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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
advocacy, design, and construction services, micro Home Solutions works with communities, financial institutions, government, and multilateral agencies to address the housing needs of India's urban poor.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
“It’s good social engineering,” Gould says, explaining that creating housing in historic neighborhoods allows more people to live in dense, walkable communities, reducing transportation-related emissions and preserving open space... View Details
- 18 Sep 2015
- News
Why the U.S. Government Is Embracing Behavioral Science
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
neighborhood and partying with the rich and beautiful in chateaux across France. But darker truths lurk behind the façade, and Mason and Kelly find themselves caught in the crosshairs of competing government agencies on opposite sides of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
service at prom time. At Harvard College, where he starred in both football and baseball, he organized team meals and other activities at the Varsity Club. And at Harvard Business School, he started a housing View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
electrification—from the car manufacturers and utility companies to government agencies and the public, who often have a say in where and how charging locations are implemented. An ongoing partnership with GM, for example, is enabling... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
that ESG factors, including management of carbon emissions, will create value for startups in the long-run. There are some tailwinds in this mission, such as from April 2022, Japan’s Financial Services Agency will require public companies... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
and make the government’s international outreach efforts—from agriculture and education to health care—more effective and scalable. Wu describes the work at USAID as “essentially a two-and-a-half year-old venture capital fund housed in... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pinball Wizard
Richard Simon (MBA '66) is making Manhattan his playground - in this case, an indoor replica of the Big Apple as it appeared in the 1930s, the New York Times reported (August 12, 1999, and September 23, 1999). Called Broadway City, Simon's fun View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
Look beyond the United States and Great Britain and you are likely to find networks of companies — ranging from Latin America’s grupos to India’s business houses to Japan’s keiretsu — that are integral parts of the global economy. For HBS... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
faced another life-and-death experience when she was struck as a pedestrian by a car whose driver had fallen asleep. She lost both legs and today uses a wheelchair for mobility. "Bashert," she says, using the Yiddish word for destiny. "I was in front of the View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
the number of temporary housing units an organization has created in post-earthquake Haiti. But how does one measure the effectiveness of a training program in boosting farmer incomes in Ghana? This was the question facing the Millennium... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
Craig P. Coy, 54, spent twenty years in the U.S. Coast Guard as an officer and helicopter pilot. He served as a White House Fellow and counterterrorism adviser during the Reagan administration. Prior to Massport, Coy was president and CEO... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
considered making another run at Wall Street. Instead, he decided his public-service chapter wasn’t finished. He landed a government agency position, which led to a series of advancements, culminating in serving as special assistant to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
and suddenly, there's no doubt it's the 1990s: "Mr. Davis, how much money do you make? What kind of car do you drive? How many houses do you own?" It's a fact of life these days that when kids, or fans of any age, look upon a professional... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
causes and impact of the country’s mortgage meltdown. Serving since 1998 as director of Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Retsinas also teaches at the Graduate School of Design and the Kennedy School of Government. A... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
very substantial product differentiation from their competition or, in the case of the “Truth” anti-tobacco campaign, no competition — just a villain that was an easy target. I don’t know if the agency pursued such clients as a conscious... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
first student ever to graduate with both White House and Fulbright fellowships, also won the Dean’s Award for exceptional leadership and service, and built lifelong relationships with some of his professors—Dean Nitin Nohria, Michael... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
of a merger with supermodel Petra Nemcova’s Happy Hearts Fund. The organization is volunteer-driven and prides itself on showing up early and staying late in the wake of natural disasters, working closely with local agencies to provide,... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
Chairman, Agency for Science, Technology & Research Former Chairman, Singapore Economic Development Board Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION University of Toronto, 1970 BASc., Industrial Engineering... View Details