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- 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
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
by 30,000 by 2020, using city revenues to subsidize affordable housing, as well as a resolution to preserve a portion of the Mission District, the city's historically Latino neighborhood that has been increasingly gentrified. A city... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
part was creating a crisis intervention team to partner with police patrols in neighborhoods where substance abuse, mental health issues, and homelessness are chronic problems. “The goal is to help first responders better assess... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
The Sky is Not the Limit Ruth Cenat (MBA 2015) plans to change America—one community at a time. “In disadvantaged areas,” Cenat says, “if local businesses thrive, the neighborhoods flourish. There is a stronger tax base, parents have... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
was critical in getting the ball rolling for Relay Rides, a service allowing customers to rent neighborhood cars from private owners by the hour or by the day. (Clark also got some “Air Time” in the December Bulletin. By the fall of his... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
City Advantage In 1994, Porter founded the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a non-profit program to study and catalyze inner city business development. He and the group in ICIC define inner cities as urban areas with high poverty and high unemployment,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
mix of vendors, smoothed neighborhood relations, and hired logistical help on weekends. Greenflea will contribute nearly $500,000 this year to fund educational enrichment programs, and Gehrke says she could expand the operation to include... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
high school alma mater, Portsmouth Abbey in Rhode Island, he accepted the post of assistant principal. Then, during Klemmer's four-year tenure at Portsmouth Abbey, a visit to a charter school in a tough New York City neighborhood further... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
accountability and people working together to solve problems. This is Chuck Callan, 1982. My first job-- oh, that's going back a ways. Well, I guess I was somewhat industrious as a kid and I used to rake leaves and stack wood, cut grass for people in the View Details
- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
have been increasing their footprint of small urban stores. In February, Walmart announced plans to add 270 to 300 small stores during the fiscal year, adding to the existing stable of 346 Neighborhood Markets and 20 WalMart Express... 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
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
available to assist when calls come in,” Mendu says about the first priority of the initiative. “Feedback was overwhelmingly positive.” The second part was creating a crisis intervention team to partner with police patrols in View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
through a community service mentoring project. At first, O'Neill took his young charge to a succession of museums and sporting events in an attempt to show him a reality outside his troubled neighborhood and family life. "After some weeks... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
opened a dozen successful coffee bar locations and a roasting facility in Shanghai, with plans to develop more stores in other major cities.” Peet’s in two words: Coffee and community. “During California’s Kincade Fire, we assembled a task force to support evacuees and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
companies that did business in black neighborhoods but refused to employ their residents. His involvement with the Alliance not only began his ongoing community activism but also served as his entree into academia, when a fellow volunteer... View Details