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HBS Working Knowledge November 15, 2012 Lisa Chase |
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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. |
Smithsonian March 2007 John Lancaster |
Next Stop, Squalor Is poverty tourism -- "poorism," they call it -- exploration or exploitation? |
HBS Working Knowledge August 17, 2011 Kim Girard |
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood Despite a thriving movie industry in India, Hollywood studios have experienced difficulty making much money there. Researchers discovered a complicated mix of piracy and plagiarism. |
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. |
Reason July 2007 Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Slum Justice A new system that relies heavily on voluntary arbitration by female-dominated neighborhood councils, or panchayats, is changing the tenor of conflict in Indian slums. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Harry Goldstein |
How to Blackout-Proof a City Mumbai's economic miracle threatens to overwhelm the power grid. |
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. |