White House - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Nov 2018
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Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

by-the-numbers guy. He rattles off the statistics effortlessly: There are about 133 million housing units in the United States, about 84 million of which are single-family homes. Of those 84 million, about 22 million are available for... View Details

Keywords: April White; Real Estate

01 Dec 2018
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Raising the Barrio

settlement housed European immigrants who worked on the railroads and at the port. Throughout the decades, multiple attempts at forced eviction and resettlement failed, though one late-1970s effort reduced the population to just 1,000. A... View Details

Keywords: April White

04 Sep 2019
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Action Plan: A New ’Cue

passion.” That passion didn’t become a business for Corsello until 2016. The idea had come to him as he drove home from an OPM unit. On the expressway he saw signs for McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s. Why, he wondered, was there no barbecue option? At home, he... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2015
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In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)

in West Sussex, England, and Johannesburg. The real work gets done “under the wild mango tree” at the lodges. “We have these open house meetings where you pull up chairs under the mango tree and you talk for two hours—that’s the proper... View Details

Keywords: April White

23 Feb 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot

Pittsburgher, the community leader and MacArthur Award recipient Bill Strickland. Motley, who believes affordable housing is a key part of Pittsburgh’s future, is one of three partners on a $20 million View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2022
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The Potential of Business to Improve Lives

company with a business model selling affordable housing to first-time home buyers among the country’s poor, and outperforming the Tokyo Nikkei index. Chu coauthored the case, “Katitas: Home Ownership for the Majority of Japan,” and... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2016
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Cast of Characters

The main characters of F.X. Biasi Jr.’s (PMD 41, 1981) first epic, The Brother-in-Law, were too old to star in an ongoing adventure series. So in Biasi’s later thrillers, the mantle is passed on to a son, Navy SEAL Bruce Tanner—“the classic all-American male hero.” In... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2016
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Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel

travel activities booking site, “dedicated to making travel planning enjoyable.” Earlier this year, Peek raised an additional $10 million and announced an instant-booking partnership with Yelp. Getaway CEO Jon Staff (MBA 2016) Founded in 2015 Tiny vacation View Details

Keywords: April White

27 Apr 2023
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Life Preserver

challenges of organ transplantation: "There's a massive gap between how many people get to benefit from a lifesaving organ transplant and how many truly need one," explains Giwa, who was a Baker Scholar at HBS. He's spent the decade since trying to change that. Giwa... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Dec 2021
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Tipping Point

distributed through the coffee cooperatives, building more permanent homes to replace mud houses and investing in their daughters’ educations. “They can start planning for the future,” Nyamumbo says. She hopes to expand Kahawa’s approach... View Details

Keywords: April White; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

12 Jan 2017
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Donald Trump just used his presidential power to advertise L.L. Bean

15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015

create informed, online test prep through Khan Academy. Free, accessible coaching, Khan reasons, will help “level the playing field”—giving every student, everywhere access to elite-level SAT coaching. J.R. Simplot’s White Russet is... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White