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- 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
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
involved in Scranton, a city just over two hours away from New York with the potential to outgrow its punch-line status and draw millennials looking for affordable housing and a higher quality of life. Then, over lunch at Caravia, a... View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
for the city and the region,” says Hung. “It’s bringing vitality to the neighborhood around it. Mark talked about the historic preservation of the building, the art deco, the tile work and murals. They’re modernizing the staging, the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
months later, he was introduced to Beverly Sills of the New York City Opera, where the orchestra was about to go on strike. They needed someone with experience in labor relations. When Sills asked Weinstein if he had the experience, he... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
green roof at Simmons College in Boston shows what the Shad roof will look like by the summer of 2011. Photograph courtesy Apex Green Roofs In Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Japan, laws require green roofs on buildings with roofs of low pitch. In the United States,... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
consulting firm could do.” Urgency and Long-Term Impact After being based in Barcelona for many years, Duch was happy to bring his family to Washington, DC, a city that he says offers “more racial, religious, and ethnic diversity and a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
do is take technology and combine it with human nature to create meaningful products.” After she graduated, Matthews did a stint at a startup, but soon left that position to help launch Uncharted Play, a company based in New York City... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
his undergraduate alma mater, he proudly explains that it is a place where all students are welcome, not just those who are Jewish. Born a twin, the New York City native jokes that he had to learn the basics of coexistence even before... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
but what ultimately happened was that life circumstances took me to a different city than I had planned. And so I really had to rely a lot on my network. Someone from an internship that I'd had connected me to someone at Amazon, who... 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
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
would spread their own political vision, determined to make women’s equality a reality by fighting—house by house, street by street, city by city—the men who bought and sold women. Based on years of on-the-ground reporting, The Daughters... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
financial functions. Bulletin: We spoke earlier of sophistication; this sounds like research based on very basic principles. Merton: In a way, yes. All of us, whether we live now or a hundred years from now, in New York City or in Bali,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
who volunteers to teach dance in the New York City public schools. “I want to make movies that are entertaining and commercially successful but also have the potential to change someone’s outlook on life and make a difference in a good... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
by Garry Emmons It's December, and outside the weather is frightful in many of America's 32 National Football League cities as teams gear up for the playoff season. But no matter how adverse conditions may get both on and off the field,... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
time zones, the event was held in the morning in the U.S., giving alumni in London and India a chance to join later in their day. “The format was speed-networking, where seven HBS alumni met every seven minutes with alumni from seven View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
Theatre, first starring Eli Wallach and now Hal Linden. After successful runs this year in Johannesburg and Stuttgart, the play will open within a year in eight other cities around the globe. The play draws on Baron's real-life... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
mansions and grandeur of a former era certainly made an indelible impression." His interest in architecture piqued, the young Jenrette discovered a natural talent for drawing elegant houses and for shaping canals, bridges, and whole View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
Suzy Wetlaufer (MBA 1988) describes working at the city desk of the Miami Herald, where she was a reporter for two years, as “tremendously fun and exciting.” However, she adds, “I just never got comfortable invading people’s privacy —... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: I’m Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Welcome to the second episode of our Skydeck mini-series “Out of the Valley.” Today’s episode starts in Jakarta, Indonesia, in the late 2000s. The View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
ventured into Kansas City and Chicago. But that meant marketing under a different name — another of Rogers’ many war stories. A year after Rogers and Cronk bought Dreyer’s, a lawyer from Kraft Foods, owner at the time of nationally... View Details