Urban Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How to Hire a Millennial

reality. For GE, leafy Fairfield was simply too hard a sell to make to increasingly urban millennials, who not only prefer to live in cities like Boston, San Francisco, and New York, but are willing to make employment decisions based on... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

24 Apr 2014
News

A bold experiment in education

A former corporate financier with Boeing, Ben Kleban (MBA 2005) planned to open a charter school in New York after HBS, but in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he was inspired to found New Orleans College Prep (NOCP). NOCP now operates... View Details

07 Apr 2017
News

Transforming the “Misery Towns” of Buenos Aires

making good on those promises, following the mayor on a walk through one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, Villa 31, and discussing his vision for the area’s future. That vision includes a broad physical rethinking: His overarching View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

01 Mar 2005
News

One-on-One with Edwin Reed

first commercial strip development in 1983. Since then we have pursued a strategy that has overcome historical biases and roadblocks to urban reinvestment. How did you contribute to this strategy? I led a comprehensive study that helped... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

for eleven years at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and was director of research at MIT's Center for Real Estate Development. "Housing in any form is relatively more expensive for... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

13 Jul 2016
Blog Post

How To Hire A Millennial

Connecticut is nothing less than a capitulation to an emerging business reality. For GE, leafy Stamford was simply too hard a sell to make to increasingly urban millennials, who not only prefer to live in cities like Boston, San... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

09 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

examined in an HBS case study, that provides prepaid power plans to poor urban and rural communities using energy derived from rice husks and solar power. Its model benefits both poor populations and the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Eligibility & Criteria Awards How to Apply Past Projects New York City Urban Innovation Roadmap - "Pilot: New York City" Spring 2023 | Focus : Urban Economic Development; Technology; Ecosystem Strategy Team:... View Details

21 Jun 2022
News

Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead

become, technologists. So far, the webinars topics have included: Building an EdTech Company; Finding Your Technical Cofounder; and Demystifying Technical Investing. More LTI webinars are in planning stages as well. HBS Club of Dallas... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Tools | New Venture Competition

mortality in South Asia. Executive Summary (pdf) Presentation (pdf) Business Plan (pdf) FOCUS Foods 2015 Winner Urban aquaponics farm that will be a self-sustaining symbiotic fish and produce system.... View Details

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

on schemas, procedural justice, emotion expression, and prosocial behavior. Land Politics and Local State Capacities: The Political Economy of Urban Change in China Author:Meg Rithmire Publication:China Quarterly (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2016
News

Rethinking Housing in the Motor City

neighborhood was a product of Detroit’s controversial 1960s urban renewal efforts. “But the way people live today, they want to be close to the action. They want to be close to their jobs. They want to ride their bikes; they want to take... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2016
News

Taking Care of Business

natural course of things is often upended by someone saying, ‘This is what I really need right now,’” says Mahesh. “That tends to change the priorities of your plan and development cycle.” Knock out!, an NVC winner in 2012, brought... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2005
News

Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise

urban and rural communities. Fenton manages programs and financial operations for New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), a national nonprofit aimed at improving education for all children by recruiting and supporting leaders for View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

07 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela

Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela. Video Embed Jim Aisner: What are the most important lessons you learned from your trip to India? John Macomber: I learned things on a personal level as well as lessons relevant to my interests in finance and View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Construction; Real Estate

01 Feb 1999
News

Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office

Lazarus puts it, that have characterized his career. He enrolled at HBS directly out of Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, with plans of going into retailing. "Business school convinced me that retailing was not what I... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar

17 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 17

investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

This was a growth fueled above all by private enterprise, urban and rural, in what we may now consider the first "golden age" of Chinese capitalism. This new economic activity began and spread outward from China's centers of... View Details

Keywords: by William C. Kirby

30 Aug 2016
First Look

August 30, 2016

conditional compensation in the form of quota-bonus incentives to improve performance; however, it may lead to lower future performance. We find little evidence that effectiveness differs between a quota-bonus plan and a punitive-bonus... View Details