Neighborhoods - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

"customer service" and accessibility—is available in parts of India than in my neighborhood in Boston. Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and I decided to write the case just because health care is such a primal thing—it... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

14 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation

write a check to community residents or a small neighborhood organization to do the work. And that, indeed, is what many companies do. A great deal of business participation in social sector problems derives from the classic model of... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

if city regulators wanted to see the impact of licensing three new businesses on a particular block, they could monitor changes in Google Street Views, cross-referencing that data with online reviews in the neighborhood and housing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

16 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities

You can see the subtle changes when a neighborhood is on its way up—streets get cleaner, building facades improve, new businesses start moving in. Across an entire city, however, it’s harder to track such changes, to understand in real... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate

15 Mar 2010
HBS Case

Developing Asia’s Largest Slum

examine ongoing efforts to forge a public-private partnership between the state government and for-profit developers. The goal is to transform Dharavi into a neighborhood offering desirable, market-rate residential and commercial real... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

25 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

all) available seats. Boston’s school choice system, for example, reserved half of each school’s seats for local neighborhood applicants while leaving the other half for open competition. This paper shows that in the presence of reserves,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Feb 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

by 30,000 by 2020, using city revenues to subsidize affordable housing, as well as a resolution to preserve a portion of the Mission District, the city's historically Latino neighborhood that has been increasingly gentrified. A city... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

otherwise, the campus is comparable in population to a small town or a neighborhood in a large city, and to the latter in area. Unlike most towns and neighborhoods, the campus has, however, almost no signage to guide visitors.... View Details

Keywords: Education

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

"We're trying to be the neighborhood store," said Neel Raheja, executive director of the Shoppers' Stop chain of department stores. Today the chain employs 1,500 at 14 stores and has ambitious plans to expand to 25 locations by... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

housing firm. Along the way, he and his partners have contributed countless hours of community service to the neighborhoods in which they own properties. Now 80 and ready to retire, Gates is creating a request for proposal for his firm.... View Details

09 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands

"Stores no longer have the soul of the past and reflect a chain of stores vs. the warm feeling of a neighborhood store." Starbucks tried to add value through innovation, offering wi-fi service and creating and selling its own... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein, which describes the complicity of the federal government in redlining policies that confined Black people in segregated neighborhoods with low opportunity. And for leadership... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

retail channel made up of thousands of small neighborhood shops called bakalas. In October 2018, all three of these focal points were under pressure. Under the economic-restructuring programs of Saudi Arabia’s new crown prince, Mohammed... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 8

different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem"-and the use of data to drive decision. In the case, managing director Jeff Edmondson is faced with two dilemmas: how to attract business engagement in the City Heights View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jan 2014
What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

by the new Information Age economy and redirecting it into the neighborhoods and communities of the country, and toward the creation of jobs and the rebuilding of the social commons ." Lanier's solution lies in creatively using... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

subjective well-being. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54526 May 2018 American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change By:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 17

in a transition economy and the role of legacy and geographical neighborhood in the process of economic upgrading. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/713479-PDF-ENG View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

innovation and business development won't be far behind. Rosabeth M. Kanter, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor Of Business Administration Protecting the environment can be fun. It's also good business. Mother Nature—speaking through your friendly View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

grew up in a poorer environment? Morino: My family was blue collar, but we were never poor. There's a distinction between being in deep poverty and living in a low-income world. We had food and clothing. And the world was different in the 1950s. Even a tough View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

02 Feb 2004
What Do You Think?

Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?

neighborhoods for generations. He was a master of groupthink. Perhaps he had to be. Remedies have been suggested. Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries suggests the importance of a leader's creating a foil for his ideas, possibly by insuring the... View Details