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- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development As a youngster, I used to create “stores” in my driveway, selling things to other neighborhood kids. It was an entrepreneurial... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
This husband, father and former pilot in the Marine Corps takes on HBS and his vision of changing communities for the better.
neighborhoods with little to no access to affordable, healthy, whole foods. I’m looking forward to working towards this goal over the next two years! God bless, Ahron, MBA 2015 View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
Frank Spencer (MBA 1986) helped to build his first Habitat for Humanity house in 1988. It was in the Belmont neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, and, like many Habitat homes, was constructed over approximately 10 weeks, with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Beacon of Liberty
Kashmir Photo courtesy Sharjeel Kashmir It’s a beautiful morning in Jersey City as I stretch after my regular jog in Liberty State Park. I marvel that this is my neighborhood and my view. In front of me, the Hudson River lies at the feet... View Details
- 31 Mar 2017
- News
Turning Teachers into Leaders
achievement gap, to improve outcomes for students, particularly those of low-income neighborhoods and families, so they have a better chance of life and career success. We work towards that mission by helping state agencies of education,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Smriti Jayaraman
words in a dusty classroom in an underprivileged Mumbai neighborhood will never escape me. "I have a mobile so I can do it." That day, I recalled my foolhardy delight the moment a boxy green-screen Nokia 3310 was placed in MY... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
¡Vamos al Cine!
will control 51 percent of the cinemas in Mexico City, one of the world's most-populated urban areas. To reach the working poor, Heyman decided to cut ticket prices by about half in low-income neighborhoods while building the same... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
High Adventure
right now I’m looking out the window at my nine-year-old daughter feeding a baby deer,” says Beilharz in a phone interview. “That’s a huge change from the affluent neighborhood in Austin where we once lived.” Indeed, life was, for many... View Details
- Profile
Casey Gerald
Casey Gerald prefers not to make a big deal of his football-playing days as a cornerback. “We won a championship, we lost a championship – and I broke a few bones,” he says. But football became a bridge to Yale; an unexpected opportunity for a young man from the Oak... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Leadership in Motion
Activities such as building a community playground, running neighborhood associations, chairing the Scarsdale planning board, and serving locally as president of the League of Women Voters—all while starting and running her own consulting... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place
the line.” For instance, if the barista at the neighborhood coffee shop acknowledges customers as they enter the line and asks what they want to drink, the customer at the end of the line is less likely to leave or register... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
partnerships. There is only one cardinal rule: No money should ever change hands. “Outside of that, folks are free to be innovative,” Ghose says. “And that’s where the creativity really shines.” Because the organization is so decentralized, people can work within their... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
intended to build an e-commerce platform, but she changed course and invested in bricks and mortar when she saw a need for customer-friendly neighborhood stores. The pivot offered a personalized shopping experience that relied on a cadre... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Profile
Casey Gerald
Casey Gerald prefers not to make a big deal of his football-playing days as a cornerback. “We won a championship, we lost a championship — and I broke a few bones,” he says. But football became a bridge to Yale, an unexpected opportunity for a young man from the Oak... View Details
- Web
Community | MBA
Community At Harvard Business School (HBS), breakthrough moments can happen any time: in a late-night discussion among peers, during a journey along India's east coast, in service to a neighborhood nonprofit, or simply while relaxing in a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Proposed Chair Would Honor African-American Business Pioneer
career as an independent printing salesman in Washington, D.C., and established the New Negro Alliance, an organization intended to persuade companies doing business in black neighborhoods to hire employees from within those... View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Leadership In Challenging Times: Thierry Ibri (MBA 1997)
understanding of how need might expand. It made me grateful for the Technology and Operations Management course at HBS. Just as we were getting a handle on current and future-state demand, the world’s racial justice uprisings sparked in our home town, Minneapolis.... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
task. The process began with a lot of education. Her Cambridge neighbors, unfamiliar with the Passive House concept, were initially skeptical of Harper’s plans, but two historical commission meetings and nine neighborhood meetings later,... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
organization, which has helped to facilitate peaceful relations in India, Pakistan, Colombia, and Rwanda. In India, for example, the Dreamfly built a high school computer lab in a neighborhood in West Bengal that was a site of... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
André Beisert's olook targets a very particular part of Brazil's new consumer market. "Our brand has a persona," Beisert (MBA 2009) says in his white brick office, which sits atop a small warehouse in the Vila Nova Conceição neighborhood... View Details