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curriculum. Existing first–year required courses such as "Human Behavior in Organizations" and "Planning and the Business Environment" started to incorporate case studies on Black entrepreneurship and corporate expansion into urban... View Details
- February 2024
- Supplement
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B1): Birmingham Climate Action Snapshot
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Natania Elias and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
new-economy innovation. "It takes a mix of perspectives," he observes. "Older companies must resist becoming mature, dull, and methodical. They need a youthful view." But Price, whose professional career has been complemented by civic involvement with entities such as... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
and Environment Initiative noted that the climate’s future requires that cities, the dominant settlement model of the 21st century, be much cleaner and more energy efficient. Cutting urban vehicle emissions is a big part of that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Developing Black Talent for Leadership
Give your money and your talents: Link to donate to any of the following organizations below (will continue to update)- https://tinyurl.com/ya4e2qzm MLT, National Black MBA Association, LEAD Business, National Urban League, Morehouse... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
wind.” Greenways for Houston Although he emigrated from Ireland as a small child and grew up in Virginia, Skelly has embraced life in Houston, where he serves on the Houston Parks Board and Houston Bike Share Board. He also regularly writes articles on transportation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”... View Details
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
groups, university and system-wide initiatives. She is also affiliate faculty of the George Washington School of International Affairs in Leadership Studies and faculty emeritus for the RISE San Diego Urban Leadership Program that trains... View Details
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
for America, which describes itself as the "Peace Corps for Geeks." Its coders take publicly available data and use technology to visualize the work of government for the public in accessible ways. In Boston, for example, the group worked with the Mayor's... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
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South Asia - Global Activities 2020
into and out of India to the rest of East Asia and beyond. The tour of the site included the future Colombo Port City, an urban development project slated for completion in 2041, which comprises office towers, luxury residences, an... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
education is a state function, it was crucial to get the governors on board. Working with the governor of New York, we developed a strategy to spread P-TECH across every economic development district in the state, ensuring a mix of urban... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
period—some 31,160 new ventures listed in the NCCS-GuideStar National Nonprofit Research Database, produced by the National Center for Charitable Statistics at the Urban Institute. The findings in this second analysis mirrored the first:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
some of the best real estate market returns anywhere. Green real estate development in dense locations in our urban centers could have an enormous impact on our energy use. The average home owner in the U.S. suburbs today, according to... View Details
- 16 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Sophie Levin (MS/MBA 2022) - How Risk Can Be the Key to a Sustainable Future
What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? Before HBS, I worked at Tesla as a design engineer and project manager. I had the opportunity to work on groundbreaking products alongside some of the smartest and most resilient people in the world.... View Details
- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
Despite its long economic boom, America's social problems abound. To ensure future economic success, the country needs dramatic improvement in public schools, more highly skilled workers, jobs with a future for people coming off the welfare rolls, revitalized View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 28 Feb 2011
- News
Rebooting the Human Condition
equally at home negotiating with Mexican guerrillas and sailing the world's oceans (with genomics guru Venter, among others). From 1988 to 1993, Enriquez served as CEO of Mexico City's for-profit urban development agency. Later, as an HBS... View Details
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while creating urban living capacity, by combining low carbon and resource-efficient development with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to better manage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2024
- Supplement
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B6): Miami Climate Action Snapshot
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an... View Details
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Lauren Booker
the 1960s and '70s. At Yale, Lauren exhibited the family traits of social activism and leadership, becoming the head of the Black Student Alliance and co-founding a magazine entitled Sphere, "focused on global citizenship awareness." As an View Details