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- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Sphere of Influence
Analisa Balares (MBA 2005) was born into a poor family, but her life path crossed different strata of Philippine society, from the ultra-wealthy to the urban poor. A student leader from the age of 13, she represented her high school at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
Illustration by Vahram Muradyan Illustration by Vahram Muradyan With one quarter of all renters spending more than half their income on housing in the United States, as Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found in 2017, about 11... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
Professor Ashraf (center) with members of the study implementation team at Chipata Clinic, Lusaka, Zambia, including fi eld managers, surveyors, community health workers, and a study nurse. (click for larger... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
construction. STARTING SMALL: The last step involved planting 9,000 tiny perennials roughly eight inches apart. In blazing summer heat, the daytime temperatures on a conventional asphalt roof can reach 160 degrees or higher compared to the 80s and 90s for a green roof.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Books
edited by Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky (Brookings Institution Press and the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University) Increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United States, rental housing faces... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Department of Urban Studies and Planning and was director of research at MIT's Center for Real Estate Development. "Housing in any form is relatively more expensive for municipalities than most other uses of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
first commercial strip development in 1983. Since then we have pursued a strategy that has overcome historical biases and roadblocks to urban reinvestment. How did you contribute to this strategy? I led a comprehensive View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis
hospitals treating civilians wounded in the war as well as schools and social service providers supporting the refugees. “Only 9 percent of refugees in Turkey live in refugee camps,” says Fabbe, who has long studied migration in Turkey.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
economic pie available to be divided among its various stakeholders, instead of just slicing up a fixed pie in a way that favors one group over another. Consider, for example, the conclusions of the McKinsey Global Institute’s study of... View Details
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
reached middle and high school, the gap between the high-achieving students and those who needed academic support grew considerably. A few years later, Stanford University released a study that confirmed her observations. “Chicago had... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
he writes. In his working paper "Flexibility: The New Social Contract between Individuals and Firms?," Bradach studies independent contractors, companies that use their services, and staffing agencies that bring the two parties together.... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
executive programs have substantial negotiation components as well. The unit's research methods include everything from analyzing negotiations in progress to psychological lab studies with subjects in negotiation experiments to running... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group), Bloomberg sees cities as focal points in the struggle against global warming and climate change. Urban areas are now home to half the world’s population, consume half the world’s energy, and,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
do on its own. In addition, the research led to a survey of ten other alliances in his new book, The Collaboration Challenge. Austin found that most of the partnerships he studied went through three stages of development he terms "the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
for the first time in nine years, we asked former chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Board of Directors Kirk Sykes (OPM 26, 1998)—current president and managing director of the Urban Strategy America Fund—to field your... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
new-economy innovation. "It takes a mix of perspectives," he observes. "Older companies must resist becoming mature, dull, and methodical. They need a youthful view." But Price, whose professional career has been complemented by civic involvement with entities such as... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
mobility. To explore possible solutions, in another recent study Choudhury evaluated how policy changes around worker location in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) improved productivity. The USPTO employs about 8,000... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
and increased fuel costs, according to a 2011 Texas Transportation Institute study. And that's not just rush-hour mobs. A 2006 study of New York City and Los Angeles estimated that up to one-third of the traffic in those cities consisted... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; 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; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
fund would help restart the hard-hit New Orleans business community. Several faculty also made the trip to New Orleans, including Professor Herman (“Dutch”) Leonard, whose work on crisis management led him to study businesses that... View Details
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; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
of The Mission Continues? “I knew about The Mission Continues through my membership in the veterans group at the Kennedy School. A year after graduating from HBS, I was living in San Antonio and looking for a geographic change. I wanted to find a job that would allow... View Details