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- 07 Apr 2017
- News
Transforming the “Misery Towns” of Buenos Aires
When economist Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (MBA 1993) was elected mayor of Argentina’s capital in 2015, he promised to address conditions in the city’s slums, which house about a quarter million of the city’s 3 million people. A recent... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
public-private partnership between the state government and for-profit developers. The goal is to transform Dharavi into a neighborhood offering desirable, market-rate residential and commercial real estate while providing its longtime residents with free View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
that the mayor’s beach house was there on exactly the same basis.” At that point it was time to return to MIT, but Mawilmada believes the government eventually granted an upgrade to the settlement. That experience was a turning point.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Illustration by Mercedes McDonald. Orchard Gardens photo by Ed Quinn/Saba In many parts of the country, housing costs and shortages have begun to show signs of adversely affecting corporations, workers, and local economies. Affordable... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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,... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
by-the-numbers guy. He rattles off the statistics effortlessly: There are about 133 million housing units in the United States, about 84 million of which are single-family homes. Of those 84 million, about 22 million are available for... View Details
- 14 Dec 2017
- News
Making Movies Is a Class Act
Glenn Close in Crooked House (photo by Nick Wall) Crooked House, an Agatha Christie mystery published in 1949, was one of her favorites, yet it had never been adapted for film or television. Now, however, HBS sectionmates Joe Abrams and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Campaign Regional Events
Los Angeles February 2, 2005 Chicago* March 16, 2005 Seattle* March 29, 2005 Washington, D.C. April 21, 2005 *The HBS Volunteer Conference will be held in conjunction with events in these cities. Greenhill House Dedicated On November 15,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Last Look
identified these cheaply made buildings — known informally as Tortilla Flats after the John Steinbeck novel — as temporary postwar housing for married students, located roughly where Kresge Hall now is. Haseman recalls that his family’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Yurt Man
ZWERN, WITH “GLIMMER”: At Burning Man, a cool yurt has potential for disaster relief and housing for much of the world. Arthur Zwern (MBA ’85) and his solar-powered Hexayurt generated buzz at this year’s Burning Man festival, the annual... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Keys to the Kingdom
domain became Rhea’s literally overnight last May, when he was appointed chairman of the New York City Housing Authority by Mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA ’66). Critics noted that Rhea, who was previously an executive at JPMorgan Chase and... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
causes and impact of the country’s mortgage meltdown. Serving since 1998 as director of Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Retsinas also teaches at the Graduate School of Design and the Kennedy School of Government. A... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
consulting company, writing about Google’s new Chrome operating system (Huffington Post, July 13, 2009). “Echo boomers are larger than the baby boomer population. Couple that with immigration and you have the seeds, the possibility of a View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
program in the 1960s to his role today as president and CEO of Pioneer Group, which creates affordable housing through the renovation and preservation of historic buildings in the American Midwest. Freeman grew up in a small Kansas town,... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Tales Out of School
In 1994, Sarah Hoit (MBA '93) became director of business planning in the White House Office of National Service, designing and implementing AmeriCorps, the Clinton administration's $600 million national- and community-service... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Peter W. Olson: By the Book
The office of Random House chairman and CEO Peter Olson is a quiet, booklined oasis above the clamor of midtown Manhattan, a tranquil setting that mirrors Olson's composed manner and lofty perspective as head of the world's largest... View Details
- 22 Oct 2014
- News
Translating business success into meaningful societal impact
Ash Dahod (MBA 1981) talks about using his business success to benefit society through philanthropy in his local community and in a large-scale housing development project in Mumbai, India. (Published October 2014) View Details
- 06 Jul 2017
- News
Leadership on a Global Scale
Special Forces, planned to make the military his career. But a training accident brought that plan to an end, forcing a course correction that took him to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and to HBS, where he became the first student to graduate with both White... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Bart Harvey: Opportunities for Others
community development movement that provides all low-income people with affordable housing and the opportunity to move into the economic mainstream. Working through a network of more than twelve hundred community-based nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
says Lee, noting that it’s a business that’s fairly common in Europe, whereas Redbrick has virtually no U.S. competitors. Through its three funds financed by private investors, Redbrick buys up quantities of single-family houses in... View Details