Publications

02 Mar 2021
HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

area. When residents tried to flee burning buildings, they were shot and killed in the street. An estimated 300 people died, 1,000 families lost their homes, and $1.8 million in property was destroyed, equal to $26.1 million today. The... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance

Great Depression, when foreclosures on residential properties soared alongside farm foreclosures. Scholars still know relatively little about the American real estate industry before World War II. The U.S. Commerce Department did not... View Details

01 Dec 2015
HBS Seminar

Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto

Web

Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020

with his plan to offer Boston diners a unique blend of authentic Japanese culture and cooking, organic farm-to-table ingredients, and—a novelty for ramen venues—cocktail service. With classic entrepreneurial resilience, by June, Sasago had already found a View Details

January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
Case

Uncle Nearest: Creating a Legacy

By: Hise Gibson, Archie L. Jones, Nicole Gilmore and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

Fawn Weaver, as a Black woman and industry outsider in a capital-intensive, highly regulated, competitive and male-dominated spirits industry, successfully overcame numerous obstacles to launch a premium American whiskey brand, Uncle Nearest in 2017, which became the... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

economically stressed areas where property values remain low, preferring instead to wait until someone else has taken the first-mover risk and values have begun to rise. These structurally disadvantaged areas—like West Baltimore Street,... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

pursue. What are the support systems and resources provided at the labs to student and alumni ventures? What sustains this community is the incredible team here that works fully in service to students and alumni so they can be in service to society. We’re not taking... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

December 2005 (Revised August 2006)
Case

Amgen Inc.'s Epogen--Commercializing the First Biotech Blockbuster Drug

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis A. Yao

Amgen Inc.'s Epogen was the first biotech blockbuster drug. Epogen helped prevent anemia, a condition that leads to severe fatigue, increased risk of cardiovascular disease, and even death. At the time, the market for Epogen, which included dialysis patients and... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Strategic Planning; Competition; Patents; Innovation and Invention; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

“Fail fast” has become the corporate innovation mantra, but new research suggests that inventions that build on science, with its systematic observation and methodical experiments, may deliver more value to companies. US patent filings that cite journal articles bring... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

07 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.

New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Insurance

07 Apr 2015
News

Warrior Spirit

I’ve learned from running sports properties in multiple countries across Asia is that each has its own challenges and opportunities.” China shuts down for nearly three weeks around Chinese New Year, for example. Ramadan is a factor in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

Organizations with great reputations can draw large and loyal followings. Source: iStock In developed countries, the best friends of businesses are the legal, political, and social institutions—banks, courts, intellectual property... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2009
News

Don’t Mess with His Texas

Over the years, he began to purchase Hill Country land. Eventually, he gave up hunting and started to manage his property as a preserve for endangered species. “As you age, your values change,” Waters observed. “I think I love plants now... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

straightforward: How can platform owners make certain there are enough buyers to attract sellers? And how can the platform deliver enough sellers to attract buyers? When Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia launched Airbnb in 2007, they decided that the first platform side to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

2020
Working Paper

The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting

By: Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun and Quoc H. Nguyen

No firm or sector of the global economy is untouched by innovation. In equilibrium, innovators will flock to (and innovation will occur where) the returns to innovative capital are the highest. In this paper, we document a strong empirical pattern in green patent... View Details

Keywords: ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investment; Decision Making; Policy; Energy; Green Technology; Technological Innovation; Patents

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26 Feb 2019
News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

downtown Los Angeles. That’s one of four such communities in the city where Steinbridge is buying and renovating single family homes that will rent for $900 to $1,400 a month. The goal is to ultimately manage 500 properties in Philly—a... View Details

30 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System

Keywords: by Stephen Haber & Aldo Musacchio; Banking

August 1995 (Revised December 2003)
Case

Cricket Road, 503

By: William J. Poorvu and Donald A. Brown

In September 2003, Mason Sexton, a young, inexperienced developer, was making plans to replace a rooming house he had inherited next to the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville with a new 14-unit, 5-story apartment house. His attempts to assemble the... View Details

Keywords: Property; Entrepreneurship; Housing; Buildings and Facilities; Construction; Risk and Uncertainty; Management Practices and Processes; Real Estate Industry; United States