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- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
book) is accelerating that trend. “There are substantial public health impacts in wildfire smoke, extreme heat, and the aftermath of flooding,” notes Macomber, who teaches the MBA electives Business Opportunities in Climate Adaptation and... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 14 Jun 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia
Starting last fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On June 5 and 8, more than 300 alumni in East Asia gathered to celebrate and connect with each other at "An Evening with Dean Datar" events... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
racial disparities in wealth and income. And because homeownership is one of the principal ways in which families build wealth, housing, race, and economic inequality are all intertwined. It is no accident, for instance, that data from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
executives—including those who already possess an MBA or advanced business degree—a foundational understanding of quantitative analysis and data science. “Data and data analytics are transforming industries... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
specialized expertise to the process—which some worry might create subject-area bias in the decision-making process and affect the quality of research. Assistant Professor Danielle Li takes a mathematical approach to examining this issue in a recent HBS working paper,... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter In the wake of the Snowden leaks in 2015, the New York Times dropped the bombshell news that one company had played a unique role in enabling the National Security Agency’s domestic spy program. The report, “AT&T Helped US Spy... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
works in San Francisco, where he co-founded the solar energy software company Folsom Labs with fellow HBS alum, Paul Gibbs. And he's still dutifully collecting stats, having now amassed a full eight years of data about himself. He and I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Visionary of the Year
HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter was named the Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year in 2002 by the Intelligent Community Forum. The award recognizes an individual or group that has taken a leadership role in promoting broadband technology as an essential... View Details
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
symbol of health care activism, not the internationally recognized icon it is today. Starting a public conversation about women’s health was not easy, certainly, but the foundation believed that education and awareness—among both women... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Launches Alumni Survey
us to be consistent moving forward.” The School has since denied access to alumni lists to Forbes, Fortune, the Financial Times, and the Economist. “Although we continue to provide basic data about the School, the View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
and 20 international public partners, says program manager Paige Fitzgerald (MBA/MPP 2014): In Los Angeles, it’s working with city government to push out Amber Alerts; in Rio, garbage truck drivers are using traffic View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
impact the public sector,” she says. This is, admittedly, a daunting undertaking that will require untold amounts of data and research — and funding. But Sadun says that’s a credit to another unique... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
examined benchmarks on fiscal and monetary measures that were being implemented across the world. The team also consulted leading actors in the public and private sectors. “We received data from different... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
that will make anonymity an afterthought. I think the Bitcoin public ledger will eventually hold so much valuable information that some very interesting analytics companies are going to emerge to make sense of the data. Has there ever... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
provider of a whole range of services—parking, fuel-price data, intermodal routing—centered on the connected car. Although the majority of our data comes directly from consumers—think of it as crowd sourcing of traffic information—we’re... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- News
Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley
membership records. He couldn’t find one specializing in record keeping, so he and fellow research assistant, Tom Jones (MBA 1968), offered to serve as consultants and complete the project. That’s how Epsilon Data Management was born in... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
and we consulted with academics to examine the state of our democracy and what reforms will matter most. We have a data scientist on staff who combines public sources of data... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
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Educating the Whole Student
School, which she launched 2016 with physician and educator Priscilla Chan. “So we asked, what could we do if we started over?” Liu, who attended public school in Washington, DC, recognized from an early age that the country’s school... View Details
- 24 Jul 2020
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Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
Photo courtesy of Melissa Zaikos Back in 2011, when Melissa Zaikos (MBA 2000) began digging deeply into the standardized test scores of the Chicago Public Schools, she saw some concerning trends. Elementary schools, she thought, seemed to... View Details