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- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
instead of waiting until disaster strikes? “San José’s CIO Shireen Santosham (MBA 2008) and Mayor Sam Liccardo immediately supported the idea,” says Tsai, which led to the October 2018 launch of Host Corps. This public/private initiative... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
becoming candidates. This is not a call for privatization of services (like trash pickup), which is already widespread. Instead, it’s a suggestion that the job of mayor itself be awarded by voters to a private firm. Unlike other... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Putting Entrepreneurial Skills to Work in City Hall
Now teaching HBS’s first course in “public entrepreneurship,” Professor of Management Practice Mitchell Weiss (MBA 2004) served as chief of staff for late Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, helping lead what the New York Times called “one of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Giving Back
lives, careers, and volunteer activities embody the finest examples of public service and the Jeffersonian ideal of citizen involvement. Among this year’s other recipients was New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA ’66). Before... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- News
Maximum Cities
conference "Investing in Cities of the 21st Century" delved into once-distant challenges that have suddenly arrived on the planet's collective doorstep. "The cities of the 21st century are being built right now in the developing world," said David Miller, former View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
ten thousand new units. An additional $1 million will go to housing groups to research and test solutions to the affordable housing problem. Cambridge Mayor Francis Duehay and City Manager Robert Healy, Harvard President Neil Rudentine,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 09 Sep 2011
- News
Remembering 9/11 at HBS
the eyes of Joseph J. Lhota (MBA '80), who was New York City's deputy mayor for operations at the time, and other HBS alumni in NYC working as volunteers to bring the city back. View Details
- 09 Sep 2011
- News
Ten Years Ago: HBS and 9/11
the eyes of Joseph J. Lhota (MBA '80), who was New York City's deputy mayor for operations at the time, and other HBS alumni in NYC working as volunteers to bring the city back. View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
beautiful. Very picturesque. There is literally one road in and one road out. And frankly they're the same road. The town has, I believe, fewer than a thousand people, and it might be closer to several hundred people. And this gentleman—his name is Simone Tiglio—is the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Politics and Patriotism in Small-Town America: Confessions of a Plain-Talking, Independent Mayor by Richard Muti (MBA ’71) (WingSpan Press) While Bullets Fly: The Story of a Canadian Field Surgical Unit in the Second World War by Ian... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
hotels, Captain C.P. Krishnan Nair; the Mumbai office shared by the husband-and-wife law team of Cyril and Vandana Shroff; and the funky space of Park Won Soon, the mayor of Seoul. She’s now brought those essays together in her new book,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
services, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation Duties Included: taking care of Yankee and Shea stadiums Description of Her Employees: carpenters, plumbers, electricians, blacksmiths; 111 men, 9 women; average age: 45 Enjoys: international cooking, theater, baseball... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
make a difference with their philanthropy should read this book. It’s about the efforts in 2010 by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to reform the Newark Public Schools and all of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
superintendent. Whether that individual is an educator or not doesn’t matter — leadership is what counts.” Resident Executives Trying to achieve similar change in the New York City school system is Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966)... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
up and learn from other cultures, it’s on Lara and her team to do the same. Within weeks of taking on her new role, she reached out to the mayor of Holland and told him she wanted to participate in the annual Tulip Time Festival,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
In the Spotlight
time to board work with other cultural institutions, although “it’s clear that NYCO will take up the lion’s share of Baker’s time in the near future,” declared the Opera News (September 1, 2007). In an interview, Baker noted that the NYCO was founded in 1943 by View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Spangler Center Groundbreaking
With six inches of fresh snow underfoot, Dean Kim B. Clark and a hardy assembly of HBS students, faculty, and staff welcomed a group of distinguished guests to campus in late February to participate in a groundbreaking ceremony for the Spangler Center. Boston View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
served on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s (MBA 1966) Age-friendly NYC Commission and the NYC Department for the Aging’s nonprofit board. Oppenheim’s big “aha” moment arrived out of family necessity, in caring for her parents during an illness.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- News
From Harvard to INSEAD: Change Management in a Disruptive World
general director. With a lengthy career in industry and politics as well as academia, Giscard D’Estaing is a former mayor and member of the French Parliament and is chairman of the Committee for a World Parliament. He is also honorary... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services