Filter Results:
(733)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,177)
- People (3)
- News (733)
- Research (694)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (48)
- Faculty Publications (397)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,177)
- People (3)
- News (733)
- Research (694)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (48)
- Faculty Publications (397)
Sort by
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
analogy that Jen Pahlka who's our executive director here uses, is the house is on fire right now. That means we actually need to run towards it, not away from it. Luna: And how does Code for America work? What are the fires that you're... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
infrastructure, San Francisco-based Schwab was determined to locate its information headquarters in a "nongeologically active" area. The company has housed its two data centers twenty miles apart - in different power grids - outside... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
passage to Brisbane. After four years of penny-pinching, he purchased a house and summoned his wife and children. As the years passed, hard work and frugality enabled Russo’s father to buy several rental apartments and a small vineyard.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
been knocking it out of the park for some time.” Harder, a former student of Moss’s, puts it this way: “I felt like Washington was a house on fire, and too many arsonists were being elected.” Representative Josh Harder (MBA/MPP 2014),... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
globally,” he says. “The infrastructure to source and sell was so massive that volume continued to grow despite rapidly deteriorating credit quality.” Seeing the absurdity of it, Paulson bet against the market at the peak of the housing... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
oil and gas industry, were telling Larry that there were going to be big problems and that HBS ought to do something about it,” Stobaugh says. “That was the genesis of it.” MR. STOBAUGH GOES TO WASHINGTON: At the White House in 1979,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Leiman adds. In June, Blink will celebrate one year of serving its European customer base. The road to that milestone began at Soldiers Field, where Leiman and Ogden met through a mutual friend on their first weekend at HBS. Leiman’s background includes a stint at the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
up." Despite AMC's focus on improving the customer experience, Lopez knows as well as anyone that his business is driven by a product—specifically, those must-see movies that get people out of the house and into the theaters. In... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
Alumni Books The Boat House Café: Book One of First Light by Linda Cardillo (MBA 1978) (Bellastoria Press LLP) A novel set on Martha’s Vineyard. Buffoonery on Woodhouse Avenue by Bob Garland (PMD 20, 1970) (Gabbrolandbooks) The fourth in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
they were disproportionately coming from Chelsea, Revere, and East Boston. I think in this case the social determinants include living in crowded housing conditions, where the ventilation and air quality are not as good and which seems to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
Stacey Abrams didn’t dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Her first small business was a consultancy that she launched out of necessity to supplement her salary as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998)... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
The daughter of teenage parents, Kim Lew (MBA 1992) grew up in public housing in Harlem and the Bronx. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, worked in the mailroom of AT&T, where the CEO was a graduate of Penn’s Wharton School of Business. Lew... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
when it opens early next year. Plans are also on the drawing board for new facilities to house lifelong learning activities and academic activities related to faculty development and for an academic center and a major renovation of Baker... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
will include, says Şen, creating temporary living quarters to house nearly 20,000 people left homeless by the disaster. FEBRUARY 24 Fatih Uysal (AMP 2000, 2021), CEO of Kariyer.net, the leading HRTech company in Turkey, notes that his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
provide housing and practical education for orphaned and at-risk boys. Outward Bound’s influence on the island began with when it launched its first adventure learning and character development programming in the mid-1970s. The island... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
the worlds of business, government, and education. A former top executive at McKinsey and Bendix, between 1977 and 1981 McDonald was an ambassador, an assistant to President Jimmy Carter, and a White House staff director. "I had a view of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Change, and Making Good Things Happen By Zoe Chance (DBA 2011) Random House You were born influential. But then you were taught to suppress that power, follow the rules, wait your turn, not make waves. Yale professor Zoe Chance will show... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
complex and a science museum, renovating the theater district, cleaning up the waterfront area, restoring the city's NFL franchise, securing the rights to house the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, and developing affordable... View Details
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
disconnected from it. Okay, hope you enjoy the show. READ MORE Cedric Bobo: Cedric Bobo MBA Class of 2004. I do after school drop off. I always find .. I have three sons. Whenever I drop them off, having not been raised with a dad in the View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
systemic risk. The reality is that these companies are inefficient producers that have consistently lost out to foreign-owned competition. They’ve had years to get their house in order and they failed. And what we now need to do is to... View Details