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Tethys | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Tethys Search Baker Library Search Search Search Overview The Tethys Mos aic Morgan Hall, Harvard Business School Founded in 300 BCE, the Syrian city Antioch-on-the-Orontes (in modern Turkey) was a major center and... View Details

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Additional Outdoor Sculpture | About

by artists Adriana Varella and Nilton Maltz. Originally commissioned by the city of Palo Alto in the early 2000’s, it is now on loan to Harvard Business School through the generosity of an anonymous donor through 2023. Adriana Varella and... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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From Retail to Real Estate

MBA, he set up the New York-based property investment firm Drake Real Estate Partners. The firm has been of particular interest to Latin American investors looking for the protections offered by American real estate. Focused on deals outside the major American View Details

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Online Learning Model | HBS Online

Business School faculty and delivered via our innovative online platform designed to bring the HBS classroom to you. Wherever you are in your career—or the world—we can help you achieve your goals. In a recent survey conducted by City... View Details

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Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Development in Inner Cities Economic Development in Rural Areas Cluster Studies International Cluster Competitiveness Profiles Cluster Studies Cluster Studies Clusters are geographic concentrations of interconnected companies, specialized... View Details

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Competitiveness of States & Regions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Development in Inner Cities Economic Development in Rural Areas Cluster Studies International Cluster Competitiveness Profiles Competitiveness of State... Competitiveness of States & Regions Prosperity levels vary dramatically within... View Details

12 Jun 2023
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What Does PRIDE at HBS Mean to You?

watch the latest Sex and the City episode (yes, the original series on HBO, before there was streaming), and venture out into the gay nightlife scene in Boston. HBS PRIDE helped me to be a whole person at HBS – celebrating both the... View Details

25 Jun 2007
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HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

all cities for women to shop by themselves, to be out on the streets actively spending money. So this is one important aspect of a sea change," says Koehn. "Madam Walker was part and parcel of that evolution and can't really be... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Tenth Annual Benjamin N. Cardozo Lecture, delivered before the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, April 24, 1951. Libo, Kenneth. “Lehman, From Cotton to Crash.” Jewish Daily Forward , September 26, 2008. Libo, Kenneth. Lots... View Details

July–August 2021
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Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government

By: Ryan W. Buell, Ethan Porter and Michael I. Norton

Problem definition: As trust in government reaches historic lows, frustration with government performance approaches record highs. Academic/practical relevance: We propose that in co-productive settings like government services, peoples’ trust and... View Details

Keywords: Government Services; Behavioral Operations; Operational Transparency; Government Administration; Service Operations; Programs; Perception; Attitudes; Behavior; Trust

01 Dec 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

was ever-present. I always thought, wouldn’t it be better to be the landlord than the tenant? And real estate is hyper-tangible; I love the idea of providing shelter in return for income.” PD cities to date: Detroit, Memphis, Miami, the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

January 2021 (Revised June 2023)
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Biobot Analytics

By: Raymond Kluender, Joshua Krieger and Mitchell Weiss

In 2017, Newsha Ghaeli and Mariana Matus were deciding whether to leave their labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, put other job opportunities aside, and dive full-time into founding a wastewater analysis start-up, Biobot. Ghaeli, an architect, and Matus,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; City; Analytics and Data Science; Personal Development and Career; Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States; Kuwait; Korean Peninsula

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01 Jan 2012
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Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

devastates Kobe 1997 Founds Rakuten 2000 Rakuten IPO 2010 Institutes “Englishnization” at Rakuten 2012 Rakuten leads $100 million Pinterest investment In 1995, the city of Kobe, where Hiroshi Mikitani grew up, was devastated by what was... View Details

15 May 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

services firms are using digital information about their customers to offer them a whole new range of customized products under the category of fintech. Cities are using data from Google Street View to guide economic development. And... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Utilities; Public Administration; Health

Portrait Project

Srivatsa Krishna

previous life and work, as the head of a large city government I tried doing so using unusual tools- by courting foreign investments which brought growth, jobs and competition and by implementing innovative e-government solutions, which... View Details

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

urban districts. This program has been exclusively designed by Council of the Great City Schools and PELP for school board members and superintendents in member districts of the Council of the Great City... View Details

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

yield on the Bank of America Merrill Lynch index of high yield bonds, which remains fairly low. The bottom left and bottom right figures present the Case-Shiller 20 city index, a measure of real estate prices, and the cyclically-adjusted... View Details

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Fast Facts - Health Care

Mentoring 220 MBA health care students mentored by alumni working in health care in the 2022-2023 school year Alumni 8,487 Active alumni in the health care sector in 1,300 cities around the globe Research 3,851 Faculty publications on... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering

she says. “We’ve both been enormous fans of the possibilities in Allston for many years,” says Nunnelly. “It’s so incredibly important to the future of Harvard, the city of Boston, and the entire state of Massachusetts. We anticipate this... View Details

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