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- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
and one woman hired a boy in the neighborhood to run errands. During the other weekend, the same people were given $40 to spend on a material item. People bought a variety of things, including new clothes, board games, and wine.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
an empty lot. To the east stands a vacant building; to the north, a liquor store with iron bars on its windows. In short, it could be any corner in any struggling neighborhood in the United States. Yet for Dlodlo, it might as well be the... View Details
- Blog
Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season
skies, a gentle breeze, and a lot of people enjoying the outdoors. Choose between gelato and cannoli in the North End. Boston's traditional Italian neighborhood is fun any time of year, but there's something special about enjoying a pasta... View Details
- 07 Jun 2021
- Book
9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'
readers of this book are what I call prospective community-level philanthropists. This covers everything from the neighborhood music school to the local community hospital. The recommendations become more complex with a trustee being more... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 17 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- Web
A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni
neighborhood of Boston—the future site of the Graduate School of Business Administration—to Harvard University. 1924 George F. Baker donates $5 million to build a new campus for HBS. Later Baker, shown above with his son, George F. Baker... View Details
- 10 Apr 2023
- News
Leading the Way
"Within two years of meeting him, I had two internships on Wall Street and was accepted to the HBS 2+2 program. It was like a light switched on for me and everything changed." Trujillo grew up in a poor Hispanic neighborhood in South... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
difference in the world. Campus Framework Plan Today, Harvard University is comprised of 26 acres in the Longwood neighborhood of Boston, 209 acres in Cambridge, and 360 acres in Allston, which includes the HBS campus. HBS is the only top... View Details
- Web
Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
medium. Among the popular subjects were pensive portraits of Land and playful snapshots of Polaroid colleagues. The team ventured outside the laboratory as well into the surrounding neighborhoods where they captured views of everyday life... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
mind. “I was wrong,” he says. “HBS clarified what I was capable of doing and what I wanted to do.” Moving into Music Ferguson, 38, came of age at the dawn of hip-hop. “Our house was the place where all the neighborhood kids congregated,”... View Details
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
"customer service" and accessibility—is available in parts of India than in my neighborhood in Boston. Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and I decided to write the case just because health care is such a primal thing—it... View Details
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
You can see the subtle changes when a neighborhood is on its way up—streets get cleaner, building facades improve, new businesses start moving in. Across an entire city, however, it’s harder to track such changes, to understand in real... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons in perseverance lead to high-quality schools for Peru
Pilar Deza (OPM 30, 2001) went from opening a nursery in her garage for four neighborhood children to operating some of Peru’s best-run private schools. She faced challenges all along the way, trying to create and operate new schools... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
Detroit needs more housing, says developer John Rhea (MBA 1992). That’s a counterintuitive idea for most people who have driven the streets of that shrinking city, passing thousands of vacant homes and nearly abandoned neighborhoods. “Generally speaking, Detroit is a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
Buenos Aires’s Villa 31 is within sight of Retiro, one of the wealthiest enclaves in Argentina’s capital. But the villa miseria—the Argentinian term for an unplanned shantytown—is a world away. The neighborhood is sandwiched between the... View Details
Keywords: April White
William C. Norris
An electrical engineer by trade, Norris pioneered Control Data Corporation (CDC) into a leading mainframe computer maker, giving IBM heavy competition during the 1970s and 1980s. Norris was also a great philanthropist, building CDC factories in depressed View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
all) available seats. Boston’s school choice system, for example, reserved half of each school’s seats for local neighborhood applicants while leaving the other half for open competition. This paper shows that in the presence of reserves,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
stereotype and expand their image of what’s possible for them.” Since 2014, Owusu-Kesse has served as COO of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), a path-breaking New York nonprofit known for its multifaceted approach to ending intergenerational poverty, in a 100-block... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Portrait Project
Hayling Price
seated across the lunch table. We had so much in common, yet the short distance that separated our neighborhoods set us on vastly different trajectories. The contrast became more evident as I started college while former classmates began... View Details