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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
for information, the second plane hit the south tower and exploded. Debris rained down, and Lhota sought cover by jumping into a nearby parked car. Seconds later, a huge chunk of falling metal - part of the Trade Center's facade - crashed...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
hold for businesses all over the world has inspired HBS to establish its own startup here. Last summer the School's California Research Center (CRC) opened its doors in Menlo Park at 3000 Sand Hill Road, an address at the hub of the...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
At Work in the Fields with the Lord
Currently, the migrants are forced to seek shelter in dilapidated, overcrowded mobile-home parks, or to live in parking lots or in the brush, sleeping on flattened cardboard boxes. “These are people who are visible to drive our economy,...
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Agriculture
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
1984 Joins Bear Stearns, M&A Managing Director 1988 Named Partner, Gruss Partners 1994 Launches Paulson & Co. 2007 Makes what many call the “greatest trade ever” on subprime mortgage market 2012 Contributes historic donation to Central View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
problem is, and if this is something you’re passionate about yourself, you can count me in. But I can only give you one year.’ That was 10 years ago,” Shaw recalls. A little before 1 p.m., less than an hour after concluding the SARA meeting, Langford pulls into the...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Images of Occupy
New York on a corporate assignment, Bradley dropped by Zuccotti Park with his Hasselblad and some lighting equipment. He came away with a striking collection of photos of arbitrarily selected protesters that he called “99 Faces of Occupy...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
lunchtime, we’re back in Boulder. Sausage, steak, and veggie burgers sizzle on a grill in the parking area behind GoLite’s corporate headquarters in a nondescript business park. Employees sip beer and chat under a blue canopy set up for a...
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- 07 Apr 2017
- News
Transforming the “Misery Towns” of Buenos Aires
working, learning and leisure evenly disbursed around the capital, in order to relieve pressures on the traditional city centre. Mr. Rodríguez Larreta has made what he calls a “major commitment” to upgrading public spaces, such as revamping View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Why I’m Donating One Billion Dollars to Save the Planet
Zimbabwe. Wyss writes that he is inspired by the example set by Yellowstone, which was the world’s first national park when it was created in 1872. Since then, 15 percent of the planet’s land and 7 percent of its oceans have been...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Preserving Patagonia
which studies blue whales and other endangered species; Tierra Austral, the first land trust in Chilean Patagonia; and Reforest Patagonia, a public-private campaign to plant a million trees in Torres del Paine and other national parks in...
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- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
earlier, a surprisingly elegant parking structure. It took several years and complicated financing, but on June 5, 2013, Cummings watched as hundreds of Detroiters—black and white, rich and poor—gathered in front of the new grocery store....
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a gritty New Delhi suburban...
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- 09 Feb 2011
- News
Still Shining through Florida's Clouds
Bonita Bay Group known for its “collaborative approach with environmentalists and its attention to quality and detail,” the Review reported, “Lucas personally has won a reputation as a generous philanthropist and tireless fundraiser for community causes, such as public...
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Real Estate
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Artist Christo Visits HBS
To illustrate entrepreneurship from a different angle, HBS professors Josh Lerner and Felda Hardymon and research associate Ann Leamon wrote a case about Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the husband-wife team known for their massive, self-funded outdoor art projects. (Their...
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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
talk shows, with trash-talking, sub- stance-abusing, spouse-beating, strike-threatening, crybaby, overpaid multimillionaire athletes. Fans are disturbed that tickets are too often unavailable or unaffordable (factoring in concession and souvenir purchases in addition...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
for newly minted MBAs. Jeremy Andrus (MBA 2002) certainly does. Upon graduation, with no job offers, Andrus decamped to his parents’ basement in Park City, Utah, to regroup. He then agreed to an interview with BusinessWeek, which ran a...
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- 11 May 2011
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The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS
Park and was named in 1976 in memory of Carol Peterson, Dean Fouraker’s administrative assistant, who was murdered in her Cambridge apartment. And the semicircular courtyard behind Aldrich (between Baker and Hawes) is named after the...
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- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
times a day. But if we were both on the same floor, then everyone else could feel like second-class citizenry,” says Whitman, who famously tore down the barbed-wire fencing around Hewlett-Packard’s executive parking lot immediately upon...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
manager Brian Sabean hold the World Series trophy. Bottom: Ballpark by the bay: The Giants’ AT&T Park is unrivaled for its spectacular setting and praised for its fan-friendly classic design. Photos © 2010 S.F. Giants On the wall of...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Spreading the Words
San Francisco investment firm, he and Jan now spend twenty to thirty hours a week adding to the site from a spare room in their Menlo Park home. “It’s a passion,” Cook told the San Jose Mercury News (April 8, 2003). “We’re making a...
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