housing - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2004
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Derek Ferguson

mind. “I was wrong,” he says. “HBS clarified what I was capable of doing and what I wanted to do.” Moving into Music Ferguson, 38, came of age at the dawn of hip-hop. “Our house was the place where all the neighborhood kids congregated,”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

including The American Railroad Journal (established in 1832); the New York Times (1851); The Stockholder: Monitor of Finance and Industry (1862); The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (1865); and the Wall Street Journal (1889). Investment banking View Details

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

use of off-balance sheetactivities that avoided reserve and capital requirements, high investment bank leverage,and in ated housing price beliefs. By contrast the bottom 5 factors were strategic default by underwater borrowers, the... View Details

29 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

reception celebrating the release. The library’s late medieval and early Renaissance Italian business records housed in HBS’s Historical Collections in Baker Library are among the largest and most important collections in the world... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

purchase a home than to rent one in 95 percent of America. This one racist policy has led to an affordable housing crisis that impacts most White home buyers today. “I often ask how racism harms those at the bottom of the imaginary... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Jan 2005
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Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

service at prom time. At Harvard College, where he starred in both football and baseball, he organized team meals and other activities at the Varsity Club. And at Harvard Business School, he started a housing agency to help entering... View Details

26 Sep 2023
Blog Post

HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Francesco Rossi (MBA 2024)

aunts, uncles, and cousins. Our house may not have been the grandest or most opulent, but it was a place I cherished because it was always brimming with activity and conversation. Every family reunion, to this day, never adheres to a... View Details

05 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

How The 2016 Presidential Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements

Bill Clinton about allegations of his having had an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. In his answers, the president speaks in the present tense as a way of dodging Lehrer’s questions. Jim Lehrer: “No improper... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

stronger each day. Home doesn’t have to be a fancy space. It can be mental space that houses all the memories. It can be a child that reminds us of what we look like and who we are. It can be a source of power to make us stronger and... View Details

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

2011 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. Andy Wu : Received Honorable Mention for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2011. Andy Wu : Received a 2011 Wharton Doctoral Fellowship. David B. Yoffie : Overall winner of the 2011 European Case... View Details

07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit

a fact Sityodtong has made one of the gym’s competitive advantages despite the expense involved in recruiting and relocating fighters from as far away as Brazil. (Monthly pay for an Evolve instructor ranges from $5,000 to $15,000; housing... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

21 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

their houses to total strangers who may or may not be serial killers. Five VC firms rejected the nascent company’s pitch outright, and another two didn’t even bother to reply. “Investors must have thought, who would ever do this?” says... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services

06 Feb 2023
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African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

working in the House of Representatives as a congressional intern. Why did you choose to attend an HBCU? After going on an HBCU college tour, I fell in love with North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. The people I met... View Details

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Tory Voight

It’s 3 am; I awake in a sea of newspapers stacked over me in the beat-up van we sometimes slept in; my Goodwill clothes still on from the day before. It’s time to help my single mother deliver them before her house cleaning jobs and... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus

housing, educational, employment, and social service programs. "Fountain House facilitates recovery and rehabilitation by building self-esteem," explains de Chazal, whose interest in the international organization was inspired by his... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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McCollum Center | About

northeast corner of the HBS campus. The classroom facility opened in 1970, in tandem with the nearby Baker Hall, an Executive Education residence. Designed by Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott, the modern, two-story 20,083-square-foot building View Details

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Administration, 2013. Gerald C. Chertavian : Named one of the Top 25 Most Influential People in Boston Philanthropy by Boston Magazine in 2013. Gerald C. Chertavian : Received the 2013 Jefferson Award for Outstanding Service by an Entrepreneur. Gerald C. Chertavian :... View Details

01 Feb 2021
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Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

Twenty-year-old entrepreneurs became mega-millionaires, but not for long. It turned out that the “new economy” of that time was a house of cards. It’s a good time to ask the question again. Policies of the Federal Reserve in concert with... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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HBS - The year in Review

transformation and seismic market shifts. Building RENAMED for James I. Cash In September 2020, Harvard Business School announced it would honor James I. Cash, the James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, by renaming Glass House. The new Cash... View Details

14 Jun 2010
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The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

the same time," Ebrahim notes. "Delivering emergency relief and basic services in sanitation, water, and housing is easier to measure than impacts on public policy or on good governance, freedoms, and rights. Societal transformations—such... View Details