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Factiva | Baker Library
Factiva Aggregated news from national and local newspapers, magazines, trade publications, and transcripts. Read More Factiva includes access to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Barron's. Content is available in 22 languages. Factiva also View Details
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Jeff Nelson
Since his undergraduate days at Cornell, housing has been a major theme in Jeff Nelson’s career. As a college student, he volunteered for Habitat for Humanity, building houses in the upstate New York... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The Joy of Spending
a good wait, because we got really excited about it. Now that we can watch them all the time, we lose the excitement of anticipation." Buy Time Norton suggests resisting the siren call of the big house in the suburbs. "What we've really... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Last Look
identified these cheaply made buildings — known informally as Tortilla Flats after the John Steinbeck novel — as temporary postwar housing for married students, located roughly where Kresge Hall now is. Haseman recalls that his family’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Last Look
House Raft Race. Harvard professor Robert Kiely says this race of jerry-rigged craft was already in place when he became master of Adams House in 1973. Lore has it that athletically challenged Adams View Details
- 30 May 2021
- News
How Venture Capitalist David Motley is Trying to Bring Back Pittsburgh’s Black Residents
“affordable and market-rate housing development.” Motley told the Journal that his efforts to build a strong middle class required long-term investment. “How do you make this new economy available for more people?” he asked the paper.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Yurt Man
ZWERN, WITH “GLIMMER”: At Burning Man, a cool yurt has potential for disaster relief and housing for much of the world. Arthur Zwern (MBA ’85) and his solar-powered Hexayurt generated buzz at this year’s Burning Man festival, the annual... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
Case Study: Mind the Gap
the shortage of skills isn’t going away quickly. Berendt cofounded Talent Alpha in 2018 to fill that gap. The Kraków-based startup is building a marketplace to link Central and Eastern Europe’s software houses with global enterprises in... View Details
- 28 May 2019
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Tech for the People
help San José partner with innovative tech firms to address high-impact civic challenges. He knew the city had worked with Airbnb to make emergency housing available after the recent disaster, and he reasoned, why not establish a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 May 2020
- Blog Post
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
urgent challenges. In March, community trust would prove critical. While taking a deep dive into the potential for tax policy to incentivize housing development, “COVID-19 really hit,” Patel says. Virtually overnight, Patel’s View Details
- Portrait Project
Nick Rosenbaum
life lasts but one breath. Before, I never saw how the slender birch trees on the hill outside his house gently sway in the breeze. The wind comes and goes, unhurried. Every breath I take comes in and out, traversing life and death. In... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pinball Wizard
Richard Simon (MBA '66) is making Manhattan his playground - in this case, an indoor replica of the Big Apple as it appeared in the 1930s, the New York Times reported (August 12, 1999, and September 23, 1999). Called Broadway City, Simon's fun View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Keys to the Kingdom
domain became Rhea’s literally overnight last May, when he was appointed chairman of the New York City Housing Authority by Mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA ’66). Critics noted that Rhea, who was previously an executive at JPMorgan Chase and... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
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Mardie Oakes
in affordable housing and community development is driven by my desire to foster dignity in all people, regardless of whether their talents are rewarded in the marketplace. I plan to create fabulous places and spaces where strong, healthy... View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
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Dedicated to a public service mission
Wrendon Hunt (MBA 2012) was raised to be an upstander. “My father always talked about serving causes greater than ourselves,” says Hunt, who is a 2014–2015 White House Fellow. He describes his yearlong appointment at the Department of... View Details
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Aaron Chadbourne
another interest: entrepreneurial approaches to social and public policy issues. For his second summer internship, Aaron received a social enterprise fellowship from HBS and worked with the Housing Partnership Network in Boston, a... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
effective. "When I graduated from high school," Merkl says, "my father gave me 3,000 deutsche marks and told me to leave from the front door of the house and return at the back door, taking the long way around. As naïve as it sounds, I... View Details
- November 1990 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
Regency Plaza
By: William J. Poorvu and Richard E Crum
Designed to examine the process of project management during the development cycle of a luxury condominium building, exploring the issue of how the design, development strategy, project organization, and project personnel are interrelated. More specifically, looks at... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Construction; Housing; Management Practices and Processes; Projects; Luxury; Real Estate Industry
Poorvu, William J., and Richard E Crum. "Regency Plaza." Harvard Business School Case 391-021, November 1990. (Revised January 2008.)
- Portrait Project
Jean Hayden
When we came to Harvard Business School we had to squash our lives onto a one-page resume. I hated it – I had to leave off all the weird things about my life that I actually thought were the most interesting. I may have worked as an English boarding View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Governor’s Admission
John Lynch (MBA ’79), New Hampshire’s Democratic governor, stepped away from the State House last February to teach a case about globalization at the University of New Hampshire. A UNH graduate who majored in English, Lynch confessed that... View Details