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  • 14 Sep 2017
  • News

The Future of Retail Is Stores That Aren’t Stores

  • 25 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela

the Harvard Divinity School. She is a world expert on pilgrimages and the author of definitive books about the rivers of India. Prof. Rahul Mehrotra, chair of the department of urban planning and design at the Harvard Design School, has a... View Details
Keywords: by John D. Macomber; Construction; Real Estate
  • 29 Jul 2021
  • Blog Post

Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)

are working around the world to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. What are you working on this summer? This summer, I am serving as an Advisor on the Special Operations Team in the New... View Details
  • 23 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

Midwesterner raised on a dairy farm, and Roy Whitcomb Riley, a Black Southerner, settled in Los Angeles shortly before their son’s birth, in 1981, after traveling the world for 18 years. They lived in Mid City, whose economic and racial... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • June 2011 (Revised April 2014)
  • Case

sweetriot 2.0

By: Christopher Marquis, Donna Khalife and Bobbi Thomason
In the fall of 2010, Sarah Endline, CEO and Founder of sweetriot, an organic chocolate company, was deciding the best way to grow her organic chocolate company, while keeping her chocolate physically and conceptually on the shelf. She wanted to grow the offerings and... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Profit; Business Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Social Enterprise; Growth and Development Strategy; Experience and Expertise; Economic Growth; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Food and Beverage Industry; New York (state, US)
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  • 09 Feb 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?

Keywords: by Annissa Alusi, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson & Tiona Zuzul
  • February 2023
  • Teaching Note

Bangladesh: Into the Maelstrom

By: Reshmaan Hussam, Sophus A. Reinert and Jaya Y. Wen
In the fall of 2018, Rohima Begum considered her options as the small island, or “char,” on which her family’s house rested slowly but inescapably eroded into the mighty Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh. Should she move to another island or into the city on the... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Geographic Location; Bangladesh
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  • 22 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

Moving to the Lower 48 from Alaska for my MS/MBA

Moving anywhere is hard – but moving halfway across the world can come with even more challenges. MBA students come to HBS from every corner of the world, some with families, and some having never left their home country or state before.... View Details
  • March 2017
  • Case

CIC: Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (A)

By: William R. Kerr, Sari Kerr and Alexis Brownell
CIC creates "entrepreneurial ecosystems," renting out office and co-working space to start-ups and related companies and providing basic business needs like Wi-Fi and legal advice. Founder Tim Rowe refers to the CIC as "innovation infrastructure," bringing together... View Details
Keywords: Start-ups; Boston; Cambridge; St. Louis; CIC; Cambridge Innovation Center; Co-working Space; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Innovation Ecosystems; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Offices; Innovation and Invention
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  • February 2010 (Revised October 2010)
  • Case

Re-THINK-ing THINK: The Electric Car Company

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and David Kiron
On January 5, 2010, 48-year-old Richard Canny was on his way to meet the governor of Indiana. He was reading his newly issued press release announcing that THINK planned to start automobile production in Elkhart County, Indiana to launch its THINK City battery-operated... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Global Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Product Development; Production; Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Norway; Indiana
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  • January 2020
  • Article

Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration

By: Marco Tabellini
In this paper, I jointly investigate the political and the economic effects of immigration and study the causes of anti-immigrant sentiments. I exploit exogenous variation in European immigration to U.S. cities between 1910 and 1930 induced by World War I and the... View Details
Keywords: Political Backlash; Age Of Mass Migration; Cultural Diversity; Immigration; History; Economy; Attitudes; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Diversity
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  • 08 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

World View: Global Strategies for the New Economy is a collection of Harvard Business Review articles edited by Jeffery E. Garten, Dean of the Yale School of Management. At the dawn of the new century, says Garten, "globalization has... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

    Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours

    Translations available in Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Turkish, Vietnamese.

    Western concerns about the rise of China and India are raising alarms today, much as they were fifty years ago. China and India currently operate in... View Details

      Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie

      Hakeem Belo-Osagie is an accomplished Nigerian professional and entrepreneur. He earned a degree in Political Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University as well as a law degree from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

      He is the... View Details

      • 29 Aug 2024
      • Blog Post

      Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship

      with a population of 23 million people. The city simultaneously has every possible water issue including scarcity, flooding, sinking, poor quality, and unequal access. It is here I realized how water touches every aspect of our lives, and... View Details

        Trust

        Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries, the developed world has built customs and institutions such as enforceable contracts, an impartial legal... View Details

          Dutch Leonard

          Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details

          Keywords: education industry; federal government; health care; nonprofit industry; state government
          • 17 Jul 2019
          • Blog Post

          Tech for the People

          city residents and caused $100 million in damages. Because his own family’s home in Texas had been damaged during Hurricane Harvey, Tsai understood firsthand the importance of quickly relocating displaced families. Part of Tsai’s job was... View Details
          • 19 Apr 2018
          • Blog Post

          Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

          City and then moved to Swaziland to work with the Clinton Health Access Inititiative (CHAI) until two years later she was admitted into the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program. We caught up with Nanako to learn more about her experience with the... View Details
          • 9 AM – 11:59 PM EDT, 20 Jun 2018
          • HBS Alumni Events

          Take an Alum to Lunch Day

          Are you tired of eating at your desk alone? Want to make some new HBS friends and connections? Then join HBS alumni around the world for a unique networking event Take an Alum to Lunch Day Wednesday, June 20, 2018 View Details