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- 06 Mar 2018
- News
A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale
women) isn’t just a social good but improves performance within organizations and in wider economies. A London resident of two decades, Hunt serves on numerous UK boards, including the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board, the Tate... View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- News
Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead
club’s return to an in-person banquet following the pandemic, and featured a fireside chat during dinner with special guest Jorge O. Elorza, the 38th mayor of Providence, Rhode Island. “Mayor Elorza is a great speaker and very... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
Boston Green Ribbon Commission, a group of business, institutional, and civic leaders developing strategies to fight climate change and meet Mayor Marty Walsh’s 2050 carbon-neutrality goal. However, McCarthy added, “the city is slow to... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
were about 50 people, and we started to hold meetings with the mayor of Mito, who agreed to support the project through deregulation, by providing tax incentives, and by communicating with the city’s population so the project could move... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 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
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Inside MTV’s Global Fame
bar at 5 a.m. singing “Born in the USA.” Or his wrestling match with the deputy mayor of Leningrad on the floor of the Winter Palace. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Roedy was a few blocks away securing distribution for his fledgling... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Lead by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (W.W. Norton & Co.) Americans live with congested roads, clogged railways, and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. Professor Kanter writes of individuals across the country who are tackling these... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
totally honest with you.” The charter network faced a Chicago political landscape in upheaval, with a teacher strike looming and a heated mayoral race underway with education as a focal point. And then, in the fall of 2018, the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
Archdiocese of Washington. As strategist for the Washington, DC, office of the deputy mayor for planning and economic development, Lina Feng continued at the job after finishing her fellowship in 2013 and is now a student at HBS. “There... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
(unless it involved the defendant), a practice that often served only to humiliate the victim and introduce material irrelevent to the proceedings at hand. In 1983, then New York Mayor Ed Koch appointed Snyder to a judgeship. With her... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
and an oratorical competition, and she assigned homework, and she said, "Everybody's got to write a speech." And the topic was, "I'm the mayor now, and this is my new plan." At 11, I had never written a speech. I don't think I'd ever... View Details
- 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 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
bankruptcy. But when the city emerged from bankruptcy 17 months later, investors took another look. “Now the uncertainty has been removed.” Add to that the business-minded political changes: Democratic mayor Mike Duggan came to city hall... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
And openness and transparency are not just digital; Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) is an example of a leader who converted the hushed, mausoleum-like executive floor we know at most companies into the open beehive of Bloomberg LLC and New York City Hall, putting his... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
Thompson, who was joined by Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith and CEOs Gerald Greenwald of United Airlines, John E. Pepper of Procter & Gamble, and Raymond W. Smith of Bell Atlantic. "Somebody To Tell Me I'm Worth Something" Smith... 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
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
Bakoyannis, serves in parliament and was mayor of Athens during the 2004 Summer Olympics—a position now held by her son, Kostas. Dora’s first husband, the politician Pavlos Bakoyannis, was assassinated in 1989 by members of the militant... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
just suddenly kind of spring into existence around you as soon as you become a parent. You really have to form it, you have to recruit the villagers, you have to be the mayor of the village, you’ve got to be the architect of the village... View Details