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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
co-leading the Collaborative in partnership with the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute—where Jules Kortenhorst (MBA 1986) is CEO—as well as the Association for Energy Affordability, the US Passive House Institute, and the Vermont Energy... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
at the Clinton/Gore rates than at the Reagan/Bush rates.) This isn’t to say all regulation is good. It’s not — and Democrats know that, too. (But the housing bubble, with all the pain it will entail, would surely have been less extreme if... View Details
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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products
developed into a giant industry, from 60 companies in 1860 to 700 companies in 1890. 8 The newly specialized field of advertising also grew exponentially as it became progressively complex. After the Civil War, for example, copy writing was done in View Details
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
did you choose to take this job?" She thought for a few seconds, and then said that she truly loved helping people in need-the firm's clientele. She was enormously motivated by developing (and then executing) senior housing concepts... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
rarely used it. Building the house was the motivating factor—not having the house. "You have to be sure that your family are engaging in work that is really causing them to feel like they are achieving important things," Christensen says.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
2021 I’m a vegetarian. I love escaping into the woods to live off the grid, sleep on the dirt, and eat over an open fire. I’m obsessive about minimizing waste and buying second hand. These are things my dad did too, but not by choice. My dad grew up in rural China in a... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
declaring they have told the truth. In 2014, the White House assembled a cross-agency group called the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, tasked with improving the efficacy of federal programs by leveraging the findings of behavioral... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
carefully, relying heavily on his own deep knowledge and cumulative experience of the past. This seemed very powerful to me and served as a kind of miner's headlamp for a young scholar. A third aspect of Al's legacy is that he was an inductive scholar; he built the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
operating officer. Spina is also director of the Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership, Inc., and vice chairman of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, Inc. Most important thing learned at HBS: “The importance of the people with whom... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
office." The building, which houses design, strategy, and human resources, is marble white and ultramodern. There are no cubicles. Nisa's desk sits behind a panel of see-through glass. Despite the transparent surroundings, Nisa is guarded... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
residents, the Atlanta Housing Authority, and business leaders. “People see that model and want to know how it works,” explains Majors, who consults with groups in Omaha, Rochester, Orlando, and Philadelphia, to help them assemble the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
in the Obama Administration at the White House and US Department of Energy Summer Internship: Strategy at a renewable energy company How do you do it? Prioritization, realism and support. Being a working mom hinges on making the best use... View Details
- May 1990 (Revised December 1996)
- Teaching Note
Manufactured Homes, Inc., Teaching Note
Teaching Note for (9-190-090). View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
celebrate. The influx of wealthier professionals has driven up housing costs, increased the pace of gentrification, and threatened the city's rich racial and socioeconomic diversity. Tensions came to a head in December 2013, when a group... View Details
- June 2013 (Revised September 2015)
- Case
8 Spruce Street
By: Arthur I. Segel, Zuriel Chavez, Sarika Agrawal and Warren Min
Segel, Arthur I., Zuriel Chavez, Sarika Agrawal, and Warren Min. "8 Spruce Street." Harvard Business School Case 213-134, June 2013. (Revised September 2015.)
- January 2007
- Teaching Note
Habitat for Humanity International in South Africa (TN)
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Arthur I Segel
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home Sweet Home
TERWILLIGER: Workforce-housing shortages can hurt urban economies. Photo Courtesy Habitat for Humanity In June, Ron Terwilliger (MBA ’70) was named Housing Person of the Year by the nonpartisan National View Details
Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- August 2015 (Revised January 2016)
- Teaching Note
To Buy or What to Buy: Your First Home
By: Charles F. Wu and Daniel Woodbury
This is the teaching note to the case "To Buy or What to Buy: Your First Home." View Details
- 1980
- Other Unpublished Work
Condominium Conversion in Massachusetts: An Evaluation of its Benefits and Costs
By: Dutch Leonard, J.F. Kain and K.E. Case
- November 1999 (Revised April 2008)
- Case
Revere Street
By: Arthur I Segel, John H. Vogel, Jr., Lisa Strope and Erich Dylus
Although inexperienced in real estate, Edward Alexander hopes in June 1999 that youthful enthusiasm and an $80,000 inheritance will help him enter the real estate business. His experience chronicles the process of finding, evaluating, and acquiring a four-unit... View Details
Segel, Arthur I., John H. Vogel, Jr., Lisa Strope, and Erich Dylus. "Revere Street." Harvard Business School Case 800-147, November 1999. (Revised April 2008.)