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; City; Public Administration Industry; New York (city, NY)
- 23 Oct 2013 - 24 Oct 2013
- Conference Presentation
Key Drivers for Inner City Growth
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) annual ecomonic summit. The 2013 theme: Transforming Urban Ecologies, What Works for Cities View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Key Drivers for Inner City Growth." Paper presented at the Inner City Economic Summit, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, Cleveland, OH, October 23–24, 2013.
Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights Under Reform
Land reforms have been critical to the development of Chinese capitalism over the last several decades, yet land in China remains publicly owned. This book explores the political logic of reforms to land ownership and control, accounting for how land development... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
New Research: Big Data Offers New Possibilities for City Planners
- May 2019
- Background Note
Geographic Inequality Primer
By: William Kerr, Joseph Fuller, Manjari Raman and Donald Maruyama
There are large and persistent divides between urban centers and rural areas in America due in part to structural causes. This primer focuses on the demographic differences between urban and rural areas within the United States and the unique challenges facing rural... View Details
Meg Rithmire
Meg Rithmire is the James E. Robison Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. Professor Rithmire holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a... View Details
Keywords: real estate
Michael E. Porter
Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details
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Sherrese Clarke Suarez
Wall Street banker Sherrese Clarke Suarez (MBA 2004) works with the Council for Urban Professionals to help minority professionals advance in their careers to the C-suite and corporate boards. View Details
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Highways and Spatial Location within Cities: Evidence from India
By: Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover Goswami and William R. Kerr
We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the spatial organization and efficiency of manufacturing activity. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 3,633 miles of road in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation... View Details
Ghani, Ejaz, Arti Grover Goswami, and William R. Kerr. "Highways and Spatial Location within Cities: Evidence from India." World Bank Economic Review 30, Suppl. 1 (March 2017): S97–S108.
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
acknowledged his job involves competing against the promise of autonomous electric cars. “The government needs control.” Panelist Harriet Tregoning, former director of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 2015
- Working Paper
Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing
By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Alexander Segura
India's manufacturing growth from 1989 to 2010 displays two intriguing properties: 1) a substantial fraction of absolute and net employment growth is concentrated in informal tradable industries, and 2) much of this growth is connected to the development of one-person... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; India; Informality; Small And Medium-sized Enterprises; Development Economics; Manufacturing Industry; India
Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Alexander Segura. "Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing." World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 7206, March 2015.
- January 2001 (Revised June 2001)
- Case
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
By: James E. Austin and Kim Slack
Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC) is a $74 million nonprofit social enterprise that combats poverty by helping community development organizations build affordable housing and create economic development opportunities through public-private partnerships. Poses a... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Development Economics; Education; Capital; Investment Funds; Taxation; Growth and Development; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Segmentation; Service Industry
Austin, James E., and Kim Slack. "Local Initiatives Support Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 301-124, January 2001. (Revised June 2001.)
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
Editor's Note: Rapid urbanization and resource scarcity pose problems—and opportunities—for businesses and governments all over the world. But who can best lead the building and developing of these municipalities? One model: promotion and... View Details
- 10 Dec 2015
- News
Can Google Street View Images Predict Household Income?
- 25 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Agglomeration and Innovation
Keywords: by Gerald A. Carlino & William R. Kerr
- July 1998
- Supplement
Bell Atlantic in Union City
In this pioneering project to wire a school for the Internet and put computers in students' homes, Bell Atlantic combined its need for a beta site for a technology trial with the school reform efforts of the Union City, New Jersey public schools, under the leadership... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Social Enterprise; Internet and the Web; Education; Business and Community Relations; Education Industry; New Jersey
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Bell Atlantic in Union City." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 399-501, July 1998.
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Africa rising? A historical perspective
- 2015
- Book
Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights under Reform
By: Meg Rithmire
Land reforms have been critical to the development of Chinese capitalism over the last several decades, yet land in China remains publicly owned. This book explores the political logic of reforms to land ownership and control, accounting for how land development and... View Details
Rithmire, Meg. Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights under Reform. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.