Reports by Charles Euchner
Impact Hub Field Guide(with Gordon LaForge): A step-by-step approach for creating mission-oriented teams to solve specific stubborn problems, from disease in remote areas of Africa to access to vaccinations globally.
Scaling Up: New York is a haven for small businesses. But why don’t those businesses grow faster? In this report for the Center for an Urban Future, Charles Euchner explores the barriers to growth: limited real estate, burdensome regulations, tax burdens, finding skilled workers, cash flow problems, transportation and access to markets, and more.
‘If I Can Make It There . . .’ Can manufacturing survive in New York City? Not like the old days, when a job in the factory offered a path to the middle class. But New York is remaking its manufacturing sector to promote innovation and prototyping, small-batch and just-in-time production, to serve local businesses. In this report for the Center for an Urban Future, Euchner explores three subsectors–food, wood and metal work, and 3D printing–to understand the potential and limits of manufacturing in the 21st century.
Business and Management Case Studies: At the Yale School of Management, Charles Euchner authored case studies on diverse topics, including the Apple-Samsung rivalry, the Manchester United Football Club, the Herman Miller furniture company, AARP’s reinvention, the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, a scandal at the Federal Services Administration, and business strategy in the Mexican amaranth business.
Getting Home: Why is housing so much more expensive in Greater Boston than in other dynamic, high-growth regions? The usual answer is limited space, but research shows that to be false. Most policy approaches provide a cocktail of funding for “affordable” housing. But the reality is much more mundane. In this report for the Pioneer Institute and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, Charles Euchner shows that Boston can dramatically increase its housing supply by removing unnecessary regulatory burdens, starting with NIMBY restrictions.
Ring Around the City: For a generation, transportation advocates in Boston have championed a circumferential transit system to connect the “spokes” of the existing subway system. But such a system would run into complex issues over right of way, not to mention NIMBY concerns of long-settled neighborhoods and business districts. In this report for the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, Charles Euchner and Anthony Flint explore the options for piecing together a coherent ring system.
Can CitiStat Work in Greater Boston? Under Mayor Martin O’Malley, Baltimore transformed the workings of every day government with a real-time, comprehensive data system called CitiStat. Boston lagged behind, reluctant to share basic informatioin with its citizens. In this report, Phineas Baxandall and Charles Euchner identify six key challenges for setting ip a data-based management system and respond to frequently asked questions.