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Black History Month | Baker Library
insight into the challenges and strategies of Black entrepreneurship in a racially segregated urban environment. Through a combination of community engagement, customer-focused service, and diligent work ethics, Bean overcame initial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
neighborhoods that have felt desolate since the pandemic. Meanwhile, the federal government has announced its own incentives, with billions of dollars in below-market loans and grants as well as technical guidance available through the federal departments of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
multiyear, experiential learning program for urban middle schoolers. “We’re building partnerships with Boston public schools to bring students in grades five through eight out to the island for hands-on science education,” said Pearson,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
A NEW VIEW: Slums occupy valuable real estate in India. Photo courtesy HBS India Research Center Located in Mumbai, India, Dharavi is home to an estimated 700,000 people living on just 551 acres. Featured in the 2008 Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, Dharavi... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Above: Cummings in the iconic Fisher Building, known as “Detroit’s largest art object.” Cummings and his partners are redeveloping the 28-story landmark. A trip through downtown Detroit with Peter Cummings (OPM 13, 1988) is part urban... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Kristiansen, the family-owned company grew over the decades, moving from wooden toys to plastic "bricks," the building blocks of its construction sets. The products are designed around play themes such as View Details
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Dana Hoffmann
co-founder of Portico Places, an online realty site aimed at helping tenants successfully navigate the often daunting urban rental market. “When I left Apple, I has a passion to follow,” she said about landing at HBS. “It was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
bags and bags of dirt up six flights of stairs, Reade soon created an urban sanctuary, complete with flowers, vegetables, and an automatic sprinkler system. Longing for more, she began looking for a few acres to purchase outside the city.... View Details
- February 2021
- Teaching Plan
Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Amy Klopfenstein
This teaching plan serves as a supplement to the case “Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?” HBS 820-098. The case explores the tension between two different financing and expansion plans for a startup, and explores issues related to business model pivots and industry... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Model; Business Plan; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Decisions; Judgments; Ethics; Geography; Geopolitical Units; Finance; Investment; Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Demand and Consumers; Media; Society; Urban Development; Sustainable Cities; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Business Strategy; Expansion; Relationships; Capital; Venture Capital; Advertising Industry; Technology Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Cambridge
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Diversity | Employment
administrative professional careers in higher education. Year-Up Partnership HBS is an active participant in Boston’s Year-Up program. Since 2008 we have hosted close to 9 urban young adults as interns and provided them with the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
sisters, and mothers-in-law ready to step in along with easily available domestic help. However, despite these advantages in the urban middle class in India, women are only now entering the corporate world in a significant way. For my... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
important? Christine: "We believe business plays a fundamentally noble role in society. From rural to left-behind urban communities, business leaders play a vital role in creating an economy that works for everyone. We want to motivate... View Details
- May 2020 (Revised December 2022)
- Case
Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Amy Klopfenstein and Amram Migdal
In November 2019, Sandra Richter, co-founder and CEO of Soofa, a network of advertising-supported digital bulletin boards, must decide between two different fundraising and expansion plans for her company. One plan entails raising $15 million in a Series A round and... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Model; Business Plan; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Decisions; Ethics; Geography; Geopolitical Units; Finance; Investment; Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Demand and Consumers; Network Effects; Media; Society; Urban Development; Sustainable Cities; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Business Strategy; Expansion; Relationships; Partners and Partnerships; Capital; Venture Capital; Advertising Industry; Technology Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Cambridge
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Amy Klopfenstein, and Amram Migdal. "Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?" Harvard Business School Case 820-098, May 2020. (Revised December 2022.)
- August 2016
- Teaching Note
Mahindra Lifespace Developers' Venture into Affordable Housing
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Monica Baraldi
Mahindra Lifespace Developers Limited (MLDL) was the infrastructure and real estate arm of the Mahindra Group, an Indian conglomerate with revenues of $16.5 billion in 2014. Employing 400 experts in land acquisition, design, project management, sales and marketing, and... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Business Startups; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Housing; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Human Needs; Social Issues; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; India
- 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
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South Asia - Global Activities 2020
into and out of India to the rest of East Asia and beyond. The tour of the site included the future Colombo Port City, an urban development project slated for completion in 2041, which comprises office towers, luxury residences, an... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
public sector who deliver health services effectively." But there's another takeaway for Ashraf, whose current research involves co-producing studies with urban planners in sub-Saharan Africa. "We show academics that you can actually... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
and I visited multiple sites and businesses in Dakar, Senegal in West Africa culminating in an alumni event in Dakar entitled, Climate Adaptation and Urban Economic Development. Here is what we learned: Adaptation finance is real. Every... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai
across the city. They operate within urban centers and landfills to collect waste, sort out the plastic, and help\ aggregate them for larger materials processing facilities like HUL and Dalmia’s plant. This fragile ecosystem is supported... View Details
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Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Mosley is a Pittsburgh-based, self-taught artist whose monumental sculptures are crafted with the felled trees of Pittsburgh’s urban canopy, via the city’s Forestry Division. Using only a mallet and chisel, Mosley reworks salvaged timber... View Details