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- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
Department of Housing and Urban Development, the primary agency for dealing with affordable housing in this country, is about $35 billion. Realtors say the sky will fall if we... View Details
- Profile
Aaron Chadbourne
another interest: entrepreneurial approaches to social and public policy issues. For his second summer internship, Aaron received a social enterprise fellowship from HBS and worked with the Housing Partnership Network in Boston, a... View Details
- Profile
Larry Braithwaite
understanding of housing issues, Larry is actively auditing a research team as part of a field study seminar on affordable housing offered by Professor Retsinas who runs... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Yurt Man
company, HOMErgent, see as ideal for disaster relief and globally sustainable affordable housing. “For less than $2,000, we can provide better housing than what most people in the world already have,” Zwern... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
international regions, presented business plans for their start-ups to judges on Monday, April 25, during the final round of competition. On Tuesday, Rakhi Mehra (MBA '09), founder of micro Home Solutions, a social housing initiative for... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
as it took off. Once they landed in the United Kingdom in the dead of winter, the family found themselves with nothing, shivering in their summer clothes. “We lived in public housing and had very little money, but we still had more than... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 28 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
Tackling Inequality: An HBS Independent Project
organizations that have been created to stem the tide. We studied affordable housing legislation, affirmative action practices, and innovative charter school models. We heard from accomplished economists,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
entrepreneurs to become franchisees. Keshavjee is also involved in a large affordable housing project in Thika, on the outskirts of Nairobi. He is bullish on Kenya, noting the country has "a youthful,... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
David Motley (MBA 1988) grew up in Lincoln-Larimer, a struggling neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End. He remembers the soot on the snow in the cold winters of the 1960s. And if he looked south, toward the Monongahela River, he could see the steel mills that were its... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
Facilitating private-sector progress while benefiting the taxpayers "Governments need to think more like partners, not order-givers," said Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Greg Bialecki. "Government can play an... View Details
- 08 Oct 2020
- News
JPMorgan Chase Commits $30 Billion to Advance Racial Equity
more tangible, meaningful way.” The release notes that the firm’s commitment will focus on promoting and expanding affordable housing and homeownership for underserved communities; growing Black- and... View Details
- Profile
Danelle Radney
The general manager at College Pro had never managed a female franchisee before, much less an African-American one with a short afro and an even shorter history as an exterior house painter. But Danelle Radney had a long history of... View Details
- 13 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course
various leaders and staff members to unpack the systemic barriers to their growth and create an actionable framework to support their expansion in the low-income and mixed affordable housing space. Learning... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
foundation floor for a house that you know is going to provide shelter for a family for many years, especially when you're hammering in boards alongside the people who will be living there.” The fleeting nature of ones and zeros aside,... View Details
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
Finance, scaling an impact investment in Anchorage, Alaska to become the state's largest permanent supportive housing program, and designing and launching an impact fund-of-funds to mobilize passive charitable capital. With an interest in... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
designed to make sure the executive office doesn’t have too much power.” Ep 15: Brainstorming the Affordable Housing Dilemma Desai: “There is a very real, genuine market failure. I think the answer is the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
company Mobley to offer an alternative: an affordable way to furnish a home with stylish, quality pieces with a lease of 3 to 12 months, without the burden of ownership. Mobley’s entrée to the $230 billion market for furniture and home... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Kresge’s Afterlife
University’s associate manager of recycling and waste. “That’s especially true when recycling allows needy organizations to receive goods they couldn’t afford otherwise.” Below, we track a few of the donations to see where Kresge Hall... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
Representative Kevin Brady, a Republican from Texas and the House Ways and Means chairman, stated "our legislation transfers power from Washington back to the American people. We dismantle Obamacare's damaging taxes and mandates so... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
company with a business model selling affordable housing to first-time home buyers among the country’s poor, and outperforming the Tokyo Nikkei index. Chu coauthored the case, “Katitas: Home Ownership for... View Details
Keywords: April White