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- 15 Jun 2021
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The Value of Difficult Conversations
residents were killed and homes and businesses along 35 square blocks of the city were destroyed at the hands of a white mob over the course of 18 hours. Unfounded accusations that a young Black shoe shiner had assaulted a white woman... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
City area are currently making plans to convene the next Women’s Leadership Accelerator in the spring of 2019. “It’s invaluable to have HBS support for alumnae-led events in the region. I look forward to continuing to create opportunities... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
logistics of running a university based in a remote location. “It takes over two hours to drive to the city of San José when we need to meet with bankers, government officials, or lawyers,” explains Condo, who averages two days a week on... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
buildings 10 miles east of Mexico City that is populated by some of the country’s poorest citizens. Over the past two years, though, market days have been busier than normal at the store—all thanks to a little silver service booth just... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
major cities and hold regular meetings to screen investment prospects, India has few such active networks. It’s not surprising then that 85 percent of the capital raised by Agarwala and Varma — they are not at liberty to disclose the... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
top of the world, but it's facing competition and frankly, an ecosystem that is globalizing. And to give you a sense of how this story might evolve, I think we can look to a different city and a different technology. A hundred years ago,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
mandatory coverages such as in vitro fertilization) — is more expensive than originally anticipated. Another drawback is that an important cost-cutting feature — comparative-pricing information for services and procedures across cities... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
marketing efforts, which have been fairly modest to date. Historically, the School's MBA Program has relied on the strength of its far-reaching alumni network and worldwide reputation to attract non-U.S. students. "Our international outreach activities have been... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Katherine Switz (MBA 2000)
I wanted to create many, many more. The Stability Network has 70 leaders in 25 cities in the United States and Canada. Getting people to come out about their mental illness is actually pretty hard, but we give them support, training, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Time to Trek
winter break, with more to comein the spring. Sarah Wimmer (HBS ’05) serves as copresident of the HBS Trek Club. In 2003 she participated in the New York City trek; in December she traveled to India on a sixteen-day trek organized by... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
city or region wins the rights to host a Super Bowl, it is required to form a host committee, Blumkin explains. "The NFL controls the game and all surrounding events. Our responsibility was to welcome guests into the region, help people... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
committed to finding solutions that enable current residents to live and prosper here. What’s ahead for Allen and for you? We will continue to implement our strategic plan in this area, but more of my time will be allocated to taking the Allen model of faith-based... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
on the third floor of Palladio Hall, a handsomely renovated Renaissance-style building located in the inner-city neighborhood of Roxbury. Mardie Oakes sits in a cubicle near high windows that let in the noise of sirens and city buses... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
20,000 SIM cards at an average of $100 each. (Roshan was second to enter the market after Afghan Wireless; it now has four providers nipping at its heels in a highly competitive market.) Today, the company connects all of Afghanistan’s major View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
York City to his time as an internationally touring opera singer, his business launch during the Great Recession, and ultimately to his position as founder and CEO of Aria, a real estate company with a mission to humanize the experience... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
was frustrating for him. And New Orleans is a highly competitive market. Like any innovation community. If you were playing that night, your band was playing that night, you might put it on a wagon and drag it around the city in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Illustrations by Andrea Manzati Prescription: Free the Data! On a bright September morning, on the expansive lawn outside the Watertown, Massachusetts, headquarters of the e-health firm athenahealth, city and state officials, company... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
days as a city councilman. Menino was surprised, one day in the early 1980s, to receive an invitation to lunch at Harvard Business School with someone named Dean McArthur, in a building called the Dean’s House. He was also surprised to... View Details