Communism - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2001
News

Changing Student Life

Inc., whose online "Campus in a Click" intranet services provide cost-effective, interactive communication for all people associated with an institution of higher learning. "We're changing student life," Jackson explained. "You remember... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Information

23 Mar 2010
News

A Fighter in the Preservation Trenches

Keywords: 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

01 Feb 2000
News

No Place Like Home

housing is a problem that increasingly affects companies and employers, as well as the overall economy," says F. Barton Harvey (MBA '74), (see related story) chairman and CEO of the Enterprise Foundation, a nationwide housing and View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

The same will follow for the next five years, only more so, with more people connected for communication and collaboration. No one had mentioned financial markets, observed Robert Glaser, founder and CEO of RealNetworks. His view of 2008... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Communications; Communications; Communications

02 Sep 2014
News

Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple

better together than people who haven’t—and most organizations could do a far better job of exploiting this simple but powerful insight,” he says. Huckman’s research points to five factors that make team familiarity powerful: the ability to View Details

William G. McGowan

McGowan built a $4 billion telecommunication business that defeated the AT&T monopoly. Acting as a self-employed consultant, McGowan rescued MCI by paying off its debts and created a lean competitor to AT&T by under-pricing the monopolist. By the end of his... View Details

Keywords: Communications

John C. Malone

Known for his financial wizardry, Malone acquired a barrage of cable systems throughout the United States, allowing TCI to own one in four cable systems in American households. TCI’s exposure to other parts of the media industry also broadened, as Malone acquired... View Details

Keywords: Communications

Stephen M. Case

Case, the founder, has built America Online into the world’s largest online service provider with over 20 million members, and services which include commerce, e-mail, chat, and Internet access. In 1998, America Online’s revenues were $3.3 billion and total annualized... View Details

Keywords: Communications

09 Sep 2011
News

Ten Years Ago: HBS and 9/11

As the world recalls the events of 9/11 this week, we are reminded of two articles from the Bulletin that offered contemporaneous accounts of that historic moment. Read how the School reacted to the tragedy and memorialized members of the HBS View Details

Keywords: HBS Alumni Bulletin; 9/11; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

24 Apr 2014
News

Investing in a community's housing and cultural life

Randy Hawthorne (MBA 1973), a retired real estate executive, talks about the community benefits of investing in housing and the arts. (Published April 2014) View Details

01 Jun 2025
News

Sound Bites: Joy to the World

Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010) CEO, East Boston Social Centers Illustration: John S. Dykes For people like youth in foster care, people experiencing poverty, people facing a variety of other hardships—what do they ultimately want for themselves? I think the answer is... View Details

01 Feb 2000
News

Bart Harvey: Opportunities for Others

community development movement that provides all low-income people with affordable housing and the opportunity to move into the economic mainstream. Working through a network of more than twelve hundred community-based nonprofit... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Raising the Barrio

vocational schools are scheduled to open in the barrio. They will be the first public schools in a community where only about 60 percent of adults have finished secondary school. A massive construction project is also under way to reroute... View Details

Keywords: April White

09 Jun 2015
News

Building change from the ground up

the freedom of using a phone, along with Twitter, Facebook, music, and everything that comes with it,” he says. “It’s a communications revolution that can’t be reversed.” (Published June 2015) View Details

13 Nov 2018
News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

“You want to see positive economic changes in a community, but you don’t want people who have been committed to and living in the community for generations to be displaced,” Davis says. “We can prevent that by creating rental... View Details

Keywords: April White; Real Estate

06 Nov 2020
News

Signal Boost

like implicit bias and the actions you can take as an individual or as an organization or as a community to be more welcoming,” says Lara. “I get employers telling me, ‘Well, you know, we tried hiring diverse people but they don’t stay.’... View Details