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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
which offers low-income young adults training, mentorship, internships, and real jobs. Today, Year Up serves more than 1,300 students in nine cities across the nation. The book follows a Year Up class from admissions through graduation.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
It’s just another picture-perfect day in downtown San Mateo, California, a city that walks the line between high-tech polish and down-home simplicity tucked between San Francisco and the heart of Silicon Valley. “When you’re starting a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
difficulties of flying in a post-9/11 world. Long lines at security, delays, and meager service were the least of it. For many business travelers, getting from a big city to a smaller one was a tricky, time-consuming proposition, often... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
buildings 10 miles east of Mexico City that is populated by some of the country’s poorest citizens. Over the past two years, though, market days have been busier than normal at the store—all thanks to a little silver service booth just... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
first-year MBA students will travel to 15 cities across the United States to work on projects that involve the design of a new product, service, or experience for a local segment of that city’s population. Students will partner with... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
residents were killed and homes and businesses along 35 square blocks of the city were destroyed at the hands of a white mob over the course of 18 hours. Unfounded accusations that a young Black shoe shiner had assaulted a white woman... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
City area are currently making plans to convene the next Women’s Leadership Accelerator in the spring of 2019. “It’s invaluable to have HBS support for alumnae-led events in the region. I look forward to continuing to create opportunities... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
logistics of running a university based in a remote location. “It takes over two hours to drive to the city of San José when we need to meet with bankers, government officials, or lawyers,” explains Condo, who averages two days a week on... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
order for their true environmental impact to be measured. The futuristic EV1 sports coupe accelerates from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 8.5 seconds. Currently, however, lead-acid batteries that power electric cars provide a driving range of only seventy miles in the View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
Boston, and the Grow Clinic for Children at Boston City Hospital. He also serves on the Cornell University Council and on the Harvard University Board of Overseers. « Back After working in marketing and advertising with Young & Rubicam... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
sequestration, grasslands, and the food and agricultural sector. Audience members also contributed climate-smart investment advice, ranging from the role of bicycles in cities to alternatives to plastic and “single-use stuff.” More... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
serve his country, but his father, a factory worker, convinced him to go to college instead. When he graduated from the University of California, Davis, he intended to keep his job as a city bus driver, but through a friend’s father, he... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
says. "Even the general New York City HBS community—it's nothing I could have known or appreciated when I graduated." Yet she believes it's the path she was meant to take. "You have to be a good learner, a little deliberate in your plans,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
Executive Education program Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management. Past recipients have included Janice Price, president and CEO of The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, and Jim Balfanz, executive director for City Year... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
color to be operating partners, to be employees at ICV. We've been doing this for two decades. We've had no problem finding talent.” Dan Morrell: In the wake of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992, Willie Woods (MBA 1993) was part of a group of HBS students... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
English,” he says. The best part of his job, says Offensend, is watching EDC’s work being used in the field and seeing its impact. One recent example thrills him. The percentage of female students who took AP computer science courses in New York View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
by what might be the shortest dot-com career on record. He accepted a job offer at an Internet startup in New York City at the height of the bubble, only to have the business fold just as he and his wife were packing for the move. “The... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
and hand sanitizer to every household in the city of Chelsea. We’re staffing a hotel that the cities of Chelsea and Revere have rented for people who need to be quarantined, and we’re providing medical and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
20,000 SIM cards at an average of $100 each. (Roshan was second to enter the market after Afghan Wireless; it now has four providers nipping at its heels in a highly competitive market.) Today, the company connects all of Afghanistan’s major View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
city or region wins the rights to host a Super Bowl, it is required to form a host committee, Blumkin explains. "The NFL controls the game and all surrounding events. Our responsibility was to welcome guests into the region, help people... View Details