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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
someone else, you'd make room in your work to do that," he reasons. "It's the same with a trip like this. You have to organize your life to make it happen. By far the hardest part is making a commitment." With school and work taken care of, the family arranged to rent... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
fall short, too. India’s struggle with poverty comes into clear view on the taxi ride downtown: Crowded slums with makeshift housing hug the roadway, and entire families settle down for the night on the city’s sidewalks. Also visible are... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
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
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
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
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
policies are going to make a big difference in this country. Making sure that there's enough money for all older adults to support healthy aging going forward. And a lot of other countries have done better in finding housing alternatives.... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
He had passed away. His wife wanted to keep his legacy alive. It was very important to her. And so she actually mortgaged her house and put all that money in the funeral chapel. She owed the IRS a lot of money. Her life was in very, very... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Hungary to help spot and address the needs of Ukrainian refugees. Bleier has used to network to find a family with two young children, who are being housed at his home in Vienna. “It's a small help, but we must especially support these... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
“are much more frequent than we expect them to be.” Over the past 100 years, the S&P 500 has ended the year down 20 points or more on seven occasions, including this year. While it’s human nature to believe that the unthinkable, such as a collapse of U.S. View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
this success was achieved. Heroes Wanted: Why the World Needs You to Live Your Heart Out by Rodney D. Bullard (AMP 187, 2014) Harvest House Publishers With all the hardships and unmet needs in the world, it’s difficult to believe one... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
than what a family might pay in rent. “It’s a sustainable model that empowers homeowners to help themselves and others,” says Song, who also works as a volunteer on Habitat projects. “It’s possible to frame a house in one day, so you can... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Photography by Jason Andrew Ibrahim Mustapha grows maize in Katsina Fulani, a village of mud-brick houses topped by rusted corrugated roofs in northern Nigeria. Like millions of farmers in his country, Mustapha is a "smallholder"; he and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
distributed through the coffee cooperatives, building more permanent homes to replace mud houses and investing in their daughters’ educations. “They can start planning for the future,” Nyamumbo says. She hopes to expand Kahawa’s approach... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
members arrived at Kenya’s State House in Nairobi to meet with the country’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, as part of the School’s faculty immersion in Africa. “Business and entrepreneurship are ingrained in the Kenyan psyche, whether it is... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
museum that opened to much fanfare on 1/11/11. He is now considering building a museum to house his substantial collection of southwestern and wildlife art. "For me, art has never been about the investment," says James. "It's about... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
reverse of mine. She had her children early; in fact, her kids were out of the house by the time she was 40. And she had her career later. After thirty years in various Washington libraries, she retired this February as head librarian of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
wat. Although built around a temple and housing a contingent of monks, each wat also serves as a social and community center and frequently hosts market days and carnivals. It’s hard to convey the pervasive role of monks in Thai society.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
beliefs,” Greenwood says, chalking it up to an abundance of optimism. Before the crisis, for instance, the “Armageddon scenario” for housing price growth in 2006 was a 5 percent drop. During the lowest point of the crisis, View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
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
- News
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
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
the dinner, he sent a limousine to our house to bring her to the School. But most touching of all: when my mother died, John came to her funeral service at the Village Church. Following the service, he gave me a big hug; it was like being... View Details
Keywords: Dean