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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Sharing the Road
Sakshi Vij (GMP 23, 2017) is the founder and CEO of Myles, an innovative car-sharing company operating in 21 cities in India. In this interview, she talks about the potential growth in the car-sharing space... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
Harvard Business School in 1997, Bezos has invested in a handful of local companies—and bought others, sometimes pulling their leaders out to Seattle to work with him directly. He has overseen the growth of local Amazon offices, which now... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
have to rely on diesel generators. That is a lot of the same kind of stuff you do in an emerging economy. It’s the same thing you do in a new city in India or China.” Macomber teaches the MBA elective Building Cities: Infrastructure and... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
Ask most people to name a city with a lot of parks and chances are Houston won’t be the first one they name. “For better or worse, our built environment is known for the lack of zoning,” says Daniel M. Gilbane (MBA 2005), senior vice... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Impact: Toward the Greater Good
Leadership Fellow, used his technology skills to improve city government in California. These stories illustrate just some of the ways that donor support is extending the School’s impact. A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy Tech for the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Think globally, crowdfund locally
access community capital to fund growth and improvement projects. "Local Lift is a supplement or replacement to a small business loan," says Sonnier. "We are changing the way small businesses think about raising funds for View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success? Call them next-generation driverless taxis or people movers, the age of personal rapid transport is just around the bend. Could PRT change the face of public transportation in cities and... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Entrepreneurship flourishes in the Bayou
Kevin Wilkins (MBA 1992) is helping to make New Orleans one of the country's vibrant centers for entrepreneurship. The founder of New Orleans–based trepwise, Wilkins works with emerging entrepreneurial companies across all sectors and established organizations to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
Ilana L. Goldman (MBA ’02) always knew that she wanted to work in the public sector. But she didn’t expect to find herself back on the HBS campus just eighteen months after graduation talking about her new job. Goldman is vice president of DonorsChoose, a New York... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
it came to their pay, they weren’t lovin’ it. A few weeks earlier, protests had broken out in more than 225 cities across the country, with fast-food workers carrying signs and banners saying “We’re Worth More” and pushing to be paid $15... View Details
- 18 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa
Senior Lecturer John Macomber, far left, and students in the Africa: Building Cities course toured the Rappie Waste-to-Energy Power Project in Addis Ababa with developer Samuel Alemayehu of Cambridge Group Companies. With a growing... View Details
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
for children with cystic fibrosis that teaches them skills to deal with their daily treatment regimens. The pace is scrappy and the conversation engaging. Since launching in 2012, HH hackathons have been held in major cities around the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
Pinto says Western business leaders have shown "extraordinary complacency in the face of upheavals." The numbers don't look good for the West. The United States, Great Britain, and France have each seen their average GDP growth hover... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
nationwide high-speed, high-capacity fiber-optic network covering fifteen coastal cities and over 80 percent of the domestic data services market. With backing from shareholders, including the Ministry of Railways (fiber is being run... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global
for example. For several years, it was the number one city for real estate investment. You would have expected that to change dramatically after the Brexit vote—and it did. A lot of European and US investors lost interest in London, but... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
financial district of Brooklin to the favelas of Real Parque. Cars buzz by. "See here?" she says, pointing to the bridge. At 6:30 p.m. on most days, it is a sea of snarled traffic, a city hallmark. But when Brazil's national team kicks... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A bold experiment in education
college acceptance rate and sent the highest percentage of its graduates to college in the city, excluding selective-admissions schools. Most recently, in 2013, NOCP took over the operation of the lowest-performing elementary school in New Orleans and achieved the... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
A Whole New Game
States at the age of 16 with $50 in his pocket, eventually founding TIBCO software. “Four years ago, I said no other city is going to steal our team,” he said. “The Kings are the heart and soul of the city.” READ MORE View Details
- 25 Jun 2025
- News
Hitting A High Note
As the Atlanta Opera's general and artistic director, Tomer Zvulun has big ambitions for the organization, imagining a “new model of performing arts." Photo and video credit: Melissa Golden Tomer Zvulun video Tomer Zvulun discusses the Atlanta Opera's contributions to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999)
the hot, new restaurant wherever I travel.” Industry trend: A commoditization of the boutique, design-based experience. “I see customers seeking hotel experiences that are less institutionalized and more authentic to the cities they’re... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna