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01 Jun 2016
News

Feedback

airline KLM used to have a program where business/first-class passengers would get a lovely ceramic Dutch Delft house (filled with gin!) when flying transcontinental. KLM probably had 75 different house... View Details

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Carlos Coto

interesting. "I moved into a full-time management rotation program and noticed something intriguing," Carlos says. "As a teller, you get to know clients personally; you're aware of major life events, like when they're buying a View Details

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Concrete Symbols - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

designed to serve as the visual and intellectual focal point of the campus. The Library’s bell tower and gilded cupola echoed the tower on Eliot House across the river, and a grand portico led to an elegant first-floor entranceway. The... View Details

28 Apr 2022
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Finding Her Place

about 800 beds—offering access to housing and medical, educational, and other social services. Hudson had recently relocated to Miami when the recruiter’s call came. While she was broadly supportive of Chapman’s mission, Hudson recalls... View Details

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Research & Data Services for HBS Faculty & Doctoral Students | Baker Library

for faculty is charged to faculty research budgets at a rate of $40/hour. We are based in Baker Library | Bloomberg Center 130, a space that houses PC workstations with specialized software and resources available to faculty, research... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Decision Points

have done things better,” as he spoke about many aspects and issues of his presidency (USA Today, November 9, 2010). Regarding the financial crisis, Bush said that Congress ignored his administration’s urgings to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. “The View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

William Levitt

Levitt was a pioneer of fast, affordable housing construction. In many ways, he created the modern suburban landscape. Among other projects, his company built two Levittowns (Long Island and Bucks County) – mass-produced building projects... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

David Burpee

In 1917, the same year W. A.. Burpee Company was incorporated and Burpee was named president, sales were $900,000. By 1959, Burpee had grown the company to become the largest reputed seed catalog mail order house in the world with sales... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

01 Dec 2005
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A Renter’s Market

says Lee, noting that it’s a business that’s fairly common in Europe, whereas Redbrick has virtually no U.S. competitors. Through its three funds financed by private investors, Redbrick buys up quantities of single-family houses in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Real Estate

02 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

influences. This discourse hence suggested that this art had so far been aesthetically misjudged, therefore implying that it had also been economically undervalued. Saffronart and the other auction houses (Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working With City Leadership To Leverage Technology

to many ongoing initiatives, including a partnership Henry led with Airbnb that will provide standby housing for local residents in the event of a natural disaster. To encourage deeper community engagement, Henry has led a number of... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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How the Ron Brown Award Was Born

Gerstner (left) and Bob Haas look on while President Clinton salutes them and their companies at February's White House ceremony.(photograph by Dotti Stone) Ron Brown Award honorees Lou Gerstner (left) and Bob Haas look on while President... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Christopher Cox: Capitol Hill Intellectual

resident chairs the House Policy Committee and is a member of several committees, including the House Leadership Steering Committee. Beyond being a politician, Cox, who learned to speak Russian in college... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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Real Estate Prices by City

Residential Rents and choose appropriate options such as by sqf. etc. select years view data Related sources: (might not be by city) Federal Reserve Economic Data, St Louis FED - scroll down to see data on US commercial real estate prices and real residential property... View Details

09 Aug 2017
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Finding a Path Out of Poverty

for Inspire Belief while studying in the HBS Advanced Management Program, in 2013. The CEO of Johannesburg investing house Momentum—who had once been homeless on the streets of the very same city—had reached the point in his career when... View Details

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4.3 Missing Persons | MBA

student who resides in on-campus housing is missing, he or she should immediately notify HUPD at 617.495.1212. If HUPD determines that the student has been missing for more than 24 hours, then within the 24 hours following this... View Details

22 Apr 2019
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Alvarez-Bjelland to Receive Harvard Medal

receive her medal during May’s Commencement Day activities. The Harvard Gazette announcement notes that she was awarded Radcliffe College’s highest undergraduate honor and served as a resident tutor at Kirkland House while earning her... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War

actual financial cost of operating the Afghanistan and Iraq wars at $2.7 trillion. (Before the wars, the Bush White House estimated the bill would be $50 billion.) Next comes a question: What could we have done with the money had we not... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; National Security and International Affairs; Government

James E. Stowers, Jr.

investment of $107,000, Stowers built American Century into a premier investment house with over $80 billion in managed assets. His firm has consistently been named one the best managed firms in the industry. View Details

Keywords: Finance

16 Aug 2018
Blog Post

A Day in the Life as a ‘Spreadsheet Ranger’

mid-80s – we will have to stay hydrated! 8pm – We head over to the Ranger house for an evening BBQ. As we walk, we remember that there was a mountain lion spotting near our housing (we see canyon landscapes... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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