The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 24, 2023

” Going back in time The researchers used data from the Sanborn Fire Insurance maps, which are hand-constructed maps of all American cities that were created for fire insurance purposes. They believe that the destruction of communities by interstate highway construction is a national problem that is slowly being recognized.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

But the emerging challenge of reducing risk exposure for coastal residents creates new opportunities for firms that can innovate and provide new solutions. But we now see insurers exploiting geographically refined data to more precisely estimate land parcel risk. Where Would You Rather Live?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

The induced innovation literature has taught us that drug companies focus their efforts on researching and marketing new drugs for which there is expected to be great demand (think of aging baby boomers’ aching knees). Innovation in Cities. This same logic holds in the case of climate change adaptation. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

” Many organizations construct short-term projects by simply carving off the first few months of a multi-year implementation plan, and then the next few, and so on. The severances team aimed to increase the number of land parcels processed per day by 50% in one field office in 100 days. Both teams exceeded their targets.

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