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- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
managers: "Can we teach [the people we serve] the importance of being self-sufficient while not being self-sufficient ourselves?" Bread Means Business The bakery at Boston's Haley House is a case study in how one group has... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
of the nonprofit developer Hello Housing, points out that these people are critical to healthy communities: “Some portion of the housing market has to be free from speculation to ensure there’s a place for... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- Profile
Jeff Nelson
cooperative. Tthe other involved implementing feed-mix trials to help chicken farmers, with the assistance of micro-financing, apply the most cost-effective approaches to raising marketable poultry. Looking at basic changes As a... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
of the American Marketing Association's 2010 Sports Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award. The power of "The Rings"—the brand power of the Olympics—derives from the global recognition of the five... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
mortgage market work? Our notion is that if government guarantees matter at all, they matter in a time of crisis. If there is a housing bust, it will be amplified by the reluctance of private investors to... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
Lauder, founded Estée Lauder Cosmetics. By the time she retired from public life in the mid-1990s, this company had become one of the largest cosmetics manufacturers in the world and was recognized as one of the leading players in the global View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
people into a more communal relationship, they have a higher willingness to pay” According to Shelle M. Santana, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School, I may have been influenced by communal norms.... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
by-the-numbers guy. He rattles off the statistics effortlessly: There are about 133 million housing units in the United States, about 84 million of which are single-family homes. Of those 84 million, about 22 million are available for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
mentioned the possibility that financial markets are overreacting to the subprime situation. In what way? There has been a contagion effect beyond the housing market that has... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Says Gould, "The provision of adequate housing for people at all income levels is a problem that's never going to be solved by free-market economics. Only the federal government has the resources necessary to address the magnitude of the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
role in the development, growth, and governance of societies. It reveals how good marketing practices improve the political process and—in turn—the practice of democracy itself. Revisiting Rental Housing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
market: people offered jobs far afield stay put, reluctant (and unable) to leave their underwater homes. Since the recovery of the housing market will undergird any broader recovery, we must address these... 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
- Profile
Carlos Coto
interesting. "I moved into a full-time management rotation program and noticed something intriguing," Carlos says. "As a teller, you get to know clients personally; you're aware of major life events, like when they're buying a View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
“discover, buy, and sell authentic tour experiences.” Zhang, the founder of travel firm WildChina which serves foreign visitors, launched NewUGo to connect the rapidly growing domestic Chinese travel market to off-the-beaten-path tourism... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Escape Hatch
2015 with three tiny houses in the southern New Hampshire woods, Getaway now offers 89 escapes in areas less than two hours from Boston, New York, and Washington, DC, with the goal of expanding to three new View Details
- Fast Answer
Mortgages: data
Where can I find data on mortgages (rates, originations, sub-prime)? Federal Housing Finance Agency: data on current and historical average mortgage rates. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: data from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The Next Chapter
OLSON: After publishing, turning over a new leaf. Former Random House chairman and CEO Peter Olson (MBA ’76) has donned a new hat and will begin teaching corporate strategy at HBS next month. Olson is no stranger to Harvard, having... View Details
- 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
Richard T. Crane
Beginning with a small brass foundry at his Uncle’s lumber yard, Crane built one of the largest plumbing supply companies in the world. Though he diversified into the manufacture of elevators in the late nineteenth century (even controlling 95% of the elevator View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods