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- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
David Motley (MBA 1988) grew up in Lincoln-Larimer, a struggling neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End. He remembers the soot on the snow in the cold winters of the 1960s. And if he looked south, toward the Monongahela River, he could see... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Community | MBA
Community At Harvard Business School (HBS), breakthrough moments can happen any time: in a late-night discussion among peers, during a journey along India's east coast, in service to a neighborhood nonprofit, or simply while relaxing in a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Proposed Chair Would Honor African-American Business Pioneer
career as an independent printing salesman in Washington, D.C., and established the New Negro Alliance, an organization intended to persuade companies doing business in black neighborhoods to hire employees from within those... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
tightly to volatile gas prices and the faltering auto industry. From a resident’s point of view, life in a city with inconsistent municipal services and simmering racial tensions could be even more tenuous. While many suburbs prospered, some city View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- Portrait Project
Elsa Sze
What's the biggest lie you've ever told? I once told a seven-year-old boy he would become President of the United States. I've been knocking on doors all day in a challenging neighborhood in Ohio. The sidewalks scream for repair. The air... View Details
- Web
Living in Boston | MBA
Maine, the mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont, and many charming New England coastal towns are all within easy reach. From four-star bistros to neighborhood restaurants, American Repertory Theater to Fenway Park, Boston Pops to a... View Details
- 19 Dec 2019
- News
A Ranch of One’s Own
An established movie producer with numerous hits under his belt, Dan Lin (MBA 1999) understands the long, hard road from idea to script to silver screen. To smooth that journey, Lin founded Rideback Ranch two years ago in the Los Angeles View Details
Keywords: LEGO
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
"Stores no longer have the soul of the past and reflect a chain of stores vs. the warm feeling of a neighborhood store." Starbucks tried to add value through innovation, offering wi-fi service and creating and selling its own... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
André Beisert's olook targets a very particular part of Brazil's new consumer market. "Our brand has a persona," Beisert (MBA 2009) says in his white brick office, which sits atop a small warehouse in the Vila Nova Conceição neighborhood... View Details
- Profile
Oded Navon
car on the road – everyone is home or in prayer for a day of introspection. My hometown commemorates Yom Kippur in a way I’ve always loved, taking advantage of the fact that everyone is home to reconnect with neighbors. At sunset, everyone meets in the central... View Details
- 29 Jul 2024
- News
Leading the Way
Illustration by Gisela Goppel When Michael Trejo (MBA 2013) was a freshman at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2005, he almost lost his full scholarship. “I just really lacked direction,” says Trejo. That’s when he joined ASU’s Hispanic Students Business Association... View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
take it to heart. Says Downing, a married father of three who has spent more than a decade volunteering in the poor urban neighborhoods of nearby Akron, “My true heroes are the pastors, social workers, doctors, and nurses who volunteer in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
—Stever Robbins (MBA 1991) I'd continue to work the size markets you already have a handle on, but I agree, you could/should start approaching the larger cities. Treat their various neighborhoods with the same savvy you've developed in... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
Step Right In
confusing? It is. Fortunately, TechCrunch sent a writer to the MoFE pop-up in New York’s SoHo neighborhood recently to try it out. As TechCrunch explains it, Askaryan was a product manager at Bridgewater Associates but had long been... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Hail to the Chief
American lifestyle sustainable,” Santiago said. “If you don’t, we’ve seen in our dreams that our rain forests and every rain forest will disappear” (Boston Globe, July 27, 2003). Upon her return to the Boston area, Sander organized a View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
housing crisis is steadily moving up the income stream, and we have a growing “missing middle” with very few housing options and the virtual disappearance of the twoto five-unit density that historically made neighborhoods affordable to a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 22 Mar 2011
- News
Maximum Cities
neighborhoods in Bombay go without it for six hours at a stretch, Nohria remarked. Cities, he continued, "are the perfect laboratory to study these issues." Sponsored by HBS's Business and Environment Initiative and cochaired by... View Details
- 25 Aug 2021
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
to individualize student learning. The result was a pilot school on West Belmont Ave in the Hermosa neighborhood of Chicago made up of large, open-classroom spaces called “Pods” for traditional class periods, each holding up to 60... View Details
- Profile
Roniesha Copeland
legend, Magic Johnson. “He talked about his urban development enterprise,” Roniesha says. “He partnered with businesses that put storefronts in neighborhoods they previously didn’t think would be profitable. His talk gave me a window into... View Details
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Donations & In-Kind Support In addition to donations and a variety of in-kind support, such as maintaining the grounds at Honan Library and providing neighborhood snow removal, many of our staff contribute to the community through their... View Details