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02 Nov 2015
News

Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

Ralph Lauren Home shop in Filene’s. That forced me to engage with people on a new level and to convince them to spend $50 on a towel,” he says. He ultimately finished Duke and moved to New York City in 1987 to work at Chemical Bank, first... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

29 Jun 2021
Blog Post

HBS Celebrates Pride Month

shame and shadows. Charlotte Lawson I've never been to a Pride parade. I didn't have the courage to go before I came out and once out, I found myself living in a small city that did not host a large-scale Pride event. So, what do I know... View Details

09 Mar 2021
Blog Post

New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk

Initiative in which she leveraged her structured finance background and expertise from her tenure at Citigroup to focus on issues ranging from the financial structuring of renewable energy and infrastructure assets to climate-related financial advisory services for... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work

(SPNM) program. Each year, more than sixteen clubs send upward of fifty participants to this program. The Windy City club also annually sponsors eight Chicago Public School leaders to attend the joint HBS/Harvard Graduate School of... View Details

Keywords: alumni clubs; Centennial; Educational Services

01 Dec 1999
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

extraordinary city reestablishing itself at the tenth anniversary of its reunification? This will be a historic conference, one you will not want to miss. In addition to the formal program, the organizers have arranged for some truly... View Details

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

surprisingly, local governments exercise the greatest control over urban land in cities that adopted market reforms earliest. Slavery's Scientific Management: Accounting for Mastery Author:Caitlin C.Rosenthal Publication:In Slavery's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2021
News

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... View Details

Keywords: mentorship; nonprofit management; retirement; leadership

01 Dec 2016
News

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,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

09 Jan 2014
News

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.... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Business and Environment Initiative; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

26 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

The case is also useful as an introduction to the business of software testing. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608109 PublicationsOur Communities, Our Homes: Pathways to Housing and Homeownership in America's View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Jun 2017
News

Many Rivers to Cross

of international funding sources for the estimated $50 billion to $60 billion project and work to develop a feasibility study that is focused on the trunk line of the system, the Amazon-Putumayo-Pacific corridor. With degrees in civil engineering from MIT and View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Spangler Center Groundbreaking

Harvard's long-standing relationship with the city of Boston. Menino cited the importance of higher education to the city's economy and praised HBS volunteer programs that benefit the nearby Taft Middle School and the Brighton-Allston... View Details

March 2019 (Revised July 2021)
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Waymo LLC

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

On December 5, 2018, Waymo LLC, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., launched the United States’ first commercial driverless-car ride-hailing service (Waymo One), based in Phoenix, Arizona. As with other ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft, Waymo One riders... View Details

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22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

Bankruptcy in the City of Detroit The June 2013 bankruptcy of Detroit, Michigan, was, at the time, the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. Detroit had struggled for years with a weakening tax base, high unemployment, a heavy... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 Sep 2016
News

The Burning Man Project

self-expression, it is also a carefully and thoughtfully organized pop up city of 70,000 people with a $36 million budget. Jennifer Raiser (MBA 1990) is the woman who controls that budget, serving as Burning Man's treasure. And in this... View Details

05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5

Authors:Tiona Zuzul and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract Building on research in strategy formation and organizational innovation, this paper reports on a field study of a young company in the sustainable cities industry. We examine how company... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Solving the Complexities of the Biotechnology Industry

founders and leaders. Additionally, what better city than Cambridge, MA to have such a rich dual education! Cambridge is the global center for biotechnology research and development. Cambridge is to biotechnology what Florence was to the... View Details

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Financial Report 2015 - Financial Report 2015

engagement, traveling with Campaign events to more than a dozen cities around the globe. Additionally, we launched a new version of hbr.org, the online portal to Harvard Business Review that connects managers with leading ideas in... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed

In towns and cities across the country, HBS club members are putting their expertise to work helping local nonprofit organizations solve an array of interesting challenges. Alumni agree that it's a rewarding and enjoyable way to make a... View Details

07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

coastal cities like Mumbai or Lagos or Bangkok as people seek jobs or flee wars or drought. The fact of migration exposes more people to weather-related disturbances. If sea rise were to accelerate, many of the newcomers would be in... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber

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