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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity
fifteen students devoted considerable effort to ensuring that conference speakers and panelists represented the region's diversity. “There's a tendency to think of Latin America as one big pie, when in fact it's made up of many slices,” he said, noting that speakers... View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Building a Green Energy Grid
Green-energy entrepreneur Michael Skelly (MBA 1991) founded Houston-based Clean Line Energy in 2009 to tackle a critical challenge. “If you look at the wind-power equation,” he says, “you quickly see that transmitting energy long distances from rural wind farms to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Gold Mettle
City bidders interested in landing the Games, and to make matters worse, the local organizing committee was in financial and organizational disarray. The scandalous situation made news around the world. Searching for a savior, the Salt... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
For Education Reform, PELP Is on the Way
school systems that have achieved a high level of excellence overall.” To address this situation, HBS and Harvard’s Graduate School of Education have launched a three-year joint venture with nine urban school districts representing more than one million students from... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
seating programs. They see this as an essential revenue stream if the salary demands of top players are to be met and if a franchise is really going to be competitive." Thus franchises - many with roots in their cities dating back decades... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
worked together to make a distinctive contribution to the School. "We sensed that many HBS alumnae didn't feel involved with the School," explains Farrington, founder and cochair of StarVest Partners in New York City and a member of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
listens and emotional connections to the music (“you’ve provided the soundtrack to their life, so there is even more excitement for the show”) and two, the data that artists can get from their streams help uncover fan bases in cities they... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium
Old, Something New Traditionally HBS has met prospective students at networking events such as open houses hosted in various locations by HBS alumni clubs as well as on campus by MBA Admissions. The current strategy builds on this existing strength by expanding open... View Details
Keywords: Cindy Olnick
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
not knowing which offices are the most honest. To address that, Bantay has three main initiatives: City Watch recruits students and volunteers to grade government offices on everything from their air conditioning to the prices of bribes.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
nonfiction, North America and India—as well as the similarities: Both are, in some way, chronicles of changing times and lives, suggesting the universality of change and its impact on the human condition, more generally." —Associate Professor Mukti Khaire on Vintage... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates
Executive Education alumni in cities across the United States and abroad. They explored questions such as: How connected do you feel to HBS today? How has that changed over time? Does your local HBS club or association meet your needs?... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Power Plays
by Business Insider in December, Callida’s implementation at a city municipal building resulted in a 31 percent reduction in HVAC use and costs. Oscilla Power Cofounder and CEO Rahul Shendure (MBA 2001); Founded 2010 Harnessing the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
How are resource constraints (e.g., water shortages in California, hop shortages in general) impacting the beer business? —Matt Rhenish (MBA 2008) BUECHLER: To date, resource constraints haven’t been overly significant. Our pro–craft beer San Diego View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
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Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
Partners has evolved into a technologybased marketing solutions company that helps clients design and manage customer loyalty programs. With offices in seven cities worldwide and over 250 employees, Brierley & Partners' recent clients... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
Jamaica, and Zimbabwe. Some have worked in cities like Baghdad, Phnom Penh, Monrovia, Tokyo, and Madrid. But none of the students in our group has been to Santa Ana del Valle, a village of just under 2,000 inhabitants, where rug weaving... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities
coursework, Asamoah has served as a student consultant for the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she analyzed how Grand Rapids, Michigan, could increase workforce diversity. As a summer intern... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Proposed Chair Would Honor African-American Business Pioneer
At a special reception in New York City in early March, a distinguished group of friends, relatives, and admirers of the late H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33) gathered at the home of Richard H. Jenrette (MBA '57) to consider plans for the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
several frantic hours trying to locate his mother in New York City on the morning of September 11 (she was safe). "I have to believe that we have some power to make a difference, and with that power comes responsibility and obligation,"... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 29 Apr 2016
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The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
groups. It's really powerful. We have artists in 11 cities and more than 1,000 unique pieces on our site now. We've come a long way. "From a branding perspective, a lot of companies are aligning themselves with social causes to appeal to... View Details