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- 09 Aug 2017
- News
Finding a Path Out of Poverty
for Inspire Belief while studying in the HBS Advanced Management Program, in 2013. The CEO of Johannesburg investing house Momentum—who had once been homeless on the streets of the very same city—had reached the point in his career when...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Motivation through hard knocks
“turbulent” upbringing in South Central Los Angeles has enhanced his ability and interest in motivating others. “I’ve seen both sides of the equation,” he says, explaining that he has experienced homelessness and moved around a lot in his...
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- 31 Mar 2022
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A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
chapters—features hyperlocal food drives. “The food comes from restaurants or corporations in the neighborhood, and our volunteers are residents of that neighborhood,” Ghose explains. The beneficiaries can be homeless people, or residents...
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- 17 Dec 2015
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Design Thinking: Hands-On Learning At The Harvard Innovation Lab
regulating fishing, while another team worked with homeless people to create artwork that would generate income. “The students are fantastic,” says Datar. “A key aspect of the experience is learning to connect with people who are...
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- 22 Jun 2023
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Finding Her Place
“everybody knows Uncle Billy here at Chapman Partnership,” she says. Hudson has brought both her personal experience with the plight of homelessness and her business knowledge to the organization. Those combined perspectives led her to...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
less a figure than Gerson Cohen, the head of The Jewish Theological Seminary, agreed to be my tutor. For six years we met once a week; that, too, was an extraordinary education. Then, in 1988, I read Rachel and Her Children by Jonathan Kozol, a shocking book about...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
Watch. Ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1983, he worked with the homeless at Grace Episcopal Church in Manhattan before entering HBS the following year. That decision was driven by several factors. Explains Massie, “As an activist, when...
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- 18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit
rehabilitation projects that resulted in affordable housing, and finally took on historic rehabilitation projects by themselves, working in Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. Today, the company focuses on providing affordable housing for low-income families, seniors, and...
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- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Social Investing Pioneers
simple enough. Investors fund nonprofit social ventures whose interventions result in a measurable social benefit as well as a financial savings to the government. (Government saves money, for example, when fewer people are homeless or...
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- 06 Mar 2019
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Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
imagine a homelessness prevention program in Chicago actually studying those from a rigorous, academic perspective to see what's working and what's not. The sabbatical led me to that choice of employment for a year, a limited-term interim...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
Boston Teamwork: From left, Chuck Eisenberg (MBA ’78), Arjuna Costa (MBA ’01), John Flanagan (AMP 96, 1985), Tom White (MBA ’69), Mark Alston-Follansbee, Marco Bitran (MBA ’03), and Charles Cassidy (MBA ’83). When Mark Alston-Follansbee, executive director of the...
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- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
assisting, there are three others in the New York area without legal help. The need is staggering, but the path to meeting that need effectively would be familiar to any business leader, says Leimsider. Leimsider began his career at the New York City Department for...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
paper to the ground as quickly as we have. Designing and building modular shelters accommodating over 200 homeless people in Delhi and influencing the World Bank project to take into consideration housing design and safety when financing...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Embracing Activism for Social Change
part was creating a crisis intervention team to partner with police patrols in neighborhoods where substance abuse, mental health issues, and homelessness are chronic problems. “The goal is to help first responders better assess...
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Deborah Blagg
- 22 Jul 2014
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Hungry for Change
crops that otherwise would have gone to waste. The organization distributed a total of 76 million pounds of food in 2012 (26 million of which was perishable), both directly and through a network of nearly 1,000 food pantries and homeless...
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- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
a longtime passion of mine." In addition to helping to develop the first SRO (single-room occupancy) residence for homeless men in Charlotte, Spencer has served on the board of the Charlotte Housing Authority Transitional Families...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
while I was making the decisions. Let’s just say,” he notes, “I’m a big believer in serendipity.” Murphy went to Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer after graduating from Georgetown University with a degree in business and working briefly as a management consultant. A...
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- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
Alone, broke, and homeless My biggest failure in life was my marriage. My wife filed for divorce, and the judge gave her all the assets and me all the bills. After 23 years of marriage I was alone, broke, and homeless. I needed to...
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- 29 Apr 2016
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The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
momentous. Since we launched in December 2013, we have already seen five of our formerly homeless artists gain housing; not simply because of this new opportunity to earn income, but because being validated—being shown their talent is...
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