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- February 2013 (Revised February 2013)
- Case
King Abdullah Economic City in 2009: Population Drivers and Cash Flow
By: John D. Macomber
CEO of high profile new economic city in Saudi Arabia must decide how to allocate limited investment funds across projects under duress. Issues include understanding core economic drivers, planning infrastructure investment and return, attracting multinationals, energy...
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- January 2013 (Revised March 2015)
- Case
Hudson Yards—The Other Side of the Tracks?
By: Christopher M. Gordon, John D. Macomber, A. Eugene Kohn and Lisa Strope
Stephan Ross, CEO of Related Companies, is considering an opportunity to invest $1 billion for the air rights over the Hudson Rail Yards in New York City. The investment would allow Related to build a platform over the operating rail tracks and develop this blighted...
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Keywords:
Real Estate;
Property;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Urban Development;
Real Estate Industry;
New York (city, NY)
Gordon, Christopher M., John D. Macomber, A. Eugene Kohn, and Lisa Strope. "Hudson Yards—The Other Side of the Tracks?" Harvard Business School Case 213-040, January 2013. (Revised March 2015.)
- December 2012 (Revised November 2014)
- Case
Lit Motors
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alex Godden
In mid-2012 Lit Motors had created both engineering and design prototypes and conducted initial customer tests on less than $750,000 of investment. Lit Motors' founder, Daniel Kim, had started the company to design and manufacture an efficient electric 2-wheeled...
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Keywords:
Lean Startup;
Prototyping;
Electric Vehicle;
Urban Vehicle;
Customer Tests;
Gyroscope;
Entrepreneurs;
Development Stage Enterprises;
Creativity;
Disruptive Technologies;
Consumer Surveys;
Market Segmentation;
Manufacturing Costs;
Entrepreneurship;
Auto Industry;
United States;
California
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Alex Godden. "Lit Motors." Harvard Business School Case 813-079, December 2012. (Revised November 2014.)
- December 2012
- Case
Jefferson County (A): An EPA Mandate
By: Daniel Bergstresser and Randolph B. Cohen
Jefferson County, Alabama, faces an EPA mandate requiring sewer system upgrades. How will they finance the upgrades? What consequences will follow?
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Keywords:
Local Government;
Debt Management;
Bankruptcy;
Political Process;
Financial Planning;
Urban Development;
Financing and Loans;
Infrastructure;
Government and Politics;
Public Administration Industry;
Alabama
Bergstresser, Daniel, and Randolph B. Cohen. "Jefferson County (A): An EPA Mandate ." Harvard Business School Case 213-056, December 2012.
- December 2012
- Supplement
Jefferson County (B): Borrowing in March 1997
By: Daniel Bergstresser and Randolph B. Cohen
Jefferson County, Alabama faces an EPA mandate requiring sewer system upgrades. How will they finance the upgrades? What consequences will follow?
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Keywords:
Local Government;
Political Process;
Bankruptcy;
Debt Management;
Financial Planning;
Urban Development;
Environmental Sustainability;
Infrastructure;
Government and Politics;
Borrowing and Debt;
Alabama
Bergstresser, Daniel, and Randolph B. Cohen. "Jefferson County (B): Borrowing in March 1997." Harvard Business School Supplement 213-057, December 2012.
- December 2012
- Supplement
Jefferson County (C): Subsequent Issuance
By: Daniel Bergstresser and Randolph B. Cohen
Jefferson County, Alabama, faces an EPA mandate requiring sewer system upgrades. How will they finance the upgrades? What consequences will follow?
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Keywords:
Local Government;
Political Process;
Bankruptcy;
Debt Management;
Financial Planning;
Urban Development;
Environmental Sustainability;
Infrastructure;
Government and Politics;
Borrowing and Debt;
Alabama
Bergstresser, Daniel, and Randolph B. Cohen. "Jefferson County (C): Subsequent Issuance." Harvard Business School Supplement 213-058, December 2012.
- December 2012
- Supplement
Jefferson County (D): February of 2008
By: Daniel Bergstresser and Randolph B. Cohen
Jefferson County, Alabama, faces an EPA mandate requiring sewer system upgrades. How will they finance the upgrades? What consequences will follow?
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Keywords:
Local Government;
Political Process;
Bankruptcy;
Debt Management;
Financial Planning;
Urban Development;
Environmental Sustainability;
Infrastructure;
Government and Politics;
Borrowing and Debt;
Alabama
Bergstresser, Daniel, and Randolph B. Cohen. "Jefferson County (D): February of 2008." Harvard Business School Supplement 213-059, December 2012.
- December 2012 (Revised January 2013)
- Supplement
Jefferson County (E): Postscript
By: Daniel Bergstresser and Randolph B. Cohen
Jefferson County, Alabama, faces an EPA mandate requiring sewer system upgrades. How will they finance the upgrades? What consequences will follow?
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Keywords:
Local Government;
Political Process;
Bankruptcy;
Debt Management;
Financial Planning;
Urban Development;
Infrastructure;
Borrowing and Debt;
Government and Politics;
Public Administration Industry;
Alabama
Bergstresser, Daniel, and Randolph B. Cohen. "Jefferson County (E): Postscript." Harvard Business School Supplement 213-060, December 2012. (Revised January 2013.)
- December 2012
- Article
Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880–1965
By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
Recent literature on the historical determinants of African poverty has emphasized structural impediments to African growth, such as adverse geographical conditions, weak institutions, or ethnic heterogeneity. But has African poverty been a persistent historical...
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Keywords:
Living Standards;
Real Wages;
Labor Market;
Colonial Institutions;
Economic Growth;
Wages;
History;
Africa
Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880–1965." Journal of Economic History 72, no. 4 (December 2012): 895–926. (Awarded Economic History Association's Arthur Cole Prize for best article published in The Journal of Economic History in 2012.)
- November 2012
- Case
Sugar Bowl
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Alisa Zalosh
Shelby Givens, a recent business school graduate, returned home to Raleigh, North Carolina, to help rescue her family's ailing and outdated bowling alley, Westlake Lanes. Although she cut costs and addressed inefficiencies, moving the business from near-bankruptcy to...
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Entrepreneurship;
Operations;
Performance;
Business Strategy;
Corporate Finance;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Raleigh
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Alisa Zalosh. "Sugar Bowl." Harvard Business School Brief Case 913-537, November 2012.
- Article
Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco
By: Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, William Pariente and Vincent Pons
Connecting private dwellings to the water main is expensive and typically cannot be publicly financed. We show that households' willingness to pay for a private connection is high when it can be purchased on credit, not because a connection improves health but because...
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Devoto, Florencia, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, William Pariente, and Vincent Pons. "Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 4, no. 4 (November 2012): 68–99.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
By: Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
We study entrepreneurship and growth through the lens of U.S. cities. Initial entrepreneurship correlates strongly with urban employment growth, but endogeneity bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near cities led to specialization in...
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Keywords:
Industrial Organization;
Chinitz;
Agglomeration;
Clusters;
Cities;
Mines;
Industry Clusters;
Entrepreneurship;
City;
Mining;
Mining Industry;
Pittsburgh
Glaeser, Edward L., Sari Pekkala Kerr, and William R. Kerr. "Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-015, August 2012. (Revised May 2015.)
- August 2012
- Teaching Note
Sound Group China: Urban Waste Entrepreneurs (TN)
By: John D. Macomber and Phillip Andrews
- August 2012 (Revised August 2015)
- Technical Note
Building Cities: A Technical Note
By: Arthur I Segel and Oliver O. Hartleben
World population growth and increasing urbanization will require new cities in the future around the world. This technical note attempts to systematize the key design decisions that developers and policy makers alike must make to be able to proceed.
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Segel, Arthur I., and Oliver O. Hartleben. "Building Cities: A Technical Note." Harvard Business School Technical Note 213-006, August 2012. (Revised August 2015.)
- July 2012 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
HGRM: Bringing Back High Touch Hospitality
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Gabriele Piccoli
The case centers on the dilemma faced by Carlo Fontana, the owner-operator of a small chain of two four-star urban hotels located in Lugano, Switzerland, and the other in Milan, Italy. Having developed an extensive customer service and operations information system,...
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Applegate, Lynda M., and Gabriele Piccoli. "HGRM: Bringing Back High Touch Hospitality." Harvard Business School Case 813-019, July 2012. (Revised January 2014.)
- 2012
- Working Paper
Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?
By: Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover Goswami and William R. Kerr
This paper 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 rural locations, while the informal sector is moving...
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Keywords:
Urban Development;
Policy;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Geographic Location;
Education;
Infrastructure;
Manufacturing Industry;
India
Ghani, Ejaz, Arti Grover Goswami, and William R. Kerr. "Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-090, April 2012.
- January 2012 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
Mexico City Water Shortage
By: John D. Macomber, Regina Garcia-Cuellar, Griffin H. James and Frederik Nellemann
In this case, a property company, a water privatizer, and municipal engineers explore the causes of and solutions to a severe water shortage in Mexico City, a great global capital. The protagonist is a real estate investor doing due diligence on the magnitude of the...
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Macomber, John D., Regina Garcia-Cuellar, Griffin H. James, and Frederik Nellemann. "Mexico City Water Shortage." Harvard Business School Case 212-044, January 2012. (Revised January 2014.)
- 2012
- Chapter
An Assessment of How Urban Crime and Victimization Affects Life Satisfaction
By: Carlos Medina and Jorge Tamayo
We use data for Medellín, Colombia, to assess the effect of the homicide rate, individual’s perception of security in their neighborhood of residence, and of the effect of their having been victimized, on life satisfaction. We find a negative effect of the homicide...
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Medina, Carlos, and Jorge Tamayo. "An Assessment of How Urban Crime and Victimization Affects Life Satisfaction." In Subjective Well-Being and Security. No. 46, edited by Dave Webb and Eduardo Wills-Herrera, 91–147. Social Indicators Research Series. Dordrecht ; New York: Springer, 2012.
- 2012
- Chapter
Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?
By: Robert G. Eccles, Annissa Alusi, Amy C. Edmondson and Tiona Zuzul
Two trends are likely to define the 21st century: threats to the sustainability of the natural environment and dramatic increases in urbanization. This paper reviews the goals, business models, and partnerships involved in eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to...
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Keywords:
Environmental Sustainability;
City;
Urban Development;
Infrastructure;
Housing;
Urban Scope;
Business Ventures;
Business Model;
Green Technology Industry
Eccles, Robert G., Annissa Alusi, Amy C. Edmondson, and Tiona Zuzul. "Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?" Chap. 18 in Infrastructure Sustainability and Design, edited by Spiro Pollalis, Andreas Georgoulias, Stephen Ramos, and Daniel Schodek, 247–265. New York: Routledge, 2012.
- November 2011 (Revised February 2012)
- Background Note
Location Choice for New Ventures: Choices within Cities
By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "Location Choice for New Ventures: Choices within Cities." Harvard Business School Background Note 812-036, November 2011. (Revised February 2012.)