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08 Mar 2018
News

How HBS Gives Back

the greater good. The piece details several initiatives, from Senior Lecturer Kevin Mohan’s position as chair of Boys Town to the students who work as mentors at the Gardner Pilot Academy through the Volunteer Corps to the Knowledge and Library Services staff’s work... View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

One-on-One with Edwin Reed

get involved with community development? For some years, the area around the church had been in steady decline, with vacant storefronts, deteriorating houses, and neglected properties. Gang activity and drug use were on the increase.... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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

21 Aug 2016
News

From Money to Ministry

He may be retired, but the Reverend Rodney Quainton (MBA 1970) hasn’t stopped finding a way to connect his community to a higher spirituality. For this HBS-trained banker-turned-Episcopal priest, helping parishioners weather rough times... View Details

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

21 Apr 2014
News

Giving back is part of the social contract for any business

Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992), former chairman of Microsoft India, discusses how a company should be aligned with the objectives of its host community or country. (Published April 2014) View Details

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

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

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

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

03 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains

You’re the founder of a growing startup and it seems like just yesterday that you were a team of five, sharing a co-working space with one table and five chairs. There was an open flow of communication in the room and unless someone’s... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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

25 Apr 2014
News

Serving as a cultural ambassador

case about our Tohoku partners," Tamaki recalls. "We hope that the cases will inspire ideas about how to help communities recover from future disasters." Her team worked with an entrepreneur who built a hotel out of trailer homes in a... View Details

March 1990 (Revised November 1999)
Case

MCI Communications: Planning for the 1990s

By: Robert L. Simons and Hilary Weston

Concentrates on the evolution of MCI's strategy-setting process following a period of dramatic growth. Opportunistic strategies during MCI's early years have given top managers a dislike of formal strategic planning and a strongly-held belief in top down strategy... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Growth and Development; Planning; Strategic Planning; Growth Management; Business or Company Management; Competition; Alignment; Communications Industry

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