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- 2006
- Teaching Note
Managing the Chicago Public Schools, Teaching Note
By: Allen Grossman, Richard Elmore and Caroline King
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
coastal cities like Mumbai or Lagos or Bangkok as people seek jobs or flee wars or drought. The fact of migration exposes more people to weather-related disturbances. If sea rise were to accelerate, many of the newcomers would be in... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 2006
- Teaching Note
Managing at Scale in the Long Beach Unified School District, Teaching Note
By: James E. Austin, Allen Grossman and Jennifer Suesse
- 2006
- Case
Managing at Scale in the Long Beach Unified School District
By: James E. Austin, Allen S. Grossman, Robert B. Schwartz and Jennifer Suesse
- November 2006
- Article
How to Manage Urban School Districts
By: Stacey Childress, Richard Elmore and Allen Grossman
Childress, Stacey, Richard Elmore, and Allen Grossman. "How to Manage Urban School Districts." Harvard Business Review 84, no. 11 (November 2006).
- March 2006 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
Cinco de Mayo
By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas P. Retsinas, David Margain and Andres Caldera Radonski
In 2004, Adrian Pandal is seeking financing for a residential conversion of a building in Mexico City's historic center district. He must convince potential lenders that the project is viable and that it makes sense to bet on the future potential of an area that, until... View Details
Keywords: History; Risk Management; Opportunities; Urban Development; Investment; Property; Real Estate Industry; Mexico City
Segel, Arthur I., Nicolas P. Retsinas, David Margain, and Andres Caldera Radonski. "Cinco de Mayo." Harvard Business School Case 206-115, March 2006. (Revised April 2007.)
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53888 Racial Heterogeneity and Local Government Finances: Evidence from the Great Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract—Is racial heterogeneity responsible for the distressed financial conditions of U.S. central View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
built housing, overcrowding, and insecure residential status (i.e., most people hold no legal title to their property). Despite these difficult conditions, Dharavi's residents occupy a centrally located parcel of land in a rapidly growing View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
citizens’ service requests—such as potholes and broken streetlamps—and efforts by city government to address them became more trusting and supportive of government. Study 3 (N=21,986) was a natural experiment using data from a mobile... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
reality. For GE, leafy Fairfield was simply too hard a sell to make to increasingly urban millennials, who not only prefer to live in cities like Boston, San Francisco, and New York, but are willing to make employment decisions based on... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- October 2011 (Revised August 2012)
- Case
INNOVA-MEX's Bid for ENKONTROL
By: Ramana Nanda, William R. Kerr and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In their second year, two Mexican HBS MBAs joined forces to start a search fund based in Mexico City. They had raised money to acquire an existing private company in Mexico with an initial enterprise value between $5 million and $15 million. Just seven months after... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Investment Funds; Corporate Finance; Mexico City
Nanda, Ramana, William R. Kerr, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "INNOVA-MEX's Bid for ENKONTROL." Harvard Business School Case 812-008, October 2011. (Revised August 2012.)
- February 1997
- Article
New Strategies for Inner-City Economic Development
Porter, Michael E. "New Strategies for Inner-City Economic Development." Economic Development Quarterly 11, no. 1 (February 1997).
- 07 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Steve Jobs Legacy
another star in that constellation. William Kirby (General Management) Steve Jobs's legacy is everywhere, not the least in Chinese cities where the Apple stores are crowded from dawn to dusk, and where there are not only knock-off phones... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
security company, of which I was a director, to that of the New York City Police Department. A direct result has been a number of arrests by the NYPD of criminals fleeing buildings guarded by the private security firm. Contrast this with... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy
The world's fair in New York City at the end of the depression decade was a big deal. Planning began in 1935. The fairgrounds covered 1,216.5 acres in what had been a garbage dump in Queens. By opening day, April 30, 1939, the moonscape... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
Wharton School as well as Columbia Business School’s Oded Netzer and Nachum Sicherman to develop the model that identifies routine users and their value. Not all rides are routines To track how targeting routines may work, the authors teamed up with a rideshare company... View Details
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
case: http://hbr.org/product/iora-health/an/814030-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-008 Rawabi Bashar Masri is developing the first new stand-alone Palestinian city 25 kilometers north of Jerusalem and 9 kilometers north of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 19, 2011
- Article
What's the Greenest Building? The Problem With Ranking Systems
By: Auden Schendler and Mike Toffel
Schendler, Auden, and Mike Toffel. "What's the Greenest Building? The Problem With Ranking Systems." The Atlantic (website) (October 19, 2011). (Republished in grist. Revised version in The Guardian (UK) and in ChinaDialogue including in Chinese.)
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
as the economy shifted from a mainly rural, agrarian model, to a city focused, factory based one We are witnessing the same happening now as we shift to the post information era. Not clear if enough new jobs will be created to replace the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett