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- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
a longtime passion of mine." In addition to helping to develop the first SRO (single-room occupancy) residence for homeless men in Charlotte, Spencer has served on the board of the Charlotte Housing Authority Transitional Families... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Mountain: Marietta knows there is no silver bullet for jump-starting the region’s economy and curing the many ills brought on by the collapse of coal and an ongoing opioid epidemic. (Nearly one-third of Harlan County’s almost 28,000 View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
since HBS, I have been in Asia, residing in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Jakarta. Lewis Rutherfurd (MBA 1971) and I were the only two individuals from our class who went to Asia to make a career. I started developing real estate in Hong Kong... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
contemplates the construction of residence halls specifically for HBS students. The existing Soldiers Field Park complex, as well as the new apartment facility — One Western Avenue, now under construction — is intended for the larger... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mining precious metals through e-waste recycling
hazardous. Discarded electronics are usually shipped to China, Africa, and India, where workers—frequently children with no safety equipment—tear the electronics apart, exposing themselves to lethal doses of toxins. BlueOak is building mini-refineries to safely extract... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Life of Bailey
resident of Tahiti and CEO of the resort-development company Tahiti Beachcomber. Sometimes he even wears a bathing suit to work, when he’s checking on the beaches or snorkeling sites at the properties he owns. “We show a lot of skin in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Snappy Salute
Pinchuk: CEO of a precision-tool company doesn’t exactly fit the mold. As CEO of Snap-on, Nicholas Pinchuk (MBA ’76) heads a company that’s all about precise fits for its tools. But he himself is no standard-issue corporate chieftain. A longtime former View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis
Economic Crisis: Diagnosis, Analysis, and Action quickly reached capacity of eighty alumni, says Bobbi Carrey, director of focused programs. Half of the participants for the March program reside abroad, she adds. “The economic crisis that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
While Maj acted publicly on behalf of the Student Committee of Solidarity, organizing lectures and raising funds, among other activities, his underground publishing efforts continued in the squat blue residence hall known as Mikrus—“very... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
It delayed our timeline two weeks." A few tables away, Christopher Gilligan (HBS '00) was dressed in hospital scrubs, reeling in passersby to show them his new service, EKGStat.com. The brainchild of Gilligan, a surgical resident at... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Training great principals to lead great schools
nonprofit submission to earn such recognition. Following the contest, New Leaders received philanthropic funding support and formally began operating. The New Leaders Aspiring Principals Program includes a yearlong leadership residency... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
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 and was editor of the Harvard Law... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
million residents at its height, and 9th-century Baghdad vie for the title of the world’s largest city prior to 19th-century London. Today, one useful way to think about cities is to divide them into three fluid (and sometime overlapping)... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Last Look
hero and canine-savior, a Vietnam vet and former Navy SEAL whose training had included cold-water swimming. The photo and stories about the rescue subsequently appeared in media around the world, generating praise, honors, and even some marriage proposals. Says Hawes,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Construction Begins on New Exec Ed Building
academic and residence building for the School’s Executive Education programs, began in early December on a site between Kresge Hall and Soldiers Field Road. When completed in late 2013, the 150,000-square-foot building will provide 179... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
again lead a private company in the future. Gibbons, who resides in Alexandria with his wife, Tami, and their three young children, remains committed to getting other blind professionals into the leadership pipeline. “When I’m on the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Global Research Site Announced in Hong Kong
faculty will be in residence for periods of up to one year, developing affiliations with other faculty in the region and working on collaborative projects. The Hong Kong office will be a place where workshops and activities will give... View Details
Keywords: Audrey Snee; photographs by Graham Uden
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story
to her next endeavor. "My interest in business goes beyond the P&L or the product," says Quin, who intends to split her time between her current residence and her native New Zealand. "I would love to figure out a way to use my skills... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
services — they want control of their lives and are willing to pay for it. Addressing these needs, the authors say, could spark the next leap forward in wealth creation. This new business model envisioned by Zuboff and Maxmin is based on “distributed capitalism,” in... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
working to solve that problem by investing in single-family homes in gentrifying communities, renovating them to high standards, and then offering them as rental units to working-class residents at rent-reasonable prices. It is an... View Details