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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
ten thousand new units. An additional $1 million will go to housing groups to research and test solutions to the affordable housing problem. Cambridge Mayor Francis Duehay and City Manager Robert Healy, Harvard President Neil Rudentine,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
President Bush and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani exhibited remarkable leadership following the September 11 crisis. I also admire Michigan Governor John Engler, who's shown courage in taking on some tough but important political and... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
Social Enterprise Initiative,” says HBSCA Co-President Burunda Prince (MBA 1987). “The Leadership Breakfast Series has featured different mayors of Atlanta, governors of Georgia, and many CEOs, including Ed Bastian of Delta, Carol Tome of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
urban development. "Playing an active role in a relatively small city and a relatively small state, you get to know the mayor and the governor, and you can actually make things happen," Lazarus says. Wherever possible, he tries to point... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
helped jump-start Boston’s startup scene as chief of staff to former mayor Thomas Menino. But today, that means creating opportunities for all the key actors within an entrepreneurial ecosystem to come together, enabling startup founders... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
beautiful. Very picturesque. There is literally one road in and one road out. And frankly they're the same road. The town has, I believe, fewer than a thousand people, and it might be closer to several hundred people. And this gentleman—his name is Simone Tiglio—is the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
make a difference with their philanthropy should read this book. It’s about the efforts in 2010 by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to reform the Newark Public Schools and all of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
district is a different path, says Given. Disruptive, even. But he's managed to get full support for the model from everyone from the mayor to the superintendent of schools—the kind of buy-in that comes from a realization that solving... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Politics and Patriotism in Small-Town America: Confessions of a Plain-Talking, Independent Mayor by Richard Muti (MBA ’71) (WingSpan Press) While Bullets Fly: The Story of a Canadian Field Surgical Unit in the Second World War by Ian... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
and the City Library, and most importantly, helping the Office of the Mayor develop a system of collaboration where startups can play a role in doing pilots with dozens of city departments without the typical red tape.” “San Francisco is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
served on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s (MBA 1966) Age-friendly NYC Commission and the NYC Department for the Aging’s nonprofit board. Oppenheim’s big “aha” moment arrived out of family necessity, in caring for her parents during an illness.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
hotels, Captain C.P. Krishnan Nair; the Mumbai office shared by the husband-and-wife law team of Cyril and Vandana Shroff; and the funky space of Park Won Soon, the mayor of Seoul. She’s now brought those essays together in her new book,... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
up and learn from other cultures, it’s on Lara and her team to do the same. Within weeks of taking on her new role, she reached out to the mayor of Holland and told him she wanted to participate in the annual Tulip Time Festival,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
superintendent. Whether that individual is an educator or not doesn’t matter — leadership is what counts.” Resident Executives Trying to achieve similar change in the New York City school system is Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
that empowered people and a compelling shared vision build great companies, and Zensar’s success is a visible result,” says Natarajan. —RT Kent Thiry Mayor for Life Thiry with DaVita employees: “We find that most human beings want to be... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
New York City mayor Robert F. Wagner (MBA '36), elicited a torrent of dissenting letters in 1956 and was followed with a similar article from the Republican point of view. Fenn also increased the number of internationally focused articles... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
discussed during a live broadcast presented through the Bloomberg Harvard Initiative in April for 120 US mayors and 600 guests from around the world. Harvard Center Shanghai—In response to the pandemic, the center cohosted an online event... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
it, it was the purpose of it. Definitely a highlight morning.” From Master Plan to Blueprints Digging In: The Spanglers join Dean Kim Clark, Boston Mayor Tom Menino, and others in the groundbreaking for the campus center, designed by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
of Weiss, who, prior to HBS, helped shape Boston’s municipal innovation strategy while serving as chief of staff to former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, a position he assumed after working in Menino’s office as an HBS Leadership Fellow. “We... View Details