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- 22 Jul 2016
- News
Let’s Talk Dating
(Tinder) (Tinder) As CEO of Tinder India, Taru Kapoor (MBA 2015) is at the center of a cultural shift: In a country where arranged marriage is still the norm, more and more young people are connecting outside of family-approved channels. “In View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Ideas That Stick
demonstrate in their book, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Random House, 2007). They chronicle not only urban legends but real-life success stories, explaining how six principles of stickiness (simple, unexpected,... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
of The Mission Continues? “I knew about The Mission Continues through my membership in the veterans group at the Kennedy School. A year after graduating from HBS, I was living in San Antonio and looking for a geographic change. I wanted to find a job that would allow... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must take into consideration a host of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
became its own initiative, with Kapoor as the head: “My goal—our goal—is to move to autonomous, electric, shared fleets,” he says, thereby unlocking simultaneous gains in safety, carbon emissions, and urban congestion. The future has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
environmentally sound reconstruction of decaying neighborhoods by training at-risk urban youth in construction and putting them in line for good jobs. City Year, an education-focused nonprofit on whose national board I serve, mobilizes... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 07 Apr 2017
- News
Transforming the “Misery Towns” of Buenos Aires
is sliced in two by a dual carriageway that is the main route into the city centre from the north. “It’s madness, you cannot have a neighbourhood with a motorway running right through,” he says. He whips out his smartphone to use Google... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
The Latest Local Motor: A Self-Driving Bus
Local Motors—which is led by Jay Rogers (MBA 2007)—posted to its co-creation community: build an urban public transportation system. It’s all part of the company’s unique design model: "Most of our vehicles are designed by people who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
used the research findings to change its approach to the issue. Ashraf says that “in both the private sector and the world of global health, effective solutions require understanding the specific context.” Achieving that understanding,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Air Time
impossible. Sharing our stories gives us a better sense of how we can support one another and grow stronger as a society. —Nadine Ngouabe Dlodlo (MBA 2008) via bulletin@hbs.edu “A great LinkedIn profile is Anthemos Georgiades (MBA 2012)... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
MBAs take their business acumen on the road
entrepreneurs. “Cases are a great start, but we learned countless lessons by making the leap from paper to practice,” Alaoui says. What started as an seven-city, eight-week road trip logging 8,000 miles is now a movement taking shape with teams applying from top View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
degree inflation: Over the last decade, changes in employment expectations have created a powerful combination of underachievement and misalignment that is costing both US competitiveness and working-class Americans aspiring to a decent... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Bart Harvey: Opportunities for Others
explains Harvey. "He believed in both the free-enterprise system and the use of wealth to provide opportunity for others. When I joined the Enterprise Foundation in 1984, Jim told me, 'Now you're an investment banker for the poor, not the... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- News
Progress Through Preservation
role with the Trust, a national nonprofit that works to conserve land for use as parks and gardens, from the inner city to the wilderness, is to ensure that nature sticks around for quite some time—for his kids and their kids. "Children,"... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
via the city’s Citizens Connect app were “closed” without a resolution. It is a balancing act between making residents feel their concerns are heard and helping them understand the process the city uses to prioritize snow removal given... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
65,000 children Outward Bound serves each year. He also works with Outward Bound schools and centers to ensure that their 750 wilderness courses — and scores of programs for corporate clients and kids in urban settings — are administered... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
A Whole New Game
According to research compiled by the Federal Reserve, cities, not suburbs, are now the leading generators of US economic growth. From 2010 to 2016, urban populations grew faster than those in the suburbs,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
ample opportunity for miscommunication," explains Gittell. In interviewing health-care providers and administrators from nine major urban hospitals about their organizational practices, Gittell and Weiss found that hospitals are actively... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
be a library of cases for use by communities coping with future disasters. “The idea is that we’d be able to fly in and talk to local business leaders and say, ‘These are some things that folks in New Orleans found View Details
Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
“Both of my parents have always been very committed to volunteer work and they always encouraged us to give back to the community,” Burke told the Capital Times. “I feel incredibly lucky to have been given the opportunities I was given,... View Details