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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
McKinsey. Although the company provided a car and driver, Makarim, who had lived in Indonesia as a child, preferred to use the ubiquitous motorcycle taxis. Known as “ojek,” the two-wheelers were informally organized. Most neighborhoods... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
public-private partnership between the state government and for-profit developers. The goal is to transform Dharavi into a neighborhood offering desirable, market-rate residential and commercial real estate while providing its longtime... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
safe and convenient to let somebody in your neighborhood rent your car. In terms of trust, I think that for many people it’s a big barrier to let a stranger drive off in their car or to let a stranger sleep in their house. In reality,... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
income remained relatively stable, about 3 to 1. Over the last 20 years, however, the financial markets that financed the housing system in the United States changed remarkably. Local markets once dominated... View Details
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
examine ongoing efforts to forge a public-private partnership between the state government and for-profit developers. The goal is to transform Dharavi into a neighborhood offering desirable, market-rate residential and commercial real... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
renting than any time in the last five decades, and Davis knew there was a market opportunity here. Yet Davis moved in the opposite direction of many real estate investors. He didn’t target big states with large suburban populations and... View Details
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
minutes at minimal cost with no branding or design skills required. As it sets out to raise its Series B, the founders make some critical changes to their business model, moving to a subscription model and adding additional products and services to automate other parts... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
store chain with twenty-four locations in fifteen cities. The traditional consumer model in the market is the family jeweler, he explained, with a relationship between parties carrying on for generations. The consumer in India is far more... View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
for the city and the region,” says Hung. “It’s bringing vitality to the neighborhood around it. Mark talked about the historic preservation of the building, the art deco, the tile work and murals. They’re modernizing the staging, the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
Red Mocha Haraaz, from Yemen—there’s a select quantity of that every year from a small group of growers.” Résumé builder: “When I worked at Heinz, my team and I launched green ketchup. It didn’t survive as a product line, but it made a huge PR splash and helped grow... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
Morales, who now serves as marketing and communications manager at Year Up in the Bay Area, and Michelle Smith-Howard, who worked as director of early learning at DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative and is... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
marketing for the Giants. “My job was to put warm butts into cold seats,” notes Baer, who says he learned a lot about all aspects of the business during the three years he spent promoting fan interest and attendance at the notoriously... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
that the blockchain application could enable Northern Trust to achieve productivity savings of “somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 to 35 percent.” The firm—which has $1 trillion in assets under management and more than $7 trillion under... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 27 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
occur often enough to reach as many mouths as possible. He designed the organization like a startup, built to scale, with chapters of “Robins” around the world who team up with restaurants and other organizations in their local cities and communities. View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
for cosmetics needed to be more customer focused, so in 1999 she launched Bluemercury, a retailer of high-end beauty products. Perhaps the most obvious evidence that Beck’s thoughtful strategy and hard work have disrupted the beauty View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
Illustration by Jonathan Bartlett In an era of artisanal coffee bars blossoming in neighborhoods worldwide, how could a producer of award-winning beans be struggling to stay afloat? That was the puzzle confronting Chijioke Dozie (MBA... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
counterparts. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55026 Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies By: Athey, Susan, and Michael Luca Abstract—As technology platforms have created new markets and new... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
American in ways that are not only tangible, but also, in fact, consequential. Half of the people who work in America either own or work for a small business. And small businesses have created 60 percent of all net new jobs since 1995. Four million Main Street... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
the strategy and marketing literature on the importance of creating customer value. In our everyday language, we think of a customer as someone who buys goods or services. But we have recently witnessed an explosion in the definition of a... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons