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- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
features are designed to attract foreign companies. (As of 2009, some 60,000 residents and 418 companies or research centers were in New Songdo, or pledged to be there.) Forty percent of the city, constructed around a Central Park–like... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
other circumstances do you pay the most but get the least?” he asks, referencing California’s high tax rate and overloaded public services. “Any HBS student would tell you that’s a monopoly supplier. If we had six states, each would try to improve its situation to be... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
headquarters in New York, one of the executives charged with growing the league's reach and revenues is Peter O'Reilly (MBA 2002), vice president, fan strategy & marketing. "My focus is on strengthening our year-round calendar for our more than 185 million fans, while... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
this all the time is, at the point in which you have 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, of these software engineers who are now high-income earners, and have the skill set to change what's happening in their communities, that begins to attract a lot... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Wayne State University, the Henry Ford Health System, and the State of Michigan all have properties in the neighborhood. That’s one of the big attractions for Cummings. His vision for New Center and for Detroit is “a more granular, more... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
with their coauthors Sarah Wood Kearney, who founded Prime Coalition, and Fiona Murray of MIT’s Sloan School, found that investors—men and women—prefer ventures pitched by men, especially those pitched by attractive men. This finding held... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
high-volume production of certain commodity items in the private sector. In part that’s because manufacturing those products doesn’t represent a very attractive profit-making opportunity under normal circumstances. In a crisis, however,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
Woods”—a series of demonstrations involving environmental and First Nations activists blocking the path of logging equipment and chaining themselves to trees and bulldozers. The protests attracted international attention and spread beyond... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
events (some held in conjunction with the Aspen Institute) build brand awareness and attract sponsorships, contributing just shy of 15 percent to the bottom line. Last year, TheAtlantic.com won a National Magazine Award for best website... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
And those mercurial capital flows, as welcome as they are when they’re inbound, can wreak havoc when they reverse, or as they attract undisciplined competitors and drive excess supply at the worst possible moments. Moreover, the... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
of this bid attracted me to the cause. Under the leadership of Atlanta real-estate attorney Billy Payne, who is now ACOG's president and CEO, a small group of local people was determined to bring the Olympics here because they felt it... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
hand and exposing areas that will never be competitive on the other. The pool of capital may be more limited. But I’m not sure that’s a bad thing. The VC industry went through a phase where it expanded enormously in capital and attracted... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
competition in the 1960s between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China for the leadership in the Third World. When newly independent states emerged from decolonization desperately poor and politically disorganized, Moscow and Beijing focused on View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
attract more capital. It’s a challenge that we’re addressing with an $18 million capital campaign structured like an IPO.” So far, says Chertavian, Year Up has managed to raise $14 million — and counting. Charley Ellis (MBA ’63) The... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
government and saved my earnings. Afterward I invested the money to develop a life-saving aviation technology but couldn’t attract resources to commercialize it. I was offered the chance to fly it on the Rutan Voyager (the first aircraft... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
economic development. Stephen, welcome back to the podcast. Stephen Moret: Great to be back, Bill. Thank you. Kerr: Stephen, tell us a little bit about what attracted you to Strada after a career that’s been in economic and workforce... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
forward. Among other things, Marietta created a fundraising and development arm to take pressure off the school’s endowment; modernized the environmental education programs that are its primary moneymaker; upgraded its internet and Wi-Fi capabilities to View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
"Soul." "Spirit." A host of organizations - among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines - have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
only seventeen depository institutions to serve more than 600,000 residents. In that article, "Collaborating with Congregations: Opportunities for Financial Services in the Inner City," the authors argued that inner-city populations become more View Details