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- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
Appalachian Community Capital, a small business lender for underserved communities; and Genevieve Martin, Executive Director of Dave’s Killer Bread Foundation, which works on second-chance employment for individuals impacted by the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
affordable and standardized medical appointments to low income families that are uninsured and underserved by the public system, in the poorest districts of Brazil’s largest cities. Spendwisor.com enables consumer electronics purchasers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Housing Solutions for the Urban Poor
portfolio of economically viable housing solutions to underserved populations, drawing on the expertise of sociologists, urban planners, architects, engineers, and policymakers. View a video of Mehra. View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
to disrupt the financial sector to materially improve financial services, including expanding access to financial products to underserved communities through the use of new technologies. Salas, who studied with Lakhani while he was a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Student Benefits from Class of 2006 Fellowship
comes to HBS with a passion for education and three years of social enterprise experience. Most recently, she served as the new schools development associate at The SEED Foundation, a nonprofit that partners with urban communities to provide educational opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
corporate team-building programs. Overseeing initiatives that range from grant- and donor-funded programs geared to underserved youth to fee-based Outward Bound expeditions and corporate and private events requires a flexible,... View Details
- 11 Aug 2020
- News
Find Your Allies
for Educational Opportunity changed her mind. The program, which offers educational and career support to students from underserved communities, helped Harris realize something: she loved finance. “I was 19 years old and there I was,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
audience niches that are underserved by the studios,” d’Arbeloff remarks. Thanks to technological advances in moviemaking such as the digital video camera and relatively inexpensive editing software such as Apple’s Final Cut Pro, a... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
learning programs, food and other basic resources, and health services for more than 1,200 children each week in this underserved community. “We had to rethink the operation of our food pantry. We had to develop learning materials that... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 08 May 2012
- News
Screen Saver
tremendously exciting time.” In addition to offering open enrollment classes to children, teens, and adults, the JBFC provides (often at no cost) programs for students in underserved communities and at local correctional facilities.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
education curriculum into local schools, many of them in underprivileged and underserved communities. Overall, more than half the schools Pine Mountain serves fall below the poverty line, and many have populations that are more than 80... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
A Passion for Education
children. They have devoted their philanthropy to supporting education, particularly for those from underserved backgrounds. Attending HBS’s MBA Fellowship Celebration is typically one of the highlights of his year. There, he meets the... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
Consulta uses production line best practices to deliver fast, reliable, affordable and standardized medical appointments to low income families that are uninsured and underserved by the public system, in the poorest districts of Brazil’s... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Walgreens has made a concerted effort to locate more stores in urban areas where residents do not have access to large drugstores, recognizing a considerable, underserved market that has been documented in ICIC research. City dwellers are... View Details
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Book Smart
issues across the nation were laid bare. “We’ve brought all of the tools we’ve built to underserved communities right here in our own backyards,” observes Risher. Thus far, Worldreader has reached 19 million readers in 48 countries. The... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
Dichter, “but we know that if we can truly capture and quantify this, it could be revolutionary, and not just for the impact investing sector—it could change how we understand the role of business in society.” Before coming to Acumen, Dichter worked to expand financial... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
about unlocking the lessons we learned through Big Brothers Big Sisters to instill structure and discipline to underserved children at scale. I know how my relationship with Austin impacted my life, and Austin observed, with his own son,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
funding, Hofmann says. “We hear this a lot from founders in underserved communities. You don’t have to be networked on the West Coast to get an application to us.” Similar logic applies to racial and ethnic diversity. In May, Republic... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
financial valuation just like one would as a venture capitalist, but there’s an overlay of impact. And what I define as impact is that the companies we invest in are focused on providing products and services to underserved populations in... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman