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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
differently. We envisioned an interdisciplinary social enterprise, with a mission to create inclusive cities where poor and low-income people had greater housing choices. At mHS, we emphasize three principles: community, design, and... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
that Invest Early children were better prepared for kindergarten than their low-income counterparts and the proficiency gap between Invest Early and high-income children had decreased significantly. Integrating and sustaining such a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
launching Little Black Library to promote education on racial justice and the Black experience by sharing books; and helping raise capital for Uptrust, a software firm that helps low-income populations navigate the criminal justice... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston neighborhoods, has just... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Hack.Diversity, which aims to improve Black and Latinx representation in Boston’s innovation economy; launching Little Black Library to promote education on racial justice and the Black experience by sharing books; and helping raise capital for Uptrust, a software firm... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
States to provide affordable housing. Song knew of Habitat before coming to HBS, but didn’t fully understand the organization’s model until it was the focus of a case discussion. “I always thought that Habitat was just building homes and giving them away to View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
concurrent with an obesity epidemic, suggesting that low-income communities lacked access not just to food in general, but to healthy foods in particular. Rauch believed he could build a non-profit grocery store model that took advantage... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
can drive dangerous behavior. After becoming superintendent of the low-income and academically struggling Atlanta, Georgia, school system in 1999, Beverly Hall implemented new measurement systems-many of them derived from business best... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
how hard this is on the low-income immigrant community. But part of me is optimistic and proud we can do something." JUNE 9 Kanoko Oishi (MBA 1988) is founder and CEO of Mediva Inc., a health care consulting firm in Japan that owns... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
and deeply the tax system impacts our lives. If you think about poverty, we now try to address it largely through the tax system via the earned income tax credit. You think about low-income housing, we do that through the tax system. If... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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protagonists, this course seeks to fill the gap. Composed of the emerging middle class and low-income sectors, the base of the pyramid encompasses 5.0 of the 7.5 billion people in the world. In most nations, it accounts for the largest... View Details