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- 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13
highlight the traits of cities (e.g., size, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these features (e.g., the localization of entrepreneurial finance).... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28
The final study found that automobiles with more expansive drivers' seats were more likely to be illegally parked on New York City streets. These findings are consistent with research showing that (a) postural expansiveness leads to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
face of public transportation in cities and smaller communities? HBS professor Benjamin G. Edelman weighs the benefits and opportunities for entrepreneurs and for society. "Right now, the field is wide open," he says. TOP 5... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
world’s leading rail car manufacturer headquartered in Beijing. These cars are assembled by American workers in Springfield, Massachusetts, a city that until 1920 was the center of US railway manufacturing. CRRC has made the largest... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
Turkey, where Abraham first heard the call to "go forth." It passes through some of the world's most revered cultural, historical, and holy sites, ending in the city of Hebron/AI-Khalil at the tomb of Abraham. With Abraham as a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
empirically show that firm operational performance has improved. Finally, we suggest that the lean initiative studied possesses qualities of a Trojan Horse change initiative—its outward manifestation accomplishes the short-term goal (entering the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
City Metropolitan Opera's general manager Peter Gelb looks back on the first season of a daring experiment to broadcast performances live in high-definition to movie theaters across North America. While the "Live in HD" program... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
plants, cities for the workers, and so on. Massive investment — rather than consumption — drove the economy. Consumption in China is still only about a third of GDP versus some 70-odd percent in the developed markets. China kept buying... View Details
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
imperial business. These companies only had a small head office in the metropolitan country, often in major port cities or the capital, which supervised the operations in another, normally less developed, country, where all business and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
REALCities.com links city guides from over forty different markets with a very powerful user interface. Its national job board, CareerBuilder.com, is one of the leading national job sites, recently acquiring Headhunter.net. The Washington... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/519010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-024 Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up By the time Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalk Labs, began hosting a Reddit “Ask Me... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
heterogeneous technology diffusion from immigrant communities in the United States for identification. The latter instruments are developed by combining panel variation on the development of new technologies across U.S. cities with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015
firms and agglomeration economies. We focus on areas where empirical research is scarce but possible. We first outline a conceptual framework for city formation that allows us to contemplate what empiricists might study when using... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
carried out aggressive social distancing measures over the past several months, with many imposing a lockdown that allows only for essential functions, such as buying food or seeking medical care. At the extreme, China’s Hubei (the greater region of the View Details
- 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010
811-009 One day during the summer of 2008, Paul Maeder, co-founder and general partner of Highland Capital Partners (HCP), was walking with his wife around Reykjavik, Iceland, marveling at how clean the city felt and at the widespread use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
Builders Association, 350,000 carriages were sold in New York City alone between 1894 and 1899 compared to 125 cars. The idea that the automobile would someday replace the horse and carriage was, he declared, "a fallacy too absurd to... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
leave. Research has shown that US cities that mandated paid sick leave experienced less contagious presenteeism (employees coming to work while sick) compared with control cities. That is, people were less inclined to attend work when... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
Crisis (A) Aldo Musacchio, Andrew Goodman, and Claire QureshiHarvard Business School Case 710-069 On November 25, 2009, the city state of Dubai stunned markets by announcing that Dubai World, its flagship state holding company, would seek... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
management talent. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=906403 Best Buy Stores, Inc.: Competing on the Edge Harvard Business School Case 706-417 While Circuit City struggles, Best Buy has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
experience physical improvements? In this paper, we introduce a computer vision method to measure changes in the physical appearances of neighborhoods from time-series street-level imagery. We connect changes in the physical appearance of five U.S. View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel