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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
At Work in the Fields with the Lord
In California’s Coachella Valley, Sister Marsha Allen (MBA 1976) is spearheading a coalition of nonprofits and charitable organizations in an effort to build a tent city for the 20,000 migrant farmworkers and their children who come to... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: No Reservations
Illustrations by Drue Wagner The Company The Founder The Pitch The News EatWith CEO Susan Kim (MBA 2003) Founded 2012 This online marketplace allows cooks to sell seats at their dinner tables. TripAdvisor is the latest investor in this social-dining service, which... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
An investment in meaningful results
Ending poverty in New York City is a monumental goal, but as president and chief operating officer of a modern-day nonprofit that bears the legendary moniker Robin Hood, Deborah Winshel (MBA 1985) uses her business acumen to effect social... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Empowering Japan through e-commerce
hundreds of cases, a light clicked on. “It was in an HBS classroom that I first considered starting my own company,” he says. Rakuten operates e-commerce businesses in 13 countries, spearheaded a $100 million investment in Pinterest, and recently acquired eReader Kobo,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor
Rakhi Mehra (MBA 2009) is enabling a growing number of India’s 82 million urban poor households to have structurally safe and well-ventilated homes through the enterprise she cofounded, micro Home Solutions (mHS) City Lab. Winner of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Spray Canon
dollars at auctions in recent years. How did a style born on the canvas of the city make the leap from the subway to Sotheby’s? Assistant Professor James Riley, a former graffiti artist himself who now studies valuation processes in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
breakup of nations continues: The economic crisis and the concentration of the knowledge economy in a few cities creates enormous incentives for regions to cast off. They begin by demanding ever-greater control over their taxes and... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
franchise the NeuroLaunch model worldwide, and he’s already in talks with groups in London, Singapore, and Israel. Over the next year, the company will hold neuro startup forums in a number of cities to begin building a global community... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
between sectors within countries, as international. Agriculture will need ever-greater amounts of water to feed growing populations, even as burgeoning cities — with their greater wealth and political clout — typically draw off more water... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Katherine Switz (MBA 2000)
I wanted to create many, many more. The Stability Network has 70 leaders in 25 cities in the United States and Canada. Getting people to come out about their mental illness is actually pretty hard, but we give them support, training, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Time to Trek
winter break, with more to comein the spring. Sarah Wimmer (HBS ’05) serves as copresident of the HBS Trek Club. In 2003 she participated in the New York City trek; in December she traveled to India on a sixteen-day trek organized by... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
required course designed to develop students’ global and cultural intelligence. In the course, students tackle a real product or service challenge for a partner organization and complete an immersion in their partner’s city. Seoul was among a roster of 16 View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Action Plan: Border Crossing
my husband’s German grandparents lived as refugees during and after World War II. We were able to walk the streets they walked. It wasn’t a part of the city you would normally visit as a tourist, but it had a profound impact on us.” Check... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
says he owes to his immigrant background—he moved to the States from Denmark at age 9—as well as a yearlong experience he had as a teacher and assistant principal at an inner-city school in New York City just before coming to Harvard. "It... View Details
- 10 Jul 2024
- News
Next Level
Gina Joseph (GMP 29, 2020), chief strategy officer for the technology media company VentureBeat, was recently honored by the San Francisco Business Times in their “40 Under 40” issue. Joseph is thriving in the media, tech, and gaming world—all industries traditionally... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
be rebuilt. This was about healing. The city needed its music back. The audience, most in tears, gave the orchestra a five-minute ovation before the first note was played. And as the last chord of Ravel’s Boléro hung in the air, some... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
The weather in New York City was dreary drizzle on a fall day last October 25, but on the third floor of 42nd Street's Grand Hyatt Hotel, there was pure sparkle in the air. More than one hundred HBS alumnae from all over the country and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
with the country’s young and growing middle class. With funding from angel investors, the company launched in Mexico City in October 2014 with 3 employees; now it has more than 50 employees, 35 percent growth month over month, and an... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
restaurants—including the Crescent City landmark Commander’s Palace—and Martin is the president of NOCHI’s board. “Carol has an unbelievable background,” Martin told the crowd, and then paused. “But the hell with that,” she remarked,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
framework around which to figure out whether they’re making the right decisions. We’ve also reorganized into three lines of business: aviation, maritime, and the Tobin Bridge (linking the city to its northern suburbs). General managers... View Details