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  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Curb Appeal

Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • Web

Mid-US - Global

learn from her journey. The podcast is available here . July 2024 FELLOWSHIP The Road to Revitalization: Leadership Fellow Joel Hurd and the City of Detroit After earning his MBA, Joel Hurd joined Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan’s office as... View Details
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

In 2009, a 51-year-old man killed himself in Marseille, a city in southern France, leaving behind a suicide note that blamed his employer for “overwork” and “management by terror.” “I am committing suicide because of my work at France... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 16 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

largest employer for three decades. When Bastian took the helm as CEO of Delta Air Lines in 2016, he questioned why only 21 percent of the company’s 90,000 employees were Black, especially since the company was based in Atlanta, a city... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation
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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

2019 | VOA: Press Conference USA An Economy of Talent: Harvard’s Bill Kerr On ‘Talent Immigrants’ Jeff Cunningham 29 Jan 2019 | Chief Executive Thinkers50: William Kerr 21 Jan 2019 | Thinkers50 The Stealth Productivity Drain on American Workers Alix Langone 18 Jan 2019... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review

Sami Pal, Coney Island Prep Brittany Peck, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research Nathan Rosin, City of Boston, Office of the Mayor Taryn Stamper, The Nature Conservancy Mimi Verdonk, OneTen Coalition, Inc. Ryan Warren,... View Details
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Frameworks & Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Nations, regions, states and cities all require clear economic strategies that engage all stakeholders, boost innovation and ultimately improve productivity. Porter on Prosperity “National prosperity is created, not inherited. It does not... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Bernie Madoff Explains Himself

ride-hailing company Uber, which is thriving in spite of pushing legal boundaries—and fighting its case in court—in cities all over the world. “In some places Uber is hailed as a brilliant company, and in other places its executives are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

    Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time

    One of the leading business thinkers in the world offers a bold, new theory of advanced leadership for tackling the world's complex, messy, and recalcitrant social and environmental problems.

    Over a decade ago, renowned innovation... View Details
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    Profiles - MBA

    sense, and thoughtful design. I want to build creative solutions that rethink the rules we take for granted, and I can't wait to learn from my talented cohortmates.” Tech areas of interest: AI/ML, Edtech, Medtech, Sustainability, Consumer Tech, Accessible Fintech, Good... View Details
    • 2021
    • Chapter

    The Economic and Political Effects of Immigration: Evidence from the Age of Mass Migration

    By: Marco Tabellini
    Between 1850 and 1920, during the Age of Mass Migration, more than 30 million Europeans moved to the United States. European immigrants provided ample supply of cheap labor as well as specific skills and know-how, contributing to American economic growth. These... View Details
    Keywords: Age Of Mass Migration; Political Ideology; Political Economy; Assimilation; Immigration; Economics; History; United States
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    • July 2021
    • Article

    Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Platforms

    By: Zoë Cullen and Chiara Farronato
    We study the growth of online peer-to-peer markets. Using data from TaskRabbit, an expanding marketplace for domestic tasks at the time of our study, we show that growth varies considerably across cities. To disentangle the potential drivers of growth, we look... View Details
    Keywords: Two-sided Market; Two-sided Platforms; Peer-to-peer Markets; Platform Strategy; Sharing Economy; Platform Growth; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Market Design; Network Effects
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    • May 2019 (Revised September 2019)
    • Case

    Mobike and ofo: Dancing with Titans (A)

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Haibo Zhao
    This case address pacing issues – how fast does a company need to scale? It also examines the role of investors in determining company strategy and exit.
    Mobike and ofo were two dominant players in China’s emerging dockless bike-sharing market, that allowed users... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Competition; Value Creation; Governance; Economics; Business Startups; Strategy; Business Exit or Shutdown; Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; Transportation; Bicycle Transportation; China
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    • 30 Nov 2021
    • In Practice

    What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

    The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
    Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
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    Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

    members focus on corporate environmental strategy, operations and reporting; sustainable cities and infrastructure; the role of government and environmental policy; clean energy generation and demand-side energy efficiency; and the... View Details
    • 29 Nov 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

    and Prosperity to New Cities Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/hapabapa View Details
    Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    Game On

    seeing the need to shore up the club, McCarthy offered to help the Bird Key’s commodore navigate the tangle of permitting and agency signoffs. “You must go through federal, state, county, and city agencies, and you worry about the... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
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    The Forgotten Real Estate Boom - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

    madness that consumed Florida investors: city lots in Miami were bought and sold as many as ten times in a single day. The received wisdom holds that a 1926 hurricane pricked the bubble, but house price indices and construction data... View Details
    • 20 Sep 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

    French youth services organization Unis-Cité, which was modeled after the American nonprofit City Year. Credit:  Unis-Cité “If you do not innovate and have a solution to the problem you’ve identified, the movement will die,” she says. “I... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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    Partners - Case Method Project

    Murtaugh Middle and High School Murtaugh, ID ID 10 of 21 Janet Liston Frank Church High School Boise, ID Subjects: American Government, U.S. History 11 ID 11 of 21 Steven Maughan Nampa Senior High School Nampa, ID ID 12 of 21 Sandy Lynn Midgley Lake View Details