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- 14 Nov 2019
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Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
President since 2003, and the secular urban elite, whose party this year won the mayoral elections in Ankara, Izmir, and Istanbul. How this tension plays out will also have a formative influence on Turkey’s trajectory. About the Author...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
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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...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
areas as information and transparency, the roles of capital and talent, public and private property rights, social constraints on market forces, attitudes toward expatriates abroad and foreigners at home, entrepreneurial and corporate opportunities, and the importance...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2021
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How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
adapting the skills and practices of entrepreneurship for the public sector,” he says. Before joining the HBS faculty and creating the MBA course Public Entrepreneurship, Weiss was chief of staff to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. In 2010, Weiss cofounded the Mayor’s...
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by Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016
officials, and food companies. In an increasingly industrializing and urbanizing society, such information translated into consumer decisions that had both economic and cultural antecedents and consequences. Even before the growth in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14
place-based solutions. The above shift and debate reflects the troubles encountered in the original urban renewal efforts, and the desire today to provide affordable housing that is close to jobs and transportation, mixed-income, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008
housing option in the United States. Yet government policies and programs continue to grapple with widespread problems, including affordability, distressed urban neighborhoods, poor-quality housing stock, concentrated poverty, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
Abstract—With a young, urbanizing population, abundant natural resources, and a growing middle class, Africa seems to have all the ingredients necessary for huge growth. Nevertheless, a number of multinationals have recently left the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
study this question in the context of the first Great Migration (1915–1930), when 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to urban centers in the North, where 30 million Europeans had arrived since 1850. We test the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016
them also to provide public space Wi-Fi, advertising, and urban intelligence sensors. "One year from now we will no longer sell any machines," Kutner planned to tell the company's board of directors. Would they buy his...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
jobs and dignified salaries. As of March 2010, La Fageda has opened up a new production facility to make ice cream in an urban area outside of its well-known agricultural farm. Students are faced with understanding La Fageda's business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
how, and regulated how," Light concluded. Home Ownership: "back To The Future" Housing was Topic A for panelist Nicolas Retsinas, who before arriving at Harvard served as assistant secretary for housing in the U.S. Department of Housing and View Details