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- 01 Nov 2019
- News
The Particular Creativity of Dense Urban Neighborhoods
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
Why Urban Millennials Love Uniqlo
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
thirty-year resident of Boston's inner-city Dorchester neighborhood, has long been interested in the revitalization of urban areas. "I have personally witnessed the challenges and opportunities embedded in our View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Extremely Transparent and Incredibly Remote
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
Photographed by Webb Chappell In March 2010, the 1787 drafting of the United States Constitution became breaking news. The members of the Texas State Board of Education had convened in Austin to review the state’s history and other social View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Oct 2023
- News
Spreading the Words
Shafiq Khan (MBA 1982) loves to solve problems. It’s what attracted him to the case study method at HBS and, after graduation, to consulting at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Then, at United Airlines, Khan encountered another challenge: The... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
York after graduating from college. Then, in 1988, Ferguson and Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990) founded Urban Profile, a lifestyle magazine for young African-American professionals. “We didn’t consider printing costs or subscribers,”... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
Photography by Craig Hall Like many people who work for change in struggling urban neighborhoods, John Majors (MBA 2000) believes that high-quality education for all children is a vital link to future success. He’s also convinced that... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a high-quality urban institution, to serving on the Virginia Council of Higher Education, to funding the Batten Center for Entrepreneurship at UVA's Darden School of Business. Batten's biggest challenge these days, he says, is to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
family-run Indian conglomerate. Kahn, who worked for agrichemical giant Syngenta AG and knew the industry well, agreed to have a look. The subsidiary, Godrej Agrovet, had expanded beyond its core business of animal feed in recent years, entering poultry processing,... View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
located in Copley Township, Ohio, and the younger Downing wanted to help take the family business to the next level. So instead of medicine, Downing studied business at Bowling Green State University, and later earned his Harvard MBA, all... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
“A National System of Income Supplementation”
Richard America’s analysis of the crippling legacy of racial discrimination in the United States was underscored by a study released last summer. In the wake of a spate of riots in urban America in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Air Time
People often ask me how I managed with the morning study groups: I simply did not attend them. I studied on my own. How about case prep with a toddler? I studied all my cases... View Details
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Sphere of Influence
Analisa Balares (MBA 2005) was born into a poor family, but her life path crossed different strata of Philippine society, from the ultra-wealthy to the urban poor. A student leader from the age of 13, she represented her high school at... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- News
Maximum Cities
Growing up in Calcutta, Delhi, and Bombay, HBS Dean Nitin Nohria experienced urban life at its most extreme — cities so full of people and traffic that it was impossible to imagine they could grow any larger. At a conference on View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group), Bloomberg sees cities as focal points in the struggle against global warming and climate change. Urban areas are now home to half the world’s population, consume half the world’s energy, and,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
An engine of innovation in public education
Drawing upon his background as an entrepreneur and educator, Stig Leschly (MBA 1997/JD 1998) leads Match Education, a reform group that seeks to redefine effective teaching and improve the educational experience of low-income students. It runs four View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
Professor Ashraf (center) with members of the study implementation team at Chipata Clinic, Lusaka, Zambia, including fi eld managers, surveyors, community health workers, and a study nurse. (click for larger... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
remade his mother’s broken washing machine into a chair. He loved to work with wood, shaping a table out of raw planks. Transforming the things around him was an outlet, a way to make his vision a reality. Studying architecture was a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; 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 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
can then help articulate the deeper reforms that will make it possible for those practices to be more widely adopted. “Our task,” Leschly concludes, “is to study and influence how these urban school systems... View Details