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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
conference in December 2008, Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, told several hundred prominent board members that he couldn’t conceive of how they might do their jobs successfully:... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
insurance house Momentum in Johannesburg, Magwegwe can often be heard on CNBC Africa and other local and national media, offering advice on financial matters, from simply saving more money to planning and sticking to a budget. Helping... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
same house for a long time, and in that world it made sense to own the same sofa for 10 years. The new generation has been forced to buy fixed assets even though they know they’re going to be moving before long. For them, the furniture... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
the US presidential campaign season New Off Script: An Advance Man’s Guide to White House Stagecraft, Campaign Spectacle, and Political Suicide by Josh King “Campaign and political imagery is manufactured through an assembly line with... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
expert on student housing. None of that would have happened if I had not been fired in 1976. Jim Arbury (MBA 1966) VP for Student Housing National Multifamily Housing Council Growing out of business After a... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
a project that will complement the Biopolis. To be called Fusionopolis, the initial complex will house IT and new media companies in 2007. Phase II, focusing on research in semiconductors, data storage, and nanoscience, will open about a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
last summer, by the House in legislation passed in December, and by Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) in his original draft bill. While the ultimate legislation must be even tougher than what has been proposed thus far, the true danger now is... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
being denied on-campus housing because of his race. Fitzhugh hoped to go into sales and marketing, but companies at the time had little interest in hiring an African American. While working as an independent print salesman in Washington,... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
produced a number of tableware and specialty items as well as art-glass, on which artists—most of them immigrants from central Europe—did painting and engraving. Westmoreland was the country's leading glass-decorating house for more than... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
to drive a cheaper car, or insulate their house and be a little more energy efficient,” says Minnick. At the same time, however, the plan would use the extra revenues generated from the carbon fee to issue a tax credit to middle-class... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
volunteered in high school, painting abandoned houses as part of Operation Brush Up, in Flint, Michigan. At the University of Michigan, she launched several service organizations, including the university’s first web-based program that... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
ensuring the physical well-being of the library’s priceless treasure of business books and records. “No other business school has a historical collection to rival HBS,” Anderson proclaims. The raw numbers she cites to back that up are impressive: Baker View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Peter W. Olson: By the Book
The office of Random House chairman and CEO Peter Olson is a quiet, booklined oasis above the clamor of midtown Manhattan, a tranquil setting that mirrors Olson's composed manner and lofty perspective as head of the world's largest... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
Books; bookstore and publishing house founder I fell in love with reading when I read Charlotte’s Web as a little girl and it made me cry. I realized then that books can really make you feel. But it can be hard to make time for books in a... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
[LAUGHS] You know? You're having Nancy Reagan and George Bush travel the country and telling you that there's a war on drugs. I just remember my one experience with it was I was fishing with my cousin at her house on Biscayne Bay sometime... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
One Western Avenue
Over the summer, the University’s newest residential building, One Western Avenue, opened at the corner of Western Avenue and Soldiers Field Road, adjacent to HBS. The building contains 235 apartments and will house about 350 occupants,... View Details
- 06 Jul 2017
- News
Leadership on a Global Scale
Special Forces, planned to make the military his career. But a training accident brought that plan to an end, forcing a course correction that took him to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and to HBS, where he became the first student to graduate with both White... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Bart Harvey: Opportunities for Others
community development movement that provides all low-income people with affordable housing and the opportunity to move into the economic mainstream. Working through a network of more than twelve hundred community-based nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
adviser Karl Rove, a friend since their college days, Norquist has direct access to the White House and served as an architect of the President’s first-term tax cuts. His ultimate goal: a permanent Republican majority that will oversee... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
says Lee, noting that it’s a business that’s fairly common in Europe, whereas Redbrick has virtually no U.S. competitors. Through its three funds financed by private investors, Redbrick buys up quantities of single-family houses in... View Details