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- 06 May 2015
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Advocating for affordable housing
Laurie Gould (MBA 1996) puts the skills she gained at HBS to work at Viva Consulting, the practice she launched to promote community development. (Published May 2015)
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- 25 Apr 2014
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Serving as a cultural ambassador
a seafood-processing firm that rebuilt after the disaster and a collaborative of fishermen's wives who transformed their net-mending skills to launch a luxury apparel business—also provided insights into entrepreneurial innovation and...
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- 01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill
the area. Marietta also had an ideal mix of skills and experience. In addition to launching Giant Otter at HGSE, he founded a consultancy that helped schools across the country improve labor, management, and View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
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Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
skills I’d developed over several decades of consulting work. Yet I had no idea how to make that happen. Working in Washington at the time, I cold-called the curator of Southeast Asian ceramics at the Smithsonian’s Sackler Museum, asking,...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Putting Ghosts to Rest
where almost everyone was poor (living on less than $1 per day) and stuck on tiny hillsides. How on earth would this work? There were few people with the skills to care for the cows, little land for grazing, little land on which to use...
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- 11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code
the foundations of our social safety net—making it easier, for example, for people to apply for food assistance or for probation officers to communicate with their parolees. On today's episode of Skydeck, Ingersoll talks with contributor...
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- 09 Mar 2023
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Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
monthly panel discussion series called "The Future of ," which offers experts' perspectives on emerging technologies, demographic shifts, and macroeconomic developments and highlights the leadership skills required to navigate a...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2009
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Robert Goodwin
Millennium Development Goals which range from halving extreme poverty to providing universal primary education, they provide sustainable benefits to a developing community for multiple generations, and they have the ability to impart the...
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- 28 Jun 2024
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Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”...
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Margie Kelley
- 24 Apr 2014
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Creating a path out of poverty through entrepreneurship
Annie Bertrand (MBA 2007) tallks about helping create the India School Fund to integrate entrepreneurship skills with other educational goals to give poor rural Indian children a path out of poverty. (Published April 2014)
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
grassroots community organizations; the increasing tendency of businesses, large and small, to identify the inner city as an untapped market; a drop in urban crime rates; and the "unshackling" of inner cities from the entrenched and...
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- 06 May 2015
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Nine lives
Ruthanne Schwartz Fuller (MBA 1983) has applied her energy and skills to the private, nonprofit, and public sectors. (Published May 2015)
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Lesson Plans
one that will depend on investments by the business community to accelerate innovation and the capacity of technology to support great teaching. It can't happen quickly enough." "Education is our generation's civil rights cause. It is the...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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Bridging the Success Gap
extreme poverty, inspired him to work for social change. An Antioch College graduate who worked as a community organizer in the late 1970s, Navarro then ran a software company prior to attending HBS. “I needed to acquire business View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
will complement the skills and wisdom the fellows acquired during their “first” careers in the public and private sectors. “People who have accomplished a great deal during their careers are uniquely suited to lead and to envision...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Clubs Hopping
York as those most in need of skilled midlevel workers and focused on community colleges as a solution. In partnership with the LaGuardia Community College in Queens, the group...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2005
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One-on-One with Edwin Reed
of challenges have you encountered? Successful community development is as team-oriented as any business. You have to be a skilled coalition builder among your financial partners, government officials, and...
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- 22 Sep 2015
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Giving Kids a Better Chance
issues, and so I applied directly because I felt that the skills around entrepreneurship, around leading highly successful organizations, at which HBS is incredible, were the right skills to help drive...
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- 27 Mar 2023
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A Sporting Chance
It would be a much sexier story, says Jorge Perez de Leza (MBA 1996), if he told people he was trampled by a raging bull, but the truth is that the fall that had such a profound effect on his life was a much more mundane event. "It was just a really stupid accident,"...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom
while also meeting other students outside my section, was a wonderful opportunity.” Chu notes that the IXP builds on MBA Program priorities of educating students to be better leaders and communicators in the context of today’s global...
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