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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
has personally made a significant effort to share his good fortune with the community, creating a $5-million foundation to help inner-city youth with education and job training and establishing scholarships for the children of Polaris... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
explaining why the club organized the webinar. “Over the next 20 years, it will become the most populous continent, and with the largest youth population that would be 100% digital native. They are smart, highly motivated and, with... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Ghassan Nuqul (Nuqul Group, Jordan), Said Darwazah (Hikma Pharmaceuticals, Jordan), Helmy Abouleish (SEKEM Initiative, Egypt), Dr. Ahmed Heikal (Qalaa Holdings, Egypt), Melek El Nimer (Social Support Society and Unite Lebanon Youth... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
exercise of getting the mix just right “had almost a pharmaceutical effect on me,” she says. Hip-hop, though, hit a nerve. “I liked the nerdy braininess of digging into the lyrics and wordplay, but it also mashed up the soundtrack of my View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor
communities.” That realization prompted Bobo to leave his position as a principal at the Carlyle Group and in 2016 launch Project Destined (PD), a social impact vehicle that trains inner-city youth to be active partners in sourcing and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
fell in 1974 and I was asked to head the youth organization of the New Democracy Party. Then I was asked, at age 26, to run for Parliament, with the choice of Athens or Messenia. I chose Messenia, was elected in 1977, and am currently... View Details
- 10 Apr 2023
- News
Leading the Way
Foundation, a nonprofit focused on improving educational opportunities and outcomes for underserved, predominantly Hispanic youth in Arizona. "As my mentor, Gary invested in me as a student and as a person," says Trejo, a Phoenix native,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
to kill us,” he says. Support and Suppress Back in the flow of traffic, Timken explains that “our job is to both support and suppress — give help to the people who need it, while getting the hard-core bad people off the street.” In addition to his clinic work, Timken... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
to qualified students from Boys’ Town Home, a nonprofit organization serving orphans and disadvantaged youth in Singapore. “A lot of the world champions at Evolve began under the exact same circumstances of extreme poverty,” says... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
Advertising (a firm that helps clients reach the $890 billion youth and hip-hop markets); Bad Boy Films; and Daddy’s House Social Programs, which provides tutoring for more than five hundred students in New York and New Jersey. (P.... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988
population than in prior generations. Our workforce needs to reflect that,” says Johnson, who quietly directs her personal and corporate philanthropy to cultural, educational, and youth enrichment programs in the Boston area as well as in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
first of 15 Jr. NBA programs focused on youth development; in 2017, it opened NBA Academy Africa, one of four NBA Academy programs around the world that features elite training for high school-age prospects, in Senegal. Yet fulfilling the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
on education, youth development, and economic self-sufficiency. SGP's track record speaks for itself, having helped to launch or scale many of Massachusetts's most effective social ventures, several of which have gone national. In the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
inspired the PBS documentary Built to Last?. RAF initiatives include the Buyer’s Guide to Resilient Homes, Building Resilience Index with World Bank/IFC, and Resilience Youth Network. Some predict that a “Great Repricing” looms ahead for... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping one child led to improving the lives of thousands
Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) volunteered as a Big Brother and saw firsthand how urban youth suffered from a lack of job options. He wrote his HBS application essay about starting a program to connect those young adults with a growing need... View Details
- 10 Mar 2016
- News
Can Doug Lemov Save US Soccer?
Illustration by John Cuneo Illustration by John Cuneo Teaching guru Doug Lemov (MBA 2004) is taking his teaching talents to the pitch. Profiled in the March issue of The Atlantic, Lemov was contacted by US Soccer in 2010 in an effort to improve their View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Net Positive
At LOVB, designing a “community-up” volleyball ecosystem, from youth teams to a professional league. (photo by Melissa Golden) Volleyball is the number-one sport for girls in the United States by participation, yet unlike soccer and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna