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- 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
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
ten thousand new units. An additional $1 million will go to housing groups to research and test solutions to the affordable housing problem. Cambridge Mayor Francis Duehay and City Manager Robert Healy, Harvard President Neil Rudentine,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
beautiful. Very picturesque. There is literally one road in and one road out. And frankly they're the same road. The town has, I believe, fewer than a thousand people, and it might be closer to several hundred people. And this gentleman—his name is Simone Tiglio—is the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Politics and Patriotism in Small-Town America: Confessions of a Plain-Talking, Independent Mayor by Richard Muti (MBA ’71) (WingSpan Press) While Bullets Fly: The Story of a Canadian Field Surgical Unit in the Second World War by Ian... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
the new competitiveness council created by the White House and would give President Obama an occasion for convening the business community to request specific commitments. Governors and mayors could follow suit. No new government funding... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
And openness and transparency are not just digital; Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) is an example of a leader who converted the hushed, mausoleum-like executive floor we know at most companies into the open beehive of Bloomberg LLC and New York City Hall, putting his... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
Thompson, who was joined by Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith and CEOs Gerald Greenwald of United Airlines, John E. Pepper of Procter & Gamble, and Raymond W. Smith of Bell Atlantic. "Somebody To Tell Me I'm Worth Something" Smith... 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
- 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
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
hotels, Captain C.P. Krishnan Nair; the Mumbai office shared by the husband-and-wife law team of Cyril and Vandana Shroff; and the funky space of Park Won Soon, the mayor of Seoul. She’s now brought those essays together in her new book,... View Details
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
Investigation through the Special Advisor Program. After graduation, Matt participated in the HBS Leadership Fellows Program, joining the Boston Mayor’s Office as an Advisor to Mayor Tom Menino and staying for a second year as a Senior... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
offered by "emotional intelligence," a quality more often credited to women than men? New Yorker Susan Willet Bird cited Mayor Rudy Giuliani's transformation in the public eye from dictator to benign emperor, a reversal which... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
up and learn from other cultures, it’s on Lara and her team to do the same. Within weeks of taking on her new role, she reached out to the mayor of Holland and told him she wanted to participate in the annual Tulip Time Festival,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
superintendent. Whether that individual is an educator or not doesn’t matter — leadership is what counts.” Resident Executives Trying to achieve similar change in the New York City school system is Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966)... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
Archdiocese of Washington. As strategist for the Washington, DC, office of the deputy mayor for planning and economic development, Lina Feng continued at the job after finishing her fellowship in 2013 and is now a student at HBS. “There... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
(unless it involved the defendant), a practice that often served only to humiliate the victim and introduce material irrelevent to the proceedings at hand. In 1983, then New York Mayor Ed Koch appointed Snyder to a judgeship. With her... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
investors—they require houses be purchased one at a time and often have complicated tax codes—but Davis, who served as vice president of real estate for the New York City Economic Development Corporation under Mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
School Case 314-005 Equity Awards at GulfShore Rigging No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/equity-awards-at-gulfshore-rigging/an/314005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-003 Demarketing Soda in New York City In 2013, New York City... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
discussed during a live broadcast presented through the Bloomberg Harvard Initiative in April for 120 US mayors and 600 guests from around the world. Harvard Center Shanghai—In response to the pandemic, the center cohosted an online event... View Details