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- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
That’s why Community Partners has become so popular. We’re providing $2.5 million in pro bono consulting a year. That’s having a significant impact on our region.” The city of San Francisco has been a major beneficiary of the program in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower Retrofitting buildings in inner cities is just one element of BlocPower’s groundbreaking sustainability strategy. In this episode of Climate Stories,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
Thoren Photo courtesy Beth Thoren Related Links View video of confrontations in the Southern Ocean Have you noticed that when you live in a big city long enough, your thoughts can struggle to travel further than the building in front of... View Details
- 15 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
REFLECTIONS ON MY TIME AS BEI DIRECTOR
complex and multi-dimensional. We connect faculty, alumni, students, and staff to grapple with questions such as, “Are our students prepared to lead sustainable organizations?” “What do our alumni need to know about climate risk?” “How... View Details
- 18 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa
Senior Lecturer John Macomber, far left, and students in the Africa: Building Cities course toured the Rappie Waste-to-Energy Power Project in Addis Ababa with developer Samuel Alemayehu of Cambridge Group Companies. With a growing... View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
Society (BiGS), which he described as an interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for examining the most critical issues and opportunities of our times—from climate change and environmental View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
Realms: Journeys in Pen & Paint by Krish V. Krishnan (AMP 184, 2013) (Shanti Arts LLC) This is the written and artistic chronicle of Krishnan’s travels around the globe as he explores and portrays places of awe-inspiring holiness, including the rocky red desert of... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
Viceira and Ricardo Gimeno Publication:Spain in the EMU (forthcoming) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lviceira/Europroject_20091112-ALL.pdf What Makes a City Entrepreneurial?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"There's No Substitute For Finding The Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015
startups that have an impact on cities and sustainable living." "By the end of my Fellowship," James says, "I knew I wanted to be part of a startup and that it was the right time to take... View Details
- Profile
Aspa Lekka
Aspa Lekka takes pride in her Greek roots, but her journey does not begin from Olympian heights. "I come from a small city called Ioannina in northwest Greece of ~170,000 people," she explains. "I studied math in one of the... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- Web
Community | HBS Online
knowledge, experiences, and insights to help others succeed. The support I’ve received from fellow Community members has been invaluable in my personal and professional development.” Patrick Sabineza , New York City Chapter Organizer... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
Graduating magna cum laude in 1996, Akinola was accepted at HBS but deferred admission while she returned to Africa, this time to the city of Accra, Ghana. “In Benin, we had talked about the possibility of reaching street kids in their... View Details
- Profile
Abby Falik
social-impact organizations, Abby turned to HBS. “I wanted to find more people like me – people who wanted to build high-impact, sustainable enterprises, while considering the broader impact of their work on their communities.” HBS helps... View Details
- Web
Activating a Legion of People | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
fundraising activities, corporate outreach, and an emerging area, conservation finance, which includes growing sustainable revenue streams through mechanisms such as carbon offsets. Impact Much of my work at the United Way focused on... View Details
- 29 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
"There's No Substitute for Finding the Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015
startups that have an impact on cities and sustainable living." "By the end of my Fellowship," James says, "I knew I wanted to be part of a startup and that it was the right time to take... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
launching Anomalie in 2016, she was a supply-chain manager for Apple Watch—and a bride-to-be in search of a wedding gown. In the process, the self-described TOM nerd discovered that one city in China produces 75 percent of the world’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
opportunities through the Leadership Fellows Program . She was familiar with Acumen through her work at M-KOPA (in which the firm was an early investor), and recognized that the program “would allow me to enter the social space at a View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
Without leaving the hallways of their public high school, dozens of students from the economically distressed city of Newburgh, New York, have earned associate’s degrees in cybersecurity, arming them with in-demand skills and preparing... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
research and courses on sustainable cities, infrastructure, real estate, and his most recent collaboration and co-authored book on Healthy Buildings with Dr. Allen. It is our hope that this SIP serves as the first step among many in... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
with very specific practices and identifiable cultures. For example, City Year, the national youth service organization, has programs in fourteen cities across the country. Its founders made a strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler