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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
EV charging stations are already common in many cities across the United States, increasing the number of urban dwellings powered by clean electricity is an important next step. “Developing the infrastructure needed to connect View Details
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Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by;
energy;
environment;
sustainability;
entrepreneurship;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transportation;
Water, Sewage and Supply Systems;
Utilities;
Construction of Buildings;
Construction;
Waste Management and Remediation Services;
Corporate Services
- 01 Nov 2019
- News
The Particular Creativity of Dense Urban Neighborhoods
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Housing Solutions for the Urban Poor
portfolio of economically viable housing solutions to underserved populations, drawing on the expertise of sociologists, urban planners, architects, engineers, and policymakers. View a video of Mehra.
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Breaking the cycle of poverty in urban areas
Silbert. “It seems counterintuitive, but it’s possible to be undernourished and overweight.” She adds: “If we all work together and commit resources, we can break the cycle of intergenerational poverty in urban America.” During her...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
through collaboration. While business is key to the successful revitalization of urban areas, Austin notes that other alliances are also important. He sees a future in which leaders from all sectors build relationships that will improve...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Porter Helps Jerusalem Mayor with Economic Development
Nir Barkat, a software entrepreneur elected mayor of Jerusalem last November, visited HBS in late March to take part in a roundtable discussion on the economic development of his city, Israel’s poorest. HBS professor Michael Porter, a...
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Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development;
Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development;
Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development;
Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
When being a good neighbor means economic development
retail, offices, and more than eight acres of open space to a 27-acre site adjacent to the team’s ballpark, which opened in 2000. “Our future, we believe, now with the ballpark a decade old, is to create additional economic growth in our...
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- 27 Oct 2017
- News
Experts hope cities rise to the occasion
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
New Research: Big Data Offers New Possibilities for City Planners
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Africa rising? A historical perspective
- 10 Dec 2015
- News
Can Google Street View Images Predict Household Income?
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
children under five are undernourished, even as broken supply chains mean that up to a third of produce is wasted. The World Bank estimates that some 22 percent of the nation's 175 million people are unemployed; half of 15- to 24-year-olds in View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
York after graduating from college. Then, in 1988, Ferguson and Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990) founded Urban Profile, a lifestyle magazine for young African-American professionals. “We didn’t consider printing costs or subscribers,”...
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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a high-quality urban institution, to serving on the Virginia Council of Higher Education, to funding the Batten Center for Entrepreneurship at UVA's Darden School of Business. Batten's biggest challenge these days, he says, is to...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
family-run Indian conglomerate. Kahn, who worked for agrichemical giant Syngenta AG and knew the industry well, agreed to have a look. The subsidiary, Godrej Agrovet, had expanded beyond its core business of animal feed in recent years, entering poultry processing,...
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- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
$70 million to almost $700 million—to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth. Then, with MCC assistance, countries take the lead in designing and implementing programs, with both the MCC and the recipient country...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
“A National System of Income Supplementation”
and economic inequality http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6545/. The so-called Kerner Report, warning that the United States was in danger of becoming two “separate but unequal” societies, recommended federal initiatives to boost education,...
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- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
When Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) first read of Amazon’s search for a second headquarters in the Wall Street Journal, he was certain the newspaper had made a typo. The online retailer couldn’t be talking about creating 50,000 jobs. Moret’s years in View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home Sweet Home
TERWILLIGER: Workforce-housing shortages can hurt urban economies. Photo Courtesy Habitat for Humanity In June, Ron Terwilliger (MBA ’70) was named Housing Person of the Year by the nonpartisan National Housing Conference. With almost...
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Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development;
Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development;
Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development;
Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as...
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Julia Hanna;
Administration of Economic Programs;
Administration of Economic Programs;
Administration of Economic Programs;
Administration of Economic Programs;
Administration of Economic Programs;
Administration of Economic Programs;
Administration of Economic Programs;
Administration of Economic Programs