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- 15 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development
organizations and non-profits since I was child, and working in public service in New York City after college, my pivot to HBS was to dive into the hard skills and action-based work that I was missing to make my community development goals more realized in a more... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
have been increasing their footprint of small urban stores. In February, Walmart announced plans to add 270 to 300 small stores during the fiscal year, adding to the existing stable of 346 Neighborhood... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
tend to focus on “ghost towns” on the one hand or urbanization as China’s silver bullet to growth and reform on the other. In this paper, we detail what China calls its “New Urbanization Policy.” While these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A bold experiment in education
A former corporate financier with Boeing, Ben Kleban (MBA 2005) planned to open a charter school in New York after HBS, but in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he was inspired to found New Orleans College Prep (NOCP). NOCP now operates... View Details
James W. Rouse
A visionary in the real estate world, Rouse was famous for planning and revitalizing suburban and urban areas. Rouse created the "festival marketplace" concept in cities and the indoor mall in... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
When being a good neighbor means economic development
Rescued in the early 1990s and revived by president and CEO Jonathan Larry Baer (MBA 1985), the San Francisco Giants are baseball champions, with World Series wins in 2010 and 2012. Now Baer is poised to spread the success with a $1.6 billion View Details
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Eligibility & Criteria Awards How to Apply Past Projects New York City Urban Innovation Roadmap - "Pilot: New York City" Spring 2023 | Focus : Urban Economic Development; Technology; Ecosystem Strategy Team:... View Details
- 07 Apr 2017
- News
Transforming the “Misery Towns” of Buenos Aires
making good on those promises, following the mayor on a walk through one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, Villa 31, and discussing his vision for the area’s future. That vision includes a broad physical rethinking: His overarching View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise
urban and rural communities. Fenton manages programs and financial operations for New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), a national nonprofit aimed at improving education for all children by recruiting and supporting leaders for View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela. Video Embed Jim Aisner: What are the most important lessons you learned from your trip to India? John Macomber: I learned things on a personal level as well as lessons relevant to my interests in finance and View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
Lazarus puts it, that have characterized his career. He enrolled at HBS directly out of Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, with plans of going into retailing. "Business school convinced me that retailing was not what I... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Taking Time Out for a Challenge
during this unprecedented public health crisis. She is committed to planning for the long recovery and rebuilding process that lies ahead. “I’m proud that, over the last year, Welbodi was able to play an important role in helping three... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Allston Options Up for Discussion
in June a forty-page report outlining design options for the new Allston campus. Of all the issues considered, “effective transportation is the most critical to the overall feasibility of the project,” concluded the report, prepared by the New York View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Alameda at the corner of 33rd Street. "That neighborhood?" he queries in a thick Russian accent. "Not good." Well outside the boundary of Inner Harbor tourist attractions, the northeast Baltimore district in question admittedly shares the city's well-publicized... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Education Innovation
CHILDRESS (MBA 2000) Illustration by Peter Hoey Related Links 5 Bright Ideas Charter Revolution Redux Lesson Plans Minding the Gap In an article for Harvard Business Review last year, former HBS lecturer Stacey Childress (MBA 2000)... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
challenges facing the education sector. The result was the now three-year-old Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which works with nine urban public school districts representing over one million students. "Rather than... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
and rational process but through a subjective process. Launching Technology Ventures is for students who plan to work at start-ups and at established companies launching information technology products. Sustainable Cities: Urbanization,... View Details
Keywords: curriculum
- 08 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Writing the Case for Public School Reform
working with leadership teams from nine urban school districts over the course of three annual sessions to coordinate research and create coherent, scalable systems for education reform. Two cases written for PELP and taught by HBS... View Details
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Judging | New Venture Competition
Planning Pam Randhawa, Empiriko Corporation Paul Baier, GAI Insights Paul Ognibene, Urban Spaces Ramon Blanco, Bewater Funds Ravi Kyasaram, Edward Jones Richard Lawson, HBS Alumni Angles New York Ross... View Details
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Sphere of Influence
Analisa Balares (MBA 2005) was born into a poor family, but her life path crossed different strata of Philippine society, from the ultra-wealthy to the urban poor. A student leader from the age of 13, she represented her high school at... View Details