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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
and hand sanitizer to every household in the city of Chelsea. We’re staffing a hotel that the cities of Chelsea and Revere have rented for people who need to be quarantined, and we’re providing medical and...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
chairman and CEO Peter Magowan, a member of the Giants’ board of directors, as well as with San Francisco city development official Ron Blatman, a longtime friend. When the deal with the Florida investors was announced — but, critically,...
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- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society
Professor Robert Huckman kicks off the daylong Viewpoints program for first-year MBA students. Professor Robert Huckman kicks off the daylong Viewpoints program for first-year MBA students. In their first year at HBS, MBA students take a dozen required courses vital to...
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Educational Innovation
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
as the economy shifted from a mainly rural, agrarian model, to a city focused, factory based one We are witnessing the same happening now as we shift to the post information era. Not clear if enough new jobs will be created to replace the...
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by James Heskett
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
make up Openbay’s supply base. “Getting the older generations to adopt the technology has been a challenge, but the ones who do are seeing an increase in revenue.” Agora faces a similar challenge. “Some of our biggest customers are city...
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- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
one country or one city as opposed to another, due in part to differing institutional contexts. If so, then by aggregating the data, it's possible that researchers have been lumping together dissimilar cases that effectively cancel each...
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by Michael Blanding
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
role of leaders for centuries. Plato, writing his Republic in the fourth century B.C., argued that the ideal city would have an elaborate system to choose its leaders that made any individual leader replaceable. Thucydides, writing just a...
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- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
looking at how students are matched with schools. We helped New York City design a new matching system for assigning students to high schools. (Under their old system, 30,000 students were assigned to high schools they didn't choose,...
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
duties." 7 From the beginning, Doriot connected the worlds of education and business. He believed teaching business administration should be based on the realities of running a company rather than academic theories. He drew from his own work as director of numerous...
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- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
change it for ourselves and we can change it for the women coming up behind us.” In March 2018, Pent and Hagemann birthed the idea of the formal network, and seven months later held a retreat in New York City for 42 former WOB...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
a number of cities to promote My Vast Fortune, which has received rave reviews from readers. Says one, music industry mogul David Geffen, "If you don't think finance, politics, or real estate can be funny, read Andy's book."
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Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
providing leadership for the eleemosynary institutions and many of the political institutions” in virtually every city in America. “One of my hopes is that the GLF has fueled your interest and passion for being part of the solution and...
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- 19 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The Road to Impact
English,” he says. The best part of his job, says Offensend, is watching EDC’s work being used in the field and seeing its impact. One recent example thrills him. The percentage of female students who took AP computer science courses in New York View Details
- 06 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
A Letter from the Women in Investing Club
outings to help facilitate the development of deeper relationships between our members. Off campus, we sought to keep continuity in this community, hosting events in Boston and New York City for alumnae. It is our hope that the club...
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- 13 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit
largest charter school systems with 54 schools in six cities serving underprivileged communities. The vast majority of their student bodies are filled with children of color from low-income backgrounds. Given such a high need for quality...
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- 12 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program
Kosaluchi (Luchi) Nwokeneche-Mmegwa (MBA '20) is from Lagos, Nigeria and graduated with a degree in Public Policy from Princeton University. Prior to HBS, Luchi worked in investment banking and private equity for Goldman Sachs & Co. in the New York View Details
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week
electricity sector with Professor Juan Alcacer; the capital stack with BEI director and conference co-chair Lynn Schenk and executive fellow Spencer Glendon; and leadership and climate action in cities with Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter....
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
Realms: Journeys in Pen & Paint by Krish V. Krishnan (AMP 184, 2013) (Shanti Arts LLC) This is the written and artistic chronicle of Krishnan’s travels around the globe as he explores and portrays places of awe-inspiring holiness, including the rocky red desert of...
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- 04 May 2023
- Blog Post
Sustainability: Career Advice from HBS Career Coach Hillary Mann
what you were doing before joining HBS and what inspired you to join the Career & Professional Development (CPD) team. Before coming to HBS, I lived in New York City where I worked in integrated marketing for VH1. During my time at...
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- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
Hospital: Cardiac Care for the Poor (B) Tarun Khanna and Tanya BijlaniHarvard Business School Supplement 712-402 Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) has expanded into a multi-specialty health city in Bangalore and has grown to twelve locations...
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Sean Silverthorne