Rent - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

owner in Caen, they would say no, we cannot rent to Jeannette. We don’t know what will happen: Maybe in a year you’ll be down, and then I’ll have all the workers occupying my building,” Viana recalls. He ventured a bit outside the city... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

04 Sep 2019
News

Clicks and Mortar

Associate Professor Antonio Moreno and Senior Lecturer Jill Avery (image by John Ritter) While legacy companies like Sears are shuttering their doors, a growing number of online-first companies—from Amazon to Rent the Runway—are opening... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Oct 2002
News

What's Cookin'

to see about renting kitchen facilities to do some entrepreneurial baking, she offered to sell him the business instead. (Fox also now owns the area's distribution operation for the Times and the Wall Street Journal.) From 1996 through... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

07 Sep 2021
News

Growing Home

there was empty land for 25 years. We rented the land and created a temporary arena and a coffee shop, a studio, and a car park. It was like a complex. And that changed the people’s mindset in Mito, because that empty land right in the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Dec 2020
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books

including Dollar Shave Club, Rent the Runway, and “pay as you fly” insurance for drone flights. Finally, the authors outline the challenges in adopting these new models and offer guidance to overcome them. Spirituality After Harvard: My... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 1999
News

Covering the Issues

rented 75 PCs for participants in the Program for Management Development. The Bulletin noted that the new technology enabled "a quick consensus on the numbers and allow[ed] a focus on the real issues of a case." In 1985, a Bulletin cover... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

20 Jul 2020
News

Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online

but was glad she was able to curb the infection rate.” The city, she added, also received $30 million in federal loans for small business as well as food and rent assistance. Under her leadership, the homeless have been tested and moved... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2005
News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

in the high single digits, so money started flowing in.” (By law, REITs must annually pay out 90 percent of their net revenues, generated largely by rents and leases that make them — in good times — cash conveyor belts for their... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

01 Sep 2014
News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

sleeping under his desk at the AKDN’s offices. (Thanks to a lack of rentable space, post-Taliban landlords could demand a full year of highly inflated rent up front.) At the time, much of AKDN’s work was focused on nonprofit agencies and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

12 Jul 2019
News

The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

know one of the things which we realized as we were looking at the shift from again on premise hardware and software that you buy to services in the cloud that you rent is that inherent in that transition is a massive market expansion. If... View Details

03 Sep 2018
News

Moving Pictures

Oddly, it was a TV show about politics that eventually gave Singer the “in” he needed for his lucky break. By 2002, he had gravitated to a sublet in Los Angeles—which he happened to rent from a woman who was dating Lew Wells, a producer... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2009
News

E Ink’s Wild Ride

paper, printing, and binding,” he points out. “They relate to the book’s distribution, the absence of returns, and the absence of a physical bookstore with the associated costs of rent and staff.” Lower prices could attract more readers,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

billboards on district properties. (Both pass.) Motion by motion, the wheels of government turn as the clock ticks later and later into the evening. A motion for a local swim team to rent the high school pool. A motion itemizing salaries... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Dec 2006
News

The Hard Way

years of training and placing job seekers. Why should she risk financial ruin on a big-ticket real estate purchase? The idea first surfaced when Russo’s accountant matter-of-factly suggested that she stop paying office rent — upwards of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Dec 2015
News

Golden State of Mind

pitch a room full of VCs, Draper included. Students also test their mettle by breaking boards with their bare hands, building boats, and competing in paintball. The residential program, which has included visits from entrepreneurs such as View Details