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- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
Four Weeks on the Road with MBAs Across America
Made, meeting with the Mayor and City Council, attending an event with Bill Aulet, MD of the Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, and talking with local entrepreneurs and investors. We were also lucky to meet with VC investor Brad Feld. He... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
during her summer internship at the National P... Parks Management is People Management Olivia Staffon 23 Aug 2018 I began my MBA with the goal of utilizing business practices for land management issues. Scouring... Mobility in the Motor City: My Summer at the City of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
have. Growing up, Wiley and her sister Sharon Pratt Kelly (who served as mayor of Washington, D.C., from 1991 to 1995) often heard their attorney father talk about the effect of his work on the lives of others. "Obviously, who you become... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 05 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working With City Leadership To Leverage Technology
extract metadata, using artificial intelligence technology, that makes the stored videos much easier to search. “It’s a huge privilege to be trusted to lead so much important work,” Henry says. “The mayor calls me about my portfolio; the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
Weiss, the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice. That’s the premise of his new book, We the Possibility, which encourages governments to think like startups. For Weiss, who served as chief of staff to Boston’s mayor and... View Details
- 13 May 2020
- Blog Post
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
Two weeks into his Leadership Fellows position with the Detroit’s Office of the Mayor, Nikhil Patel (MBA 2019) was summoned by the Mayor for a car ride. Among Patel’s mandates – which included economic development, housing, and... View Details
- Profile
Matt Segneri
led him to Mayor Cory Booker's Newark office where he helped shape local economic development strategies. Another involved managing the Social Capitalist Awards, a collaboration between Fast Company Magazine and Monitor Group. "We... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Tools and Training for a “Wicked Problem”
When Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller (MBA 2005) outlined his citywide plan to address homelessness in September 2018, his approach included some time-tested best practices from cities with more experience grappling with the issue. Increasing... View Details
Keywords: homelessness
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
national leaders are largely paralyzed either by politics or by budgets. In practice, local leaders can often take more pragmatic action, faster. Mayors can influence municipal purchasing, building zoning for density and efficiency, taxi... View Details
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Roniesha Copeland
impact back into my career.” Beyond the familiar In between her first year at HKS and her RC year at HBS, Roniesha served on the staff of Sacramento, California, Mayor Kevin Johnson, where she worked on issues related to education reform:... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology
technology, that makes the stored videos much easier to search. “It’s a huge privilege to be trusted to lead so much important work,” Henry says. “The mayor calls me about my portfolio; the CIO and I sit next to each other. But it’s not... View Details
- 03 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Business of Animal Protection Club
campus, along with business icon Suzy Welch, NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ food policy deputy director, a leading alternative protein VC and a non-profit leader. Advise students on how to use their careers to help animals. Importantly, this is... View Details
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About Baker Library | Baker Library
father of New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966). A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School, 1908-1927 In this exhibit, a wide array of architectural guidelines, correspondence, early plans, detailed... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
and an oratorical competition, and she assigned homework, and she said, "Everybody's got to write a speech." And the topic was, "I'm the mayor now, and this is my new plan." At 11, I had never written a speech. I don't think I'd ever... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Blog Post
A PRIDE Farewell
LGBTQ+ prospective students which yielded a registration-to-attendance conversion rate 2x that of comparable programs. Hosted the first oversubscribed LGBTQ+ Student Visit Day. Hosted exclusive LGBTQ+ leader fireside chats with Barry’s CEO Joey Gonzalez and former... View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Tales of the Newly-minted MBA
more pressing demands of earning a living. After stints at Bain & Co., J. Crew, and Old Navy, he landed his current position as vice president of People's Bank in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Now he's decided to follow another turn in his career path and announce his... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference
Basden (MBA 1997). Former Georgia Congressman and Atlanta Mayor Andrew J. Young, Jr., also led a forum on influencing political and economic agendas. Telecommunications industry leader Robert E. Knowling and media entrepreneur Keith T.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
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 2005
- News
Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
topics, but I also looked for practical expertise. Who has more experience with snow removal than the mayor of Buffalo, New York, for instance? Who has changed more diapers than the parents of sextuplets? So the experts actually wrote... View Details
- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower
low income individuals or veterans or women or LGBT people. We asked ourselves, ‘How do you bridge that gap?’” In September of 2021, then-New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio announced that BlocPower had won a $37 million contract to create... View Details