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  • May 2018
  • Article

Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change

By: Edward L. Glaeser, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
Data from digital platforms have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification and enable new measures of how neighborhoods change in close to real time. Combining data on businesses from Yelp with data on gentrification from the Census, Federal Housing... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting Models; Simulation Methods; Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, And Changes; Geographic Location; Local Range; Transition; Analytics and Data Science; Measurement and Metrics; Economic Growth; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • January 2022 (Revised March 2022)
  • Technical Note

Deglobalization and Alternative Futures

By: Geoffrey Jones and Valeria Giacomin
This note reviews the evidence that the world is undergoing an era of de-globalization. It shows that available metrics show some support for this theory. However there is also evidence that what is happening might be better described as regionalization. The nature of... View Details
Keywords: Global Business; Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, And Changes; Populism; Geopolitics; Business History; Globalization; Change; Financial Crisis; China
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  • 12 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

demand and the profitability to engage in exports and R&D, thereby relaxing borrowing constraints and enabling more firms to overcome the fixed-cost hurdle for financing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

additional countries in Central Asia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. With seemingly competing instructions to accelerate growth, while not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

pursue economic development, and rewarding officials on that basis, the country as a whole has been transformed into an entrepreneurial and... View Details
Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing
  • Web

Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge

Reduction Act. He explains the U.S. EPA’s role in balancing climate action with economic development, while promoting environmental justice. David also offers insights on... View Details
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

Convergence, and Economic Performance By: Delgado, Mercedes, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern Abstract—This paper evaluates the role of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

performance of innovative business enterprises is not clearly specified. Modern economic growth diffused from its origins in the North Sea region to elsewhere in western and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 12

debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced firm risk, consistent with a decrease in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

  Publications 2013 pub The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents By: Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro Abstract—Change is hard, especially in a large organization. Yet some leaders succeed-often... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

the United States is being driven by public policy, community engagement, and new funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act. He explains the U.S. EPA’s role in... View Details
  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

believes that all of St. HOPE's other activities—economic development, civic leadership development, and the arts—are interdependent with transforming urban education. Raises... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

proliferation of hydro-electric schemes which caused further environmental damage co-created by business and governments. As globalization resumed from the 1980s, renewed View Details
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

Climate Action Plan . The School’s influence on sustainability and climate change extends well beyond campus boundaries. Faculty research related to environmental issues... View Details
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

Abstract—Researchers have long hypothesized that research outputs from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

economic inequality, driving environmental destruction, and sustaining systems of racial injustice. Join Professor Debora Spar and a panel of... View Details
  • Web

Judges - Alumni

problem are you solving? Why does it matter? How does your solution change lives or industries? Show traction and validation Investors want proof of concept. Demonstrate real traction—customer View Details
  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

environmental damage and climate change over the last two centuries. The time has come for mainstream business history to incorporate the View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Curriculum Matthew Weinzierl & Professor Debora Spar (PMD 62) + More Info - Video Recording – Less Info - Video Recording How can we best prepare students to navigate an uncertain world? How do we make sense of the changes in American... View Details
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

Data were analyzed for type of failure and frequency of occurrence. Interviews were conducted with frontline staff. Principal Findings. The two most frequent categories of operational failures, equipment/supplies View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace