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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Proposed Chair Would Honor African-American Business Pioneer
career as an independent printing salesman in Washington, D.C., and established the New Negro Alliance, an organization intended to persuade companies doing business in black neighborhoods to hire employees from within those... View Details
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
all) available seats. Boston’s school choice system, for example, reserved half of each school’s seats for local neighborhood applicants while leaving the other half for open competition. This paper shows that in the presence of reserves,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
delivery services should not be discounted too soon, according to HBS professor and marketing specialist John A. Deighton. As Deighton explained in the article "Who Wanted Webvan to Survive?" published last summer in The Boston... View Details
- 31 Mar 2017
- News
Turning Teachers into Leaders
achievement gap, to improve outcomes for students, particularly those of low-income neighborhoods and families, so they have a better chance of life and career success. We work towards that mission by helping state agencies of education,... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
This husband, father and former pilot in the Marine Corps takes on HBS and his vision of changing communities for the better.
talk to two classmates from the same company, that worked in the same country, are from the same city, but that have two completely different sets of experiences and aspirations. I want to start businesses that change communities for the better. In particular, I want... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
After decades of decline, despair, and neglect, the last ten years have brought some preliminary signs of revitalization to a number of inner-city neighborhoods in the United States. Blighted areas such as Chicago's North Side, New York's... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
companies that did business in black neighborhoods but refused to employ their residents. His involvement with the Alliance not only began his ongoing community activism but also served as his entree into academia, when a fellow volunteer... View Details
- Portrait Project
Smriti Jayaraman
diminishes both the carbon footprint and utility bill of an American household, or a rural Internet kiosk that provides market prices to Brazilian fisherman by day and disease diagnoses by night. If technology can be an enabler for good,... View Details
- 09 May 2022
- News
Green House
In the Observatory Hill neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Betsy Harper (MBA 1984) has built an oxymoron: a brand-new, historic home. The recently completed structure combines traditional architecture and the latest in... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Leadership in Motion
For self-described compulsive worker Jane Veron (MBA 1991), the decision to step away from her marketing role at American Express some 18 years ago reflected the desire to put down roots with her husband and young daughters in Scarsdale,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
André Beisert's olook targets a very particular part of Brazil's new consumer market. "Our brand has a persona," Beisert (MBA 2009) says in his white brick office, which sits atop a small warehouse in the Vila Nova Conceição neighborhood... View Details
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
As a youngster, I used to create “stores” in my driveway, selling things to other neighborhood kids. It was an entrepreneurial inclination fostered by growing up in a family that owned retail stores and enjoyed telling stories of their... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development As a youngster, I used to create “stores” in my driveway, selling things to other neighborhood kids. It was an entrepreneurial... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
subjective well-being. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54526 May 2018 American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change By:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
of the nonprofit developer Hello Housing, points out that these people are critical to healthy communities: “Some portion of the housing market has to be free from speculation to ensure there’s a place for the people who are supporting... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
task. The process began with a lot of education. Her Cambridge neighbors, unfamiliar with the Passive House concept, were initially skeptical of Harper’s plans, but two historical commission meetings and nine neighborhood meetings later,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
Sternhell and Oakes on the job. Photos by Jared Leeds One lives in a Manhattan studio five blocks from Wall Street, the other on the second floor of a triple-decker in Jamaica Plain, a culturally diverse neighborhood in Boston. Both are... View Details
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
minutes at minimal cost with no branding or design skills required. As it sets out to raise its Series B, the founders make some critical changes to their business model, moving to a subscription model and adding additional products and services to automate other parts... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
income remained relatively stable, about 3 to 1. Over the last 20 years, however, the financial markets that financed the housing system in the United States changed remarkably. Local markets once dominated... View Details