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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Fixer Upper
almost two decades in marketing at Chemical Bank, before quitting to try her hand at real estate in 1987. Then came that year’s stock market crash, which precipitated a six-year tumble in housing prices as well. “I decided if I could make... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
notable recent addition is the House of Mandela portfolio of wines, produced by the family of Nelson Mandela. The Mandelas and Cuffes both recognized South Africa's burgeoning fair trade wine movement, which promotes equitable trade and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Andrews, Raymond Remembered
of cases he wrote on the Swiss watch industry. A Ph.D. in English and the author of a critically acclaimed book on Mark Twain, Andrews also edited the Harvard Business Review for six years and was the master of Harvard’s Leverett House... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Joe Badaracco
HBS students who, Badaracco says, are better than ever: “The talent and energy in the classroom is just amazing.” This fall, many of the eager faces he surveys look younger than usual: Badaracco and his wife, Patricia O’Brien (DBA ’86), are living in Currier House, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
90 and 95 percent of all the residential mortgages this year have been insured by, guaranteed by, or securitized by the government.” — HBS senior lecturer Nicolas Retsinas noting that the government has kept the residential housing market... View Details
- 14 Dec 2017
- News
Making Movies Is a Class Act
Glenn Close in Crooked House (photo by Nick Wall) Crooked House, an Agatha Christie mystery published in 1949, was one of her favorites, yet it had never been adapted for film or television. Now, however, HBS sectionmates Joe Abrams and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 07 Nov 2016
- News
The Business of Saving Old Buildings
movement in the state. “I graduated from business school in 1961 and the idea of reusing old buildings was pretty novel and unknown. I was interested in old architecture, and I think I became the first graduate of Harvard Business School who became an old View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
international regions, presented business plans for their start-ups to judges on Monday, April 25, during the final round of competition. On Tuesday, Rakhi Mehra (MBA '09), founder of micro Home Solutions, a social housing initiative for... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Thomas S. Murphy (MBA 1949)
growth, highlighted by the purchase of ABC, which included ESPN, in 1985. Under his leadership, Capital Cities grew from one small broadcasting station housed in a former convent to a multibillion dollar telecommunications conglomerate.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2017
- News
New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach
Development. These regional offices—including the one previously established in Mexico City—are staffed by a local researcher and are aligned with one of HBS’s global research centers, which range in size from 3 to 12 people. Many of the offices and centers View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Last Look
identified these cheaply made buildings — known informally as Tortilla Flats after the John Steinbeck novel — as temporary postwar housing for married students, located roughly where Kresge Hall now is. Haseman recalls that his family’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Yurt Man
ZWERN, WITH “GLIMMER”: At Burning Man, a cool yurt has potential for disaster relief and housing for much of the world. Arthur Zwern (MBA ’85) and his solar-powered Hexayurt generated buzz at this year’s Burning Man festival, the annual... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Snapping Up Voters
Saliterman—a 33-year-old veteran of the Bush White House and Republican National Committee—promoted new tools that permitted campaigns to run ads for a select group of voters before YouTube videos. After moving to launch Snapchat’s first... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Keys to the Kingdom
domain became Rhea’s literally overnight last May, when he was appointed chairman of the New York City Housing Authority by Mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA ’66). Critics noted that Rhea, who was previously an executive at JPMorgan Chase and... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Campaign News
Jr. (MBA ’56), and Dean Clark. Connell House On April 30, members of the HBS community gathered for the dedication of Connell House. The building (formerly named Fowler) honors the late William F. Connell (MBA ’63), a visionary leader... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
consulting company, writing about Google’s new Chrome operating system (Huffington Post, July 13, 2009). “Echo boomers are larger than the baby boomer population. Couple that with immigration and you have the seeds, the possibility of a View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
program in the 1960s to his role today as president and CEO of Pioneer Group, which creates affordable housing through the renovation and preservation of historic buildings in the American Midwest. Freeman grew up in a small Kansas town,... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
income and unrestricted current-use gifts accounted for 24 percent of total revenue, MBA tuition and fees 18 percent, and housing rentals 3 percent. The School ended the year with 219 full-time faculty and 1,146 full-time administrative... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
Facilitating private-sector progress while benefiting the taxpayers "Governments need to think more like partners, not order-givers," said Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Greg Bialecki. "Government can play an... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
Margaritaville Enterprises Tiny houses are mobile. They’re ecofriendly. They’re affordable—on average, just $23,000. So how do you take the tiny house movement mainstream? With Getaway, Jon Staff’s (HBS... View Details