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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Inside MTV’s Global Fame
bar at 5 a.m. singing “Born in the USA.” Or his wrestling match with the deputy mayor of Leningrad on the floor of the Winter Palace. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Roedy was a few blocks away securing distribution for his fledgling... 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
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
and an oratorical competition, and she assigned homework, and she said, "Everybody's got to write a speech." And the topic was, "I'm the mayor now, and this is my new plan." At 11, I had never written a speech. I don't think I'd ever... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
And openness and transparency are not just digital; Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) is an example of a leader who converted the hushed, mausoleum-like executive floor we know at most companies into the open beehive of Bloomberg LLC and New York City Hall, putting his... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
Thompson, who was joined by Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith and CEOs Gerald Greenwald of United Airlines, John E. Pepper of Procter & Gamble, and Raymond W. Smith of Bell Atlantic. "Somebody To Tell Me I'm Worth Something" Smith... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
elected Wilmington mayor and a $16 million gift from a Salesianum alumnus (the third-largest gift to a U.S. Catholic high school) put construction of a new, city-owned sports facility on track for completion in 2020. Kennealey calls the... View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
folks individually, and he stayed the entire evening. We couldn't have asked for a better guest speaker." With 185 alumni in attendance, the gala kicked off with the reading of letters of recognition from a few luminaries: President George W. Bush (MBA 1975), Dean... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
Social Enterprise Initiative,” says HBSCA Co-President Burunda Prince (MBA 1987). “The Leadership Breakfast Series has featured different mayors of Atlanta, governors of Georgia, and many CEOs, including Ed Bastian of Delta, Carol Tome of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
district is a different path, says Given. Disruptive, even. But he's managed to get full support for the model from everyone from the mayor to the superintendent of schools—the kind of buy-in that comes from a realization that solving... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
and the City Library, and most importantly, helping the Office of the Mayor develop a system of collaboration where startups can play a role in doing pilots with dozens of city departments without the typical red tape.” “San Francisco is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
The Evolving HBS Campus
Pictured from left: SEAS Dean Frank Doyle, HBS Dean Nitin Nohria, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Harvard Executive Vice President Katie Lapp, John Paulson (MBA 1980), Harvard Provost Alan Garber, and Harvard President Drew Faust (photo by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Real Deal
Leppert ELLENA FORTNER/COURTESY DALLAS MAYOR'S OFFICE Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert (MBA ’79) is making a push to help the homeless population in his city, the Dallas Morning News reported (March 13, 2008). The city has opened a homeless... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees 1997 Publishes Bloomberg by Bloomberg 2001 Elected Mayor of New York City 2012 Launches Bloomberg Philanthropies 2014 Returns to Bloomberg LP as CEO 2017 Coauthors Climate of Hope Founder,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
villages, Elim and Golovin that are about 20 miles apart or so. And somehow the mayor of one of the communities heard that we were in a pickle and came out on his snow machine at 9:30 p.m. and broke trail for all of us. So that was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Bloomberg’s Gift to Boost Cities
“Running a city is one of the most complex jobs on the planet. A mayor is responsible for overseeing unwieldy bureaucracies, managing budgets, making policy, implementing programs, bringing legislators together, harnessing technology,... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- News
Strengthening City Hall’s Foundations
In an opinion piece published by the Jerusalem Post on April 4, 2022, Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) announced a new management training program to support mayors in Israel. The Bloomberg-Sagol Center for City Leadership, created in... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
If you had asked Calvin Young (MBA 2015) what he’d be doing after his graduation from HBS, he wouldn’t have answered “politics.” But earlier this month, the mechanical engineer and newly minted MBA announced his candidacy for mayor of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
One Two Punch
It's sometimes called "the second toughest job in America," so with Michael Bloomberg (MBA '66) now the mayor of New York City and George W. Bush (MBA '75) in the White House, HBS alumni have shown once again they relish nothing more than... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
waterfront. An elevated six-lane highway cuts through the heart of it all. Below the traffic, the narrow and often unpaved streets are crowded with makeshift brick and corrugated tin buildings, home to some 43,000 people. “Most porteños have never even been there,”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
located in a Greek Revival plantation home. He now serves as mayor of Marietta, a job he describes as both rewarding and frustrating. His reason for running? “Payback. It’s a trite but true answer. This town has been good to me.” My... View Details