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James Reinhart
but it was never unexpected for Reinhart who started his first venture when he was 10 years old. He lined up lawn-mowing customers all over his New Jersey neighborhood and then motivated friends to tend to the lawns. He charged $15 per... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
Brazil. “Facily often serves lower-income people who had never used e-commerce before,” Westphal said. “It reminded me a lot of the small business my parents owned back in Brazil and also the neighborhood store I worked at throughout high... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
you." And in fact, the poor tend to live in neighborhoods with the fewest transportation options, yet they're the ones who often have the greatest need for mobility. "They're the ones that can go digital less than anybody,"... View Details
- 07 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience
career in software engineering.Separately, I’ve always been passionate about entrepreneurship. When I was twelve, a friend and I built a neighborhood dog walking business—thanks to Wag, we now understand how much money we left on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
borrowers. Ten years ago, India didn’t have social security numbers, so that is a first-order constraint. We have been going to the neighborhoods where these entrepreneurs live, forming them into groups, and asking people which of their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
father was a commercial fisherman before retiring to manage his mother’s neighborhood tavern. “My parents were focused on education,” she recalls, “so the Catholic high school I attended, Bishop Kenny, was the aspiration in Jacksonville.”... View Details
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Frank Spencer
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 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
This book tells the story of Kamila Sidiqi in Kabul, Afghanistan, who overcame the Taliban's ban on women leaving their homes alone by making clothes in her living room to help support her family. This venture was the beginning of a dressmaking business that created... 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
- 05 May 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
it looks like to be a Chinese person in North America,Having the opportunity to share my culture with others,Being Chinese and Canadian at the same time,and being as proud of one as I am the other. Vi Mai (MBA 2023) I grew up in a predominantly white View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
neighborhoods don't have the potential to succeed or aren't capable. It's much more about decades of underinvestment and a lack of attention to what we say we're all about as a society—namely, that no matter where you come from, you have... View Details
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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
stations on public transportation (if all of them are not equipped if you have access to that infrastructure or sidewalks with curb cuts at all)? Are there heat lamps in more wealthy neighborhoods and police cameras in poorer ones? Can... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
stores with higher information-gathering costs for headquarters). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50576 Measuring Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change By: Glaeser, Edward... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
week we're thinking of new ways to effectively reach people,” says Pasquariello. “And learning and adapting.” Susan Young: What is the impact of the virus on the neighborhoods you serve? Justin Pasquariello: Our community has a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
Schooner (MBA 1983) and a group of social work students who were all working at two nonprofits—the Women’s Center and the Peace Neighborhood Center—in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The questions: “Why do men rape young girls?” and “Why don’t they... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
that the blockchain application could enable Northern Trust to achieve productivity savings of “somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 to 35 percent.” The firm—which has $1 trillion in assets under management and more than $7 trillion under... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
money behind me, I'll be fine.") Describing GE as really not much different from the neighborhood grocery he patronized while growing up in Salem, Massachusetts, Welch said, "Business is a bunch of lucky calls, a bunch of bounces here and... View Details
- 27 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion... View Details