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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
Dinh Thi Hoa (MBA '92) was a young girl when relatives and friends who feared for her safety spirited her out of Hanoi in the summer of 1972 to escape the fury of U.S. bombing attacks against North Vietnam. She still remembers returning after the bombing had stopped... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
tuition costs for workers seeking further schooling and separation benefits—clearly it isn’t enough. Indiana’s Governor has offered some retraining support. The City of Indianapolis has threatened to “claw back” tax benefits offered to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
clear that cities offer the greatest hope (and have the biggest stake) in stewarding ever-scarcer resources such as water and power. Cities represent 70 percent of carbon emissions, according to a 2021... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
range of experiences and institutions, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, MOCA, and Barnsdale Art Park. “You were exposed to the best of everything the city had to offer, for better or worse,” Riley said. A fan of Wu-Tang... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
and create cultural norms. Google built its New York City campus two years ago with the principle that employees should never be more than 150 feet from some form of free food—creating gathering places for workers to interact. “They... View Details
- 27 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams
efficiency on a temporary team. What they call a team scaffold is fixed while individual team members flow through the structure. “The big 'aha' was how very little structure this is” The paper, published in the March-April 2015 edition of Organization Science, focuses... View Details
- 16 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
gap. Why did you decide to pursue an MBA given your STEM background? At Citi my job was mostly to help make applications for whatever our traders needed. While I enjoyed developing technology, I also wanted to learn more about, and... View Details
- 24 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors
harder.’” People respond more when identities are mentioned The researchers conducted three experiments designed to examine whether “help-seekers” should call attention to their identities. In the first, the researchers sent about 2,500 white male View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- Web
Diversity and Equity - Alumni
When City Fresh Foods, which serves meals to many in Boston’s under-resourced communities, needed go-to-market strategies for a new product line, it turned to MBA students for advice. Researching Women's Advancement Associate Professor... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
higher concentrations of Black patients, such as the South. However, over time, those geographical variances faded as more hospitals, especially those in cities with large Black communities, embraced best practice treatments. In... View Details
- Profile
Wombi Rose
"pretty much everything was completely different from anything we'd worked on before." Then, during a stretch of downtime, Wombi and his college roommate, John (who happened to be on the same trip), "were walking one evening through the streets of Ho Chi... View Details
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
mailing list for the HBS Club of New York. I saw how much they were doing, and I was frustrated that there was nothing here.” Ayengar felt similarly, having returned to his hometown after living and working in several Asian cities with... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
of the population lives in rural areas, but the majority of bank branches and jobs are in the cities. To send money home, a city worker had to seal his wages in an envelope and pay a courier to travel for hours to the village.... View Details
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Online Business Courses for Organizations | HBS Online
learning and development. Explore Corporate Solutions Academic Solutions Supplement your curriculum with Harvard Business School faculty-led business courses. Explore Academic Solutions 98% improved their negotiation skills, 84% have more confidence making business... View Details
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Russell Aikins. 21 Aikins, who had worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Times , opened a studio in New York City and took on assignments with Time and Life . Corporations valued press in magazines like Fortune , known for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
is using Avalanche to introduce elements of Web3 into the business models of established companies. In finance, institutions such as KKR, J.P. Morgan, and Citi are using Avalanche to tokenize and trade alternative assets and foreign... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 May 2022
- Blog Post
Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research
national and looks to expand to even more US cities next year. Our founding goal was to help take university research out of the lab and help form startups around it to tackle real-world problems in sustainability. Our teams are focused... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
Despite widespread investment in entrepreneurship in cities across America, venture capital-funded startups still tend to be founded by white men in Silicon Valley. In contrast, businesses led by women are 63 percent less likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Analyst Incentives.” John D. Macomber : Winner of the 2016 Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula for the MBA Course "Building Sustainable Cities and Infrastructure." Kristin W. Mugford : Received the 2016 Charles M.... View Details
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
sizes, and more water and mid-calorie options.” Cities look for public support If cities want to win public approval for labels, this research suggests it might behoove them to publicize information about... View Details