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- 06 Sep 2017
- News
Amid Wreckage Of Hurricane Harvey, Countless Acts Of Heroism
- 07 Sep 2021
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Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
- 14 Oct 2024
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The Home-Insurance Crisis That Won’t End After Hurricane Season
- 06 Nov 2012
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Businesses face post-Sandy challenges
- 08 Aug 2008
- News
How a local squall might become a global tempest
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
the island. Fate, however, refused to cooperate: Less than a year after PROMESA was signed, Puerto Rico was hit with a succession of natural and man-made disasters. In the fall of 2017, two enormous storms killed nearly 3,000 people; first View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
boundaries of the classroom. The idea stretches back to 2006, when, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a group of MBA students organized a service trip to New Orleans to study—and assist—businesses working to rebuild the city. Since... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave
several high-rise condo buildings on a barrier island on Florida’s West Coast. As the book’s heroes had feared and warned, the island is overflooded by a hurricane of biblical proportions. The buildings collapse, many people die, all... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Leading the way in times of crisis
Joe Lhota (MBA 1980) is the kind of courageous, steady presence you want at your side when crisis hits. Consider Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, when New York City’s streets, tunnels, and subway lines were flooded, and power was cut to... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
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Sewn with Love
von Furstenberg, Marc Jacobs, Oscar de la Renta, Proenza Schouler, and Ralph Lauren, to provide more than $1 million in direct relief for victims of the earthquake in Nepal, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and Hurricane Sandy. The... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
venture-capital firm founded by Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69). Grateful for the Red Cross’s assistance to her own family after Hurricane Gilbert ravaged Jamaica in 1988, Brown has volunteered for years in various Red Cross programs. At HBS,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
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New Orleans Resonance
A former corporate financier with Boeing, Ben Kleban (MBA ’05) moved to New York, intending to open a charter school. After Hurricane Katrina struck, New Orleans’s dire need compelled Kleban to decamp to Louisiana, where he founded New... View Details
Keywords: charter schools
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Tribute to Fellowships
wondered whether she should pack up and go home. Not that she had a home to return to. That was the problem. The day before Thompson moved into Chase Hall on August 30, 2005, Hurricane Katrina had flooded the New Orleans home of her... View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- News
The Power of Service
positive change,” says Reilly, who did both in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Rallying City Year contacts from across the country, she founded City Year Louisiana to help with critical relief and recovery efforts just 100 days after... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
says they gave their candidate an out. “Bravo to her, she came anyway,” she says. “And I’m so grateful that she did.” After the aquifer in Grand Bahama was contaminated by salt water in 2019’s Hurricane Dorian, Mercy Corps partnered with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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New School for New Orleans
charter-management organization designed to turn around failing schools. When Hurricane Katrina struck, Alford was teaching at a charter school in Baltimore. He moved to the Big Easy, where he founded and is “school leader” of the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 16 Mar 2015
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Cooking Up New Opportunities in New Orleans
Carol Ahn Markowitz (MBA 2003) gave up a safe life in corporate finance to head to New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. She now leads a $33.5 million culinary institute start-up. It’s been a bumpy road. Markowitz couldn’t find a job... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
be an early warning sign: I f you can't get insurance in a particular locale, it probably is a place you shouldn't build, right? Should you build on stilts in coastal communities where we know hurricanes are going to get more intense... View Details