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- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Origin Story: Tasila Banda (MBA/MPP 2025)
First love: Performing. “I spent pretty much every weekend from the age of five singing, acting, and dancing at the local theater school.” Take a bow: “My dad is originally from Zambia. Back in the day he bought rudimentary music software and laid down guitar tracks... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
COO and Loan Fund president, says a few words as well. Jones highlights BCC’s role as an intermediary lender between Citizens Bank and the Somerville Community Corporation and mentions another BCC project in the works: a day-care center... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
are notably aggressive in their pursuit of research, therapies, and cures. These organizations apply results-oriented business approaches to medical and academic research that in the past would typically move at a stately pace. (Brad Margus MBA 1986, with his A-T... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
elements are added.” Both businesses require vision and a healthy appetite for risk. Another similarity is permits, budgets, and a cast of people who come together to work on a common project for two or three years. Attracting a... View Details
- 12 Jan 2021
- News
Keeping the Coast Clear
Save the Bay to identify a problem, engage the [municipality] and share how the project will benefit the community,” says Stone. “Then comes the work of cobbling together the funding for everything from feasibility studies and permitting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
what it might look like in the future. Challenges in Managing Large Projects by J. Ronald Fox and Donn B. Miller (Defense Acquisition University Press) How do the challenges of managing multibillion-dollar engineering, development, and... View Details
- 09 May 2022
- News
Green House
percent higher up-front investment, the lower energy and maintenance costs can offset the expense. And she estimates that larger dwellings can be built for a 0 to 2 percent premium, making them a potential next project for Birchwood... View Details
- 17 Mar 2020
- News
A Bid for the Future
in its elements, but the stakes were enormously different. It’s probably the largest private-sector, competitive economic development project in US history.” And it was successful for Moret and the estimated 500 other people who worked on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership in Practice
experiential learning, immersion experiences, and team-based entrepreneurial projects are all on the right track.” Dawson grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and was the first in his family to attend college. He majored in business and... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
generates electricity as it rolls—“[a] project that makes the world a better place.” Cofounder and CEO of Uncharted Play, a company based in New York City that creates a line of socially beneficial play-based products, she was on Forbes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Orientation Teamwork
enhancing classroom learning. Learning Teams are also assigned graded projects in several first-year required courses. “By getting to know each other, working closely together, and making joint decisions, the students experience the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
developing innovative products and services. He discusses the full range of activities required: learning about customer needs; managing experimentation and problem-solving; product-development process design and improvement; and development strategy and View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- News
Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
commitment to social impact. He also wanted to know what motivated it, as well of its ultimate impact. In March 2016, Stevenson and a team of researchers launched a project to better understand and communicate that impact. To date, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Dear Future Author…
your book as you do writing it.” —Douglas P. McCormick (MBA 1997), investor, entrepreneur, and author of Family Inc.: Using Business Principles to Maximize Your Family’s Wealth “[Investment consultant and fellow author] Charley Ellis (MBA 1963) told me to make sure I... View Details
- 18 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa
Senior Lecturer John Macomber, far left, and students in the Africa: Building Cities course toured the Rappie Waste-to-Energy Power Project in Addis Ababa with developer Samuel Alemayehu of Cambridge Group Companies. With a growing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
hurt the industry’s credibility since the stimulus money would reward all comers — both sure things and high-risk projects — and keep investors from focusing on maturing, economically feasible technologies. — Sarah Auerbach View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS
Education, a project is under way to examine the portfolio of offerings to foster what Light calls “a reconception” of thinking about business education for managers at different points in their careers. One new offering still in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Perfection’s Price
for the first year are projected to top $1 million. Kaplan is already planning to open two more stores in the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut area, and he is optimistic about the prospect of Fashion To Figure becoming a national... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
direct-investment manufacturing projects in US history, for a total of more than $62 billion in private-sector capital investment. Several years later, the chance to do similar work in Virginia—a place with very different... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Silver Lining
Dabhol power-plant project in India. As Enron began to emphasize energy trading over hard assets such as power projects and pipelines, the two independently decided to leave the company in 2000. They later... View Details