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- 22 Oct 2014
- News
Translating business success into meaningful societal impact
Ash Dahod (MBA 1981) talks about using his business success to benefit society through philanthropy in his local community and in a large-scale housing development project in Mumbai, India. (Published October 2014) View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Helping vets become resident landlords
Reed Benet (MBA 1991) is founder and CEO of HeroHomes.com, an online organization that helps military veterans secure no-money-down VA loans to purchase and live in small multifamily homes for housing themselves and income purposes. In... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Baker’s Man of Steel
maneuvered 896 tons of steel beams to support the addition to Baker Library, which will house a new Academic Center and include a south-facing entrance to Allston. Workers check the integrity of every weld with an ultrasound device,... View Details
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
Baillet lived in a tent in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, while working with consulting firm Dalberg to help the U.S. State Department develop a permanent housing strategy to serve the approximately 1.5 million Haitians displaced by the January... View Details
- 30 Jan 2021
- News
Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
serviced by Simon’s three full-time drivers, Heath writes. The rest of his business comes from walk-ins: wedding gowns and formal attire, or a homeowner looking for careful cleaning of an antique rug, for example. Over the years Parkway has tended to White View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
we’re offering.” A management team consisting of local Nepalese and a few expats from the States rented a rice paddy, where they set up a makeshift camp. Volunteers sign up online and pay their own travel expenses. Once they arrive, the organization provides View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
carbon neutral," he says. The entire process is a major technological undertaking—one Dawe says he probably wouldn't be involved with if he and C12 Energy cofounder Kurt Zenz House hadn't been introduced to each other by a Harvard... 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 Jun 1998
- News
New Building Takes Shape
Alumni returning to campus for this year's reunions will no doubt notice the new Executive Education housing facility under construction on the north end of Kresge lawn. Ground was broken for the six-story, 96,000-square-foot structure... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
“Green construction” projects at Hamilton Hall and Sherman Hall/Wyss House that are aiming to garner LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification, a voluntary, consensus-based standard for energy-efficient buildings.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
emissions by more than 30 percent; create housing for an expected 1 million new residents; expand and improve public transportation; cut solid waste in landfills by 75 percent; and achieve the cleanest air quality of any large US city (in... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time
reflects information from 42 countries spanning the years 1947 to 2017. What he found was a “killer predictor”—the coincidence of price and quantity growth in which either housing prices are high and there is great View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Going Up
structure will house living quarters and classrooms for HBS Executive Education programs. Pictured are (left to right) Tata Sons VP Venkat Venkataramanan, HBS chief of operations Andy O’Brien, Tata, and Tata Sons deputy chairman Cyrus... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofit Summit
inspired by the increased demand for services provided by nonprofits, said club president Bruce Marcus (MBA ’80). Sonal Shah, director of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, delivered the keynote address. View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
settlement housed European immigrants who worked on the railroads and at the port. Throughout the decades, multiple attempts at forced eviction and resettlement failed, though one late-1970s effort reduced the population to just 1,000. A... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Ian Calhoun (MBA 2010)
take 14 or 15 hours. One of the highlights of the year is having the whole 80 Thoreau staff to my house for BBQ. I experiment with the wood, the rub, the meat—you want it to be your best stuff." Three ingredients for success: People,... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
Frank Spencer (MBA 1986) helped to build his first Habitat for Humanity house in 1988. It was in the Belmont neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, and, like many Habitat homes, was constructed over approximately 10 weeks, with... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Peter W. Olson: By the Book
The office of Random House chairman and CEO Peter Olson is a quiet, booklined oasis above the clamor of midtown Manhattan, a tranquil setting that mirrors Olson's composed manner and lofty perspective as head of the world's largest... View Details