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- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
other projects produced the nation's first big-city 311 app that allows citizens to alert government to potholes and graffiti. He also helped cut through zoning laws to create the Boston Innovation District on a vast and underdeveloped... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Energy Group, Allstate, and Johnson Publishing. She’s even served in the White House. leading innovative arts and cultural events as special assistant and social secretary to former President Barack Obama. In 2019, she became co-owner and... View Details
- 08 Apr 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It
decision making? Researchers are finding a link between luxury and self interest, an insight that may help curb corporate excesses. Honda Created a Civic for Very Light Jets. How High Will It Fly?How Honda Aircraft Corporation moved from... View Details
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Connell House | About
leadership. The Connell family’s philanthropy has also had a significant impact on innovations in the MBA Program. About the Name William F. Connell (1938-2001) was a visionary business leader, known for his strategic skills, ethical... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
shown that those scrappy, community-based weeklies and monthlies serve a vital role in society, curbing political polarization and boosting civic participation. They also remain an unparalleled check on city and town councils, school... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
that.” Another takeaway was that hardware will be the next space for innovation and disruption. “They all had differing views about the meaning of innovation,” adds Anderson. “For those on the large company/institution side, View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 26 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India
world's development on cheap fossil fuel, GEAPP highlights the challenges a need for innovative approaches in the absence of a playbook for developing without relying on inexpensive fuel sources. BEST Field Visit: Overview: BEST is a... View Details
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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Mayor's Office City of Boston, Planning and Redevelopment Agency City of Cambridge City of Chicago Mayor's Office City of Detroit Mayor's Office City of Sacramento Mayor's Office City of San Jose Mayor's Office Civic Builders Clinton... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
ripples to others. Companies with the strongest stakeholder and partner orientations are best able to survive and transcend crises, because they can plan together, gain local knowledge from each other, and draw on good will to get back to business quickly when the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
Noting that many urban youth lacked tech skills, she and her husband Derek Pearson launched Code Fever, a company offering training camps and hackathons for young people, and transformed a vacant building in a historically Black neighborhood into a co-working space and... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Community Relations Council of Greater Boston. Jeffrey J. Bussgang : Honored as The Civic Tech Innovator of the Year in 2015 by Civic Tech Challenge and Generation Citizen.... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch and the Virginian-Pilot. Despite his youth, Batten gained the respect and admiration of his colleagues. He made ethical, careful reporting a top priority, strongly supported school desegregation, and encouraged View Details
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Harvard Business School
the board of the Robert Toigo Foundation and the Howard University Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation Institute. Kenneth Powell MBA 1974 Kenneth Powell is a business and social enterprise leader with a focus on enterprise and... View Details
- 04 Feb 2016
- News
From Super Bowl to STEM Bowl
and give middle school students a window into the tech future. Members of the HBS Association of Northern California's Community Partners Program worked with the Santa Clara Office of Civic Innovation (OCI)... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
help San José partner with innovative tech firms to address high-impact civic challenges. He knew the city had worked with Airbnb to make emergency housing available after the recent disaster, and he... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofit Summit
inspired by the increased demand for services provided by nonprofits, said club president Bruce Marcus (MBA ’80). Sonal Shah, director of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation,... View Details
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Gabriel Handel | About
include strategic and financial planning, technology planning, capital projects, design and use of the campus, major events and convening initiatives (e.g., Commencement, DIALOGUE), community engagement, neighborhood and civic affairs,... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Impact: Toward the Greater Good
School’s faculty generate to enhance the practice of management. HBS shares such innovative ideas with leaders in business and government to benefit society at large. We are launching a new section of the Alumni Bulletin entitled Impact... View Details