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01 Mar 2017
News

Swimming with the Stream

listens and emotional connections to the music (“you’ve provided the soundtrack to their life, so there is even more excitement for the show”) and two, the data that artists can get from their streams help uncover fan bases in cities they... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Jun 1998
News

Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium

Old, Something New Traditionally HBS has met prospective students at networking events such as open houses hosted in various locations by HBS alumni clubs as well as on campus by MBA Admissions. The current strategy builds on this existing strength by expanding open... View Details

Keywords: Cindy Olnick

05 Aug 2015
News

Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery

not knowing which offices are the most honest. To address that, Bantay has three main initiatives: City Watch recruits students and volunteers to grade government offices on everything from their air conditioning to the prices of bribes.... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Mar 2014
News

Book Review: The Old West

nonfiction, North America and India—as well as the similarities: Both are, in some way, chronicles of changing times and lives, suggesting the universality of change and its impact on the human condition, more generally." —Associate Professor Mukti Khaire on Vintage... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Jun 2004
News

Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates

Executive Education alumni in cities across the United States and abroad. They explored questions such as: How connected do you feel to HBS today? How has that changed over time? Does your local HBS club or association meet your needs?... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Alumni Association Board of Directors; committee; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Nikhil Patel Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Mobility in the Motor City: My Summer at the City of Detroit Office of the Mayor Nikhil... View Details

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

was premised on an allegory about hillbillies, which working class people outside America's cities found valuable at a time when American ideology was all about engineering life and technological progress. Holt describes the geographical... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 May 2014
Op-Ed

The Alibaba Effect

guessing among them and probably an eventual change in policies and views. Losing Alibaba really stung.) Alibaba was founded in 1999 in the city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang province in eastern China. In those early days, it was a small,... View Details

Keywords: by Bill Kirby & Warren McFarlan; Retail

06 Nov 2015
Blog Post

Casey Gerald: Becoming a Leader at HBS

come to business school? Growing up in inner city Dallas I always thought the real horizon was going to school and playing football in Texas. One day my junior year a coach from Yale showed up and asked me if I wanted to go to Yale.... View Details

13 Jun 2014
News

The Art of Effecting Change

to create successful frameworks. "At VIA, we're doing the same thing." A case in point was artist Doug Aitken's high-reaching Station to Station, a "cultural happening" that took the form of a nine-car, cross-country train ride that brought a group of artists,... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Arts, Entertainment

04 Jun 2020
Blog Post

What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives

these topics. Join, volunteer, intern, or work for an organization committed to racial justice. Check out the organizations listed above, or find local ones in your communities. White folks, I highly recommend joining SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice), which has... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

Case Study: The Credit Bureau

Illustration by Brown Bird Design Walk the streets of New York City around the first of the month, and you’ll see the symptoms: orphaned couches, credenzas, and swivel chairs that were left behind after a move. The problem, according to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

01 Dec 2019
News

Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change

cofounder and COO of FarmTogether, a startup connecting investors to farmland investment opportunities. “There is a strong coalition of alumni working in various roles and industries here in New York City who are committed to generating... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers

15 May 2018
News

HBS MBA Admissions Shifts to Two Rounds

been tight. We know it takes a lot to finish up a job and move to a new city (!) and we hope the additional time will be helpful to admits on a number of fronts. The new Round 1 deadline date for the Class of 2021 is September 5, 2018;... View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)

citizens of New York City through the protracted process of rebuilding following the terrorist attacks of 2001; and applied his philanthropic principles and vision at HBS in establishing the Social Enterprise Initiative. MORE Tribute to... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise Institute; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Government; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

24 Apr 2014
News

Delivering HBS-style training for teachers

teachers. “Almost all NAATE participants report improved classroom practice, more impact outside the classroom with their peers and school leaders, and a renewed commitment to classroom teaching,” says Klemmer, whose observations of a charter school in a tough New York... View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

Lighting It Up

used to be a one-season event,” Wilkins noted. “Now most customers want to leave lighting up year-round because it signifies a special event.” Wilkins is excited by the prospect that more American cities may come to look like Hong Kong... View Details

Keywords: lighting; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Jun 2009
News

Dispatches from the Global Classroom

Jamaica, and Zimbabwe. Some have worked in cities like Baghdad, Phnom Penh, Monrovia, Tokyo, and Madrid. But none of the students in our group has been to Santa Ana del Valle, a village of just under 2,000 inhabitants, where rug weaving... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

March 2012 (Revised February 2013)
Background Note

The Hybrid Vehicle Market

By: Michael W. Toffel and Nazli Z. Uludere Aragon

This note describes the hybrid electic vehicle market, the results of different automaker strategies, and the environmental regulatory issues that can promote or inhibit market growth in the United States. Introduces students to the technologies and regulatory aspects... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Product Development; Information Technology; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; United States

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22 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 22

Glaeser, William R. Kerr, and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto Publication:Journal of Urban Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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