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- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
Boston Green Ribbon Commission, a group of business, institutional, and civic leaders developing strategies to fight climate change and meet Mayor Marty Walsh’s 2050 carbon-neutrality goal. However, McCarthy added, “the city is slow to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
steam-powered cable car in San Francisco in the 1870s inaugurated the era of street railways in urban areas (it also spared horses the burden of pulling heavy loads up and down the city’s steep roads). Within a decade, cable cars were pulling millions of passengers... View Details
- 25 Aug 2021
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
Chicago high-rise in the fall of 2019, giving even more of the city’s students the chance to experience a tailored high school public education. For Zaikos, the mission is personal, having spent most of her life in Chicago and raised her own kids there. She’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
Mortgage & Realty and Michigan Heritage Bancorp. He has led several community organizations, such as the Lansing Symphony, Capital Area United Fund, and the Voluntary Action Center in Lansing. Born in New York City and raised in Wilmette,... View Details
- 26 Jul 2011
- News
An Entrepreneur of the Arts
Sister Cities International. “Most importantly,” she says, “the OPM program inspired me to look for opportunities to grow and expand while leveraging my existing brand. My OPM classmates gave me a lot of inspiration and ideas as I was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Harvard Business School Campaign: Regional Events
gathering of alumni and guests at the Contemporâneo 8076 in São Paulo. Ibiye Harry (MBA 2013), Dean Nitin Nohria, and Scott Malkin (MBA 1983) posed for a photo during the reception held inside Old Billingsgate. Upcoming Regional Events Around the World Seattle Istanbul... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Pyramid Scheme
locate to other cities and add a new and different adventure. “My main goal in starting a business,” DuPlessie told the Boston Herald (September 22, 2004), “was that I’d never be bored.” View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Fighting Back from a Knockout
described the rating as “a knockout blow” and vowed that his administration would fight for its constituents and would turn the city around. Declared Laffey, who teaches a college finance course and is a former president and COO of Morgan... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Brazil Banks on Experience
of Goi ás as a member of a party that opposed Lula’s Workers Party. “Despite being a member of the outgoing governing party and making his career in international finance, Mr. Meirelles won points with Mr. da Silva partly because of his pioneering social work,” the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
ten thousand new units. An additional $1 million will go to housing groups to research and test solutions to the affordable housing problem. Cambridge Mayor Francis Duehay and City Manager Robert Healy, Harvard President Neil Rudentine,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
alumni such as President George W. Bush (MBA '75), Labor Secretary Elaine Chao (MBA '79), and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA '66) are well known to everyone, as is the impact of other newsmaking senior executives such as IBM's... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
chairman and CEO Peter Magowan, a member of the Giants’ board of directors, as well as with San Francisco city development official Ron Blatman, a longtime friend. When the deal with the Florida investors was announced — but, critically,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
launching Anomalie in 2016, she was a supply-chain manager for Apple Watch—and a bride-to-be in search of a wedding gown. In the process, the self-described TOM nerd discovered that one city in China produces 75 percent of the world’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
entertainment, cultural, and sports outlets to donate tickets to victims’ families, ultimately serving more than 85 percent of the families. Seeing the trash that covered the field where his son played football led him to get involved with New York’s View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
world was so different then — no cell phones, software, biotech, or espresso. It’s sure to change as much for today’s graduates, with opportunities to create products and services not yet imagined. When I graduated I took a job consulting in New York View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Greenhill Family Gift Enhances Global Research
Greenhill & Co., a merchant-banking firm he founded in New York City in 1996. Previously, he had a long and successful career in investment banking, as president of Morgan Stanley and chairman and CEO of Smith Barney. “This very generous... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Inside MTV’s Global Fame
numbering in the billions and making MTV one of the most powerful global brands. In his fascinating account, What Makes Business Rock: Building the World’s Largest Global Networks (Wiley), Roedy relives deal-making in 175 countries, from the Forbidden View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
fledgling campaign to talk about business, politics, and what we should consider when we think of youth in Baltimore. Why do you want to be mayor of Baltimore? I want to be a counterpoint for Baltimore and what our city has heard about... 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 Sep 2005
- News
Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise
people who are focusing on the HBS mission. Let’s not wait until they become CEOs; let’s acknowledge those who are doing it now.” Chen is leading the expansion of the New York City operations of Teach For America, a national nonprofit... View Details