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- 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
- 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
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
were trying to determine which of three proposals to submit to the city of New York in response to a Request for Proposals (RFP) to create an affordable housing project in the South Bronx. The site, referred to as Via Verde, was a 1.5-acre triangular brownfield in one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
Oregon, when she was six years old, and her parents’ anxious search for a home in the best possible school district, which led to a full-tuition scholarship at the University of Oregon. Noting that the option to choose one’s neighborhood... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
neighborhoods across Baltimore, with competitive admissions) is annually ranked among the best public schools in the United States. This year, 96 percent of the school's graduates are college bound, many to elite institutions in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
preference to neighborhood schools. For Nielsen, the key to meaningful ed-ucation reform is getting topflight candidates to run for school boards. “There is no more important position from which to transform a school system than the... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
services in Vietnam, for example, might go to an inner-city neighborhood of Boston with a high concentration of foreign nationals, to survey them on their banking habits and test out new ideas for changing these habits. Theory Into... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
housing firm. Along the way, he and his partners have contributed countless hours of community service to the neighborhoods in which they own properties. Now 80 and ready to retire, Gates is creating a request for proposal for his firm.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Billy from Affton By William S. Thompson (MBA 1970) Bowker Identifier Services The exploits and adventures of Bill Thompson, a neighborhood guy chosen by his peers to lead, whose work ethic and respect for others mattered, and who never... View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
zip-code level, this suggests that unforced sales take place at approximately efficient prices, while forced-sales prices reflect time-varying illiquidity in neighborhood housing markets. At a more local level, however, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
broader audiences for their works. Hanna: In 2018, Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today opened at Columbia's Wallach Art Gallery. After years of work, Murrell could watch as visitors from the Wallach's Harlem View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
know-how. It was here in Santa Clara County that the idea of venture capital was born when Arthur Rock (MBA '51) funded the invention of the silicon-based semiconductor that would give the Valley its name and its identity. It was in a garage in this View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
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 leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
retail channel made up of thousands of small neighborhood shops called bakalas. In October 2018, all three of these focal points were under pressure. Under the economic-restructuring programs of Saudi Arabia’s new crown prince, Mohammed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem"-and the use of data to drive decision. In the case, managing director Jeff Edmondson is faced with two dilemmas: how to attract business engagement in the City Heights View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Faculty & Advisors | MBA
entrepreneur, company-builder, and early-stage investor with over 30 years experience in building business software, consumer marketplaces, and community networks. She co-founded Nextdoor, the private social network for neighborhoods in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
McKinsey. Although the company provided a car and driver, Makarim, who had lived in Indonesia as a child, preferred to use the ubiquitous motorcycle taxis. Known as “ojek,” the two-wheelers were informally organized. Most neighborhoods... View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
neighborhood 3,000 miles away. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307080 Supplement to InfoVision (A): Technology Transfer at Georgia Tech Harvard Business School Supplement 607-085... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace