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  • Portrait Project

Tedde Tsang

have found no better way for city governments to work toward this ideal than to apply the lessons of management science to do the things that really matter—keeping the schools open, preventing crime, picking up the trash, and providing... View Details
  • 27 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

remarkably dynamic, however, and some entirely new clusters may emerge out of existing ones and become clusters in their own right. Q: One area companies seem not to consider in their expansion or moving plans is the inner city. But your work with, among others, the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

¡Vamos al Cine!

Heyman: hitting 317 screens. As a student at HBS, movie buff Matthew Heyman (MBA '93) used to ask classmates what the theaters were like in their hometowns. When two classmates from Mexico City told him the theaters there were terrible,... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

An Electrifying Tale

through it, because my family was absolutely mortified.” In 1989, out of the remains of a bankrupt commercial electric company for which she worked, Cataldo started City Lights Electrical Company. The company grew modestly while she was... View Details
Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • News

Electric Avenues

Illustration by Mario Wagner RELATED Learn about how HBS students and alumni are helping transform Boston Watch alumni discuss innovation inside City Hall Once viewed as an oxymoron, civic innovation has become a hot field, with View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell

    Charles E. Mitchell

    Under Mitchell’s presidency, National City Bank was converted into a modern retail banking organization and a world-wide banking empire with offices from London to Singapore. He popularized checking accounts for individuals and pioneered... View Details
    Keywords: Finance
    • 01 Feb 2000
    • News

    Short Takes

    the parties assume the traditional roles of "benevolent donor" and "grateful recipient." For example, urban community-service nonprofit City Year began its relationship with Timberland, a maker of outdoor apparel and footwear, when View Details
    Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Property Rights and Urban Form

    By: Simeon Djankov, Edward L. Glaeser, Valeria Perotti and Andrei Shleifer
    How do the different elements in the standard bundle of property rights, including those of possession and transfer, influence the shape of cities? This paper incorporates insecure property rights into a standard model of urban land prices and density, and makes... View Details
    Keywords: Property; Rights; City; Development Economics; Global Range
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    • 09 Aug 2024
    • Blog Post

    Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)

    are working around the world to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. What are you working on this summer? I am spending this summer working at City Fund in Washington, D.C. through the... View Details
    • Profile

    Raghu Yarlagadda

    a return trip to India that would change his life forever. “There is a severe power shortage in the country,” Raghu says. “Every day in the summer, small cities have to go without power for six hours. It’s even worse in villages. To get... View Details
    • Fast Answer

    Real estate: emerging markets

    industries. Limiting the search to reports to see recent market, industry and sector reports. Jones Lang LaSalle Reports on market conditions around the globe, covering retail, office and residential markets. A variety of countries and some View Details
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    Field Course: Investing for Impact

    commentary from HBS faculty. Demographics, city data, and more: Analyze Boston is the City of Boston's new open data hub, where you can find facts, figures, and maps related to our lives within the View Details
    • Fast Answer

    Sustainability in Construction Industry

    expect nine shifts to radically change the construction value chain and offer a blueprint for the next normal ahead. How do you build a city for... View Details
    • 05 Nov 2013
    • News

    Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans

    Kevin Wilkins by Constantine von Hoffman Just eight years after New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, Kevin Wilkins (MBA 1992) says the city is poised to join Silicon Valley, Boston, and Austin (Texas) as one of the nation's... View Details
    Keywords: New Orleans; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services
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    Private companies: fast growing

    financials you can also add % Revenue Growth YoY to your screening criteria.

    Use published lists: American City Business... View Details

    • May 2018
    • Case

    Environmental Platform LEEDership at USGBC

    By: Michael W. Toffel, Timothy S. Simcoe and Aldo Sesia
    By 2018, it was clear that U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) had significantly contributed to the growth of green building and over its 25-year history had become a powerful brand in the construction sector with its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Standards; Business Model; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Construction Industry; Green Technology Industry
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    • 01 Jun 2016
    • News

    Ears to the Ground

    to drastically decrease gun use. In a recent study, cities that employ the system saw a 28.8 percent drop in gunfire on average; Fall River, Massachusetts, for example, saw shootings drop by 58 percent. But efficacy hadn’t led to... View Details
    Keywords: Jason Feifer; photography by Vance Jacobs
    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors

    By: William R. Kerr
    The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation—with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail.... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Geographic Location; Patents; Ethnicity; City; Innovation and Invention; United States
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    • 01 Apr 2022
    • Blog Post

    Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower

    Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower Retrofitting buildings in inner cities is just one element of BlocPower’s groundbreaking sustainability strategy. In this episode of Climate Stories, BlocPower’s General Manager Keith... View Details
    • 06 Nov 2017
    • Research Event

    Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

      CAMBRIDGE, Mass — On a rainy afternoon in late October, Mohsen Mostafavi stood before a packed auditorium at Harvard University and considered the history of cities in terms of three cooked eggs. Mostafavi, the Dean of the Harvard... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel