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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Keys to the Kingdom
RHEA, WITH FRIENDS: Bringing financial skills from the private sector to public housing. Who’s the Big Apple’s biggest landlord? That would be John Rhea (MBA ’92), who oversees 178,000 apartments in 2,600 buildings at 340 complexes,... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
What Happened to Leadership?
midwestern middle class for generations. Manufacturing jobs paid for college educations, including mine.” He called on the private sector to work with government — “a catalyst for leadership and change” — to set goals for productivity,... View Details
- 08 Jan 2025
- News
Mapping Pain Points at the IRS
Having spent a decade helping retailers optimize customer service, Fumi Tamaki (MBA 2014) could not pass up the opportunity in June 2024 to take on the challenge of improving the customer experience at the government organization that serves more Americans annually... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: The Money of Invention
the United States. That trend will continue, they contend. Despite many of the recent excesses in the venture industry and the slide in the economy — and more specifically in the venture-drenched tech sector — Gompers and Lerner assert... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
business community who recognizes its growing potential in the US economy. Avance’s focus on lower middle-market business services and consumer sectors that often correlate to the types of companies founded by Latinx entrepreneurs meant... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
sector into a language that can be understood by policymakers, politicians, and all those who will use the system. “We need to break down the barriers and make it accessible for everyone who is going to be a part of the digital payment... View Details
- 07 Sep 2016
- News
Appreciating the Big Role of Small Business
returns on investment. This shift may not bring Joe the Plumber back to the forefront of the US presidential campaign, Nohria says, but the future of the US small business sector is a topic worthy of debate. Read Dean Nohria’s complete... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society
For example, in “Reimagining Capitalism,” Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, examined how the private sector might play a major role in driving the systemic change needed to address big problems like... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 14 Feb 2018
- News
A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace
Leadership & Policy, and, Harvard Business School’s Board of Dean’s Advisors. “I am a ‘hopeaholic’,” she says. “My hope and goal is that through acknowledging bias and the willingness to work to block it, the public and private sector... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global
globalization of real estate is a positive change for this sector—and for other sectors as well. Real estate investment is about forming relationships, and from relationships come other business opportunities. Cross-border real estate... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
No sector of our economy is more in need of innovation than health care, yet its many regulations handcuff entrepreneurs. A consumer-driven health-care system will unlock these shackles to bring about a much-needed entrepreneurial... View Details
- 28 Mar 2014
- News
Wanted: Public Entrepreneurs
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
The Bulletin caught up with HBS professor Regina E. Herzlinger this summer as she was en route to Nashville to accept the 2004 Healthcare Financial Management Association Board of Directors’ Award. The prestigious honor recognizes thought leaders in health-care... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Fighting Back from a Knockout
Politics can be a thankless game — to the victor go the spoils, but so too the headaches. Consider the case of Steve Laffey (MBA 1986), the newly elected Republican mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island. Last November, three days after winning the city’s mayoral contest,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)
building effective executive teams, developing and implementing a sound strategy and performance management. Interested in staying up-to-date with news about issues and trends impacting the nonprofit sector but not sure where to start?... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
A Bridge to the Future
much one can, or should, plan out a career, and they shared concerns about the challenges they would face. Students took advantage of sessions designed to help them navigate specific sectors and to introduce them to lifelong career... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
Nonprofit Management ("Bringing It Back Home"), which draws nonprofit leaders from around the world to the HBS campus. Associate Professor Alnoor Ebrahim teaches in the program; his research on quantifying results in the nonprofit sector... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Record Gift to HBS from India’s Tata Group
Group, which employs some 395,000 people worldwide, operates in seven business sectors: communications and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy, consumer products, and chemicals. Based mostly in India, these View Details
Keywords: Tata Hall
- 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 relatives back home,” she recalls. “My... View Details