Housing - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!

health care, higher education, and housing — climbed steeply. To finance what they needed and wanted, growing numbers of households turned to various forms of credit. By 2001, almost three-quarters of all American families owned at least... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

involving the development of a “Center and Museum of Tolerance,” to be housed at the University of Mississippi; and, most important and personal, Hope for a Cure for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). Berman provides a blueprint for realizing... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Ali Allawi

wasn’t any heroics. My house was outside the Green Zone. Our family home had been taken over by the former regime and turned into a Baath Party military intelligence headquarters. When the regime fell, we took back our property. The place... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; National Security and International Affairs; Government

03 Jun 2020
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Keeping a Community Connected

other. That gives me hope. In the midst of crisis, sometimes we can give birth to better ways of doing things—figuring out how to control housing costs, provide better education and childcare, improve healthcare. We are working on... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2020
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Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom

call the “one upper" that you want to avoid. That's someone who always tries to top your story, even if it's nothing to brag about. But they just want to have the upper hand. If you say something like, "I haven't left I haven't left the View Details

Keywords: Zoom

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

being denied on-campus housing because of his race. Fitzhugh hoped to go into sales and marketing, but companies at the time had little interest in hiring an African American. While working as an independent print salesman in Washington,... View Details

17 Nov 2022
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Blockchain for Good

as it took off. Once they landed in the United Kingdom in the dead of winter, the family found themselves with nothing, shivering in their summer clothes. “We lived in public housing and had very little money, but we still had more than... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Jun 2016
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Prima Datarina

free and subsidized tickets. “As a mission-driven organization, we want to make performances available to the widest group of patrons possible,” says Hodges. “The range of pricing in a given house can be large.” Last year was the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jan 2012
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Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952

Alto house where he and Cathie have lived since 1967. “Helping our community is important to us.” Johnson was an elected trustee of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District for 12 years. It’s a rare person who can talk about... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders

application related to their socioeconomic background, such as where they grew up, their housing situation, and how they paid for college. “This approach has enabled us to understand much more about what our students carry with them day... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2022
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The State of Play

industry had reached a steady simmer before the pandemic, hitting an estimated $61.8 billion in 2019, and is roaring back to life now that people are eager to emerge from their houses and indulge their senses in something new.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

25 Mar 2015
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The Greening of Houston

Ask most people to name a city with a lot of parks and chances are Houston won’t be the first one they name. “For better or worse, our built environment is known for the lack of zoning,” says Daniel M. Gilbane (MBA 2005), senior vice president of Gilbane Building Co.... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story

the six-foot six-inch former Yale basketball player is conducting a whirlwind tour of the facility that houses Kettle Cuisine, Inc., the soup-making company Shafir has painstakingly nurtured since cofounding it in the mid-1980s. With... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2006
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Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum

Cincinnati replace Washington as the center of problem-solving?” Other sessions featured high-profile and important Washington figures such as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), former Senator John Breaux (D-LA), and Senator Tom... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score

and suddenly, there's no doubt it's the 1990s: "Mr. Davis, how much money do you make? What kind of car do you drive? How many houses do you own?" It's a fact of life these days that when kids, or fans of any age, look upon a professional... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2024
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Back to School

Books; bookstore and publishing house founder I fell in love with reading when I read Charlotte’s Web as a little girl and it made me cry. I realized then that books can really make you feel. But it can be hard to make time for books in a... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran

22 Sep 2017
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The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice

[LAUGHS] You know? You're having Nancy Reagan and George Bush travel the country and telling you that there's a war on drugs. I just remember my one experience with it was I was fishing with my cousin at her house on Biscayne Bay sometime... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

military social aide assigned to the White House under President Johnson. "While we weren't greatly accepted in Cambridge at that time," he recalls, "it wasn't uncommon to have a military background and to be at the Business School. The... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

22 Feb 2022
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An Rx for Small Business Recovery

Harvard University and other institutions found that 43 percent of small businesses had temporarily closed. Immediate action was needed to support the sector. Mills, author of Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream, was active in advising policymakers in Congress... View Details