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- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
sending nonprofit leaders from all over the world to HBS. In the last 16 years, HBSASNE has sent 33 local nonprofit leaders to the SPNM program, representing a wide range of social action, from addressing homelessness and improving...
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Margie Kelley
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
earning her MBA, working with the Bridgespan Group to provide financial analysis and management consulting services to nonprofits that serve the homeless and the recently incarcerated as well as to organizations with adult education and...
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Jennifer Myers
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
though, are not administrative. "The biggest challenge we face is a cultural shift. People who by and large get into these organizations have amazing compassion. They want to clothe the homeless and feed the hungry. And for them to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
HiHome Sweet HiHome
journey where we thought a method like this would work.” Shu is currently completing a one-year master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing through the international Schwarzman Scholars program. Housing has always fascinated Shu, who studied the...
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- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
government has the resources necessary to address the magnitude of the market imbalance that exists." Gould, who was the director of two homeless shelters before enrolling at HBS, was vividly reminded of that imbalance at the recent...
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- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
moderator David Harris (MBA 1984), talked about addressing the complexities of hunger during COVID-19 with panelists Ajay Relan, founder of #HashtagLunchbag, an effort to feed the homeless and hungry through social media and self-directed...
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Margie Kelley
- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
science and engineering. But those paths never felt like quite the right fit. "Since high school, I had done volunteer work with homeless kids and vulnerable children and domestic violence victims," she says. "Somehow, that really spoke...
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- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits
understand and identify cause-and-effect relationships in the sector they serve, and decide which relationships they will support. For example, many organizations aspire to end homelessness, but they focus on different elements of the View Details
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by Manda Salls
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
but was glad she was able to curb the infection rate.” The city, she added, also received $30 million in federal loans for small business as well as food and rent assistance. Under her leadership, the homeless have been tested and moved...
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Margie Kelley
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
homeless and trafficked youth in Manhattan, helping young people in the job readiness program. She has also traveled with a delegation to Guatemala to volunteer at Covenant House’s Guatemala City location. As a volunteer at ESchool4Girls,...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
two homeless shelters before enrolling at HBS, was vividly reminded of that imbalance at the recent opening of a TCB project in Somerville, Massachusetts. "Seven hundred families showed up," she recalls, "to apply for forty apartments."...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
other half ranges to more than $50 million a year. To get the most from this wide range of experience, participants break into small groups and present a challenge currently facing his or her organization. "In our study group, there was a gentleman who ran a View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
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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- 06 Mar 2019
- News
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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- 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 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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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
institution to donate funds and expertise to build a half-way house for homeless teenagers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the bank has a major presence, and to link up schoolchildren in New England and Latin America over the Internet. "What...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 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
- News
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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