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- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
provide to municipalities free of charge, as a condition of franchise approval. "Narrowcasting" would supplement broadcasting with an array of arts and educational programming. Jeffersonian democracy would bloom as cable... View Details
- 16 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs
efforts there? A: Time will tell, but I think in the short and medium run it is clear that the government is a major driving force. By the way, "government" is not a monolithic entity. There are national, provincial, and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
transit, can maximize the return on investment by optimizing natural resource use. For cash-strapped cities the private sector can fill the gap in providing critical funds and designing structures, including public housing and municipal... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2182628 Government Green Procurement Spillovers: Evidence from Municipal Building Policies in California By: Simcoe, Timothy, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—We study how government green... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
which are bonds whose proceeds are used for environmentally sensitive purposes. After an overview of the U.S. corporate and municipal green bonds markets, we study pricing and ownership patterns using a simple framework that incorporates... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 12, 2008
Development (TvT) of Amsterdam, Holland, was deeply worried about the status of his largest ongoing project: the Amsterdam World Trade Center (WTC). As the discretionary developer, van Tartwijk needed to present his firm's recommendations to WTC owners and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
for eleven years at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and was director of research at MIT's Center for Real Estate Development. "Housing in any form is relatively more expensive for municipalities than most other uses of... View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016
crops in California's Central Valley, must decide how to respond to the changing operating environment. Scarce water resources—and institutional constraints on the use of water—have forced many producers, including Woolf, to fallow farmland. Meanwhile, competing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
the more we know of the pre-1949 decades, the more they emerge as a formidable period of state- and institution-building at the national, provincial, municipal, and local levels. The modern ministerial structures of a central government, the common features of... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
explore CEO decision making. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2326452 Government Green Procurement Spillovers: Evidence from Municipal Building Policies in California By: Simcoe, Timothy, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11
Macomber, Regina Garcia-Cuellar, Griffin H. James, and Frederik NellemannHarvard Business School Case 212-044 In this case, a property company, a water privatizer, and municipal engineers explore the causes of and solutions to a severe... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
municipal data from Boston, the authors found that their algorithm accurately detected how blocks changed between 2007 and 2014. Google's car-mounted cameras drive the world over recording street scenes. (Credit: ParkerDeen) Finally, they... View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
mutual funds, with 11 categories of investments, including global stocks, corporate and municipal bonds, real estate, natural resources, and treasury bonds. The fund also automatically rebalances itself over time just as mainstream... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
avenues to address obstacles for Ensina!'s execution found in navigating national education policy and funding, forging partnerships with municipal and state governments, confronting widespread cultural perspectives on teaching as a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
genetically modified corn to manufacture it, and only consumers in locations with municipal composting facilities could compost this packaging. Most of the company’s compostable plastic would wind up in landfills, or even worse, consumers... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
the capital markets had not paid attention to this yet." Wellington Vice Chair Wendy Cromwell explained during a panel discussion how her firm uses a heat index developed in conjunction with the WHRC to consider geographic location in its risk analysis. Comparing... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24
book of simulations and avatars to explore CEO decision making. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45582 Government Green Procurement Spillovers: Evidence from Municipal Building Policies in California... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
Increase Voter Participation? Experimental Evidence from Italy, Pons and MIT PhD candidate Enrico Cantoni tested the impact of door-to-door candidate visits during 2014 municipal elections in Italy. “The motivation for the project,” Pons... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
insights and discuss intuition regarding which product categories likely lead to positive vs. negative values of concealment. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49531 The Long-Run Dynamics of Electricity Demand: Evidence from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
interventions accessible for what the poor can actually pay. Another example is Ancora, in Chile. In Chile's public health system, the state provides a per-capita payment for the healthcare of any Chilean citizen. What that means for the poor is access to View Details