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- 15 Mar 2022
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History’s Future
for the historic region, a plan that will include archeological exploration, ecological conservation, and economic development—all with a commitment to inclusivity. The old city of AlUla may be abandoned, but more than 40,000 people live... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
South Africa Explorer
Hope, enjoyed the views from atop Table Mountain — at 3,563 feet above sea level, Cape Town’s most famous landmark — visited Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, and toured the city of Cape Town. The HBS Club of South Africa... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
over six months — and were assigned to Thailand. In April 2003, after ten weeks of training, we arrived at our site, Phitsanulok, a city of about 90,000 known as “The Gateway to the North.” Our principal task here is to mentor primary-... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
have to rely on diesel generators. That is a lot of the same kind of stuff you do in an emerging economy. It’s the same thing you do in a new city in India or China.” Macomber teaches the MBA elective Building Cities: Infrastructure and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
FIELD Updates Greet Class of 2014
contact their global partner earlier on to begin work on an assigned project; also, time in the partner's country has been extended to nine days and ten nights. (This academic year, the 15 partner cities will include Istanbul, Turkey;... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
around his vision, Sunil Mittal easily could have followed in his father’s footsteps and earned a name for himself as a politician. Instead, he chose to focus his talents on changing the world as an entrepreneur. Growing up in Ludhiana, a large View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
continue as planned. San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City recently hosted launch events for The Campaign for Harvard Business School. Each event included a powerful multimedia presentation showcasing the tremendous impact HBS alumni... View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- News
The Power of Service
explains Reilly, who cofounded City Year in Boston in 1988 with Harvard friends Michael Brown (HLS 1988), Alan Khazei (HLS 1987), and Neil Silverston (HBS 1987). At the quarter-century mark, the nonprofit today engages young adults in... View Details
- 07 Apr 2017
- News
Transforming the “Misery Towns” of Buenos Aires
making good on those promises, following the mayor on a walk through one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, Villa 31, and discussing his vision for the area’s future. That vision includes a broad physical rethinking: His overarching plan is to create a “polycentric”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Inner-City Advantage
Investment in the inner city can reap social rewards, but there’s real money to be made as well, agreed panelists at the 32nd annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference. Named for Fitzhugh (MBA ’33), one of the School’s first African-American... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
From left: Chris Osgood, Dan Koh, Lauren Lockwood It is 2:30 p.m. on the day before Thanksgiving, and the halls of Boston City Hall are eerily quiet. Dan Koh (MBA 2011), Chris Osgood (MBA 2006), Lauren Lockwood (MBA 2014), and Austin... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal
Making cities more attractive for people takes pressure off our open spaces.” A cofounder of Urban Partners—a developer of urban infill, mixed-use, and transit-oriented real estate—Rosenfeld has moved between the private and public... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Skydeck: Reddit’s Rise
through Google searches, you notice we don’t block you from the information because we believe in the open internet.” “This issue and question around communities, I think, is pervasive. I read The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and that was about changes in... View Details
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Making Things Right for Those Who’ve Been Done Wrong
work with victims of all crime and abuse, but we specialize in what we call ‘intimate partner’ and family violence. That’s child abuse, human trafficking, sexual assault, and domestic violence. We touch the lives of a quarter of a million people in New York View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
disasters. Floods the previous February had displaced 14,000 city residents and caused $100 million in damages. Because his own family’s home in Texas had been damaged during Hurricane Harvey, Tsai understood firsthand the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Promising Starts
Performing Arts; Ben Schumacher, Teach For America; (back row) Mariah Sheriff, City of Sacramento Mayor’s Office; Michael Louis, Partners In Health; Austin Johnsen, World Wildlife Fund; Erin Barringer, Endeavor Global; and Daniel Koh,... View Details
- 30 May 2021
- News
How Venture Capitalist David Motley is Trying to Bring Back Pittsburgh’s Black Residents
David Motley (MBA 1988) David Motley (MBA 1988) A recent Wall Street Journal profile details the efforts of venture capitalist David Motley (MBA 1988) to rebuild Pittsburgh’s Black population. As the article notes, the city “has lost 9%... View Details
- 24 Jul 2017
- News
Back to School for Big-City Mayors
for big-city mayors organized by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) in conjunction with Harvard’s Kennedy School and HBS, according to a report in the Economist. Funded by a $32 million gift from Bloomberg... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
we want this society to be like? This year we’ve seen debates about the minimum wage at the city and state level. Why? States and cities are always competing—for business, for talent, and so on. These... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
lending her expertise to an initiative aimed at making the city a hub of technological innovation. From left: Alex Meyer (MBA 2005) with Penny Pritzker Pritzker was the latest guest speaker of the HBSCC Entrepreneurship Council, which... View Details