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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
district is a different path, says Given. Disruptive, even. But he's managed to get full support for the model from everyone from the mayor to the superintendent of schools—the kind of buy-in that comes from a realization that solving...
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- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
Archdiocese of Washington. As strategist for the Washington, DC, office of the deputy mayor for planning and economic development, Lina Feng continued at the job after finishing her fellowship in 2013 and is now a student at HBS. “There...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
(unless it involved the defendant), a practice that often served only to humiliate the victim and introduce material irrelevent to the proceedings at hand. In 1983, then New York Mayor Ed Koch appointed Snyder to a judgeship. With her...
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- 21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
and the City Library, and most importantly, helping the Office of the Mayor develop a system of collaboration where startups can play a role in doing pilots with dozens of city departments without the typical red tape.” “San Francisco is...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference
Basden (MBA 1997). Former Georgia Congressman and Atlanta Mayor Andrew J. Young, Jr., also led a forum on influencing political and economic agendas. Telecommunications industry leader Robert E. Knowling and media entrepreneur Keith T....
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
students did just that when they traveled to New Orleans with the HBS Hurricane Relief Trek. Some students worked with Mayor Ray Nagin’s Bring New Orleans Back Commission, brainstorming economic development strategies. Others helped...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
topics, but I also looked for practical expertise. Who has more experience with snow removal than the mayor of Buffalo, New York, for instance? Who has changed more diapers than the parents of sextuplets? So the experts actually wrote...
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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
1,000 women whose marriages had ended. I realized that my wife did the right thing by leaving me. I drank too much and spent too much time away from home on business and political activities. (I ran for mayor of Phoenix and was on every...
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- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
villages, Elim and Golovin that are about 20 miles apart or so. And somehow the mayor of one of the communities heard that we were in a pickle and came out on his snow machine at 9:30 p.m. and broke trail for all of us. So that was...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
ten thousand new units. An additional $1 million will go to housing groups to research and test solutions to the affordable housing problem. Cambridge Mayor Francis Duehay and City Manager Robert Healy, Harvard President Neil Rudentine,...
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Garry Emmons
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
beautiful. Very picturesque. There is literally one road in and one road out. And frankly they're the same road. The town has, I believe, fewer than a thousand people, and it might be closer to several hundred people. And this gentleman—his name is Simone Tiglio—is the...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Politics and Patriotism in Small-Town America: Confessions of a Plain-Talking, Independent Mayor by Richard Muti (MBA ’71) (WingSpan Press) While Bullets Fly: The Story of a Canadian Field Surgical Unit in the Second World War by Ian...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
hotels, Captain C.P. Krishnan Nair; the Mumbai office shared by the husband-and-wife law team of Cyril and Vandana Shroff; and the funky space of Park Won Soon, the mayor of Seoul. She’s now brought those essays together in her new book,...
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- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
up and learn from other cultures, it’s on Lara and her team to do the same. Within weeks of taking on her new role, she reached out to the mayor of Holland and told him she wanted to participate in the annual Tulip Time Festival,...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
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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- 01 Oct 2002
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View from the Top
President Bush and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani exhibited remarkable leadership following the September 11 crisis. I also admire Michigan Governor John Engler, who's shown courage in taking on some tough but important political and...
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- 25 Jun 2020
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Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
discussed during a live broadcast presented through the Bloomberg Harvard Initiative in April for 120 US mayors and 600 guests from around the world. Harvard Center Shanghai—In response to the pandemic, the center cohosted an online event...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
that empowered people and a compelling shared vision build great companies, and Zensar’s success is a visible result,” says Natarajan. —RT Kent Thiry Mayor for Life Thiry with DaVita employees: “We find that most human beings want to be...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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A New Approach to Contact Tracing
of Weiss, who, prior to HBS, helped shape Boston’s municipal innovation strategy while serving as chief of staff to former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, a position he assumed after working in Menino’s office as an HBS Leadership Fellow. “We...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
alumni such as President George W. Bush (MBA '75), Labor Secretary Elaine Chao (MBA '79), and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA '66) are well known to everyone, as is the impact of other newsmaking senior executives such as IBM's...
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Desmond Wong