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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
From Retail to Real Estate
MBA, he set up the New York-based property investment firm Drake Real Estate Partners. The firm has been of particular interest to Latin American investors looking for the protections offered by American real estate. Focused on deals outside the major American View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
access to health care and medicines—need to be done with or without return. Sometimes a certain amount of irrationality is needed. You cannot always be all dollars and cents.” Land of a thousand hills: “Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, is one of the prettiest African View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor
was ever-present. I always thought, wouldn’t it be better to be the landlord than the tenant? And real estate is hyper-tangible; I love the idea of providing shelter in return for income.” PD cities to date: Detroit, Memphis, Miami, the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
devastates Kobe 1997 Founds Rakuten 2000 Rakuten IPO 2010 Institutes “Englishnization” at Rakuten 2012 Rakuten leads $100 million Pinterest investment In 1995, the city of Kobe, where Hiroshi Mikitani grew up, was devastated by what was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering
she says. “We’ve both been enormous fans of the possibilities in Allston for many years,” says Nunnelly. “It’s so incredibly important to the future of Harvard, the city of Boston, and the entire state of Massachusetts. We anticipate this... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
to another important facet of the McKinsey culture--giving back to society. "I've always spent 15 to 20 percent of my time helping nonprofit organizations whose mission and leadership I've felt passionate about, among them Wesleyan, the New York View Details
- 19 Apr 2024
- News
Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception
Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
lower their expectations when job applicants or students come from low-income neighborhoods. It’s a stigma that’s hard to overcome.” Purpose Built Communities has been addressing that challenge since 2009, when the organization was established to share with other View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
meeting weekly at the Harvard i-lab, still talking, still sharing ideas. They also traveled to Mexico City in October 2017 to meet alumni (“I think we had 25 meetings in five days,” Campbell says) and conduct focus groups with potential... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
different in this sprawling city of 20 million than it is in Silicon Valley or any other entrepreneurial hot spot. Yet, 10 or 11 years ago, incubators and accelerators were only emerging concepts in Egypt. An Arabic word for entrepreneur... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
recognized tattoo-removal program, free to gang members, here at the QueensCare Clinic in East Los Angeles. A six-year veteran of the police force in El Monte, a heavily Hispanic, working-class city of 120,000 at LA’s eastern edge, Timken... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Tools and Training for a “Wicked Problem”
When Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller (MBA 2005) outlined his citywide plan to address homelessness in September 2018, his approach included some time-tested best practices from cities with more experience grappling with the issue. Increasing... View Details
Keywords: homelessness
- 07 May 2025
- News
Scaling New Heights
Brianna Brown, chief product officer at City Fresh Foods in Boston. (Photo/video credit: Susan Young) City Fresh Foods has long served nutritious meals to students, seniors, and daycare centers in Greater... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 30 Sep 2015
- News
The Power of Service
explains Reilly, who cofounded City Year in Boston in 1988 with Harvard friends Michael Brown (HLS 1988), Alan Khazei (HLS 1987), and Neil Silverston (HBS 1987). At the quarter-century mark, the nonprofit today engages young adults in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
From left: Chris Osgood, Dan Koh, Lauren Lockwood It is 2:30 p.m. on the day before Thanksgiving, and the halls of Boston City Hall are eerily quiet. Dan Koh (MBA 2011), Chris Osgood (MBA 2006), Lauren Lockwood (MBA 2014), and Austin... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
this conversation with the Bulletin, Hori talks about his plan to reinvigorate his hometown—and why it's important to save the cities that the global economy has left behind. Dan Morrell: What were the goals of the Downtown Mito Rebirth... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
Students partnered with Colgate-Palmolive in Mexico City Students partnered with Colgate-Palmolive in Mexico City Brian Franklin (MBA 2018) admits the prospect of partnering with Colgate-Palmolive to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
to drastically decrease gun use. In a recent study, cities that employ the system saw a 28.8 percent drop in gunfire on average; Fall River, Massachusetts, for example, saw shootings drop by 58 percent. But efficacy hadn’t led to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)
health crisis that has produced severe economic shocks and has shined a light on the longstanding issues around racial equality. Citi too is a very different firm than we were during the financial crisis more than a decade ago. Not only... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Sharing the Road
Sakshi Vij (GMP 23, 2017) is the founder and CEO of Myles, an innovative car-sharing company operating in 21 cities in India. In this interview, she talks about the potential growth in the car-sharing space and how new technologies enable... View Details