Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "city"
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Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy
(American Economic Association, 2016)The proliferation of big data makes it possible to better target city services like hygiene inspections, but city governments rarely have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities could hire ... -
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2014-05-13)Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils ...