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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
High Stakes on the High Seas
In 1998, on the day after Christmas, 115 sailboats crossed the starting line in Sydney, Australia, bound for Tasmania, a 630-mile dash across the Bass Strait, one of the world’s most treacherous bodies of water. The fabled Sydney to Hobart race went ahead despite... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 30 Sep 2015
- News
The Power of Service
positive change,” says Reilly, who did both in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Rallying City Year contacts from across the country, she founded City Year Louisiana to help with critical relief and recovery efforts just 100 days after... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
A Passion for Organization
opportunity to come and learn the things that we have learned here. “When Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, I had previously lived in Houston. For me, that hit pretty close to home. And I still had family back in Houston, and felt the desire... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A bold experiment in education
A former corporate financier with Boeing, Ben Kleban (MBA 2005) planned to open a charter school in New York after HBS, but in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he was inspired to found New Orleans College Prep (NOCP). NOCP now operates... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
students did just that when they traveled to New Orleans with the HBS Hurricane Relief Trek. Some students worked with Mayor Ray Nagin’s Bring New Orleans Back Commission, brainstorming economic development strategies. Others helped... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Winter Break Just Got Educational
the student-led Hurricane Relief Trek. The experience gave students an opportunity to apply their management skills and make a personal contribution to the city’s recovery. HBS lecturer Stacey Childress, HBS assistant professor Romana... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
students to achieve academic and social-emotional growth. From Hurricane Island to HBS Pearson has been associated with Outward Bound for the better part of four decades, either as a field supervisor, program director, or trustee. “I... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
the cost of care. The records are secure—encrypted, password-protected, HIPAA-compliant, and not stored on a server. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bushkin read of displaced New Orleanians whose paper medical records had been... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Kevin Wilkins by Constantine von Hoffman Just eight years after New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, Kevin Wilkins (MBA 1992) says the city is poised to join Silicon Valley, Boston, and Austin (Texas) as one of the nation's... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
disasters. Floods the previous February had displaced 14,000 city residents and caused $100 million in damages. Because his own family’s home in Texas had been damaged during Hurricane Harvey, Tsai understood firsthand the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
CLOSING THE GAP: Bill George makes a point about how business leaders often are chosen for the wrong reasons. He’s flanked by moderator Jonathan Kelly (HBS ’08) and HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. From Enron and WorldCom to Hurricane... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
marketing, and, of course, project management. “We look at the entire evolution of a disaster—from the day when the hurricane hits all the way through the rebuild of that community, can last five, seven, 10 years,” Dyson says. “We try to... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
says, usually less than 24 hours, while longer outages have been more localized and the areas affected have been able to rely on outside help. The recent collapse of Puerto Rico’s power grid after Hurricane Maria, however, is a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
always going to be here, but we needed to have a base of operations closer to California, where we do a lot of work, and Boulder is a great quality of life complement to Miami. Last year we had to close the agency for about a week after a View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
restructured John’s Island’s management company, Community Condominium Services, Inc., by reducing costs while improving services and its hurricane protection practices. At the John’s Island Club, he was a regular speaker and co-chair of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
home-cleaning product line, opened nearly 500 company stores, and doubled sales (it doesn’t disclose figures). The future looked bright — until last August 29. That’s when Hurricane Katrina almost ruined everything. In the storm’s... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
filming his lessons. Sal Khan: In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit, and those same cousins were dispersed to Texas and Florida. And so, in many ways I was their safety net education system while they were refugees, I guess, with a lowercase... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
even Massachusetts. And Georgia is in the next tier behind those. So it's like a category 4 hurricane that's a couple of days off the coast about to hit us, and we're trying desperately to be sure that we're prepared when that happens.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
LPO in August 2005. A week later, while guest conducting in Korea, he saw reports on CNN that New Orleans, though battered by Hurricane Katrina, had managed to avoid major damage. But constant email updates from an LPO member, which had... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, we spent a lot of time thinking about how the stages of disasters unfold: the early needs of immediate relief and then the longer-term needs of recovery. At BlackRock, COVID added an additional layer of... View Details