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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Elevator Pitch: Block by Block
is modern-era apartments built at significant cost reduction. The Why: There is a shortage of 5 million apartments in the United States alone. Cloud Apartments aims to address that shortfall and bring modular housing into the mainstream... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
trash collection to snow removal. If the forecast is correct, DSNY will have to clear 5 to 6 inches from 6,500 miles of city streets—a task that involves fitting plows to 2,000 garbage trucks and salt spreaders while continuing to collect... View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
was a kind of a bankruptcy,” Weiss says, “one that would allow the government to continue to use the funds that the island had to pay for essential services, put debt payments for the most part on pause, and force a restructuring of all... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
passionate about the notion that business could be a force for good. Within a few decades, many of the success stories were acquired by large corporations (L’Oréal, Estée Lauder, Colgate-Palmolive, and Amazon, in the case of the companies... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
the many career obstacles faced by African Americans, who still represent less than 5 percent of the Fortune 1000's senior managers. Fudge says she also received encouragement from the nuns in the Catholic schools she attended throughout... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
expected to grow. Those combined forces present an existential challenge—and a megalopolis-sized opportunity—for entrepreneurs. “As population growth and weather-related pressures increase, the necessity of using our existing resources... 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
- 14 Jun 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia
Starting last fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On June 5 and 8, more than 300 alumni in East Asia gathered to celebrate and connect with each other at "An... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
between homeownership rates among Black and white people, with white people owning more than 85 percent of household wealth and Black people owning less than 5 percent. Nonetheless, says Abdelal, Baltimore has an unusually troubled... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Porter Course Goes Abroad
Trade and Industry Minister George Yeo (MBA '85), among others. A two-day workshop to provide training for faculty at partner universities in teaching the course will be held at Porter's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness on the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Education Innovation
CHILDRESS (MBA 2000) Illustration by Peter Hoey Related Links 5 Bright Ideas Charter Revolution Redux Lesson Plans Minding the Gap In an article for Harvard Business Review last year, former HBS lecturer Stacey Childress (MBA 2000)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
have been researching the root causes and consequences of the crisis in the intervening decade, helping to shape our understanding of the economic and financial forces that brought us to the brink. MORE Former Treasury Secretaries Hank... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Class Day & Commencement
Skies were overcast on the afternoon of June 5 but that didn't faze this year's 911 graduating MBAs who, along with their families and friends, gathered on Baker Lawn to celebrate Class Day 2002. High spirits remained undampened as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
Fariborz Ghadar (MBA 1972, DBA 1976) could have walked away from the American dream at any point. It could have been the moment his fraternity brothers at MIT decided they couldn't pronounce his name and called him "Bob." It could have been when he was View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
class is better or worse than other asset classes, that will determine the future pool of capital for VCs—which then determines the pool of capital for startups. I was reading the Airbnb CEO’s letter [of May 5 regarding his company’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
radar technology, which forces planes to fly 50 nautical miles apart and only on predetermined routes. Step Forward: Satellite Tracking Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson, citing air traffic control systems as "one of our biggest... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
world needs principled leaders. Business has become one of the most dynamic forces in our society. If you look at what our graduates are asked to do, you will find them holding influential positions on the boards of major nonprofit and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
Press), HBS professor and business historian Nancy Koehn selects contemporaneous news accounts from America’s paper of record to complement her essays on the rise of business in the United States and the influence of business on the country’s evolution. In ten chapters... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Much of the movement's inspiration can be traced back to education reformers like free-market economist Milton Friedman, who argued as early as 1955 that education aid should follow students to the school of their choice, thereby forcing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
intrinsic economics of the situation led to a major collapse,” explains Sandwen. Almost immediately after the crash, a chastened industry began to emerge. Congress rewrote the tax code and put tax-loss syndicators out of business. The S&L industry tanked, View Details
- 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