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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Origami Vaccine) is a biotech startup for improving cancer treatment using a novel DNA nanoparticle platform. We develop treatments that teach patients' immune systems to recognize and fight cancer. Social Enterprise Track, 2023 The MV3... View Details

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Events - Business History

an Urbanizing America Abby Spinak, Harvard University Nov 16 16 Nov 2018 Business History Seminar Selling the Revolution: Communist China's Capitalist Ambassadors, 1949-1966 Christopher R. Leighton, Harvard Business School Nov 5 05 Nov... View Details

February 2013 (Revised February 2014)
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Phu My Hung

By: John Macomber and Dawn H. Lau

Privately held city development promoters decide whether to partner on next phase or go it alone in a 20-year, 4000-acre project. Set outside of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, this decades-long project led by two Taiwanese families reshaped and built the economic... View Details

Keywords: Urban Development; Infrastructure; Real Estate Industry; Viet Nam

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16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

had full access to corporate archives and executives and provides us with a unique insight into the workings and strategies of one of the world's oldest and largest multinationals. Capitalism: Its Origins and Evolution As a System of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and sustain high-performing K–12 public school districts in the United States. These efforts have resulted in more than 30 case studies focused on adapting and applying management concepts within urban school View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

Assistant Professor of Business Administration Kaplan's co-authored 2021 article, “Accounting for Climate Change,” introduced the E-liability carbon accounting system for measuring corporate supply chain emissions and won Harvard Business... View Details

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The Gift of Global Talent

Bill argues, is the world’s most precious resource. Featured Article Navigating Talent Hotspots William R. Kerr SEP-OCT 2018 | HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW How can companies most effectively harness the benefits of these urban pools of... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Western Pennsylvania - Heinz History Center. He is a member of the Boards of Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, The Urban League of Pittsburgh, Sewickley Academy, and the Extra Mile Education Foundation. He... View Details

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

Moss Kanter discussed in a preface to a collection of Follett's works, Follett was way ahead of her time. She was admittedly a utopian and romantic, but she had a profound appreciation for human relations and was one of the earliest View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

07 May 2014
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How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

obvious that we must tax the hell out of vacant properties and/or urban land speculation?" Others suggested non-tax solutions. One such proposal was put forth by Mok Tuck Sung: "(The wealthy) should be encouraged to participate... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

Funding to scale Citizens Connect, Boston's 311 app, is both a blessing and a burden and tests two public entrepreneurs. In 2012, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provides Boston's Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics with a grant to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

workers do which activities? What is a living wage, and how does that vary by country and by urban or rural setting? These are questions for which we just don't have good answers yet. So it is not surprising that firms might disagree with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

no question that people by and large move from rural to urban areas in search of better economic conditions. In India, most social and economic indicators show that life is better in the cities than in rural areas, on average, even given... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Sep 2019
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A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship

people start companies, I knew that this was the best program for me.” Stan had already gained an impressive amount of experience at Microsoft where he worked on operating systems and with online payments technology, responsibilities that... View Details

30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

exploiting the well-documented social divide between urban resident workers and rural migrant workers in urban Chinese firms. We analyze data on weekly output, individual characteristics, and coworker... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

resilience in affordable housing, which falls under Title III (Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs).[22] Affordable housing is geared towards low-income people, a group that is disproportionately people of color because of View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Zone Defense

telling him. Ryan Tseng had already started two successful companies, and where Brandon saw a business opportunity in building AI software to operate unmanned systems for the military, Ryan saw a behemoth defense industry with high... View Details

Keywords: April White; drone technology; military; security; entrepreneurship; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation

02 Mar 2016
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David Moss is Rewriting History

global financial events. His first course-length experiment had been a success. He saw the case method bring history—which many students thought of as a dull procession of inevitable events—to life. Character, narrative, and tension gave an urgency to topics such as... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Harvard Business School

as a marketing executive for Scott Paper Company. When the president of MIT approached him, he accepted a position as assistant director of the Urban Systems Laboratory at MIT. Jones was active in the... View Details

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