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- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
art alone typically work part-time in urban areas in relatively low-paying jobs and they have trouble finding large spaces for their art making. On the other hand, the agricultural industry in Japan has been losing young workers. To... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 04 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Blogs
1976D Jack Schultz, BoomtownUSA, http://boomtownusa.blogspot.com/ (on the trend to leave the urban rat race for small towns; archived since Oct. 2004) MBA 1976E Tom Frey, Frey vs. Frey. Conservative vs. Liberal, Religious vs. Secular,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
advocacy, design, and construction services, micro Home Solutions works with communities, financial institutions, government, and multilateral agencies to address the housing needs of India's urban poor. MEHRA Photo courtesy of Rakhi... 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 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
“It’s been a great boost, and top-line results followed.” What’s ahead: Last spring the company raised $15 million in Series B funding, which will help GAIA expand into other densely populated urban areas in Mexico, as well as on the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 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
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
with the country’s recent economic slowdown, China has more billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and very wide variance in income, standard of living, and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
sisters, and mothers-in-law ready to step in along with easily available domestic help. However, despite these advantages in the urban middle class in India, women are only now entering the corporate world in a significant way. For my... 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
- 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
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
important? Christine: "We believe business plays a fundamentally noble role in society. From rural to left-behind urban communities, business leaders play a vital role in creating an economy that works for everyone. We want to motivate... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
percent of the traffic in most urban areas is caused by people just driving around trying to find parking,” says Mistele, the company’s president and CEO. All that congestion comes at a high price. Mistele says the Texas Transportation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
its leavings. Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
development and real estate have become synonymous with economic growth and prosperity. Tracking land reforms and urban development nationally and in three cities in one Chinese region, the study reveals that the initial liberalization of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
end, we have to move to energy sources for base load electrical power—available whenever a customer needs it—and transportation that do not release new carbon into the atmosphere and yet are still economically acceptable to the public. Other than off grid in the... View Details
- 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 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
something that will take years.” Home Ownership: Back to Basics HBS lecturer Nicolas Retsinas, who before arriving at Harvard served as assistant secretary for housing in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, offered a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
disparity between rural and urban populations widens. Wanda S. Tseng, deputy director of the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department, offered an overview of Asia's current economic strengths and weaknesses. "There are no quick fixes," she... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
new President, what is the status of planning for the future Allston campus? I think the vision of the future Allston campus is pretty broadly shared in the University community, and there is considerable momentum to carry the process forward. Harvard is unique among... View Details