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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
One of his agency’s current projects, the conversion of an aging 109-room motel into housing for the city’s homeless veterans, has special meaning for Cordova. Following a tour of duty as a Navy corpsman in Vietnam, Cordova attended... 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
- 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
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
challenges of organ transplantation: "There's a massive gap between how many people get to benefit from a lifesaving organ transplant and how many truly need one," explains Giwa, who was a Baker Scholar at HBS. He's spent the decade since trying to change that. Giwa... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
research ecosystem have delayed the delivery of lifesaving advances. Think of it as a plumbing problem: The third-floor shower in an old house doesn’t have enough water pressure. The problem may be with the third-floor pipe, but it’s far... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium
Old, Something New Traditionally HBS has met prospective students at networking events such as open houses hosted in various locations by HBS alumni clubs as well as on campus by MBA Admissions. The current strategy builds on this... View Details
Keywords: Cindy Olnick
- 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 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
“Rufina, my host mom, lives in a house with a courtyard, a Ford Explorer, a full kitchen, and running water. Not too rough and definitely not what I expected,” writes Michael Newton (MBA ’09) in his journal, a requirement of the Mexico... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Feedback
airline KLM used to have a program where business/first-class passengers would get a lovely ceramic Dutch Delft house (filled with gin!) when flying transcontinental. KLM probably had 75 different house... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Tata Open for Business
Education building. Six years later, on December 9, that vision was fully realized with the official dedication of Tata Hall. The first new building on campus since Spangler Center opened in 2001, the space will feature classrooms and gathering spots as well as offer... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
Family and friends, including George H.W. Bush, rallied to his side. Asked by Bush to chair his 1988 Colorado campaign, Petersmeyer was later tapped by President-elect Bush to head the new White House Office of National Service, which... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
describe some of the church’s projects? The central components of Allen’s outreach are economic and community development, housing, and education. Our first project was a 300-unit, senior-citizen housing complex completed in 1978. We have... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
acceptance into A Better Chance (ABC), a program designed to help smart, minority kids reach their full potential. As a tenth-grader, Rogers was placed in a group house in Radnor, Pennsylvania, with eleven other teenagers from all over... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
How the Ron Brown Award Was Born
Gerstner (left) and Bob Haas look on while President Clinton salutes them and their companies at February's White House ceremony.(photograph by Dotti Stone) Ron Brown Award honorees Lou Gerstner (left) and Bob Haas look on while President... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Christopher Cox: Capitol Hill Intellectual
resident chairs the House Policy Committee and is a member of several committees, including the House Leadership Steering Committee. Beyond being a politician, Cox, who learned to speak Russian in college... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Supporting Global Understanding, Locally
given her a broad perspective on global business. “Too often we become so consumed by what’s happening in our own house we forget to look outside and check on the rest of the neighborhood,” she says. “HBS’s Global Leaders Circle offers... 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
- 16 Mar 2015
- News
Cooking Up New Opportunities in New Orleans
initially, and thought that she and her husband might have to return to Los Angeles. But through a chance encounter with a leading local restaurateur, she now heads a new venture called the New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute, which will be View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Change of Pace
policy and the expression of faith in public life. He will also lend his expertise to nuts-and-bolts issues, such as assessing the financial risks involved in the diocese’s possible support for a housing project in the West Bank city of... View Details