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HBS Working Knowledge
October 19, 2011
Garry Emmons |
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future Harvard Business School faculty are thinking along with government leaders and business practitioners about how to create sustainable places to live and work.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 15, 2012
Lisa Chase |
Funding the Design of Livable Cities As a burgeoning global population migrates to the world's urban centers, it's crucial to design livable cities that function with scarce natural resources. The critical connection between real estate financing and innovative design in the built environment is discussed. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 26, 2011 |
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day Companies are caught in an economic dilemma when it comes to being responsible stewards of the environment. Society wants them to be efficient in their use of natural resources and to do as little damage as possible to the environment. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2007
Bloom & Khanna |
The Urban Revolution Rapid urbanization may prove a blessing, provided the world takes notice and plans accordingly. |
Wired
May 19, 2008
Matt Power |
Urban Living Is Kinder to the Planet Than the Suburban Lifestyle With less car ownership, more use of public transportation, and easier to heat high rise buildings, urban living is kinder to the planet. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 13, 2014
Dina Gerdeman |
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go? America's infrastructure woes and how to fix them were front and center at the recent summit, America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st Century, led by Rosabeth Moss Kanter. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2007 |
What is the Biggest Challenge in Managing Large Cities? Economists generally agree that urbanization, if handled well, holds great promise for higher growth and a better quality of life. But the flip side is also true. Here are three expert points of view on different ways to manage things well. |
Entrepreneur
May 2002
Mark Henricks |
Flexin' the City Think you know the face of urban America? The U.S. city is in for a workout... |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 24, 2014 |
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective) How can business leaders cut through the noise and actively address climate change from an economic perspective? John Macomber proposes a list of ABCs. |
Reason
April 2007
Staley & Balaker |
How Traffic Jams Are Made In City Hall The bad logic and failed policies of American transportation planners. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2008
Frank E. Holmes |
Where The Growth Is: Infrastructure The subprime debt and derivatives crisis that has wreaked so much havoc at home has also buckled the knees of international markets. So what's a global-minded investor to do? |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 8, 2012
Dina Gerdeman |
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid? Replacing the antiquated electrical system in the United States with a super-efficient smart grid always seemed a surefire opportunity for entrepreneurs. So what went wrong? |
National Real Estate Investor
December 1, 2004
Thomas J. Bisacquino |
Mixed-Use Comes to the 'Burbs While the number of mixed-use developments is rising rapidly in city centers, the true wave of the future is in suburbia. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2, 2008
Paul Tolme |
Building Smart in Fuel Crunch, Bike Industry's Gear Shift Pays Off Soaring gas prices are driving bike manufacturers to break all their old rules and cater to a new generation of bike commuters. |
Fast Company
September 2009
Kate Rockwood |
How Cycling Centers Could Help Smooth Commuter Transitions Andrea White-Kjoss modeled her full-service cycling centers on a similar idea already popular in Japan and Europe. More than a dozen bike stations have opened in such places as Palo Alto and Berkeley, California; Seattle; and, most recently, Washington, D.C. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 5, 2006
Julia Hanna |
India Arrives on the Global Stage With so much good economic news coming out of India, there are concern that the country could be overvalued, or even headed for a crash. Yet most believe such a downturn, if and when it does come, will be cyclical. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 18, 2012
Maggie Starvish |
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water? As the planet's population grows, urbanizes, and is subjected to climate change, many experts foresee a global water crisis (and resulting food shortages and increasing prices) looming over the next 40 years. |
IDB America
April 2008
Paul Constance |
Latin America's Choice Brazil proves that voluntary changes in behavior, combined with modest investments in energy-saving equipment, can produce huge savings without compromising human welfare or economic growth. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
Susan Hassler |
Engineering The Megacity The bright lights of big cities will continue to draw us together, and technology can nudge our increasingly urban development in the direction of peaceful, clean, and safe communal living. |
AskMen.com
Geoffrey Lansdell |
Top 10: Bicycle Cities There are many European prototypes that have engineered cities with the bicycle in mind -- Scandinavian countries, in particular. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2007
Salyer & Bloom |
The March of the Cities The coming year marks a dramatic milestone: the world's urban population will outstrip its rural population, albeit with big regional variations. |
BusinessWeek
August 4, 2003
John Carey |
Breaking Away from Rush Hour Bike commuting is healthy -- and dirt-cheap |
AskMen.com
Marc Voyer |
Top 10: Tech Cities Where is the future coming from? A select group of cities that have strong research and development in technology and a population that embraces it. |
