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- Portrait Project
Cindy Kellogg
scuba diving, even if that earns me an eccentric reputation at my neighborhood swimming pool. When the only sound is that of my own breath and the only sight is deep blue, I have no choice but to focus on that floating feeling that makes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
real estate partnerships, and he brings the practical perspective of an investor to the matter. Converting a neoclassical building in a neighborhood with the sort of retail and cultural amenities residents clamor for often makes financial... 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
- 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
- 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
- Portrait Project
Inessa Lurye
family living on the eighth floor. Months later, we immigrated to a predominantly minority neighborhood in Baltimore. In school, my teacher taped large signs around me in a new language: "CHAIR," "TABLE," they spelled... 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
- 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
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
—Stever Robbins (MBA 1991) I'd continue to work the size markets you already have a handle on, but I agree, you could/should start approaching the larger cities. Treat their various neighborhoods with the same savvy you've developed in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
After decades of decline, despair, and neglect, the last ten years have brought some preliminary signs of revitalization to a number of inner-city neighborhoods in the United States. Blighted areas such as Chicago's North Side, New York's... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- News
Juan Salgado Honored for Immigrant Education Efforts
the “genius grants.” Juan Salgado (OPM 45, 2014), president and CEO of Instituto del Progreso Latino in Chicago, has led the organization since 2001, working with the largely Latino community on Chicago’s southwest side. Many of the adults in this View Details
- 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
- 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
- Profile
Evelyne White
—Stever Robbins (MBA 1991) I'd continue to work the size markets you already have a handle on, but I agree, you could/should start approaching the larger cities. Treat their various neighborhoods with the same savvy you've developed in... View Details
- 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
- 09 May 2022
- News
Green House
In the Observatory Hill neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Betsy Harper (MBA 1984) has built an oxymoron: a brand-new, historic home. The recently completed structure combines traditional architecture and the latest in... View Details
- 07 Jan 2016
- News
Real-World Learning for the Digital Generation
grades and being better. So the achievement [goal] needs to change over to real-world accomplishment. And this is something that can happen everywhere, all over the world. Kids in poor places can be improving their water-quality systems; kids in rich places can be... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- News
The Next Harvard Square? Really?
building will be open to the public and include retail and restaurant space. For those of us who like to plan lunch while eating breakfast, this last detail is of key importance. Once it’s revealed what sort of dining establishment will complement the current View Details
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
By 1998, Pilar Deza (OPM 30, 2001) had weathered several storms on her way to becoming a leading education entrepreneur in Peru. Deza had gone from founding a nursery school in her garage with four neighborhood children to operating two... View Details