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- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
letter actually getting to his friend—there were six referrals. This idea has passed into popular culture and urban folklore as the six degrees of separation. That's where it lay until a decade ago when a few researchers out of the Santa... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
future. Many things have happened that I would never have thought possible. I would have never believed that Chinese social choices around urbanization and industrialization could lift hundreds of millions out of poverty so quickly. I... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
with items such as sportswear and sunglasses. This spring, "Club Med World," the first of a number of urban entertainment centers worldwide, will open in Paris. Humble Beginnings From his Paris office, Giraud directs sales support for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
challenge: “How do we take what we do, collaborating with our many partners and clients, and increase our social impact one hundredfold? That’s our next big aspiration.” Gerald Chertavian (MBA ’92) Year Up www.yearup.org INTENSIVE TRAINING: Year Up provides young View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
employees received, how workplace rewards made employees feel significantly predicted their optimal functioning. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=56020 forthcoming Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics Local... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
and you say, holy cow. That's the conundrum that Walmart is in. Think about this. There are more than 30,000 dollar stores in the US, you can find one everywhere: in rural regions you find Dollar General and in the urban settings you have... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
giving a subsidy as a lump sum to offset capital costs is more effective. This has different regulatory implications for urban and rural settings where the environmental objectives may differ. Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
adapting the skills and practices of entrepreneurship for the public sector,” he says. Before joining the HBS faculty and creating the MBA course Public Entrepreneurship, Weiss was chief of staff to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. In 2010, Weiss cofounded the Mayor’s... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
officials, and food companies. In an increasingly industrializing and urbanizing society, such information translated into consumer decisions that had both economic and cultural antecedents and consequences. Even before the growth in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
place-based solutions. The above shift and debate reflects the troubles encountered in the original urban renewal efforts, and the desire today to provide affordable housing that is close to jobs and transportation, mixed-income, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
housing option in the United States. Yet government policies and programs continue to grapple with widespread problems, including affordability, distressed urban neighborhoods, poor-quality housing stock, concentrated poverty, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
something that will take years.” Home Ownership: Back to Basics HBS lecturer Nicolas Retsinas, who before arriving at Harvard served as assistant secretary for housing in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, offered a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
disparity between rural and urban populations widens. Wanda S. Tseng, deputy director of the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department, offered an overview of Asia's current economic strengths and weaknesses. "There are no quick fixes," she... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
unprecedented rates. Diabetes rates have boomed. Online data thefts have surged. Urbanization and waste have soared. What is happening? Is it globalization? Or is something much deeper taking place, something that the world had never... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
Policy at the School during the late 1960s. In 1970, he took a leave of absence to join Matt Simmons’s (MBA 1967) Boston investment bank, then returned to the School the following year to teach courses in real estate. With Bill Poorvu, a real-estate investor who also... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
corporate world to her new mission to improve public education by fostering strong leadership skills among principals. After a long career of leadership at the Hallmark Corporation, Hallquist became a fellow in the 2016 Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative, where she... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
Faculty & Advisors | MBA
software development, where his research reveals the benefits of agile processes and the value of modular designs Elizabeth Christoforetti Elizabeth Bowie Christoforetti is the founding principal at Supernormal, an architecture, urban... View Details
- May 2025
- Case
'Net Zero in Action': Impact Investing at the McKnight Foundation
By: Lauren Cohen, Christina R. Wing and Sophia Pan
Elizabeth McGeveran, Vice President of Investments at the McKnight Foundation, reflected on how to effectively advance the organization’s net-zero strategy. The foundation had committed 10% of its endowment to building a portfolio of impact investments and was among... View Details
Keywords: Foundation; Impact Investing; ESG; Family Business; Forecasting and Prediction; Private Sector; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Institutional Investing; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Private Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Issues; Sustainable Cities; Financial Services Industry; Minnesota; United States
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
Kaiser's endeavors, from his beginnings in the construction industry all the way to his development of Hawaii's urban landscape, demonstrated his willingness to embrace the unknown, and his determination in the face of setbacks. His... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
near the media hubs (except Atlanta) and far away from those elite opinion-makers in coastal urban areas. “You need to shift your mindset from social media to social strategy.” "MySpace has a PR problem because its users are in... View Details