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Building on the Legacy Thought Leadership Andrew F. Brimmer James I. Cash Jr. Linda A. Hill David A. Thomas HBS Faculty Members HBS Doctoral Students Alumni Profiles Research Links Essay on HBS Thought View Details
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Scott Quigley
the city through political and economic development projects. A young soldier in my unit, fresh on what would turn out to be a 15-month-long mission, asked me in a fearful tone through a stone gaze, "What do we do, Sir?" My... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events
1996), governor of Kaduna State; Simi Nwogugu (MBA 2004), executive director of Junior Achievement Nigeria and recipient of the 2017 HBSAN Leadership Award for Social Impact; and Fola Ogunsiakan (MBA 2000), president of HBSAN. 3 The HBS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
steam-powered cable car in San Francisco in the 1870s inaugurated the era of street railways in urban areas (it also spared horses the burden of pulling heavy loads up and down the city’s steep roads). Within a decade, cable cars were pulling millions of passengers... View Details
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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
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- 14 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco
opportunities?" The desire to produce thought leadership at a fast pace, the Dean said, is the catalyst for the new Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3), a lab-based research model that will draw faculty, students, and... View Details
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
parents. The increased difficulty and risks of traveling separated some CEOs from family. One had to make the difficult decision to “move to a different city to be closer to the employees, [leaving] the family behind.” None in our sample... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events
In the city that never sleeps, the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York is seldom at rest, as its busy schedule of activities in recent months indicates. Last May, for example, with more than four hundred people in attendance... View Details
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Ripple Effect | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
concern for others in need,” he says. After graduation, it led Nicolette to a position through the HBS Leadership Fellows Program as Advisor to the Mayor in the City of Boston Mayor’s Office. “I wouldn’t... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees 1997 Publishes Bloomberg by Bloomberg 2001 Elected Mayor of New York City 2012 Launches Bloomberg Philanthropies 2014 Returns to Bloomberg LP as CEO 2017 Coauthors Climate of Hope Founder,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Clubs: Capital Improvements
When he began planning the event, HBS Club of Washington, DC, president Antonio Alves (PLDA 15, 2013) envisioned the club’s first annual Leadership Gala as a modest outing that would boost awareness of the club in the Greater DC area. By... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Power Plays
MORE Folsom Labs’ Paul Grana on what it means to live a “quantified” life on the Skydeck podcast MORE Folsom Labs’ Paul Grana on what it means to live a “quantified” life on the Skydeck podcast Illustrations by Drue Wagner The Company The View Details
- February 2024
- Teaching Note
CityScore: Big Data Comes to Boston
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-050. In 2016, Mayor Marty Walsh of Boston introduced CityScore, a data dashboard that measured the city’s progress across a range of metrics. View Details
- February 2022
- Case
CityScore: Big Data Comes to Boston
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
In 2016, Martin “Marty” Walsh, the Mayor of Boston, introduced CityScore, a data dashboard that measured the city’s progress across a range of metrics. The dashboard was updated daily and publicly available. The mayor frequently discussed the CityScore targets in... View Details
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Government Administration; Leadership; Transformation; City; Measurement and Metrics; Public Administration Industry; Boston; United States
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "CityScore: Big Data Comes to Boston." Harvard Business School Case 422-050, February 2022.
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment Reinhardt and Henderson: On Shad Hall’s green roof. Issue Focus The City Solution Water for Life Green Day Related Links Visit the Business and Environment Initiative The View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
successful turnaround management is to try to make the least bad decision based on imperfect and incomplete information,” Tisch says. “The case method helped prepare me to do that.” Tisch's leadership qualities were very much in evidence... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
Suzy Wetlaufer (MBA 1988) describes working at the city desk of the Miami Herald, where she was a reporter for two years, as “tremendously fun and exciting.” However, she adds, “I just never got comfortable invading people’s privacy —... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
Clubs News Clubs News Webinars Connect Black Alumni Taking Leadership in Turbulent Times Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, a shaky economy, and racial unrest across the country, the HBS African-American Alumni Association... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities
coursework, Asamoah has served as a student consultant for the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she analyzed how Grand Rapids, Michigan, could increase... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
this strategy actually worked, up until now. “LEED [adoption] is not just something to pay attention to when there's a bid to rebuild city hall.” In a new paper, Public Procurement and the Private Supply of Green Buildings, authors... View Details