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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
borrowers. Ten years ago, India didn’t have social security numbers, so that is a first-order constraint. We have been going to the neighborhoods where these entrepreneurs live, forming them into groups, and asking people which of their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
father was a commercial fisherman before retiring to manage his mother’s neighborhood tavern. “My parents were focused on education,” she recalls, “so the Catholic high school I attended, Bishop Kenny, was the aspiration in Jacksonville.”... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
education, as superintendent. In partnership with the charismatic Stanford, Nielsen worked to bring about a "transformation"—a word he much prefers over "reform." In a series of controversial moves, the school board eliminated mandatory busing and instituted View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
the insurgency in the hands of two or three groups. There would be some attempt to increase the hold of the Sunnis on neighborhoods in Baghdad. But I don’t think much would change. Baghdad is now a 90 percent Shia city. It would be more... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
Brazil. “Facily often serves lower-income people who had never used e-commerce before,” Westphal said. “It reminded me a lot of the small business my parents owned back in Brazil and also the neighborhood store I worked at throughout high... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
neighborhoods don't have the potential to succeed or aren't capable. It's much more about decades of underinvestment and a lack of attention to what we say we're all about as a society—namely, that no matter where you come from, you have... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
know-how. It was here in Santa Clara County that the idea of venture capital was born when Arthur Rock (MBA '51) funded the invention of the silicon-based semiconductor that would give the Valley its name and its identity. It was in a garage in this View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
social service organizations through their family foundation. “There comes a responsibility with success, and that is leaving the world better than you found it,” says Klarman. Robert Kraft, MBA 1965 Founder, Chairman and CEO, The Kraft Group Greeting guests at a... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
rebuilding harder-to-serve urban neighborhoods in a broader way than just housing. And I get excited thinking about it. And I wake up at night fearful that we won't succeed because it's so important to get this to happen. Richard Linowes,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
developers, landlords, and banking industry leaders―through powerful grassroots campaigns. Gillis provides a vivid portrayal of the political dynamics and the coalition of community organizers, neighborhood leaders, and residents that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Billy from Affton By William S. Thompson (MBA 1970) Bowker Identifier Services The exploits and adventures of Bill Thompson, a neighborhood guy chosen by his peers to lead, whose work ethic and respect for others mattered, and who never... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
McKinsey. Although the company provided a car and driver, Makarim, who had lived in Indonesia as a child, preferred to use the ubiquitous motorcycle taxis. Known as “ojek,” the two-wheelers were informally organized. Most neighborhoods... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
study that has included people like JFK and others in it over the years where they’ve tracked families across generations and they looked at both Harvard students and people from neighborhoods of Boston and found that the most important... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
Services cut the ribbon on its new, modern complex at the corner of Penn and Plymouth Avenues in the predominantly Black neighborhood of North Minneapolis. It was a high point in a journey that began five years earlier, following the... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Setagaya ward. Just as importantly, the clinic succeeded as an experimental lab, a place to pilot new ideas incubated within Mediva. From that one neighborhood clinic a much bigger business took shape, all focused on the organizing... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
company are added to the drives by the neighborhood distributor. Hip-hop duo La Reyna y La Real also use the service for promotion, noting that most of their fellow musicians advertise this way. “If you dig deep into Cuba’s history, it’s... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
broader audiences for their works. Hanna: In 2018, Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today opened at Columbia's Wallach Art Gallery. After years of work, Murrell could watch as visitors from the Wallach's Harlem View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
demand of millennials looking for a way to live, walk, and work in the city. Abandoned factories have been repurposed as lofts and retail space; elsewhere, new construction is rising at the BeltLine’s edge. And in Cabbagetown, a View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
back even further, to his elementary school days, when he bought packages of light bulbs in bulk and sold them door-to-door in his neighborhood at slightly below retail prices. "I think I always wanted to have control over my future. We... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
neighborhood place, and she wanted to know where the chef got ingredients such as produce and chicken. It turned out that they were bought at a nearby market, but actually originated from abroad. Decades of corruption and haphazard... View Details