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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
This book tells the story of Kamila Sidiqi in Kabul, Afghanistan, who overcame the Taliban's ban on women leaving their homes alone by making clothes in her living room to help support her family. This venture was the beginning of a dressmaking business that created... View Details
- 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 the people who are supporting... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
companies that did business in black neighborhoods but refused to employ their residents. His involvement with the Alliance not only began his ongoing community activism but also served as his entree into academia, when a fellow volunteer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
public-private partnership between the state government and for-profit developers. The goal is to transform Dharavi into a neighborhood offering desirable, market-rate residential and commercial real estate while providing its longtime... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
renting than any time in the last five decades, and Davis knew there was a market opportunity here. Yet Davis moved in the opposite direction of many real estate investors. He didn’t target big states with large suburban populations and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
that the blockchain application could enable Northern Trust to achieve productivity savings of “somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 to 35 percent.” The firm—which has $1 trillion in assets under management and more than $7 trillion under... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
Red Mocha Haraaz, from Yemen—there’s a select quantity of that every year from a small group of growers.” Résumé builder: “When I worked at Heinz, my team and I launched green ketchup. It didn’t survive as a product line, but it made a huge PR splash and helped grow... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
(neighborhood parents of infants) of the center? Maybe throw in incentives for higher commitments like X hours of credits, VIP parking, five free birthday parties, etc. You could even launch a few simultaneous campaigns varied by View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
Illustration by Jonathan Bartlett In an era of artisanal coffee bars blossoming in neighborhoods worldwide, how could a producer of award-winning beans be struggling to stay afloat? That was the puzzle confronting Chijioke Dozie (MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
McKinsey. Although the company provided a car and driver, Makarim, who had lived in Indonesia as a child, preferred to use the ubiquitous motorcycle taxis. Known as “ojek,” the two-wheelers were informally organized. Most neighborhoods... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
safe and convenient to let somebody in your neighborhood rent your car. In terms of trust, I think that for many people it’s a big barrier to let a stranger drive off in their car or to let a stranger sleep in their house. In reality,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
revolutionized the way Americans drink coffee. In his spare time, he enjoys golf and skiing, and names a Seattle Starbucks location in his Capitol Hill neighborhood as his favorite store. Customers might even enjoy a double-tall-nonfat... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
Sternhell and Oakes on the job. Photos by Jared Leeds One lives in a Manhattan studio five blocks from Wall Street, the other on the second floor of a triple-decker in Jamaica Plain, a culturally diverse neighborhood in Boston. Both are... View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
for the city and the region,” says Hung. “It’s bringing vitality to the neighborhood around it. Mark talked about the historic preservation of the building, the art deco, the tile work and murals. They’re modernizing the staging, the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
task. The process began with a lot of education. Her Cambridge neighbors, unfamiliar with the Passive House concept, were initially skeptical of Harper’s plans, but two historical commission meetings and nine neighborhood meetings later,... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
16 million internet properties pass through the company’s network, which acts like a neighborhood watch for the internet—spotting potential threats but also helping websites run faster and better. It was named one of the world’s most... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
Morales, who now serves as marketing and communications manager at Year Up in the Bay Area, and Michelle Smith-Howard, who worked as director of early learning at DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative and is... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
lenses, and then my whole career was shaped by this. Kevin Murphy, MBA, 1982. The first job my son had was when he was six years old, and I encouraged him to go around the neighborhood putting numbers up on houses. And as we did that... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Founder, Co-CIO, and Chairman, Bridgewater Associates I always had little jobs. I had a paper route. I would shovel driveways. And then I started caddying. This was the 1960s, when everyone was talking about the stock market, and the View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
marketing for the Giants. “My job was to put warm butts into cold seats,” notes Baer, who says he learned a lot about all aspects of the business during the three years he spent promoting fan interest and attendance at the notoriously... View Details