Urban Economics - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

percent year over year, and the National Restaurant Association projected an industry revenue shortfall of $240 billion for the year. Second-order effects of restaurant closures ripple through the American economy, bringing economic pain... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

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Team - Case Method Project

Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Yale. David is the author of numerous books, articles, and case studies , mainly on the history of economic policy and democratic governance in the United States. He is the recipient of many honors,... View Details

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ICIC - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) is a nonprofit research and strategy organization and the leading authority on U.S. inner city economies and the businesses that thrive there. Creating Urban Opportunity ICIC's mission is to... View Details

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

West Palm Beach, FL MA Heather Bagdoian Claremont Academy Worcester, MA AL Suzanne Bailey Virgil Grissom High School Huntsville, AL CO Denny Bain Poudre High School Fort Collins, CO Subjects: American Government, US History, Economics MA... View Details

14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

Hellenic Bottling Company) and the role of regulation in integrated reporting (Anglo-American). April 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Real Effects of Relational Contracts By: Henderson, Rebecca, Steven Blader, Andrea... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Enterprise Track Winner Urban aquaponics farm that will be a self-sustaining symbiotic fish and produce system. Barakat Bundle Karima Ladhani Mitul Daiyan Shane Robinson Jyoti Ramakrishna Nayab Ahmad Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up A... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, an M.P.A. from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. She serves on the Advisory Board of Harvard Business... View Details

10 May 2010
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What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

styles would be regarded as leader-like and other styles would not being regarded as leader-like. Leadership is also complex from an economic perspective because the consequences of leadership can't always be measured by financial... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

climate, clean energy, clean cars, and protecting natural resources, most recently as undersecretary of the California Natural Resources Agency (CRNA). Before CNRA, Barranco was chief executive for River LA, deputy chief of staff at the US Department of Housing and... View Details

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The Gift of Global Talent

Talent is in High Gear 5 Oct 2018 William R. Kerr, Bloomberg TV “ This is a clear-eyed exposition of how talent moves around the world and why so much lands in the United States. Chock-full of compelling data, this book shows that the View Details

24 May 2018
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Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

was the “death of distance,” a concept popularized in 1997 by Frances Cairncross’s book of the same title. A recent essay in the The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography challenges that notion, or at least deepens the argument. While... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

28 Jan 2008
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Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

no question that people by and large move from rural to urban areas in search of better economic conditions. In India, most social and economic indicators show that life is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

Competitiveness Yearbook Download Data Set in Excel Ten Largest Cities Over Time Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth: An Historical Census . Lewiston: St. David’s University Press, 1987 B.R. Mitchell, International... View Details

18 Oct 2016
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October 18, 2016

without deliberate intentions. Finally, we discuss the theoretical and managerial implications of these findings. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51745 forthcoming World Bank Economic Review Highways and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

disadvantaged communities. Issues like racial and economic equity are central to this, and this will be the definition used for the purposes of this paper. EJ policy and company practices often uses terms like “communities;” the Justice40... View Details

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and sustain high-performing K–12 public school districts in the United States. These efforts have resulted in more than 30 case studies focused on adapting and applying management concepts within urban school systems to drive improved... View Details

06 May 2021
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How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Noting that many urban youth lacked tech skills, she and her husband Derek Pearson launched Code Fever, a company offering training camps and hackathons for young people, and transformed a vacant building in a historically Black... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

2023
Working Paper

Toward Decision-Useful Carbon Information

By: Gunther Glenk

Companies are increasingly viewed as crucial drivers for timely decarbonization. Current accounting practices for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, however, often leave corporate carbon disclosures and abatement obscured. Here I introduce a taxonomy for assuring the... View Details

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November 2023 (Revised July 2024)
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'Care in Every Drop': Ayala Corporation and Manila Water (A)

By: Debora L. Spar, Paul Healy, Tricia Peralta and Julia M. Comeau

Since 1834, eight generations of the Ayala family have used their conglomerate to fund nation-building projects in the Philippines, including investments in tramcars, telecommunications, hospitals, and schools. In 1997, Ayala’s subsidiary, Manila Water, took control of... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Economic Growth; Social Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Natural Resources; Crisis Management; Failure; Privatization; Social Issues; Urban Development; Adaptation; Public Opinion; Mission and Purpose; Utilities Industry; Asia; Philippines

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Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum (A)

By: Lakshmi Iyer, John D. Macomber and Namrata Arora

Maharashtra state is accepting bids to redevelop Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia. A real estate developer assesses the risks and tenders a bid. The bid conditions include providing new free housing to tens of thousands of slum dwellers, which is anticipated to be... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Development Economics; Housing; Urban Development; Emerging Markets; Social Issues; Business and Government Relations; Real Estate Industry; Mumbai

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