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- 01 Mar 2012
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Going Up
Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) gets an up-close look at a model of the Tata Hall Executive Education building. Funded by the Tata Trusts and Companies, the building will be completed in December 2013. Tata, chairman of Tata Sons Ltd., came to campus for the December 2... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
By its launch at the end of April, The Harvard Business School Campaign had achieved $600 million toward its $1 billion goal. This early success was made possible by the thousands of alumni and friends who have given to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation, as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
One Western Avenue
Over the summer, the University’s newest residential building, One Western Avenue, opened at the corner of Western Avenue and Soldiers Field Road, adjacent to HBS. The building contains 235 apartments and will house about 350 occupants, including HBS students, which... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
New Horizons
The Harvard Center Shanghai occupies the entire fifth floor of the HSBC Tower, right of center. The building is a recent addition to the panoramic Pudong district skyline, noted for the futuristic architectural flourishes of signature structures like the... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- News
The Road to Racial Equity
that want to address persistent inequities. The goal is to achieve for DEI efforts what the LEED standards have done for sustainability in the construction world: to provide measurable and attainable guidelines. Walker & Dunlop, a real... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
The NBA's African Expansion
The National Basketball Association recently announced the creation of NBA Africa, a new entity that will operate the Basketball Africa League (BAL), build corporate partnerships, expand content and media rights, and support local efforts to View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
dollars, the world’s institutions are making scant progress toward the promise of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The central cause: top leaders lack the means to construct and implement comprehensive diversity strategies that are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
process, a common activity in the construction of large structures such as bridges and buildings. Piles — heavy beams of concrete, steel, or other material — are pounded into the ground by a large “hammer” attached to a crane. The cushion... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Wheels Up
Bit by bit, people are flying again. At Dublin Airport, travel is down from a record 33 million passengers in 2019 to a forecasted 8 to 9 million in 2021. Still, it’s a start—and travelers in and out of Ireland’s capital soon will have the benefit of a newly View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
ended up, buying a piece of and running a dredging marine construction company for about 12 years, which I sold in 2018. It ended up coming a little more full circle. It certainly was not part of the grand career plan. But I've had a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
now affiliated with Kimpton. We’re adding private porches and lush, tropical landscaping and renovating the rooms; it hasn’t been terrible timing, because we were already under construction when the pandemic took hold. The way we’re... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
twenty-year federal pollution suit against sugar growers and a $7.8 billion bill signed by President Clinton, the project, said to be the most ambitious such effort in U.S. history, involves buying land around the Everglades and undoing canals View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
¡Vamos al Cine!
will control 51 percent of the cinemas in Mexico City, one of the world's most-populated urban areas. To reach the working poor, Heyman decided to cut ticket prices by about half in low-income neighborhoods while building the same luxurious theaters that Cinemex was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
China, whether over trade, Taiwan, Tibet, or some other as yet subliminal issue. The scenario may seem implausible. Yet it is easy to see how future historians could retrospectively construct plausible chains of causation to explain such... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
accelerate construction projects. And now, finally, travel plans are back on. Here, alumni from the field share insights into how the industry has readied itself for your arrival at the airport—and what to expect in the next era of travel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
contemplates the construction of residence halls specifically for HBS students. The existing Soldiers Field Park complex, as well as the new apartment facility — One Western Avenue, now under construction —... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Wind Shift
HBS professor George P. Baker, a finance expert, has in recent years become an alternative-energy change agent as well, spearheading community wind projects in Maine. Now on leave from HBS, Baker is the CEO of Fox Islands Wind LLC, which last November unveiled three... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
skyward above the flattened landscape left behind, giant construction cranes, clustered over the site’s several acres, accentuate its emptiness. It is here that Harvard University is putting down a big bet on the future — and on a... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Burunda Prince (MBA 1987)
estate and construction business in Atlanta 70 years ago. He was an incubator and accelerator before the terms were even coined. Our Big IDEAS curriculum helps develop a step-by-step plan for creating a sustainable business. The process... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Harbus Foundation Supports Community Projects
vehicle for learning about constructive philanthropy. "The same spirit that makes Harvard Business School students successful business leaders is also alive in the Foundation," says Trustee Daniel F. Curran (MBA '00). "Students use their... View Details