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- 22 Oct 2014
- News
Preparing middle school students for the opportunities that lie ahead
done a lot of work supporting the public school districts and I was becoming more and more familiar with what was going on in the public schools in terms of student achievement levels and a rapid decline...
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- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
business opportunities. "The basic idea is that the slum dwellers are living on very valuable land in one- or two-story shacks," says Iyer. "If you build multistory buildings, you can give them accommodation and still have View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
Professor Michael Porter and Katherine Gehl, Photo credits: Stu Rosner, Neal Hamberg The American political system, contend Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter (MBA 1971), is broken. Their evidence: a 2019 HBS US Competitiveness Project survey of alumni and the general...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
The concept of a private-equity board’s “long-term” being beyond the next quarter fails my giggle test, however. In the public perception, even the reputable buyout shops, such as Carlyle, Blackstone, and KKR, exist to reorganize, to...
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- 16 Oct 2013
- News
Progress Through Preservation
Will Rogers by Maureen Harmon Every year, Will Rogers (MBA 1985) packages honey from his backyard beehive operation and doles it out to major supporters of the Trust for Public Land, where he serves as president and CEO. The hives, which...
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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
So many facets of design work require that we anticipate need, weigh multiple parameters, and make necessary changes to safeguard public resources. Some of the design world’s most compelling questions stem from ideas of exclusion,...
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- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
possible by a gift from Judy (MBA 1983) and Steve Pagliuca (MBA 1982), the lab will offer shared space for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups that are founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars....
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- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
$100,000 in seed funding. "We wouldn't exist without that start-up money," says Schrader, who notes that Vaxess has also relied on the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) for meeting space as well as a network of HBS professors to guide them...
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Social Media Guidelines for Faculty and Staff | About
to an HBS or a personal account, remember that social media is a public forum, regardless of your privacy settings. Consider and set your privacy settings intentionally. Remember, though, that even if you post to just your friends or...
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- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
in the MBA program's elective curriculum. Bussgang recently published a case study on Codecademy's success to date, as well as the challenges it faces relative to future growth. He discusses that case and the startup space more broadly...
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AllWorld Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
they continue to grow and get to scale. By 2015, AllWorld Expects to Expand the World's Entrepreneurial Economy: Thousands of growth companies will achieve recognition by competing for a space on one of the AllWorld rankings....
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Melvin Edwards Searching for the Word 1989/2019 | About
sculptures are also interventions that can transform public spaces and inspire action. As he wrote in his 1971 statement, “Notes on Black Art”: “We must make works that use our lives and feelings as their...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
use over engineering-driven solutions in the consumer-software space and showed that simplicity trumped bells and whistles, an important lesson for subsequent entrepreneurs in those early days of the computer and software revolutions....
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- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
David Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus; Herman B. Leonard, George F. Baker Jr. Professor of Public Management and Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration; and Lynn S. Paine, John G. McLean Professor...
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- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
tall!), a usable ski hill around and down the periphery, and space for the public to convene and relax overlooking the cityscape, Amager Bakke redefines both what an energy production site can do, and how it...
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- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
innovation comes from that mix; you want the same thing in the classroom,” said Weinzierl. Topics over the four days covered the basics of how the space sector works, how private and public sector roles have...
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- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Stan Chang: “A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship”
an app to optimize energy usage in buildings. On the business side, I’m looking for players in this space who could be potential partners with technology we can leverage.” As he had hoped, interning at Sidewalk Labs has proven very...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
competing operations, driving employees toward public welfare systems, and creating urban sprawl. The savings to Wal-Mart customers appears large in relation to the surplus that it passes on to its stockholders. In recent years, the...
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- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
goals. Illustration of water, energy, and material flows in the Kalundborg Symbiosis. Source: https://www.symbiosis.dk/en/partnerne-bag/ Waste to energy plant diagram - Amager Bakke. Also known as Copenhill. An innovative waste-to-energy plant which doubles as a View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
with those on the inside. The large black-and-white checkered marble floor is familiar, if expanded, but there is a new sense of space in the main entrance area that is both inviting and grounding. An open central stairway makes it clear...
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