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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
don’t see a repeat of 1989,” he adds. In fact, overpricing, not overbuilding, is the market’s biggest problem, says Joseph O’Connor (MBA ’70), the founder and president of Singleton Associates, a real estate development firm based in Boston, and former chairman of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
unprecedented rates. Diabetes rates have boomed. Online data thefts have surged. Urbanization and waste have soared. What is happening? Is it globalization? Or is something much deeper taking place, something that the world had never... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
Against Discrimination, led a town meeting on lessons learned from last year's revelations of racist attitudes among certain corporate executives at Texaco. Hugh B. Price, president and CEO of the National Urban League, concluded the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
the world’s best user of technology to create globally best-in-class industries? Can a new wave of research and innovation be unleashed to transform urban and rural habitats where high-quality education and skills are available to create... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
of supporters, from former activists to current Warsaw government officials to the next generation of Polish architects and urban planners—is about more than the past. It is a lesson for the future, to show peoples seeking their freedom... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
fellow Dan Katzir (MBA '91), director of The Broad Foundation, a Los Angeles–based venture philanthropy organization that funds innovative efforts to improve governance, management, and labor relations in large urban school systems. Both... View Details
- 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
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
businesses to serve them. Right? Now you have 10 or 20,000, or 100,000, people living in these urban cities. They need to cut their hair, they need to eat, they need to go watch movies, they need to do a bunch of things that will create... 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 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
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
of research conferences is in the works, including this April's "Business Leadership in the Social Sector" - which will explore how businesses are dealing with critical social issues such as public education, moving welfare recipients into the workforce, and View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 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
- 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 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
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
worked at a Roxbury-based housing development company. Willis has spent his career focused on urban development projects and continues to run his real estate consultancy firm in the Los Angeles area. From that first welcome party in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
small monthly fee of about $6 for access to primary health care and specialists for urban individuals and families with annual incomes of less than $3,500. This is just the sort of BoP business solution that has drawn many of the students... View Details