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- 17 Nov 2016
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Wired for Innovation
energy to population centers across the country by expanding the US electric-transmission grid. “If you look at the wind-power equation, you quickly see that transmitting energy from rural wind farms across long distances to large cities...
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- 02 Nov 2021
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Row On
Hamlin (MBA 1978), who died in May of Alzheimer’s Disease at the age of 74. Hamlin, who represented the United States in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and at the World Rowing Championships in 1969 and 1970, continued to compete...
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- 23 Apr 2018
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Tim Keller, Heavy Metal Mayor
a sold-out Anthrax concert and grabbed the mic. Tim Keller, the mayor of this city of 560,000 still struggling to emerge from a long economic slump, left some in the audience with jaws agape when he shouted above the shredding of Scott...
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- 22 Sep 2015
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Balancing Progress and Preservation
as the recent renovation of historic public spaces at The Plaza hotel or the proposed redevelopment of the South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan. “The Conservancy sees itself as a voice of reason,” he notes. “We’re not anti-development, but we don’t believe the View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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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...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
the people, their personalities, contributions, and the influences that set this community apart from city living or other rural areas. The community survived and depended on each individual. People were courteous, supportive, and...
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- 13 Jun 2014
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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,...
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- 11 Apr 2018
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Pushing the Next Generation Forward
working on crisis management with city officials. “We are working to end intergenerational poverty within a 100-block radius in central Harlem,” says Owusu-Kesse, who joined HCZ in 2008 and became COO in 2014. “Part of our ethos is,...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Events Around the World
Federico Barcena-Mastretta (MBA 1996) at the Campaign’s Mexico City Regional Event in February 2016. 3 ISTANBUL: Mustafa Aysan (MBA 1959), Işik Keçeci Aşur (MBA 1997), and Hüsnü Özyeğin (MBA 1969) at the Campaign’s Istanbul Regional Event...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Moir Donelson
city as on his ability to navigate the inner circles of Chicago's business elite. Donelson hopes eventually to develop businesses that will create positive social changes in the part of Chicago where he grew up. "I realize this is a...
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Susan Young
- 10 Mar 2021
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Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel By Connie Baher (MBA 1980) I was standing in New York’s Asia Society Museum when I saw it. A high school kid from Connecticut, I’d taken the train to the big city and was nosing...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Carving a Niche
turns down sheer mountain faces, launching off snow-capped boulders, and even sliding along stair railings in the middle of a city park. Faction cofounders Alex Hoye (left) and Tony McWilliam at the company’s offices in Verbier,...
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Julia Hanna
- 09 Jan 2014
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Tapping into Opportunity
SHENKAR by Constantine von Hoffman For many of us, water isn't something we give much thought to. Why should we? Turn on the tap and it's there. If you have to pay your town or city for water, chances are you don't pay very much....
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- 01 Mar 2017
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A Healthy Profit
Quelch. New energy efficiency initiatives also saw their greenhouse gas footprint drop by 19 percent between 2005 and 2012. COMMUNITY HEALTH “Royal Caribbean donates a lot of used furniture and household goods in the ports where they call,” says Quelch. “They’ll also...
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Dan Morrell
- 26 Feb 2008
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The Right Stuff
us who work at HBS, such gestures make us feel good about the place. Photos by Neal Hamberg The Brighton Bengals are an inner-city team. Its players take public transportation to practice on a distant piece of city real estate that has no...
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Garry Emmons
- 31 Mar 2022
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A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
occur often enough to reach as many mouths as possible. He designed the organization like a startup, built to scale, with chapters of “Robins” around the world who team up with restaurants and other organizations in their local cities and...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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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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- 01 Dec 2003
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Rural Renewal
native of Wayland, Massachusetts, Reade never thought much about gardening as a kid. After earning her MBA and living in New York City for a few years, however, she went looking for geraniums for her window boxes. At the garden store in...
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- 01 Aug 2001
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T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
efforts to make the inner city a viable and competitive economic entity," says University Professor Michael E. Porter, who is researching economic development in America's inner cities. Dunphy has also established a fellowship fund for...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call
superintendent. Whether that individual is an educator or not doesn’t matter — leadership is what counts.” Resident Executives Trying to achieve similar change in the New York City school system is Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966)...
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