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  • 07 Dec 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

percent for the next two decades; these statistics are the products of modern economic analysis. 52 Heinz Preserved Sweet Onions and Pearl Onions usedin a 1910 company publication But the young entrepreneur had done business in a number of View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
  • February 2011 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

Sound Group China: Urban Waste Entrepreneurs

By: John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr and Fan Zhao
Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with state owned enterprises and also government policies supporting a rival technology. Wen Yibo has used engineering expertise and political savvy to build a major privately... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Public Sector; Service Delivery; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Wastes and Waste Processing; Urban Development; Utilities Industry; China
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  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

beginning his business, people were pouring into the cities as urbanization accelerated. The family farm and even the family plot, was disappearing. For the first time, women were going into the paid workforce in large numbers, as they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

Proceedings Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy By: Glaeser, Edward, Andrew Hillis, Scott Kominers, and Michael Luca Abstract—The proliferation of big data makes it possible to better target... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 15

Talent Recruitment at frog design Shanghai (B) Supplements 411-040. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/414024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-404 New York City: Bloomberg's Strategy for Economic Development Traces the economic development of New York... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Summer 2013
  • Response

How Caesars Entertainment Is Betting on Sustainability: Response

By: Michael W. Toffel
One of the largest gaming companies in the world expanded its sustainability efforts using a scorecard to guide and goad managers. This response assesses Caesars Entertainment's CodeGreen scorecard, advocates a more comprehensive environmental assessment to target... View Details
Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entertainment; Energy; Energy Conservation; Buildings and Facilities; Goals and Objectives; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 19 Mar 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey Jones notes that being a business-environmentalist can be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy
  • 28 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

him to start a back-office services firm for their insurance company clients, which grew into ReSource Pro. By year-end 2007, ReSource Pro employed 250 people, of whom only four were U.S. based. With aggressive growth plans, Bruno began examining potential View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

prevailing research norm. The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities Author:John D. Macomber Publication:Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 23, no. 3 (summer 2011) Abstract Three trends will drive urban... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

hypothesized that coal mines near Pittsburgh led that city to specialization in industries, like steel, with significant scale economies and that those big firms led to a dearth of entrepreneurial human capital across several generations.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

type of investment? A: Yes, it may be true that Boston (or any other city) benefits by keeping its football team or baseball team. But, another city without a team also would benefit from taking away Boston's team. And, as a result, View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 29 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It

include arrogantly ignoring cease-and-desist orders from cities trying to enforce local business regulations, allegations of drivers attacking customers, and sexual harassment complaints from employees about the company’s... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation
  • 09 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

provide focused, comprehensive care for two high-volume and expensive medical conditions: type-1 diabetes and morbid obesity. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/718471-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School 417-023 Kurt Summers: Investing in Our Chicago In... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Jan 2021
  • Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

first big-city innovation offices in the United States. In April 2013, he helped guide the mayor’s office’s response to the attacks on the Boston Marathon. At HBS, he has helped build the Young American Leaders Program and is an adviser to the Bloomberg Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

political pressures. If successful, the Chinese Communist Party will forge a new path of urbanization, building cities before recruiting urban citizens. The process, however, entails possibilities of yet other social dislocations,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near Pittsburgh led that city to specialization in industries, like steel, with significant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

part of their research, they have interviewed more than fifty people in two cities and collected data on some 1,000 communities since the late 1980s. They observe that organizations in different cities seem... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Overview

By: Mitchell B. Weiss
Public entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, leadership, business and government, cities, artificial intelligence View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Business And Government; Artificial Intelligence; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Public Sector; City; AI and Machine Learning
  • 10 May 2016
  • First Look

May 10, 2016

Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life By: Glaeser, Edward L., Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca, and Nikhil Naik Abstract—New, "big" data sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 29

effective is the method? Is funding programs with the highest BC ratios a good way to fight poverty? In three or five years' time, how will Robin Hood know if it is succeeding? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310031-PDF-ENG Water Shortage and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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