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- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
and gift certificates for post-pandemic gatherings. Large businesses and state and local governments need to make small business contracting a priority. Biden administration policymakers and mayors from the Bloomberg Harvard City View Details
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
Case 308-071 In 2007, the leadership of the Indesit Company is focused on long-term corporate strategy. After three decades, the company has emerged as the number two home appliance producer in greater Europe. Should they invest further... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
on firm exit in the restaurant industry, exploiting recent changes in the minimum wage at the city level. We find that the impact of the minimum wage depends on whether a restaurant was already close to the margin of exit. Restaurants... 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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
consumers and in the communities where we operated. Contrary to competitive motives that seek to improve companies' market share, the risk management motivation mainly attempted to preserve a favorable status quo. Very often these were companies which enjoyed a... View Details
- 2015
- Chapter
The Role of Multiplier Firms and Megaprojects in Leading Change for Sustainability
In both the private and public sectors, organizations around the world face increasingly pressing questions about how to stimulate and manage change for long-term environmental, social, and economic sustainability. The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the roles... View Details
Keywords: Blueprint Logic; Learning Logic; Megaprojects; Multiplier Firms; Leading Change; Environmental Sustainability
Edmondson, Amy C., Martine Haas, John D. Macomber, and Tiona Zuzul. "The Role of Multiplier Firms and Megaprojects in Leading Change for Sustainability." Chap. 11 in Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective, edited by Rebecca Henderson, Ranjay Gulati, and Michael Tushman. Oxford University Press, 2015.
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
sensors and other road technology are helping to improve safety for drivers. For example, Street Bump, a smartphone app created by the city of Boston, can detect potholes from the bumps cars experience on roads and send the locations of... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome
historian Polybius’s writings on witnessing a friend weep over Carthage, the enemy city he has just destroyed; and a reading from Plutarch on how his fellow Greeks should deal with not being an imperial superpower anymore. When it comes... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
leave. Research has shown that US cities that mandated paid sick leave experienced less contagious presenteeism (employees coming to work while sick) compared with control cities. That is, people were less inclined to attend work when... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
is in that triumvirate? A: I believe that Steve Jobs, Andy Grove, and Bill Gates are the three people who put a computer on everybody's desk. Q: We'll segue a little bit into him as a manager. He was a highly trained engineer. First in his class at View Details
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
next stage." In the first, or philanthropic, stage (which some partnerships skip entirely), the parties assume the traditional roles of "benevolent donor" and "grateful recipient." For example, urban community-service nonprofit City Year... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- February 2024
- Teaching Note
CityScore: Big Data Comes to Boston
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-050. In 2016, Mayor Marty Walsh of Boston introduced CityScore, a data dashboard that measured the city’s progress across a range of metrics. View Details
- February 2022
- Case
CityScore: Big Data Comes to Boston
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
In 2016, Martin “Marty” Walsh, the Mayor of Boston, introduced CityScore, a data dashboard that measured the city’s progress across a range of metrics. The dashboard was updated daily and publicly available. The mayor frequently discussed the CityScore targets in... View Details
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Government Administration; Leadership; Transformation; City; Measurement and Metrics; Public Administration Industry; Boston; United States
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "CityScore: Big Data Comes to Boston." Harvard Business School Case 422-050, February 2022.
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
parents. The increased difficulty and risks of traveling separated some CEOs from family. One had to make the difficult decision to “move to a different city to be closer to the employees, [leaving] the family behind.” None in our sample... View Details
- September 2016 (Revised October 2018)
- Case
LabCDMX: Experiment 50
By: Mitchell Weiss and Maria Fernanda Miguel
There were probably 30,000 public buses, minibuses, and vans in Mexico City. Though, in 2015, no one knew for certain since no comprehensive schedule existed. This was why el Laboratorio para la Ciudad (or LabCDMX) had spawned an effort to generate a map of the... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Experimentation; Lean Startup; Government; Innovation; Crowdsourcing; Open Data; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Government Administration; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Mexico City; Mexico
Weiss, Mitchell, and Maria Fernanda Miguel. "LabCDMX: Experiment 50." Harvard Business School Case 817-031, September 2016. (Revised October 2018.)
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
In her new book SuperCorp, Rosabeth Moss Kanter argues that capitalism is near a crossroads. The old ways of doing business no longer work. Traditional leadership roles are breaking down. And the public is fed up with greedy executives... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
In contrast, we find no increase in crimes against men or gender-neutral crimes. We also examine the effectiveness of alternative forms of political representation: large-scale membership of women in local councils affects crime against them more than their presence in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
Leadership—An Ontological Model' Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, and Kari L. Granger Abstract This course is designed to leave students being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne