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19 Jan 2016
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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

01 Feb 2016
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Building a Better Boston

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Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship

list of 85 municipal open data sites Where can I find information on spending for local governments? You can find a variety of cities who make data available via easy to navigate “Open Budgets” Ex. View Details

June 1997
Teaching Note

BancZero New Product Development TN

By: Marco Iansiti

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Keywords: Banking Industry; Mexico City; United States

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Living in Boston - MBA

explore Newbury Street's chic shops and the city's bustling downtown. What you'll find is a city of neighborhoods, each with its own distinct character and charm. Of course, Boston is also home to some of the country's most famous... View Details

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

01 Mar 2013
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On the Road

Scenes from the Dean's visits to HBS clubs around the globe in November, December, and January NEW YORK CITY (Photos by Bennet Cobliner) HONG KONG (Photos by Brian Tam) View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy

November 2013, and launched its first official new market expansion into Washington, DC, in February—a city close in culinary and cultural equivalence to Brussels. The Question: Bookalokal's cofounder and CEO Evelyne White (MBA 2010)... View Details

Alumni Changing the World

Luciana Baigun

Luciana Baigun, MBA 2014, wants to revolutionize the landscape of cities around the world. At the electronic scooter company Bird, Baigun is putting her management skills at the service of others and the planet. View Details

17 Aug 2020
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Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization

23 May 2019
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Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966

the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees 1997 Publishes Bloomberg by Bloomberg 2001 Elected Mayor of New York City 2012 Launches Bloomberg Philanthropies 2014 Returns to Bloomberg LP as CEO 2017 Coauthors Climate of Hope Founder,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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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Lupoli Companies: Riverwalk – Making an Impact | Information Technology

Lupoli acknowledges the initial high risks involved in transforming a city once labeled "City of the Damned." As he considers further development, he contemplates whether pursuing continued success in Lawrence means risking too much... View Details

25 Mar 2018
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Modernizing Infrastructure Management

infrastructure every second of every day. No one thinks about it until something goes wrong. “And cities often are in a position where they don't know what's going on with their own infrastructure because they don't have the tools to be... View Details

03 Oct 2019
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Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care

multiple locations at once was modeled after the larger annual HBS Global Networking Night (coming up on October 16). “We wanted to provide an opportunity for alumni in the HBSHAA to connect within each city and on the same night across... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Health, Social Assistance

Conrad N. Hilton

Starting with one 40-room hotel, Hilton created a massive hotel franchising chain through selective acquisitions including the Waldorf-Astoria. By the end of the 1970s, there were about 250 Hilton Hotels around the globe and 136 Hilton Inns in 124 View Details

Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging

19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility By: Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across U.S. cities between 1910 and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

Cities and states are feeling the financial pain of this recession more quickly than in past downturns after pandemic-induced lockdowns swiftly decimated sales tax revenue that helps fund their operations. In fact, new research finds that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

04 Nov 2016
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Could Kurt Summers Jr. Be Chicago’s Next Mayor?

Kurt Summers Jr. (MBA 2005) denies he has his sights set on anything beyond another term as Chicago city treasurer, a job he’s held since 2014, but in a long profile, Crain’s Chicago Business speculates about the 37-year-old South Side... View Details

19 Apr 2017
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Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action

Silicon Valley’s name is dominant in the history of entrepreneurship. So where does that leave other cities that want to get in on the action? On April 13 in Spangler Auditorium, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a panel of area business... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Emmanuel

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