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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
don’t know that it could possibly harm portions of our communities.” Elizabeth M. Adams Read the Transcript What does it look like to amplify the public’s voice regarding civic concerns? Siloing issues related to our View Details
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
mature industries, such as Swiss watchmakers and pencil makers, that have been able to reinvent themselves in the wake of radical technological change. He calls this phenomenon “technology reemergence.” Over the past eight years, he has...
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- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
Aragon in 2001. With the launch of the Griffin Foundation in 2009, she returned capital from outside investors to focus on her young family and her civic endeavors, which also include supporting the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s...
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Jill Radsken
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Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
Aggregates health care data to give doctors access to a patient’s entire health record Dreamworld VR Dreamworld VR Runner-up Connects isolated pediatric patients battling chronic conditions through immersive virtual reality technology...
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- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
policy at hyper-local resolution, with global scope.” Related Reading: Developing Asia’s Largest Slum The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom Urban...
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- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
accelerated sharply in the U.S. economy. In this paper, we identify several other industry-level changes that have occurred during the same time and argue that they are consistent with an increased use of information technology (IT). We...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
to step in over and over again. What, then, should business and civic leaders do about revenue? Since the fabric of cities is woven by the many entities of which they're composed, this is a question that can be broken down into a number...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
result of cooperation between business, government, and civic leadership. If you want to maintain the quality of life in your community, business has got to take a leadership role in civic affairs. That's...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
their team as they go. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/04/how-many-direct-reports/ar/1 Celebrate Innovation, No Matter Where It Occurs Author:Nitin Nohria Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012) Abstract The author offers opinions on View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
Boston Green Ribbon Commission, a group of business, institutional, and civic leaders developing strategies to fight climate change and meet Mayor Marty Walsh’s 2050 carbon-neutrality goal. However, McCarthy added, “the city is slow to...
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- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
chambers of Congress are considering additional relief, with small business loans packages of over $300 billion under consideration. Mills hopes that the government will go a step further and offer interest-free loans and work to include new financial View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
were Robert Ryan (MBA '70) and Paula Banks (154th AMP) for professional achievement, the Reverend Jonathan Weaver (MBA '75) for civic commitment, and Lillian Lincoln (MBA '69) for service to the community. Presented jointly by the AASU...
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Mary Ellen Gardner
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
field research methods, this paper connects these achievements to bureaucratic norms, unwritten rules within the state that guide the behavior of public officials and structure their relations with civic agencies outside the state....
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
panels on the affirmative action debate, the potential for technology to strengthen the African-American community, entrepreneurship and economic development, and careers in the venture-capital and private-equity arenas. Frank Savage,...
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- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
democratic history and an immediate, practical exercise for anyone looking for a way to strengthen our common civic commitments. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52134 2017 Academy of Management Annals...
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Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
curiosity about what fellow alumni are doing, and their commitment both individually and as part of the HBS community to making the world a better place,” Stevenson says. “In these turbulent times—as in times past—HBS alumni are stepping up as individual citizens,...
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Jen McFarland Flint
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Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016
hair salon, a donut shop, and a hip burger restaurant, and students worked in small teams on problems such as marketing, finance, sales, and growth strategy. Making Robotics Fly HUBweek, a civic collaboration founded by The Boston Globe,...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
innovative IT department focused on using technology to increase citizen engagement and the efficiency of city services. Their flagship project, the Citizens Connect app (recently rebranded as BOS:311), sends residents’ issues into the...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
course of history—and their own lives. The Captain, Linda and the Tiger Shark: Their Love Was His Armor by Carlos M. Lago (MBA 1977) Mill City Press A novel about love almost lost to the sea—and what lurks within. Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How View Details