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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
throughout the day and to explore the HBS experience with current students. Highlights from the second day included panel discussions on topics ranging from the union between the Internet and the urban market to accessing the world of... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
When Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) first read of Amazon’s search for a second headquarters in the Wall Street Journal, he was certain the newspaper had made a typo. The online retailer couldn’t be talking about creating 50,000 jobs. Moret’s years in economic development... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
for urban ridesharing applications. “Most ridesharing opportunities tend to be in urban areas where size matters, where parking is expensive and elusive,” says Fletcher, who attended the School’s Women on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
homelessness. But the affordable housing problem is especially acute in urban areas, where entire tranches of the workforce—teachers, laborers, first responders, restaurant and transit workers, for example—are squeezed out of their... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Having a Ball
founder and CEO of a Virginia technology company, snapped it up through his Stafford Foundation. “We’ve gotten away from the core values that made America great,” Stafford told the Washington Post (December 4, 2008). “We just need to get back to caring about each... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
steam-powered cable car in San Francisco in the 1870s inaugurated the era of street railways in urban areas (it also spared horses the burden of pulling heavy loads up and down the city’s steep roads). Within a decade, cable cars were... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
cancer still progressing, he and his wife decided it was time to stop treatment. At the age of 74, Sato-san settled in for his final stages in the heart of his home—the altar to his ancestors to his left, oxygen machine to his right—secure in the knowledge that the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
leadership.” Be it in Washington’s poorer neighborhoods or Africa’s sprawling urban settlements — indeed, in struggling societies around the globe — America sees similarities and at least one constant: a crippling and unaddressed economic... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Allston Options Up for Discussion
in June a forty-page report outlining design options for the new Allston campus. Of all the issues considered, “effective transportation is the most critical to the overall feasibility of the project,” concluded the report, prepared by the New York View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
reduce the urban heat island effect, a condition created when dark, impermeable surfaces like asphalt absorb heat and radiate it back into the air, forming an urban heat dome. When it rains, a green roof... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as much to go around—and when a... 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 2007
- News
Mission Possible
challenge: “How do we take what we do, collaborating with our many partners and clients, and increase our social impact one hundredfold? That’s our next big aspiration.” Gerald Chertavian (MBA ’92) Year Up www.yearup.org INTENSIVE TRAINING: Year Up provides young View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Marilynn Davis (MBA '82)
career has also included impressive stints in public service, as CFO of the New York City Housing Authority in the 1990s and as assistant secretary for administration at the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the first... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
cofounded a telecommunications company. I Quit, and Choose Work That Aligns with My Soul by Karyn Pettigrew (MBA 1990) (KPConsulting) A motivational speaker, coach, and consultant, Pettigrew helps people align their careers with work that complements their talents.... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
says Schmitt. "It's been a special year. Everything we've done has had some 75th anniversary component." Celebrations kicked off last May with the club's first signature event—a fireside chat on "The Future of Dallas," featuring Cullum Clark, an View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
rebuilding harder-to-serve urban neighborhoods in a broader way than just housing. And I get excited thinking about it. And I wake up at night fearful that we won't succeed because it's so important to get this to happen. Richard Linowes,... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
nonprofit focused on improving urban economies, and ICV Partners, a Black-owned private equity firm focused on companies in the lower middle market. Willie Woods is cofounder, president, and managing director of ICV Partners, and in this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
school that would address the many problems afflicting the region—including lack of education, alcohol abuse, and moral decay. Pine Mountain owes its name to the late 19th-century settlement movement to improve the lives of poor, urban... View Details
- 24 Feb 2016
- News
Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
Alden envisioned a hybrid system he called the StaRRcar—a “car-like train” with small pods that a passenger could call like a taxi and would ride on rails directly to the desired destination. It was an idea ahead of its time, Adi Robertson writes for The Verge: “Once... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Film School
businesspeople, and teachers to help urban teens make films about some of the serious issues—drugs, violence, love, sex, gangs, and poverty—they face. "Our film apprenticeship programs have a track record of getting teens, including... View Details