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- 08 Dec 2021
- News
The Big Question: Is the World of Work Forever Changed?
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Putting Entrepreneurial Skills to Work in City Hall
hard to help people, to make a difference in their lives, to make Boston a better place for jobs, a better place for families, and to give chances to kids to reach their full potential. We set, I hope, a bit of a standard for cities...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Events Around the World
Federico Barcena-Mastretta (MBA 1996) at the Campaign’s Mexico City Regional Event in February 2016. 3 ISTANBUL: Mustafa Aysan (MBA 1959), Işik Keçeci Aşur (MBA 1997), and Hüsnü Özyeğin (MBA 1969) at the Campaign’s Istanbul Regional Event...
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- December 2014
- Teaching Note
Rick's Dilemma
By: Arthur I Segel and Ben Eppler
This is a teaching note designed to accompany the case "Rick's Dilemma."
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- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
issues like gender, race, and religion, we are really talking about how we get along with others and how we create a world that is safe for difference." Slifka is working hard to create such a world. The theme of coexistence emerges as a...
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- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate...
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by Rachel Layne
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
for nearly two decades. Indeed, studies from around the world consistently show that companies see productivity gains after allowing employees to choose their work locations. Remote work offers many other benefits, too: “Commute times...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
The City Solution: Facts and Figures p. 32 “half the world’s people ” U.N. Habitat report (“Cities and Climate Change – Global Report on Human Settlements”) March 2011 p. 33 “2 percent land mass most of its emissions.” UN Habitat Report...
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- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
Pretium who previously worked as a research analyst at HBS. “Astoundingly, five of the six most valuable public companies in the world in 2020 were tech companies headquartered in San Francisco or Seattle. In response, local policy...
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by Rachel Layne
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
there is rapid and massive urbanization everywhere as people leave farms for cities in search of opportunity. Half of the world is urban today, and the urban population will double in the next three decades....
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- 18 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Exploring the Tech World Through WesTrek
What do New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston all have in common? They’re all cities on the east coast, and they also happen to be the only places I’ve ever lived, except the few months that I lived in Belgium during college. Despite...
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A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 2003
- Book
The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896
By: Sven Beckert
This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of the most powerful group in the nineteenth-century United States: New York City's economic elite. This small and diverse group of Americans accumulated unprecedented economic, social, and political power,...
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Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896. Paperback ed. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
friends were cracked up. Obviously the world was cracked up too. This was 2016. So I started the book just to trace those cracks, and before I finished, a friend of mine, one of my closest friends from Yale who I had helped recruit...
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- 08 Feb 2016
- News
Alumni in Mexico City Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Mexico City on February 8, 2016 to celebrate and connect with each other as the School hosted “A Vision for the 21st Century” as part of the world tour of The Harvard Business School Campaign. The Mexico...
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- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
specifically the Urban Design Research Institute (URDI), C40 Cities, and World Resources Institute (WRI) and left us with several key reflections. Importance of Local Context View of Dharavi, Mumbai’s largest informal settlement. History,...
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- 28 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
It’s India Above China in New World Order
will be tomorrow." How these two models play out has great significance not just for Asia but also for other parts of the world that want to benefit from their lessons and avoid their mistakes. Huang and Khanna recently collaborated...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
wings that cover four city blocks. Whether it's eking out extra room from unused air shafts, building up, or renovating existing gallery space to make more efficient use of it, construction at the Met is almost nonstop, a fact that is...
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- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
They saw a stagnant or even declining economy during China's Republican period, divided sharply between the internationally-oriented port cities and the unchanging, "feudal" interior, with its increasingly impoverished...
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by William C. Kirby