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- 06 Sep 2017
- News
Amid Wreckage Of Hurricane Harvey, Countless Acts Of Heroism
- 07 Sep 2021
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Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
- 14 Oct 2024
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The Home-Insurance Crisis That Won’t End After Hurricane Season
- 06 Nov 2012
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Businesses face post-Sandy challenges
- 08 Aug 2008
- News
How a local squall might become a global tempest
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
the island. Fate, however, refused to cooperate: Less than a year after PROMESA was signed, Puerto Rico was hit with a succession of natural and man-made disasters. In the fall of 2017, two enormous storms killed nearly 3,000 people; first View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
boundaries of the classroom. The idea stretches back to 2006, when, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a group of MBA students organized a service trip to New Orleans to study—and assist—businesses working to rebuild the city. Since... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave
several high-rise condo buildings on a barrier island on Florida’s West Coast. As the book’s heroes had feared and warned, the island is overflooded by a hurricane of biblical proportions. The buildings collapse, many people die, all... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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Tribute to Fellowships
wondered whether she should pack up and go home. Not that she had a home to return to. That was the problem. The day before Thompson moved into Chase Hall on August 30, 2005, Hurricane Katrina had flooded the New Orleans home of her... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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New School for New Orleans
charter-management organization designed to turn around failing schools. When Hurricane Katrina struck, Alford was teaching at a charter school in Baltimore. He moved to the Big Easy, where he founded and is “school leader” of the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
New Orleans Resonance
A former corporate financier with Boeing, Ben Kleban (MBA ’05) moved to New York, intending to open a charter school. After Hurricane Katrina struck, New Orleans’s dire need compelled Kleban to decamp to Louisiana, where he founded New... View Details
Keywords: charter schools
- 16 Mar 2015
- News
Cooking Up New Opportunities in New Orleans
Carol Ahn Markowitz (MBA 2003) gave up a safe life in corporate finance to head to New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. She now leads a $33.5 million culinary institute start-up. It’s been a bumpy road. Markowitz couldn’t find a job... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
High Stakes on the High Seas
In 1998, on the day after Christmas, 115 sailboats crossed the starting line in Sydney, Australia, bound for Tasmania, a 630-mile dash across the Bass Strait, one of the world’s most treacherous bodies of water. The fabled Sydney to Hobart race went ahead despite... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 30 Sep 2015
- News
The Power of Service
positive change,” says Reilly, who did both in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Rallying City Year contacts from across the country, she founded City Year Louisiana to help with critical relief and recovery efforts just 100 days after... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
A Passion for Organization
opportunity to come and learn the things that we have learned here. “When Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, I had previously lived in Houston. For me, that hit pretty close to home. And I still had family back in Houston, and felt the desire... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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A bold experiment in education
A former corporate financier with Boeing, Ben Kleban (MBA 2005) planned to open a charter school in New York after HBS, but in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he was inspired to found New Orleans College Prep (NOCP). NOCP now operates... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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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... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
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Winter Break Just Got Educational
the student-led Hurricane Relief Trek. The experience gave students an opportunity to apply their management skills and make a personal contribution to the city’s recovery. HBS lecturer Stacey Childress, HBS assistant professor Romana... View Details