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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
as a wood workshop in the small town of Billund, Denmark. Carpenter Ole Kirk Kristiansen eventually shifted the business from making houses and furniture to crafting wooden toys. He based the name of his new venture on "leg godt," the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
income and unrestricted current-use gifts accounted for 24 percent of total revenue, MBA tuition and fees 18 percent, and housing rentals 3 percent. The School ended the year with 219 full-time faculty and 1,146 full-time administrative... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
Facilitating private-sector progress while benefiting the taxpayers "Governments need to think more like partners, not order-givers," said Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Greg Bialecki. "Government can play an... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
community. “Every night, 365 nights a year, he’s out there,” says Neel Ghose (MBA 2019), cofounder of the Robin Hood Army. “For him, it’s his own baby. It’s a platform for goodness.” This platform for goodness—which operates like a franchise model, with an umbrella... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
makes magic for both sides,” he says, adding that the process of making the movie reflected the collaboration and team effort that Lego play encourages. For Lin, making that magic required a deep dive, from visiting the LEGO Idea House in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
product. You know that if you’re not happy, you can take your business somewhere else. You have status. You matter.” Asha Impact invests in a variety of businesses that have impact. Examples include Janaadhar, an affordable housing... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
analogy that Jen Pahlka who's our executive director here uses, is the house is on fire right now. That means we actually need to run towards it, not away from it. Luna: And how does Code for America work? What are the fires that you're... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
infrastructure, San Francisco-based Schwab was determined to locate its information headquarters in a "nongeologically active" area. The company has housed its two data centers twenty miles apart - in different power grids - outside... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
passage to Brisbane. After four years of penny-pinching, he purchased a house and summoned his wife and children. As the years passed, hard work and frugality enabled Russo’s father to buy several rental apartments and a small vineyard.... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
boards to advising the White House Business Council. Which means that he has spent a lot of time speaking with leaders in both business and government about the factors that are driving their organizations’ strategy. Over the last several... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
Margaritaville Enterprises Tiny houses are mobile. They’re ecofriendly. They’re affordable—on average, just $23,000. So how do you take the tiny house movement mainstream? With Getaway, Jon Staff’s (HBS... View Details
- 13 Mar 2020
- News
Expanding Cancer Care
I spent pretty much every weekend going to nursing homes and making house calls with my dad and spending a lot of time around pretty sick patients. So for most of my life—my adult life—I decided I actually didn't want anything to do with... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
sometimes build my own. Just about anything can be boiled down to a two-by-two.” Weekend retreat: The Chesapeake Bay. “My wife and I bought a river house and then a boat, so we’re having fun—learning river life, if you will. Our three... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
city’s South Side through 1871, BLUE1647 (a technology skills center), and a $30 million startup fund for neighborhood businesses, among other efforts. “I have one goal,” he said. “If a child walking out of his house looks at the city... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
my unique White House role in the 1970s, President Nixon's goal was to double the number of women in governmental policymaking jobs in one year. I was to find, recruit, and place these women. I had never done this, so I reached out to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Leiman adds. In June, Blink will celebrate one year of serving its European customer base. The road to that milestone began at Soldiers Field, where Leiman and Ogden met through a mutual friend on their first weekend at HBS. Leiman’s background includes a stint at the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
up." Despite AMC's focus on improving the customer experience, Lopez knows as well as anyone that his business is driven by a product—specifically, those must-see movies that get people out of the house and into the theaters. In... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
When the fate of the Dean’s House — built in the late 1920s at the insistence of George F. Baker, who had given the funds to build the campus — came on the table, McArthur solemnly told his University superiors that the building was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
we’re burning down the house and we have to stop? When is it going to happen?” And he looks at me and says, “You know, change is really slow until it’s fast.” One of the things I do with businesspeople is a very simple scenario analysis:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
foreign-born. Among them was the longest-serving secretary of the treasury in US history, Albert Gallatin (1761–1849), who, like Hamilton and in contrast to other founders, was "personally rootless," McCraw writes. Gallatin, who also served in the Senate and the View Details