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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
No Nukes
Washington’s point man in all this is James Kelly (MBA ’68), assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. Kelly, who previously served in the White House and the Pentagon during the Reagan administration, was tapped... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
were able to enter a housing lottery and moved to Hong Kong’s first public housing estate when I was two years old. When I was five, I helped my aunt and sister in a factory that made plastic flowers, which... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Karen Gordon Mills
Early every Tuesday morning, Karen Gordon Mills leaves her house in Brunswick, Maine, and embarks on her weekly commute to Manhattan. She spends the next several days immersed in her work as managing director of a new private-equity firm,... View Details
- 22 Nov 2015
- News
Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job
not shied from the political stage. Its leaders have appeared on numerous policy panels and have written op-eds. They have been invited to a White House summit event on the future of labor. And Marcela Sapone, the company’s chief... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Plastic Fantastic Friendship
prints, and objects. In 1980, the Morses presented their collection to the city of St. Petersburg, Florida, their retirement residence, which opened the Salvador Dalí Museum to house and exhibit the work. View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
selected as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at USAID. The program, started in 2010, is overseen by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. It brings dynamic executives from the private sector, nonprofits, and academia... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 30 May 2017
- News
At Home with History
kept six, all of which are already owned or will eventually be owned by the CAHPT and open to the public. The houses Jenrette worked to preserve for future generations to visit are “part of our heritage,” he said. “Each one could be a... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
primary school readers develop learning concepts and reading skills, and offers books in many languages, including Arabic, English, Hindi, and Spanish. They also built a diverse domestic advisory board that includes, among others, Sandra Cisneros, author of The View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
Blockchain for Good
After immigrating to the United Kingdom in the late 1960s to escape the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) and her family lived in public housing and had very little money. “But we still had more than our friends and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators
down to craft a deal or settle a dispute,” says Wheeler. “Your character is one thing you shouldn’t make up as you go along.” Wheeler presents three cases that test ethical negotiating behavior. The “steal deal” scenario involves an elderly couple offering their View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
conservative values,” he says. Both parties have made winning the district a priority. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has designated the race as one of its competitive “Frontline 10” elections. Collegio calls it “one of the top five races” in which the... 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 Dec 2006
- News
Green as Gold
but it won’t be the last. Wyss House (formerly Sherman Hall) has also been renovated with the goal of obtaining LEED silver certification. Meghan Duggan, manager of energy and sustainable services for HBS Operations, says the School... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
of his role in influencing markets. As Fed chairman, when he advised people not very many years ago to take out variable rate mortgages, he aided and abetted the housing market excesses. When he said there was irrational exuberance in the... View Details
- 15 Mar 2010
- News
Solving the Water Challenge
Keywords: 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
- 06 Aug 2008
- News
Caution to the Winds
had installed on the White House roof. Imagine if alternative energy had instead been an ongoing national priority for the last thirty years. Wouldn’t the American economy, the country itself, and indeed the rest of the world be much... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
“My first entrepreneurial venture was around age 10, catching fish off a jetty near my house and selling them to fishermen as live bait. They paid 20 cents per fish, and for a dollar I could buy my own game of mini golf.” First order:... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- News
Paving the Way to College
Children’s Defense Fund; and helped to select the first secretary of education while a senior White House aide in the Carter Administration. Now semi-retired, Frankel is executive director of College Match, a nonprofit he founded in Los... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
The road to higher-quality, lower-cost health care leads straight to better management. That was the central message a panel of experts convened by the HBS Health Care Initiative delivered last week to a full house of students, faculty,... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
They didn’t know anyone there and did little research before the move. But stories of the city’s recovery—and the HBO series Tremé, which captured its rollicking lifestyle—fired their imagination. With two small children in tow, the couple bought a five-bedroom View Details