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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Construction Begins on New Exec Ed Building
academic and residence building for the School’s Executive Education programs, began in early December on a site between Kresge Hall and Soldiers Field Road. When completed in late 2013, the 150,000-square-foot building will provide 179... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Financial Services Support Mexico’s Most Underserved Communities
Alvaro Rodriguez-Arregui (MBA 1995), cofounder and managing partner of Ignia, explains how his organization’s impact investing has brought personal finance services to residents of the largest slum in Mexico City while also strengthening... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
“Brick Bank” in partnership with a building supply retailer that would enable local residents to invest their savings in inflation-proof building materials, thus accumulating the necessary materials over time. “We take some things for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Green as Gold
At first glance, Hamilton Hall looks the same as it has since the student residence was constructed eighty years ago. The building, home to 72 MBA students, blends seamlessly into the classic Georgian architecture of the HBS campus and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
graduates in hospital residence positions, as well as systems in several US cities that pair pupils with public high schools. "This is an extraordinary and well-deserved honor for Al," said Dean Nitin Nohria. "In the best tradition of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Bart Harvey: Opportunities for Others
of this neighborhood where Frederick Douglass and Thurgood Marshall went to school has been reclaimed from the drugs and despair that not long ago defined it; its ten thousand residents have seen more than one thousand houses... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- News
A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale
women) isn’t just a social good but improves performance within organizations and in wider economies. A London resident of two decades, Hunt serves on numerous UK boards, including the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board, the Tate... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
plants, birds, fish, and shrimp. Smith’s planned two-day visit to test his products in the Gulf last May turned into an entire summer working with residents whose lives and livelihoods have been threatened. The experience, he notes, “has... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
disasters. Floods the previous February had displaced 14,000 city residents and caused $100 million in damages. Because his own family’s home in Texas had been damaged during Hurricane Harvey, Tsai understood firsthand the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
stereotype allows a resident to examine a black patient without drawing the curtain. White also blames the medical culture, which conditions physicians to “focus on the patient’s physiological symptoms and biomedical indications and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Medicine made personal
Entrepreneurship Club, Goyal has created the start-up Foresight Pharmaceuticals. Goyal and Levy secured a residency at the Harvard Innovation Lab and have pitched Foresight to HBS Business Angels, an alumni investment group. Through HBS,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Feedback
residents of Astoria, Oregon, where there is, at present, a first-class summer classical music festival. One of the major forces in making the festival happen is Bill Armington, one of the doctors [at] the hospital (Memorial) that endured... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
that there might just be too many activities available and too much to do, thus decreasing the serendipity of chance social encounters among residents as they crisscross the community’s lush green grounds. Even so, Marshall, a marketing... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
University Medical Center. In his spare time, he volunteered at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan, studied for the MCAT, and applied to medical schools. Two years later, he entered Weill Cornell Medical College, followed by a residency... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home Sweet Home
those communities. “This is not just a matter of social equity,” Terwilliger stated. “The shortage of workforce housing is compromising the economic well-being of our cities.” And for the residents of exclusive areas such as Hilton Head,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
It’s a Small World
PASRICHA: Accentuating the positive and the small, everyday joys that make life “awesome.” A few years ago, Neil Pasricha’s (MBA 2007) personal life took a turn for the worse. To cheer himself up during a dark time, the Toronto resident... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
diabetes to support services for those with catastrophic illnesses such as AIDS. Through the church's efforts, hundreds of residents in Riverhead and beyond have been able to climb out of poverty, drug abuse, and crime to create lives of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
center closest to you, which may be attached to the back of a gas station or convenience store. “Because of their low-cost design and size [most will be 3,000 to 5,000 square feet] we can put fulfillment centers in thousands of places,” Pedró says, including urban food... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
properties are being rehabilitated both privately and through nonprofit programs, and residents volunteer their labor to help with face-lifts. A commercial developer has recently proposed an office complex and a plan for 135 affordable... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
pre-MBA aspirations. In the classic division of MBAs into two camps, poets and quants, Kuhns falls solidly into the former. After earning an MFA in sculpture and drawing at the University of Chicago, he served as an undergraduate teaching assistant for the university’s... View Details