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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
factories that produce fertilizer, to investors like Masha working directly with farmers, to retail-focused suppliers rebuilding local appetite for food grown in their country. Universal among these agribusiness entrepreneurs is a core... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
with applications and now employs local residents, many of whom walk to work, with much less turnover than Sprint's suburban call centers. "They took a risk, but it paid off - they now have a solid pool of workers who are very happy to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
street. He looks for positive signs such as strong rental demand from city employees and blue-collar workers; a mix of rental and owner-occupied properties; successful local businesses; city revitalization projects; and informal... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
Difference in the World by Russ Banham, Shirley Spence, and Howard Stevenson In his 40-plus years at HBS, Professor Emeritus Howard Stevenson has seen firsthand the countless ways in which alumni have harnessed leadership skills and business expertise to solve problems... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
artists could work part-time in agriculture while keeping time and finding space for art making. “I have begun talking to various organizations, including local governments and dairy farms, in Hokkaido, the northern-most island of Japan,... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
II shaped the Renaissance Center. Max Fisher transformed the waterfront. Now developers like Gilbert and the Ilitches have an outsized impact on the way their particular neighborhoods develop, as do local philanthropic foundations, which... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
local communities. “Our collective reach is much greater than our individual club reach,” says David Harris (MBA 1984), President-elect of the HBS Association of Boston, and co-lead in organizing the conference. He also served as a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
workweek is filled with staff meetings, conferences, public events, negotiations with government officials about programs and their implementation, and donor-relations work with local embassies. She finds that all these various activities... View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- News
Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead
high quality of life, and an exceptionally welcoming local culture, combined with growth-friendly public policies are at the core of the boom in Dallas, according to Clark. The discussion also touched upon some key trends in job creation,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
support, and back-office processing to America. Strengthening the industrial base. Remember, too, that many high-value-added services are often closely connected to manufacturing and can be delivered only locally. Production engineering is hard to do without a factory.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
difference — places like the Amazon, the Congo, and the coral reefs of Indonesia. And we created integrated teams for each place both to work locally and to deliver global results with related industries and policies. The effect has been... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. Over the coming months, Porter, Rivkin, and a number of HBS faculty involved with the project will participate in a series of alumni events across the country designed to disseminate key findings and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
in the creation and control of local governments. Burning Man: Art on Fire, Revised and Updated by Jennifer Raiser (MBA 1990) and Sidney Erthal (Race Point Publishing) A visual history of the amazing art works created for Burning Man, a... View Details
- 07 Jan 2016
- News
Real-World Learning for the Digital Generation
building robots and doing things that help the world both locally and globally. “I think what HBS did for me was [that it] began to make me a global thinker and a thinker about large problems and strategies for getting from one place to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
Courtesy Debora Spar “We’re going to start seeing many businesses wanting to bring their supply chain much closer to home in ways that will probably make goods more expensive, but hopefully will help drive employment as we replace outsourcing with View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
Opportunity,” part of a global series of events organized by the HBS Business & Environment Initiative (BEI) and cosponsored by local HBS alumni clubs. The series launched in February 2018 in San Francisco, and has been presented... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
that we want to collaborate with local academics will gain us a lot of goodwill. The payoff for HBS faculty will be a better understanding of developments in the region and an increase in the amount and quality of teaching materials about... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
transforming the delivery of health care," he notes. "And my work with our local government and church has helped me feel much more rooted in the community. In all these activities, I have enjoyed using my skills where they can make a... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
The miracle, she says, is when the child starts making wise or mindful decisions on their own. After giving some talks about the book to local parent groups in Atlanta where she lives, Jones has started presenting webinars to HBS and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
but qualitative, cultural yet financial, personal but pandemic. In short, it's complicated. Do you think business leaders can help tackle any of these problems, especially the financial ones you point out? @cjcashjr: It's imperative that biz participate in ed reform... View Details