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  • January 2015 (Revised March 2017)
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New Urban Mechanics

By: Mitchell Weiss
Funding to scale Citizens Connect, Boston's 311 app, is both a blessing and a burden and tests two public entrepreneurs. In 2012, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provides Boston's Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics with a grant to scale Citizens Connect across the... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Civic Technology; Government Innovation; Civic Innovation; Cities; New Urban Mechanics; Thomas. M. Menino; Chris Osgood; Nigel Jacob; Connected Bits; SeeClickFix; Ben Berkowitz; Eric Carlson; Dave Mitchell; Government Technology; Open Innovation; Open Source Software; Citizens Connect; Commonwealth Connect; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation and Management; Open Source Distribution; Public Administration Industry; Information Technology Industry; Boston
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Weiss, Mitchell. "New Urban Mechanics." Harvard Business School Case 315-075, January 2015. (Revised March 2017.)

    New Urban Mechanics

    Funding to scale Citizens Connect, Boston's 311 app, is both a blessing and a burden and tests two public entrepreneurs. In 2012, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provides Boston's Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics with a grant to scale Citizens Connect... View Details
    • Web

    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    Faculty Moderator: Jim Matheson (MBA 2001) , Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Speakers: Danielle Colson (MBA 2022) , Cofounder & Chief Operating Officer, Mantel Richard Needham (MBA 2002) , Chief Commercial Officer, Commonwealth... View Details

      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
      • 25 Mar 2021
      • Blog Post

      Meet the Student Academic Services Support Team at HBS!

      harassment and offers support and resources to students impacted by these experiences. The team manages a 24-hour Sexual Assault hotline, offers risk reduction strategies and bystander trainings, and is connected to the Harvard Title IX... View Details
      • Web

      HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

      extends across all business disciplines. To achieve climate goals, we need business leaders to build skills across disciplines and to understand how climate change considerations are being infused into all areas of management. Faculty from different units at HBS will... View Details
      • Web

      Partners - Case Method Project

      Survey MA 47 of 159 Tom Fritz Phillips Academy Andover, MA MA 48 of 159 Nick Fulham Keefe Technical High School Framingham, MA Subjects: College Prep/Honors U.S. History, Modern World History, Law and Society MA 49 of 159 Melissa Glenn Haber View Details
      • Web

      Electricity - Business & Environment

      700-mile transmission line to connect 4 gigawatts of wind power to market. Today, I am opening new markets for solar power.” Diana Rivera & Michael Skelly HBS MBA 2010 Director of Development, Merit SI Pictured here with Michael Skelly,... View Details
      • Web

      Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

      History DC Chris Gleditsch KIPP DC College Preparatory Washington, DC Subjects: AP US History MA Melissa Glenn Haber Commonwealth School Boston, MA IL Matt Glenn Martin Luther King Jr College Prep High School Chicago, IL MA Krista Gmeiner... View Details
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      HBS - The year in Review

      exceeding Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) standards. Innovation in Executive Education Executive Education was able... View Details
      • 12 Nov 2021
      • News

      Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

      moment? What new business opportunities could come from the efforts to both mitigate and adapt to climate change? Over the course of several days, we are releasing a selection of alumni responses in the hope that this spurs further dialogue, action, and View Details
      • 20 Aug 2024
      • Blog Post

      Alumni and Students in Climate Networking Series: Boston

      Are you interested in connecting with other alumni leveraging their careers to combat climate change? BEI invites HBS Alumni to join our Alumni in Climate Networking Series for a chance to connect with local... View Details
      • 02 Mar 2020
      • What Do You Think?

      Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

      “raises similar issues in the context of building more personal connections and relationships in the workplace.” Others disputed the notion that these values are making a comeback. J. T. Goh commented: “I don’t see these values as trendy... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 03 Nov 2021
      • Blog Post

      Alumni Viewpoints: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

      moment? What new business opportunities could come from the efforts to both mitigate and adapt to climate change? Over the course of several days, we are releasing a selection of alumni responses in the hope that this spurs further dialogue, action, and View Details
      • 26 Jun 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

      political, economic and cultural purposes," Abdelal writes. "It is the nation connected to a project." Nationalism can propel economic policy in four ways. It sets a direction for policy, partly in response to a perceived... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 10 Mar 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: March 10

      Funding to scale Citizens Connect, Boston's 311 app, is both a blessing and a burden and tests two public entrepreneurs. In 2012, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provides Boston's Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics with a grant to... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 07 Jun 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

      also really didn’t have any idea what I was getting myself into.” The case, known as Mutua and Others versus the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, was filed by five detention camp survivors. Thousands of Kikuyu would benefit from the... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • 18 Aug 2021
      • News

      Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

      million fund "for targeted programs, economic initiatives and community development projects." FEBRUARY 2 Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) recently donated $1 million to the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund (NCF), a... View Details
      • 26 Feb 2019
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

      dollars. This creates a direct connection between U.S. monetary policy and EME credit cycles. We estimate that over a typical U.S. monetary easing cycle, EME borrowers experience a 32-percentage-point greater increase in the volume of... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • Web

      Terms of Use - HBS Online

      Business School Online reserves the right to cancel, interrupt or reschedule any Program or modify its content as well as the point value or weight of any assignment, exam or other evaluation of progress that may be provided in connection... View Details
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