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- 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
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
Four Weeks on the Road with MBAs Across America
and took an incredible tour of the Brightmoor neighborhood with Kirk Mayes, Executive Director of The Brightmoor Neighborhood Alliance. Week 2: Boulder, CO We worked with Made Movement, a creative agency... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 02 May 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
them realize that dream,” she says. A volunteer network sustains the San Francisco–based organization, which has helped facilitate peaceful relations in India, Pakistan, Colombia, and Rwanda. In India, for example, the Dreamfly built a high school computer lab in a... 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
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
housing crisis is steadily moving up the income stream, and we have a growing “missing middle” with very few housing options and the virtual disappearance of the twoto five-unit density that historically made neighborhoods affordable to a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 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
- 25 Aug 2021
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
to individualize student learning. The result was a pilot school on West Belmont Ave in the Hermosa neighborhood of Chicago made up of large, open-classroom spaces called “Pods” for traditional class periods, each holding up to 60... View Details
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
if city regulators wanted to see the impact of licensing three new businesses on a particular block, they could monitor changes in Google Street Views, cross-referencing that data with online reviews in the neighborhood and housing... View Details
- 23 Dec 2009
- News
In the Zone
follows children and their families from infancy into college). More recently, she organized a two-day conference for some 1,400 attendees who gathered to learn how the HCZ model works, discuss common obstacles and strategies, and hear more about Obama Admnistration’s... View Details
- 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
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
to 1972, as well as assistant professor of management at Simmons and Bentley Colleges, says he puts his MBA to use every day, both in running his church and serving as a management consultant (on a sliding-scale basis) to neighborhood... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 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
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
work remotely during the pandemic, but for a huge swath of the population, working from home was simply not an option. This was especially true for many gig workers and small business owners – it’s tough to work from home when your day-to-day is driving an Uber,... View Details
- 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 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
of nature, he describes himself simply as an "organizer by instinct." As a high-school student, for example, he rallied his classmates to raise money to build a private chemistry lab — the lab at school had limited hours —by showing rented movies to View Details
Keywords: Government
- 29 Jul 2024
- News
Leading the Way
invested in me,” says Trejo. “Within two years of meeting him, I had two internships on Wall Street and was accepted to the HBS 2+2 program. It was like a light switched on for me and everything changed.” Like Trejo, Trujillo grew up in a poor Hispanic View Details
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
examine ongoing efforts to forge a public-private partnership between the state government and for-profit developers. The goal is to transform Dharavi into a neighborhood offering desirable, market-rate residential and commercial real... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
Sternhell and Oakes on the job. Photos by Jared Leeds One lives in a Manhattan studio five blocks from Wall Street, the other on the second floor of a triple-decker in Jamaica Plain, a culturally diverse neighborhood in Boston. Both are... 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