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- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
programs which apply to Title VIII (Indian Affairs). Indigenous groups in the land known as the United States are an often-overlooked community, especially as it applies to federal aid, despite being one of the most affected by systemic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
legislation he helped draft around raising the minimum wage and reforming the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court. But he also got a bruising lesson in politics when he spoke out against disenfranchisement of the Cherokee Freedmen, a group that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
promotions was not my thing. I wanted to make great records, not promote bad ones, so I kept going until I got the opportunity to do the thing I came to New York City to do: make iconic rap records. —Drew Dixon (MBA 2004) Hard Work and Lucky View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
political climate at the time was very much: “Keep your homosexuality to yourself.” Fortunately, I made friends with the half-dozen club members as well as off-campus friends who were accepting. They were my salvation. I was just so happy... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
hand" of the Chandlerian managers. Perhaps one of the main differences with Chandler's work was that the entrepreneurs and managers creating and running big corporations in Latin America also appeared in political narratives as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
get. Alan Horn (MBA 1971) Chief Creative Officer, Disney Studios Content Business Should Lead the Way BIO It is time for business leaders to respond to the challenge of climate change in a powerful and effective way. It is clear—and widely believed—that the View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
I mostly smiled and thanked them for their compliment. I politely corrected people whenever they presumed that Singapore was part of China. In trying to learn about and adapt to American culture, I unintentionally swept away my own... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes... View Details
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
urban population, expected to reach 3 billion over the next four decades, will require housing, places to work, and transportation systems. Second, the natural resources necessary to support this growing population, including freshwater and View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
Housing costs too much for working-class families. Young adults are forced to live with parents, or cram together. Households spend more money on housing than they can afford. For Americans, the news is depressingly familiar. Israel, a View Details
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
this land was under 30 feet of water. Three weeks from now this will become the largest city on earth, the largest single-purpose gathering of humanity in history. Every 12 years, when the moon and stars are aligned, this becomes the most... View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details
- Portrait Project
Maria Makhabane
I finally made it home at the age of five. Home - the country from which my father had been exiled for sixteen years when he actively opposed apartheid. Home - the land that he could only hope to one day see again. When apartheid finally... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
obvious: Environmentalists have long known that the city has water run-off issues, but there had never been any political will to solve the problem. “Hurricane Harvey showed everyone that we just can’t be on the sidelines anymore,” Coady... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
start, locate, or invest in a city. As HBS professor Michael Porter has explained in The Competitive Advantage of Nations, political units—whether nations or cities - are in competition with each other and can control their destiny using... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
with ideas on how to fix the problem. Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights under Reform by Meg Rithmire (Cambridge University Press) Assistant Professor Rithmire explores the... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
of drivers and pedestrians alike. Had anyone suspected that parking lots and roads would consume up to 70 percent of urban land while causing more than 30,000 fatalities a year, cars would have been adopted much less enthusiastically. It... View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
It's no coincidence that the new book America the Principled is coming out just as the U.S. presidential election gets into full swing, says its author, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. She wants us all to rethink the American agenda. "Once... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Gold Mettle
City bidders interested in landing the Games, and to make matters worse, the local organizing committee was in financial and organizational disarray. The scandalous situation made news around the world. Searching for a savior, the Salt... View Details
- Profile
Farrah Jamal
After undergraduate studies in economics and a graduate degree in political science, Farrah Jamal took another turn entirely – into health care. Ordinarily, the Shady Grove Adventist Hospital would not hire business managers without a... View Details