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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
security. But by the end of 2021, TuSimple had completed an 80-mile run from Tucson to Phoenix without a human driver in the truck’s cab. Routes are currently focused on the “middle miles” in the southern United States, with plans to...
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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 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Runway, Good Start Genetics, EGG-energy, Urban Water Partners, RelayRides, and Birchbox, among others — the Business Plan Contest has grown and evolved from its first iteration in 1997. Back then, 37 teams...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Ward - once synonymous with out-of-control crime rates, gang warfare, antiquated public housing, crumbling schools, and degrading poverty - have begun to show indications that there may be a way out of the hopeless downward spiral. In their 2000 book Comeback Cities: A...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Big Turnout for Business Plan Contest
The dream of starting their own business inspired 110 teams of students to enter the 2010 HBS Business Plan Contest, which awarded $170,000 in cash and in-kind services to winners and runners-up in separate business venture and social...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
The HBS entrepreneurial spirit was evident on May 1, when nearly nine hundred students and guests jammed into Burden Auditorium for the finals of the School's fourth annual Business Plan Contest. The winning entry, Bang Networks, provides...
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- 29 Apr 2011
- News
Harvard Business School Names 2011 Social Entrepreneurship Fellow
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Extremely Transparent and Incredibly Remote
- 18 Oct 2023
- News
Spreading the Words
and their friends and families, uses tablets and educational games to teach math, English, and local languages at schools. The organization also sets up micro schools—one-room digital schoolhouses in communities that lack the requisite infrastructure, such as refugee...
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April White
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
markets teams,” observes Beckford. “We take our expertise and figure out the best way to capitalize the deal, which counter-parties—banks, debt funds, REITs, or even insurance companies—are best positioned to fund it, and then help our partners refine their business...
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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
the US Constitution, you need to understand the time period from which it emerged, Moss argues, and the problems and personalities that shaped it. Today’s case protagonist is Founding Father James Madison; the question he faces is the debate over the “federal...
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April White
- 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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- 07 Feb 2017
- News
Shaping Singapore
Trained as an architect, Koon Hean Cheong (AMP 173, 2007) was initially disappointed when she found herself in a planning role in Singapore’s Public Works Department after graduation. “It wasn’t where I wanted to go,” she told The...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
Lee For Jonas Lee (MBA ’93) and his investment firm, Redbrick Partners, the purchase, refurbishment, rental, and maintenance of hundreds of low-cost, single-family urban homes represent a terrific, overlooked market opportunity. “It’s a...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
on a committee in the midst of crafting a national housing policy. And he’s part of a planning group for the city of Kandy, which, in addition to being Mawilmada’s hometown, is a sacred and heavily visited UNESCO World Heritage site...
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Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae;
Sri Lanka;
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 2004
- News
Harvard’s Future in Allston
collaborative themes; and to provide guidance to the planning of prospective new Allston-based campuses for the graduate schools of public health and education. The other task forces will focus on science and technology; culture, housing,...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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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
- 01 Jan 2017
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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...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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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...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
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...
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