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- Portrait Project
Ceena Beall
as a divorced single parent, a blue-collar worker living in a low-income neighborhood or incarcerated. My generation is starting from square one all over again, but God “who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all I can ask or... View Details
Madam C. J. Walker
known, not only for its hair care products, but also for its extensive agent system, in which well-trained black women traveled throughout black neighborhoods across the United States, promoting the products. Madame Walker was widely... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- Profile
Hayling Price
sector "that would enable economic opportunity and mobility in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty." But while his career experiences in the nonprofit sector were rewarding, they were also limiting. "I found that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
what sorts of activities do you oversee? Allen’s corporations provide myriad social services and operate a school, a resource center for battered women, senior-citizen complexes with 630 units, a for-profit transportation company, and nonprofit entities responsible for... View Details
- 31 Jan 2022
- News
Michael Trejo Brings Business Back to the Valley of the Sun
bring back to my community,” he explained to the magazine. “It was time to come home.” Trejo is now president and CEO of Standard Printing Company, a commercial trade printer located in an industrial Hispanic neighborhood of Phoenix. The... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- Blog Post
Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago
bringing together entrepreneurs and neighborhood residents to offer employment opportunities in the labor-intensive food industry. Based on the hiring patterns of Accion’s existing clients in the food space, we estimate that 900 jobs will... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Linking Donors, Students
guests. “I am inspired and empowered by your philanthropy, and I am determined to offer a strong return on your investment,” she said, citing her future goal of launching a nonprofit arts and sports center in the Brooklyn neighborhood... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Push the system to see where it breaks
teaching engineering in the inner city in Washington, DC. It’s literally one of the worst schools in the nation, in the middle of three housing projects, where the neighborhood kids go. “So now I think it’s time to go into the central... View Details
- Profile
Inessa Lurye
When Inessa Lurye arrived at Swarthmore, she resolutely “did not want to have anything to do with the environment” she had recently left the inner-city Baltimore-area neighborhood she and her parents emigrated to after fleeing Belarus in... View Details
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
How HBS Gives Back
with the neighborhood and the city.” The article also features a collection of staff reflecting on their volunteer experiences, including this thought from Krys Mroczowski, assistant director of the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator:... View Details
- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
write a check to community residents or a small neighborhood organization to do the work. And that, indeed, is what many companies do. A great deal of business participation in social sector problems derives from the classic model of... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Good Luck Charm
Far from the Great White Way, the Big Apple also shines brightly, in the neighborhood arts-and-culture scene that thrives throughout the city’s boroughs. Those lively goings-on are often made possible through the good work of Lisa Quiroz... View Details
- Profile
Casey Gerald
stakeholders to the table, working in collaborative fashion, “to build a movement, to answer these questions, and not perpetuate our organization.” You obviously see the world differently than a lot of people. What led to this world-view? I was raised in a... View Details
- Portrait Project
Erica Hunt
Learn to say, "So what, that's just me"...and mean it. I never liked being the only kid in my neighborhood who went to Catholic schools...When I went away to college, many people questioned why I moved so far away... At work, I... View Details
- 19 Dec 2016
- News
Harvard Students Help Mom-and-Pop Shops Get off the Ground
restaurants, and neighborhood bakeries in Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, and Somerville, Mugford told the Boston Globe. And the experience has been eye-opening. “The projects I’ve worked on for boards took months and months,” said Lia... View Details
Keywords: retail
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Vertically Inclined
Kamran (“Tom”) Elghanayan (MBA ’68), who arrived in the United States from Iran when he was five years old, helped found the Rockrose Development Corporation, a New York City firm with a reputation for building residential towers in View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Artful Contributions
the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (October 30, 2005). The second “pillar” is John Wieland (MBA ’64), a past chairman and current member of the board. As chairman of John Wieland Homes & Neighborhoods and with 35 years of construction... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
subjective well-being. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54526 May 2018 American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change By:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Career Coach
Layla A. Ramirez
of First-Generation Professionals, so that they can reach their potential. Layla proudly identifies as an Afro-Latina with Dominican roots. She was born and raised in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City and spent her... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
At an early age, William D. Jones (MBA '89) learned about the fragility of a stable urban community. From their home in the Skyline Hills section of San Diego, he and his family watched their neighborhood gradually decline as businesses... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick