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- 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
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
groups, university and system-wide initiatives. She is also affiliate faculty of the George Washington School of International Affairs in Leadership Studies and faculty emeritus for the RISE San Diego Urban Leadership Program that trains... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kyle Caven
stem not from losing, but rather from a lack of effort. To fail was acceptable, but to give it less than my all was not. Working hard - win or lose - meant I could go home with my head held high. I attended an urban high school ranked... View Details
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Lauren Booker
the 1960s and '70s. At Yale, Lauren exhibited the family traits of social activism and leadership, becoming the head of the Black Student Alliance and co-founding a magazine entitled Sphere, "focused on global citizenship awareness." As an View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- News
Progress Through Preservation
a former urban developer, likes the art of closing. The Trust helps to negotiate land transactions between landowners and public entities or groups hoping to preserve it. It also focuses on conservation funding and finance, conducts the... View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Brandon Lovell (MBA 2020) Talks Growing Up in the South Bronx, Year Up, and the Value of a Supportive Community
Gerald Chertavian, places urban youth in corporate internships. After successfully completing his internship, Brandon was admitted into and graduated from New York University, he established his business, Movers with a Smile, and applied... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
neighborhood was a product of Detroit’s controversial 1960s urban renewal efforts. “But the way people live today, they want to be close to the action. They want to be close to their jobs. They want to ride their bikes; they want to take... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Student Benefits from Class of 2006 Fellowship
comes to HBS with a passion for education and three years of social enterprise experience. Most recently, she served as the new schools development associate at The SEED Foundation, a nonprofit that partners with urban communities to... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- Web
Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Aug 2021 June O’Sullivan MBE is CEO of London Early Years Foundation. June attended the Strategic Per... SPNM Perspectives: Rhonda Haynes, National Association For Urban Debate Leagues Rhonda Haynes 19 Aug 2021 Rhonda Haynes is Executive... 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, reversing a nearly 70-year-old... View Details
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Andrew Baxter
myself a question: Could I make a difference in the fight to save our environment?" An MBA, Andrew believed, "would give me the skills to do something more for societal change." With a desire to address the impact of global View Details
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Real estate: emerging markets
Workspace Introduction. Urban Land Institute
Search the Urban Land Institute collection of research reports for access to their regional Emerging Trends in Real Estate series. The site also allows you... View Details
Search the Urban Land Institute collection of research reports for access to their regional Emerging Trends in Real Estate series. The site also allows you... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
prevailing research norm. The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities Author:John D. Macomber Publication:Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 23, no. 3 (summer 2011) Abstract Three trends will drive urban... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
A Case for Coffee
Dixon, who is director of TechnoServe’s operations in Tanzania, explained the bigger picture. Noting that completely eradicating poverty is not a feasible goal for TechnoServe, Dixon observed that “if you are going to be poor, it is better to be poor in a rural area... View Details
- February 2008 (Revised May 2012)
- Supplement
The Big Easy, Not So Easy: The Letter
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Ben Creo
A short, supplemental case to "The Big Easy, Not So Easy" (208-068). Doris Koo must respond to new challenges at Lafitte in New Orleans. View Details
Keywords: Natural Disasters; Housing; Projects; Risk Management; Urban Development; Reputation; New Orleans
Retsinas, Nicolas P., and Ben Creo. "The Big Easy, Not So Easy: The Letter." Harvard Business School Supplement 208-125, February 2008. (Revised May 2012.)
- February 2008 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
The Big Easy, Not So Easy
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Arthur I Segel and Ben Creo
Enterprise Community Partners must determine whether to rebuild the Lafitte housing projects in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans and, if so, how to mitigate the risks. Set in January 2007, more than a year after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the case examines how... View Details
Keywords: Natural Disasters; Housing; Projects; Risk Management; Urban Development; Reputation; New Orleans
Retsinas, Nicolas P., Arthur I Segel, and Ben Creo. "The Big Easy, Not So Easy." Harvard Business School Case 208-068, February 2008. (Revised May 2012.)
- April 2011
- Case
Felipe Calderón: Leading with Light and Power (A)
By: J. Bruce Harreld and David Lane
This sequence of cases explores how leaders get their team focused on framing, analyzing, and ultimately acting upon complex decisions. The A case provides an inside look as President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, works with his cabinet ministers to decide how to... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decisions; Public Sector; Leadership; Conflict and Resolution; Power and Influence; Urban Development; Welfare or Wellbeing
Harreld, J. Bruce, and David Lane. "Felipe Calderón: Leading with Light and Power (A)." Harvard Business School Case 811-024, April 2011.
- 15 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development
estate development and business investment. Having studied architecture before transitioning to urban and African-American studies in my undergraduate program, it was a relief to discover that developers, not architects, actually build... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 2004
- Chapter
The City and the Countryside: Economy, State and Socialist Legacies in the Vietnamese Labor Market
Abrami, Regina M., and Nolwen Henaff. "The City and the Countryside: Economy, State and Socialist Legacies in the Vietnamese Labor Market." In Reaching for the Dream: Challenges of Sustainable Development in Vietnam, edited by Melanie Beresford and Angie Tran. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004.