Tag: Thomas Menino

  • Nation & World

    An entrepreneurial approach to ‘possibility government’

    Business School professor Mitchell Weiss looks at ways to encourage creativity, innovation.

    9 minutes
    Mitchell Weiss.
  • Nation & World

    Menino remembered

    Thomas M. Menino, who was a transformative mayor of Boston for 20 years and worked with Harvard officials on myriad projects, is dead at 71. The Harvard community mourned his loss.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Disrupting city hall

    Harvard Kennedy School and Law School experts say city life will be transformed by city governments that are plugged into technology.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A beacon of community

    Harvard, Boston, and community and federal officials attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Allston for the new Charlesview Apartments at Brighton Mills, an unusual partnership that proved an exercise in teamwork.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Putting local youth to work

    Harvard’s Summer Youth Employment Program puts local high school students from Boston and Cambridge to work on campus during the summer months. For many young people, it’s their first job.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Loyalty rewarded

    Harvard-supported Library Park in Allston was renamed Raymond V. Mellone Park at a Nov. 5 event hosted by Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Working toward a new Charlesview

    The development of quality homes for the residents of the 40-year-old, 213-unit Charlesview Apartment complex at Barry’s Corner took a big step forward when city, state, and Harvard officials broke ground on a new building at Brighton Mills on May 16.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A housing dream come true

    Harvard’s 20/20/2000 initiative, the University’s 20-year, $20 million, low-interest loan program to help create low- and middle-income housing in Boston and Cambridge, helped to fund the Doña Betsaida Gutiérrez Cooperative on the Blessed Sacrament campus in Jamaica Plain. The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the project was Oct. 30.

    3 minutes