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01 Jun 2024
News

Crash Pad

smaller floor plate and more windows.” Indeed, buildings that date to the early 20th century, like 4753 North Broadway, make up the bulk of conversion success stories, while construction from the past few decades, with the amenities that... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; illustrations by Kathleen Fu; building coversion; housing crisis; innovation; real estate; Real Estate

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Thomas Weisel | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

James Sharpe Extrusion Technology Carl Sloane Temple, Barker & Sloane C.D. Spangler C.D. Spangler Construction Co. Thomas Stemberg Staples Thomas Weisel Thomas Weisel Partners LLC John Whitehead Goldman Sachs Profiles... View Details

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Paul Baier | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

James Sharpe Extrusion Technology Carl Sloane Temple, Barker & Sloane C.D. Spangler C.D. Spangler Construction Co. Thomas Stemberg Staples Thomas Weisel Thomas Weisel Partners LLC John Whitehead Goldman Sachs Profiles... View Details

09 Feb 2016
News

Providing the Care That Seniors Need

from real estate mode to operating mode, and we launched from scratch—blank sheet of paper—an operating company. Today that company is operating in eight states; we are under construction in Mexico City. We have about 3,000 employees and... View Details

04 Aug 2023
Blog Post

Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change

and architecture. Still, he wasn’t fully aware of the impact that construction had on climate change before becoming a real estate developer. “Cities are responsible for three fourths of material consumption, of energy use, of greenhouse... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

The Evolving HBS Campus

Pictured, from left: Cliff Gayley and architect William Rawn of William Rawn Associates; Dean Nitin Nohria; Beth Klarman; Seth Klarman; and Richard Walsh, president and CEO of Walsh Brothers, the project construction management firm.... View Details

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Jake Johnston

bikes, and elk breeding. "Ultimately, I'd like to be an entrepreneur in a business that serves the greater good, like green construction or sustainable energy." "HBS has been eye-opening," says Jake. "I often come... View Details

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Archival Collections - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

of Harvard Business School and construction of its campus. Materials include historical documents and photographs, correspondence, financial records, pamphlets, clippings, maps, photographs, and ephemera. Collections of note are the... View Details

06 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?

support productive change in China, can also function as constructive bridges. Seeing China as a short-term cost minimization fix is, in this sense, a lost opportunity. Q: It seems that China had hoped to use the Olympic Games as kind of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Kamen Bliznashki

contributes to a well-rounded, cross-functional set of abilities, and the case method imbues a sense of humility, an open mind, and an ability to succinctly construct a persuasive argument. And, the community of classmates, alumni, and... View Details

Keywords: Energy / Extractive Minerals; Manufacturing

13 Apr 2017
News

Navy Destroyer Named After HBS Alumnus

Ignatius (AMP 191, 2016), chief editor of Harvard Business Review. The 509-foot-long Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is the fifth of 14 ships under construction for the Navy. It is equipped with an Aegis Combat System and configured as a... View Details

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Samuel Racana

your life that you admire the most today? My grandfather. He survived the Holocaust, reunited with his family by pure coincidence, and went on to become a prominent architect in the Soviet empire, leading official architectural View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Escape from Alcatraz

Borg in the United States in Malden, a suburb of Boston, last year. (Matt DuPlessie [MBA 2003] is a minority owner; his company, 5 Wits, constructed some of the quests.) Boda Borg Boston is designed first and foremost to be fun—with 17... View Details

Keywords: April White

21 Aug 2008
News

Stylin’ at Gallatin

percent of the discarded materials were recycled in some way. Three thousands bricks were reused in the renovation. Gallatin is the second residence hall and fifth building on the HBS campus to achieve LEED certification for construction... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

have described as characteristic of the modern neo-liberal regime. 2013 pub Fashioning an Industry: Socio-cognitive Processes in the Construction of Worth of a New Industry By: Khaire, Mukti Abstract—This study of the high-end fashion... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch

apprenticeship." On the client side, Karch appreciates McKinsey's focus on helping clients make constructive changes. "This place is driven by values," she notes. "Our decisions to work with clients are based on whether we can help them,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2003
News

A Legacy of Investment

donated the entire cost of building the campus in the 1920s. In the 1930s, the “Two Hundred Fifty Associates” funded research and case-writing activities threatened by the Great Depression. Post-World War II support from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., enabled View Details

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

October 2014
Case

Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference

By: Clayton Rose, Jerome Lenhardt and Daniela Beyersdorfer

For Kai Teckentrup, the owner and co-CEO of the German "Mittelstand" door manufacturer Teckentrup, balancing competitive pressures, demographic realities and values were at the heart of the diversity program that he had started and championed at the company. Beyond... View Details

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September 2003 (Revised September 2004)
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Hearthside Homes

By: Jason R. Barro, Brian J. Hall and Aaron Zimmerman

Investigates the "controllability problem" inherent in bonus systems. Ideally, an incentive system accurately measures performance in areas that the individual can control. But most measures are either too broad, including factors outside the influence of the employee,... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Housing; Performance Evaluation; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry