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- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
you." And in fact, the poor tend to live in neighborhoods with the fewest transportation options, yet they're the ones who often have the greatest need for mobility. "They're the ones that can go digital less than anybody,"... View Details
- 07 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience
career in software engineering.Separately, I’ve always been passionate about entrepreneurship. When I was twelve, a friend and I built a neighborhood dog walking business—thanks to Wag, we now understand how much money we left on the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
father was a commercial fisherman before retiring to manage his mother’s neighborhood tavern. “My parents were focused on education,” she recalls, “so the Catholic high school I attended, Bishop Kenny, was the aspiration in Jacksonville.”... View Details
- Profile
James Reinhart
but it was never unexpected for Reinhart who started his first venture when he was 10 years old. He lined up lawn-mowing customers all over his New Jersey neighborhood and then motivated friends to tend to the lawns. He charged $15 per... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
Brazil. “Facily often serves lower-income people who had never used e-commerce before,” Westphal said. “It reminded me a lot of the small business my parents owned back in Brazil and also the neighborhood store I worked at throughout high... View Details
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- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
neighborhood of Boston. A frequent "Best of Boston" award winner, the restaurant is a perennial favorite among locals and tourists, particularly for brunch on the weekends, when lines often stretch down the street. The case focuses on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein, which describes the complicity of the federal government in redlining policies that confined Black people in segregated neighborhoods with low opportunity. And for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
dealt with in my life.” Ross emphasized that, at the twilight of the Clinton administration, Arafat could not bring himself to accept an accord that would have given the Palestinians an independent state (with the Arab neighborhoods of... View Details
- Web
Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
stations on public transportation (if all of them are not equipped if you have access to that infrastructure or sidewalks with curb cuts at all)? Are there heat lamps in more wealthy neighborhoods and police cameras in poorer ones? Can... View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders
said. “It reminded me a lot of the business my parents had, and the neighborhood store I had worked at throughout high school, but leveraging technology, which was part of the appeal. I felt a connection to the customers they serve.” In... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
it looks like to be a Chinese person in North America,Having the opportunity to share my culture with others,Being Chinese and Canadian at the same time,and being as proud of one as I am the other. Vi Mai (MBA 2023) I grew up in a predominantly white View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
neighborhoods don't have the potential to succeed or aren't capable. It's much more about decades of underinvestment and a lack of attention to what we say we're all about as a society—namely, that no matter where you come from, you have... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
AACE Foods I have always been passionate about creating change through building businesses on the African continent. A defining moment for me was partnering with friends in 1999 to start an internet café in the neighborhood I grew up in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
Allston will create extraordinary possibilities. It will be exciting to see what unfolds as our Allston neighborhood becomes a vibrant innovation cluster connected to other local innovation nodes like Kendall Square, the Longwood Medical... View Details
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
to innovate the products that people want at a price they can afford. For example, while public-sector organizations are hardly renowned for convenience—think about the location of your Division of Motor Vehicles—entrepreneurs created medical clinics in View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
social service organizations through their family foundation. “There comes a responsibility with success, and that is leaving the world better than you found it,” says Klarman. Robert Kraft, MBA 1965 Founder, Chairman and CEO, The Kraft Group Greeting guests at a... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
rebuilding harder-to-serve urban neighborhoods in a broader way than just housing. And I get excited thinking about it. And I wake up at night fearful that we won't succeed because it's so important to get this to happen. Richard Linowes,... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
conflicts. And it was essentially being cultivated neighborhood by neighborhood. Unless you could get really high density, as the U.S. postal service does, and until you got very close to complete saturation, the business was just a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
the insurgency in the hands of two or three groups. There would be some attempt to increase the hold of the Sunnis on neighborhoods in Baghdad. But I don’t think much would change. Baghdad is now a 90 percent Shia city. It would be more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
alley crevice. He remained motionless in the rain as the officers scoured the neighborhood with flashlights and, as dawn broke, with dogs. The Free Speech Memorial in Warsaw was unveiled on the 25th anniversary of the end of communism in... View Details