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- 13 Jun 2013
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Learning Curve
solution was the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, a nonprofit spun out of City Hall that is focused on turning around 22 of the district's lowest-performing schools. Serving close to 16,000 students, the partnership is a collaborative...
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- 27 Oct 2022
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John Middleton’s Big Swing
think it’s your passion as a fan that kind of fuels your ambition. It certainly fuels my ambition for this team.” A Philadelphia native and longtime sports fan, he told the Press of Atlantic City that he watched the Phillies beat the...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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Entrepreneurship flourishes in the Bayou
entrepreneurs. “It is a very easy city in which to adopt new approaches. It's a very open city in which to take a risk,” says Wilkins. “After Katrina, everyone needed to become an entrepreneur. Everyone...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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East Side Story
In January, veteran New York state senator Roy Goodman (MBA '53) was appointed president and CEO of the United Nations Development Corporation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA '66). In accepting the position, Goodman, a...
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- 13 Nov 2018
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Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
Tawan Davis (MBA 2006) was 15 years old when he first recognized an issue prevalent in American cities. “I asked my grandmother why everyone else had money and we didn’t,” recalls Davis, who grew up in Portland, Oregon, now one of the most rapidly gentrifying View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment Reinhardt and Henderson: On Shad Hall’s green roof. Issue Focus The City Solution Water for Life Green Day Related Links Visit the Business and Environment Initiative The View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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Euro Vision
who is speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt London this month, has thrived as a European VC: 1 Go where the companies aren't Rimer started Index Ventures in Geneva, a small city with few startups. His logic: That would force his partners to...
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Jason Feifer
- 01 Jun 2015
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The Harvard Business School Campaign: Regional Events
São Paulo Istanbul Seattle Dubai Cleveland Toronto Mexico City To learn more about upcoming events and see photos from past events, please visit alumni.hbs.edu/CampaignEvents
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- 03 Oct 2017
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Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
North Reading’s Kiva Systems, founded by Mick Mountz (MBA 1996). Regarding the headquarters decision, Russ Wilcox (MBA 1995), who cofounded E Ink–which would become a key supplier for the Amazon Kindle—says the Bezos might be employing a tactic he often used with...
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Retail Trade
- 09 Oct 2015
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Balancing Progress and Preservation
Street Partnership was an amazing way to start a career,” says Zuckerberg, whose job included facilitating interactions with city agencies. “Dan is a dynamo. Nothing’s impossible to him. His leadership made us feel as if there was nothing...
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- 18 Sep 2008
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HBS Olympians
4x100 meter medley relay. More information here. Jack Morrison (MBA 1971H) played on the US Olympic hockey team at the 1968 Olympics at Grenoble, France. More information and photos here. Fritz Hobbs (MBA 1972E) competed on the US coxed eights rowing team at the 1968...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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School Ties
strategies that upgrade education in specific cities or towns. A second report released in February of this year examined the results of the first-ever nationwide survey of school superintendents on the role of business in America's...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Insight: Yenball
geographic: Japanese stars who come to US cities with a large Japanese population—Los Angeles and New York, for example—can convert those populations into increased ticket and merchandise sales. (All major league teams share national TV...
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- 14 Oct 2014
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Financial Services Support Mexico’s Most Underserved Communities
Alvaro Rodriguez-Arregui (MBA 1995), cofounder and managing partner of Ignia, explains how his organization’s impact investing has brought personal finance services to residents of the largest slum in Mexico City while also strengthening...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Mom Corps
it has expanded into four additional cities and has drawn favorable coverage in a variety of national and regional publications. O’Kelly, who recently won an entrepreneurship award from Working Mother (September 11, 2006), told the...
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- 22 Jul 2016
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Let’s Talk Dating
other cities. “I’m not saying that there is nobody who has ever hooked up on Tinder,” she said. “But there are a lot more human connections. People have dated, gotten married, formed a music band, moved to new cities and found friends...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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HBS Business Plan Contest
HBS Service Leadership Fellows Program encourages graduating students to gain experience in nonprofit and public-sector organizations through a one-year fellowship program. The 2004 fellows were chosen from 71 applicants. Fellows and organizations are Mitch Weiss,...
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- 19 Aug 2017
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Getting Off the Well-worn Farm Track
with fewer cows, more crops, and a growing investment in systems that will be net zero carbon emitters. In addition, he expects more food will be grown in cities and in buildings, not just in the countryside. "I think people realize that...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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Clubs: Capital Improvements
International. “Washington has transformed from a city dominated by government to one that has a thriving business community,” says Youngkin, “and it is attracting an enormous number of talented people.”
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April White